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• BrandPost: IoT Data Management: Lessons Learned from the Enterprise Data Warehouse

  26-07-2017 20:21
  Data reigns supreme in the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), but as in any enterprise data management initiative, more is not necessarily better.With industry experts projecting upwards of 20 billion connected devices by 2020, CIOs are girding for a flood of data pouring in from IoT-enabled vehicles, medical equipment, consumer gear, energy grids, and industrial machinery. McKinsey Global Institute estimates the impact of IoT on the global economy to reach $6.2 trillion by 2025; to tap into
  
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• BrandPost: One for all: The enterprise digital platform serves C-Level executives

  26-07-2017 18:15
  The Enterprise Digital Platform is the technological centerpiece of the new, connected digital economy. With its five key service layers – engagement, integration, development, data, and core IT – it integrates enterprise applications, makes data accessible, and easily connects with ecosystems and users. This enables the new type of processes that define the era of digital transformation.By design, this requires a holistic approach to the enterprise organization, integrating the flow
  
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• How global media companies handle digital disruption

  26-07-2017 17:18
  In 1925, a bespectacled Scottish engineer named John Logie Baird strode up the entranceway to the Daily Express in London. The year before, Baird had used sundry items, ranging from a bicycle lamp to a used tea chest, to fashion a crude device he dubbed a “televisor.” In his laboratory, the “televisor” managed to successfully transmit a flickering image of objects in outline over a distance of 10 feet.Further breakthroughs followed. On Oct. 2 1925, Baird transmitted the w
  
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• BrandPost: 6 Critical Considerations When Building Business-driven Automation for Scale

  26-07-2017 16:29
  Today we live in a world driven by the new digital economy where every company is a technology company. Enterprise applications drive business at every level, from customer interaction to order and service fulfillment to billing.The ability to innovate and quickly adapt to changes (business-driven and IT-driven) is key to an organization’s success. Enterprise organizations that look to innovate quickly and efficiently turn to intelligent automation because they know manual processes are to
  
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• 13% off Zeiss Pre-Moistened Lens Cleaning Wipes - Deal Alert

  26-07-2017 15:45
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• $50 off iRobot Roomba 690 Wi-Fi Alexa Compatible Robotic Vacuum - Deal Alert

  26-07-2017 15:43
  It's lowest price to date on Amazon, the Roomba 690 is currently discounted $50. Roomba loosens, lifts, & suctions dirt while navigating around furniture and clutter. Clean and schedule from anywhere. It's WiFi compatible and works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Step aside venture capital: Corporates are stepping up to the plate

  26-07-2017 15:19
  I started my career in the height of the dot-com boom. My first job was to pitch for the redevelopment of the FTSE.com website. I remember submitting a two-page proposal, detailing next to nothing, and summarising with a price tag of £1m. A price tag which was roughly £900,000 overpriced.Looking back, it was a pretty irresponsible time. And not one I’m particularly proud of. Especially as FTSE became a client.There’s plenty of talk of whether today is a repeat of that tim
  
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• Why the CIO reporting structure matters

  26-07-2017 12:15
  When Heller Search is asked to recruit a CIO who reports into finance, we know that a whole segment of the talent pool will pass on the opportunity. Why? That’s what I asked Marc Hamer, CIO of $7 billion packaging manufacturer Sealed Air.In this interview with Hamer, he discusses the importance of reporting structure, the culture he is creating in IT & Digital, and the company’s new digital strategy.How are you defining your chief digital officer title?
  I think of my role as the
  
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• Social intelligence: How to mine social media for business results

  26-07-2017 12:00
  In an age where most companies have a social media presence on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Instagram, it’s somewhat surprising that many still haven’t figured out how to turn the data gathered from company-owned properties and broader social media listening tools into automated and actionable intelligence.“Social intelligence is just making use of the analysis social analytics tools give you. It could be basic or it could be complex, but it needs
  
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• Public cloud: Real-world lessons of strategic success

  26-07-2017 12:00
  The commodity days of the cloud are over. It’s time to get strategic. That’s the message of today’s leading cloud strategies, as forward-thinking CIOs are no longer turning to the public cloud to cut costs. Instead, the public cloud is viewed as an opportunity to get out of the business of managing data centers and focus on projects that are more strategic for the business.Whether that means building a mobile app or new website to strengthen customer engagement, these shifts si
  
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