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• BrandPost: Open source is powering the digital enterprise

  02-08-2017 20:51
  By leveraging broad based collaboration and strong communities of independent developers, open source innovation is transforming the very core of information technology and enabling organizations to win in today’s digital economy. As a community we all gain from these efforts.Technology is now being strategically applied to support the fast-paced and rapidly changing demands of businesses and the customers they serve. In the new digital reality, an organization’s cloud, application,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Postcards from the digital transformation of a 100-year-old startup

  02-08-2017 19:38
  Companies of all sizes in all industries are grappling with digital transformation. I have the pleasure of leading the innovation team at a nearly 100-year-old startup, and I’m often asked, “How do you track your progress along the journey?”The short answer is “Everywhere, and all the time.” A digital transformation is, by definition, digital, providing numerous opportunities for tracking. But to be truly transformative, a digital transformation cannot just be about
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Are SLAs no longer relevant?

  02-08-2017 19:27
  After reading a piece from Stephanie Overby, Lynn Greiner and Lauren Gibbons Paul in CIO.com, I wondered what today’s CIOs think about SLAs. For this reason, I asked members of the #CIOChat on Twitter for their perspectives.I started this discussion by asking whether their business customers understand their SLAs and more importantly, feel empowered to trade off levels of service quality. Overall, CIOs said the answer is no. CIOs had a variety of reasons for this answer. They claimed that
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Human ingenuity will be the genesis for IoT prosperity

  02-08-2017 19:25
  There is no doubt we are entering a time of exponential change in technological innovation.Just look around. We are witnessing self-driving cars traversing the streets in California and Texas. Doctors now perform open-heart surgery with robotic arms, in some cases from a remote operating room hundreds of miles from the patient. Robotic exoskeletons are creating a “super labor force” by enhancing the strength of workers, and human capabilities are reaching new heights in factories, wa
  
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• Oracle refreshes entire SaaS line, aiming to fuel cloud momentum

  02-08-2017 14:49
  As the migration of enterprises to the cloud picks up steam, Oracle is intent on keeping up. It has taken to refreshing its SaaS applications twice a year, bringing them up to feature parity with its on-premises software and adding brand-new features for e-commerce and internet-centric supply chain management.Oracle Cloud Applications Release 13, announced Wednesday, is the newest iteration of the company’s cloud-based business applications. It upgrades the user interface across all the ap
  
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• Salesforce certification: When certs matter, when they don't & what to look for

  02-08-2017 14:38
  Certification programs for administrators and developers go back to the days when the mainframe was young, so it's not surprising to see analogous courses and tests showing up for CRM systems now. Certification is a sign of competency in one technology or another…sure.  But how important is certification, really?In technology infrastructure products (such as network or OS), certification might well be dismissed as a fairly static “checkbox item”.  But in applications
  
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• CIO Career Coach: Be a good storyteller

  02-08-2017 12:30
  Welcome back to “CIO Career Coach,” a video series I created with CIO.com and IDG.tv. All throughout this second season, we’ve been discussing the competencies required of CIOs to be successful in the new era of IT. This installment, episode 8, is the final episode of season 2. I hope you have gleaned some inspirational information and real-world examples that help you meet the challenges you face as an IT leader and help advance your career.The CIO competency we are talki
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How big data is disrupting the healthcare industry

  02-08-2017 01:01
  From retail and hospitality to manufacturing and the legal industry, big data has been radically changing the way decision makers work in all fields for the past few years, and healthcare is no exception.Now, many people would be quick to point out that medical research has always relied heavily on data analytics, and that’s true. However, big data has made a slow creep into the rest of the healthcare system. To learn more, let’s examine a few ways that big data is disrupting healthc
  
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