IT Business Edge

Blue Prism vs UiPath: RPA Tool Comparison

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 11:15:25 -0500

Robotic process automation (RPA) tools are paving the way for greater productivity, more precision, and accelerated digital transformation for businesses across all industries. There are many tools on the market that can help you with your automation goals, but it can be difficult to know which solution is the right one for you...

7 Strategies for Successful Digital Transformation Integration

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:40:10 -0500

Digital transformation (DX) is the business process of integrating digital technology into every aspect of an enterprise that can fundamentally change the way of business operation and the delivery of value to customers. DX is also a cultural shift that compels business organizations to constantly...

Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2022

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:18:33 -0500

On average, it takes businesses 287 days to find and contain a data breach, giving attackers over nine months to access and steal any records they want from the database. However, encrypting those records renders them useless for attackers and protects businesses from some of the post-breach fallout. Encryption software is...

Emerging Technologies are Exciting Digital Transformation Push

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:50:59 -0500

Since the 1990s, the horizons of the internet have been expanding exponentially. Along with that, the usage of digitization has also been rapidly increasing. Digitization is the process of converting analog data into a digital form by using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) like an image scanner or digital audio recorder. On the other hand...

IBM’s Near Secret HPC Strategic Advantage

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400

This week I’m with IBM, and as most ex-IBM employees will tell you, once you have Big Blue in your blood you never really get it out. The company has changed a great deal since...

Acquiring the Right Cloud Skills Will Be Major Challenge for IT in 2019

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500

As the rate at which applications are being either built on or shifted into the cloud accelerates, it’s become clear that IT organizations will need to more aggressively either develop new skills internally or recruit IT professionals that already have them. Recruiting that talent, however...

Google Sees Speech APIs Transforming Range Of Business Processes

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:04:38 -0400

Chatbots and other forms of voice-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) are slowly but surely being incorporated into multiple business processes, especially when it comes to anything to do with customer service. The success of those efforts, however, has been mixed at best. Most end users can still identify the...

Where IT Dollars Are Being Spent Now

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:19:17 -0500

Investment in data technology continues its steady climb at enterprises throughout the world, although this does not necessarily represent the rapid integration of next-generation capabilities into IT environments. Rather...

High Frequency Thrills Will Accelerate As 5G Approaches

Mon, 01 May 2017 10:21:58 -0400

As experts have noted, the era of 5G is approaching faster than initially anticipated. That reality is illustrated by a bit of news and a bit of commentary released during the early days of April. The bottom line is that the frequency characteristics of 5G will make this a particularly interesting transition. The news, reported by Chron today, is that...

IT Leaders Need To Be Business Leaders First, CIO Says

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:02:28 -0500

According to a high-profile IT executive in the health care sector, the key to making an impact as an IT leader is to come to the table as a business leader who happens to be running the technology team, rather than purely as a technologist waiting to receive requirements to fulfill. That IT executive is Steve Betts, senior vice president and...

How To Promote Yourself On The Job

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:12:21 -0500

Over the years, Rick Gillis, author of PROMOTE! It's Who Knows What You Know that Makes a Career, has counseled job seekers and studied the phenomenon called employment. Seeking advanced knowledge,... [Slideshow]

CES Announces The Most Innovative Tech Products For 2016

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:01:53 -0500

CES recently announced the honorees for its 2016 Best of Innovation award, a yearly competition that seeks out the best designs and engineering advancements in technology products. Each category has a three-member judging team that evaluates the products based on the criteria of engineering,... [Slideshow]

How To Keep Productivity High When Working From Home

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:47:16 -0400

If you've ever had the opportunity to work from home for any length of time, it's likely you've run into conversations with others who don't understand how you are able to get anything done. They believe that... [Slideshow]

Fifteen Innovative Gadgets For Your Mobile Devices

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:05:24 -0400

Admit it, we're in love with our mobile devices. Even while camping in the middle of the forest, give us Wi-Fi, and we'll regularly check our email and Facebook to make sure we're not missing anything. Snap a pic, record a video, share an update, there are just so many things to do via mobile. Add work connectivity into the mix, and you can set up your own mobile office. While smartphones and tablets are great,... [Slideshow]

Five Ways To Optimize Enterprise Wi-Fi

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:50:48 -0400

Companies rely on Wi-Fi now more than ever to drive operations and ultimately business growth. Whether it is collaborating with colleagues or clients, managing customer success, or accessing any number of business applications and services on the market, companies recognize that when the Internet lags, the business lags. Therefore,... [Slideshow]

[Slideshow] How to Secure Your Company's Greatest Risk: The User

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:04:16 -0500

Users are a company's biggest asset and, unfortunately, often its greatest risk. Mitigating the risk posed by users is an ongoing challenge. You can limit their access through admin rights, but you can't always prevent them from opening corrupted emails. You can force them to routinely change their passwords, but can't prevent them from clicking malicious links...

