Enterprise CIO News

05/10/2020

Eightfold.ai is using AI to discover the innate capabilities of people and matching them to new opportunities in their own companies:

Eightfold.ai is using AI to discover the innate capabilities of people and matching them to new opportunities in their own companies.

30/03/2020

Digital isn't one person's problem - it's not even one department's problem. So why does the get all the work?

All we hear is that CIOs should be reaching out across the business to improve data culture and persuade people to get on board with transformation projects.

11/03/2020

More than half of enterprises polled by Dresner Advisory Services say that location intelligence is either critically important or very important to achieving their goals for 2020:

More than half of enterprises polled by Dresner Advisory Services say that location intelligence is either critically important or very important to achieving their goals for 2020.

04/03/2020

As innovative technologies continue to steadily come to the fore across manufacturers, there has never been a more important time to evolve:

Data is at the heart of digital transformation.

02/03/2020

For many IT leaders, shadow IT is invariably seen as a bad thing. Yet, properly governed, it can bring substantial benefits to your business:

For many IT leaders, shadow IT is invariably seen as a bad thing. Yet, properly governed, it can bring substantial benefits to your business.

27/02/2020

The good news is that the IT budget is going up – but it remains slow progress, according to IDG:

The good news is that the CIO’s IT budget is going up – but it remains slow progress, according to IDG.

26/02/2020

Customer-centricity requires enterprises to get critical assets - first-party data in the data lake, -driven enquiries, concise answers - into the hands of their workforce in a timely manner:

Customer-centricity requires enterprises to get critical assets - first-party data in the data lake, AI-driven enquiries, concise answers - into the hands of their workforce in a timely manner.

26/02/2020

Four in 10 companies admit they have ‘sacrificed’ mobile security in the past year, according to the latest study from Verizon:

Four in 10 companies admit they have ‘sacrificed’ mobile security in the past year, according to the latest study from Verizon.

24/02/2020

"The reason we don’t mention ? We’re not selling blockchain anymore – we’re selling a solution to a problem":

For any budding entrepreneurs with an idea and a head full of dreams, here are two key lessons that Gaurang Torvekar, CEO of Singapore-based Indorse, has learned: the business model is more important than the idea, and don’t let your technology be the only selling point.

19/02/2020

The study, the company’s second State of Enterprise Open Source report, polled 950 global IT leaders, of whom 95% said open source was important to their enterprise infrastructure:

Proprietary software usage is plummeting as enterprise open source projects are increasingly playing a strategic role in organisations, according to a new report from Red Hat.

10/02/2020

Even as enterprise organisations are being urged to embrace digitalisation and move on from legacy applications, they can't begin to invest fully until they pay off their technical debt:

Even as enterprise organisations are being urged to embrace digitalisation and move on from legacy applications, in reality, they can't begin to invest fully until they pay off their technical debt.

06/02/2020

Business leaders shouldn’t take data transformation - separate from digital transformation - as simply more marketing noise:

When something such as digital transformation comes along, other terms or initiatives tend to piggyback off it - which is why conversations are now turning to data transformation.

30/01/2020

We have long since been on the quest for the perfect PC - from managing Windows, to centralising it, to eliminating it altogether:

Organisations have long been on a quest for the 'perfect PC.

27/01/2020

Betty Blocks, a Netherlands-based startup, lays down its ethos immediately around the empowerment of no-code users. Enterprise CIO spoke with CEO Chris Obdam:

Betty Blocks, a Netherlands-based startup, lays down its ethos immediately around the empowerment of no-code users - and the balancing act required between business and IT.

24/01/2020

By securing every endpoint with a persistent connection and the resiliency to autonomously self-heal, CIOs are finding new ways to further improve network security by capitalising on each IT asset's intelligence:

By securing every endpoint with a persistent connection and the resiliency to autonomously self-heal, CIOs are finding new ways to further improve network security by capitalising on each IT asset's intelligence.

17/01/2020

Although many projects originate from business operations, collaboration between business and IT is key to ensuring profitable delivery and business continuity:

According to Gartner, the global robotic process automation (RPA) market will top $1 billion in sales by the end of 2020, with 40% of large enterprises adopting an RPA software tool.

15/01/2020

Duolingo, Dataiku, People.ai and Cobalt are just some of the machine learning startups most likely to be recommended by their employees to friends if you’re looking for a career change in 2020:

Duolingo, HOVER, Ironclad, Orbital Insight, People.

