Tech Insights


It’s Time to Get Smart about Your Approach to AI
By Vicki Huff Eckert, Global Leader, Technology, PwC

Most innovation strategies today encompass emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). As the business advantage of the future, according to 72% of business decision makers recently...

The Journey Toward Cloud-First & the Stages of Adoption
By Stephen Orban

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
--Jimmy Dean...

Unleashing the Power of Cognitive Techniques to Overcome Manufacturing Challenges
By Sundeep Sanghavi, Co- Founder and CEO, DataRPM

The current challengebr
With mobility, IoT, and analytics, having already become a reality in most factories, the challenge has...

The Four Pillars of Opportunity
By Prith Banerjee, EVP & CTO, Schneider Electric

I had the opportunity to present at IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. During my keynote presentation “Leading in IoT with Innovation at Every Level” I discussed how the Internet of Things...

From the tech trenches
By Suja Chandrasekaran, CIO, Kimberly-Clark

I recently sat down with an Indian magazine that wanted to interview me - some excerpts from the conversation shared in a Q&A mode. It spans a broad set of topics such as communication in...

Craving Intelligence vs. Analytics
By Michael L. Mathews, CIO, Oral Roberts University

Introduction
I had the pleasure of speaking at one of the U.K.’s leading strategic learning forums on the...

PLM Environment Choices
By Ed McLeod, President, C-Level Training

Your PLM software provider may have several different environment options to deliver your solutions. They can range from you owning everything in-house via capital expenditures, to a variety of cloud...

The Transparency in Real Estate Sales and Customer Service
By Khushru Bacha, CIO and Vice President – IT, Runwal Group

Real Estate companies have traditionally been more focused on customer acquisition without thinking much about the transparency that every customer is looking for today. Fortunately, this trend is...

On Second Thought... The Cloud & the Channel
By Carolyn April, Senior Director, Industry Analysis, CompTIA

Every once in a while, a reality check hits you. Is my kid really Harvard material? Will I ever fit into my 10-year-old clothes again? Am I honestly cut out to run this bed and breakfast? It’s what we do as...

The Pain of Change is Mandatory - it is the suffering that is optional
By Paul Chapman, CIO, Box

Now that I have grey in my beard (actually I have lot of grey in my beard) I often get asked how do I grow my career in IT and how should I approach my career development – the question often comes...

By Dr. Jonathan Reichental, CIO, City of Palo Alto

Technology innovation abounds! We live in spectacular times. Change is happening rapidly and in unexpected ways. Market barriers for innovation have been lowered. Got an idea? You can make...

Is Bad Data Costing You Your Edge? Incomplete, inconsistent, and inaccurate data is holding you back.
By Kelly Sborlini, Vertical Market Lead - Life Sciences, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Provider information fuels the marketing and sales efforts of life sciences organizations. It helps you...

The CTO To VP Engineering Fork
By Julia Austin, CTO, DigitalOcean

There comes a time in every scaling tech start-up’s life when an engineering team begins to show signs of needing help. The symptoms can include lost velocity in releasing new products/features...

IoTs and the IdIoTs among us
By Johan Hybinette, CISO, Vonage

There is no shortage of IoTs (Internet of Things) out there and the demand is only growing. The sheer number of available IoTs are astonishing with already over 6 billion devices connected per Gartner...

The Role Of CIO
By Jake Dorst, Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Tahoe Forest Hospital District

The much-discussed transformation of the hospital CIO from the technically focused, to a role that now encompasses those functions as well as vendor and project management, biomedical/clinical...

The Cloud in the Age of Nationalism
By Matthew Sekol, Director, Microsoft and Cloud Practice, Arraya Solutions

Over the past few years, there has been a rise in nationalism across the globe. Citizens and countries are starting to step back and reflect on what is going on internally within their borders and leaving...

Leveraging AI to secure customer loyalty
By Naveen Joshi, Director, Allerin Tech Pvt Ltd

The face of customer loyalty is changing constantly. While rewards and incentives are still important in drawing customer’s attention, customers are increasingly demanding to be seen and be heard...

Business and IT transformation based on new Cloud technologies
By Vladimir Kuptsov, Sr. Director Infrastructure, HMS Host

Based on my 15 years’ experience in Global IT, I would like to combine major common business transformation issues and successes in a 21st Century. First of all, if business think to stay on...

5 ways Node.js changes the rules of app development
By Volodymyr Nazarenko, CEO Co-founder, KAI Software Inc.

The adoption of Node.js is being driven by the need to reduce the time-to-market for applications. Greater agility and reduced labor costs lead to more rapid development so companies can react...

Modern Software Engineering using Containers and Microservices
By Advait Kulkarni, IT Director, Cetera Financial Group

The world is seeing a hyper competitive and dynamic business landscape these days. Fuelled by intense competition, organizations are being forced to innovate software, engineering being no...