You May Be Ready for the Cloud, But Are You Ready for the Migration?

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:57:03 -0500

The vision of the cloud as a magical realm of limitless scalability and customized, on-demand data architectures still runs strong in the enterprise industry. This view is not altogether wrong, even though many clouds with various levels of functionality will be created in order to meet the demands of an increasingly diverse data community. But no matter how the individual enterprise chooses to implement the cloud or what applications it deploys,...

New Data Challenges Drive Need For Updated Integration Strategy

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:00:52 -0400

In recent years, more IT organizations have shifted away from hand-coding integration to using a data integration tool. In theory, that should eliminate some of the spaghetti code going forward. The problem, though, is that times have changed and the data integration tools of yesterday may no longer be enough, contends integration and data consultant David Linthicum. In particular, Big Data and cloud computing are creating new challenges that may...

What CIOs Should Be Thinking About But Aren't

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:00:16 -0400

A vice president of datacenter initiatives and digital infrastructure with the analyst firm 451 Research, Michelle Bailey recently spoke with CIO Insight about IT investments, the current lack of innovation, business metrics and what many CIOs should be thinking about but aren't. Here is a condensed version of Bailey's remarks. It's time for companies to invest in IT. "The economy is improving, and we're seeing jobs growth and improvement in the housing market, especially in the U.S., but what we aren't seeing a return to IT spending. We haven't seen...

Competing With The IT Youngsters As An Older IT Pro

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:59:41 -0400

Ageism is alive and well in Silicon Valley. SFGate.com last month collected first-hand descriptions from readers of what it's like out there in the area's employment realm when you are (gasp) over 40. Or maybe it's over 30. Readers told SFGate.com that though they are well aware that their employed days are numbered, or just plain over, in the tech industry, they are not sure how they can prepare to be shoved into another line of work, since ageism is...

What CIOs Need To Know About Marketing's Data Needs

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:07:42 -0400

CIOs who want to stay relevant may want to pay attention to what's going on with data in the marketing department. Marketing is fast becoming one of the major business consumers of data. And this department is often discontent with the state of its data quality, access and depth, research released by Yesmail Interactive shows. On behalf of Yesmail, analyst firm Gleanster surveyed...

The Road To The Hybrid Cloud Runs Through PaaS

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:06:53 -0400

Most enterprises are far enough into the cloud deployment process to understand that there is more than one type of cloud. At the moment, many organizations are content to spin up a few hosted resources to gain extra storage or run a few key applications. But as cloud strategies become more refined, the style of cloud implemented on both private and public resources and the infrastructure that supports them can have a dramatic impact on future data objectives. As I've pointed out...

The Argument For An All-Flash Data Center Becomes Hard To Ignore

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:05:33 -0400

The all-Flash data center - it used to be considered something of a pipe dream. While solid-state storage has its uses, both costs and the complexity of modern data environments seem to demand mixed storage architectures for the time being. But as costs come down, more storage experts are looking at all-Flash, or perhaps Flash-dominant storage environments. Storage has always been the laggard in the data-handling relay race, but recently...

U.S. Producing Fewer Degreed IT Professionals, Study Shows

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:04:36 -0400

An analysis of data from a number of government agencies on enrollment in degree programs and job creation by CareerBuilder and its analytics arm, Economic Modeling Specialists, highlights the divergence between the number of computer and IT degrees completed and the number of jobs requiring those credentials. Between 2003 and 2012, the analysis finds...

[Slideshow] Ten Security Apps To Protect Your iPhone

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:47:45 -0400

While Apple hasn't yet enabled any fully functional antivirus apps for the iPhone, according to Jeff Goldman, writing for eSecurity Planet, there are several essential steps every iPhone user should take to make their device as secure as possible. (First and foremost, it's crucial to set the device to auto-lock after a specified period of time, and to require a passcode to unlock it; both can be accessed within Settings -> General.) A wide range of other...

TechEd 2013: Windows 8.1 Deep Dive

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:38:48 -0400

One of the key presentations at TechEd 2013 has to do with Windows 8.1, formerly code-named Windows Blue. This is also the coming out party for the new small 8.1-inch-class Windows tablets. The promise is the same user interface and same apps on devices that range from 8.1 inches to 30 inches and beyond, coupled with the same management tools and, as a result, an easier transition for both companies and users between the different form factors. A great deal hinges on...