09/01/2020

technologies are becoming more and more important for talent management and acquisition - as an expert panel featuring UiPath and MobileIron notes:

US-based enterprise adoption of AI for recruitment soared over the past 12 months, based on data from the Harris Interactive Talent Intelligence and Management report.

16/12/2019

According to Veritas, an American international data management company, enterprise customers are accelerating their cloud transformation initiatives.

09/12/2019

According to Tonkean, a leading robotic automation and management platform for business operations, automation is set to revolutionise the way we work in the year 2020.

04/12/2019

Serialised box tracking has been standard practice in the beef and poultry industries for a long time – and the entire food space may follow suit if serialised tracking becomes a mandatory requirement:

Serialised box tracking has been standard practice in the beef and poultry industries for a long time – and the entire food space may follow suit if serialised tracking becomes a mandatory requirement.

29/11/2019

Checkpoint, Forescout, Google, Illumio, MobileIron, Proofpoint, Symantec, and Unisys all make the cut in Forrester's latest Zero Trust Wave for extended ecosystem platform providers - but Microsoft and VMware miss out:

Checkpoint, Forescout, Google, Illumio, MobileIron, Proofpoint, Symantec, and Unisys all make the cut in Forrester's latest Zero Trust Wave for extended ecosystem platform providers - but Microsoft and VMware miss out.

25/11/2019

In her new book 'The Cybersecurity Playbook', Allison Cerra, SVP and chief marketing officer at McAfee, outlines and boardroom best practice and the education needed to make security a day-to-day culture. Read more here:

In her new book 'The Cybersecurity Playbook', Allison Cerra, SVP and chief marketing officer at McAfee, outlines CISO and boardroom best practice and the education needed to make security a day-to-day culture - as well as the skeleton in her closet.

22/11/2019

Manufacturers getting the most value from analytics start with a solid business case first, based on a known problem they’ve been trying to solve either in their supply chains, production or fulfillment operations:

Going into 2020, manufacturers are at an inflection point in their adoption of analytics and business intelligence.

18/11/2019

2020 is going to be the year companies launch more digital business initiatives that depend on than ever before, making Zero Trust Security a key contributor to their success:

2020 is going to be the year companies launch more digital business initiatives depending on BYOD than ever before.

11/11/2019

Endpoint protection providers are adopting machine learning-based detection and response technologies to deal with more sophisticated cyber attacks:

In response to more sophisticated attacks, endpoint protection providers are adopting machine learning-based detection and response technologies, and providing more cloud-native solutions that can scale across a broader range of endpoints.

04/11/2019

Companies who revealed their cybersecurity risk management programme both before and after a competitor’s breach performed the best, according to the research:

When one company experiences a cybersecurity breach, other companies in the same field become less attractive to investors.

18/10/2019

There were a record 160 publicly-disclosed security incidents in the education sector (K-12) during the summer months of 2019, exceeding the total number of incidents reported in all of 2018 by 30%:

Almost half of educational establishments polled say they are making cybersecurity their primary investment - yet three quarters do not use encryption.

17/10/2019

It is paramount that companies act swiftly and invest in intelligent automation - a market that is expected to grow from $8 billion in 2019 to $14.

08/10/2019

While the enterprise mobility and enterprise software markets are today somewhat saturated, venture capital money can still be sourced for particularly innovative startups - as these two cases show:

While the enterprise mobility and enterprise software markets are today somewhat saturated, venture capital money can still be sourced for particularly innovative startups, as two recent announcements have proven.

08/10/2019

The era of trusted and untrusted domains at the operating system level, and “trust, but verify” approaches, are over:

The era of trusted and untrusted domains at the operating system level, and 'trust but verify' approaches, are over.

04/10/2019

It’s dangerous to leave the DNS to sort itself out, as Mastercard, ING Bank, Facebook, and Hilton found when their DNS systems were hacked:

You may think your domain name system is secure - but have you had a peek under the hood recently?.

03/10/2019

The enterprise mobility market may be considered close to saturation, but plenty of pain points remain, according to a new industry report:

The enterprise mobility market may be considered close to saturation, but plenty of pain points remain, according to a new industry report.

02/10/2019

Many vendors have introduced new email security incident response solutions to the market - but buyer confusion reigns supreme:

Many cybersecurity vendors have introduced new email security incident response solutions to the market - however the marketing of them has resulted in buyer confusion, which only serves to hurt attackers.

26/09/2019

The future has consequences for our evolution as individuals, businesses, governments and nations, but creates opportunities too.