Where-cloud-PLM(Tech-V3-2018)
By Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO / co-founder, OpenBOM(TM)

Money is coming to cloud PLM vendors. Earlier this week, my attention was caught by Propel PLM announcement about raising $18M in series B...

Why-Chief-Clinical(Tech-v3-2018)
By Mauri Lawler, Chief Clinical Officer, EIR Healthcare.

Smart technology has become indispensable in many infrastructures. Our homes and cities - even our roads and sidewalks - along with many public facilities are “connected” and designed...

If-big-data(Tech-V3-2018)
By Mike Lee, Global Leader, Wealth & Asset Management

Data is a subject that is top of mind for most organizations right now. It not only comes up in most of my client meetings, but also in conversations...

3-Musts-To-Engage(Tech-v3-2018)
By Tim Perry, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Healthcare Too.

Healthcare is changing. Not only for physicians and hospitals but also for yoga studios, financial advisers, massage therapists, food...

Big-Bang-Disruption(Tech-v3-2018)
By Lan Liu, PM Intern,TuSimple

A common scenario in a Chinese pediatrics building at midnight looks like this — baby cries, distraught parents, exhausted doctors with bare sleep, and a long...

IOT-is-Set-to-Disrupt(Tech-V3-2018)
By Siddhartha Mishra, CEO-SD Global Technology.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is already revolutionizing healthcare. In simple terms, the IoT for healthcare comprises devices and applications that are able to connect to healthcare IT systems through computer networks.

Record-Your-Health(Tech-v2-2018)
By Lilly Desai, Consulting Practice Director, Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.

Was watching an episode of a popular medical series where a senior citizen meets with an accident on his tour and gets admitted to the local...

Virtual-Augmented-and-Mixed-Realities-for-Learning
By Alexander Salas, Instructional System Designer, Dell Technologies

Whether you are a techie person or not, there’s a big chance that you may have heard the terms Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and...

EDGE-COMPUTING(Tech-v1-2018)
By Joe Higgins, Senior Systems Administrator, The Citco Group of Companies

Nearly every new technology is disruptive to the extent that it’s expected to replace older technologies. Sometimes, as with the cloud, old technology is simply rebranded to make it more...

On-the-evolution(Tech-v1-2018)
By Herman Scheepers,Senior Technologist and Data Scientist,IS3

In this article I would like to explore new opportunities for value, innovation, and disruption driven by information and AI in the domain...

3-emerging-tech(tech-v1-2018)
By Dominic Venturo, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Bank

I’ve been following new technologies in the banking industry for many years, watching them disrupt long-established processes.

Are-you-ready(Tech-v1-2018)
By Pierre Nanterme,Chairman and CEO, Accenture

There are reasons to be optimistic as we begin 2018. Self-sustaining growth in the global economy and the recovery of international trade have...

Cloud-An(Tech-v1-2018)
By Emiliano Del Fiume, Client Executive, Unisys

Organisations are concerned about risks of 'vendor lock-in'. Fears are rooted in mainframe era when capex on a specific technology usually drove...

How-the-tech(Tech-v1-2018)
By Mike Gregoire,CEO at CA Technologies

As the CEO of a $4 billion technology company and chairman-elect of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governors Steering Committee, I remain vigilantly...

Reality(Tech-v1-2018)
By Peggie Koon, CEO & Founder, Leading Change, LLC

n case you haven’t noticed, “Reality” is BIG business. There are “Reality” shows about everything and everyone on every type of media – from FB,...

The-Need-for(Tech-v1-2018)
By Brandon Sapsara, Entrepreneur, Systems-Thinker and Blockchain Enthusias

Conviviality is defined by renown Austrian priest Ivan Illich as individual freedom realized through greater autonomy and personal interdependence....

Answering-5-frequently(Industryleaders-2018)
By Chloé Meredith, PhD, People Analytics Consultant, iNostix

People Analytics Consultant at iNostix
In the 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends*, it was stated that the....

It's-About-Health(Indus-Leaders-2018)
By Tim Perry, Co-founder & CIO, Healthcare Too

I like technology and the value technology services can deliver. I have a made a career of developing, implementing, overseeing, and improving...

Our-2018-strategy(Indus-leaders-2018)
By Lowell McAdam, CEO, Verizon

In a recent conference call with investors, I reviewed Verizon’s 2017 financial and operational results, the implications of tax reform to Verizon...

Status-Quo-Vs(Indus-Leaders-2018)
By Mark V. Hurd, CEO, Oracle

The technology industry is at a critical inflection point, as the cloud and other new technologies represent the biggest and most significant changes...

Unsecured-At-Any(Indus-Leaders-2018)
By Michael Xie, Founder, President and CTO, Fortinet

I have never seen anyone pull into a parking space, get out of their car and leave their laptop, wallet, iPhone, social security card, list of most important...