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• SAP wants to embrace all your data stores with Data Hub

  25-09-2017 21:45
  If data warehouses are for tidiness freaks (information packaged into neat inferences, sorted and stacked, the rest discarded) and data lakes are for hoarders (tip everything in, you never know what might be useful) then SAP's new Data Hub may be for the rest of us.It's a new data management tool intended to process only the data you need — and to go looking for it where it's created or stored, without requiring you to pull it all into one place. Data scientists will be able to use it
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Banks can play a positive role in the age of blockchain

  25-09-2017 16:07
  Blockchain is undeniably at the epicenter of a financial revolution. The technology will likely alter the landscape of many industries over the next decade and beyond, but it will need some help to get there. True revolutionaries understand that there is no change without compromise, and this notion is relevant for blockchain as well.While the technology forms bitcoin’s backbone, the cryptocurrency that some think threatens global banking, blockchain itself will likely require the help of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Regtech can help CIOs enhance their compliance strategy

  25-09-2017 15:55
  Compliance is a costly and cumbersome aspect of managing a business. Effective compliance programs can help a company achieve its goals on the international stage, while avoiding costly regulatory mistakes.Executives that are responsible for the regulatory process in their firms understand how important a sound compliance strategy is. CIOs, in particular, understand the costs of failing to effectively manage this data — major, expensive interruptions to technical operations.In fact, more a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Collapsing the IT stack disrupts the systems integration market

  25-09-2017 15:50
  A great frustration for companies is that the way we currently deploy software takes a large implementation team, often an external team. An army of systems integration (SI) consultants shows up for the effort. But it’s incredibly expensive. And wasteful. Until now, companies lacked a better way than the SI model to drive technology implementations. Today, SaaS and SaaS-like products are changing this picture. But they don’t go far enough. Let’s look at how this frustration can
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How artificial intelligence is transforming patient experience

  25-09-2017 15:40
  Do you know if your hospital has a good reputation? Yelp can tell you if you are curious, and growing numbers of health care consumers are looking. That has created both a problem and an opportunity for hospitals.To begin with, let’s establish a framework of information. Patient experience is critical in a number of ways. For starters, happier patients are typically healthier, as a report published in Academic Medicine found. So hospitals care about delivering high quality care and helping
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 reasons most companies fail at business intelligence

  25-09-2017 15:27
  If you’re failing to gain traction with your business intelligence platform, you’re hardly alone.Gartner says that anywhere from 70 to 80 percent of business intelligence initiatives end up failing. As businesses create more data than ever before, that failure rate is astounding.Successful companies are the ones that can gather quality analytics from Big Data, not simply accumulate as much data as possible. While many businesses have been successful at attaining Big Data, what happen
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Don’t act your age

  25-09-2017 15:26
  GE is leading the largest digital sales force transformation in the world. And we’re doing it by thinking small. Just like a startup. We are focused every day on thinking, acting and working like a startup. Each morning, we challenge ourselves to wake up with an entrepreneurial spirit and a risk-taking mentality that might seem surprising to some. Why? Well, we’re facing the reality that our customers have changed, and thus, if we want to continue to serve them well, then it’s
  
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• SAP buys Gigya to boost customer identity access management offering

  25-09-2017 15:24
  SAP is giving its business software users a new way to track their customers, with the acquisition of customer identity management specialist Gigya.If your business isn't already a Gigya customer, then you're most likely to have seen its name flickering in your browser's status or address bar as you log in to consumer websites. Banks, hotel chains, media companies and e-commerce stores use its opt-in registration service to track their customers' identities and provide them access to services.[
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 must-ask questions while evaluating vendors for digital initiatives

  25-09-2017 14:30
  It pays to be more careful today. If you look at the websites of tech vendors, you’ll find that some of them have simply added new jargon such as "digital," "customer experience design," and "blockchain" – without first gaining expertise in those areas. A subset of these vendors simply searched for the term “IT” and replaced it with “digital,” turning their content into plain nonsense.In today’s digital era, should you take a re-look at the cri
  
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• BrandPost: Hyperconvergence Speeds Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure

  25-09-2017 14:27
  Hyperconvergence is enabling companies to deliver and consume infrastructure and applications in a whole new way.  As companies examine their options, many are considering next generation ‘as a service’ deployment models that offer optimized performance and TCO – with a lower cost of entry.For companies looking to reduce the upfront cost and commitment required for deploying a private cloud, a service delivery model can be a sensible option. Cloud services adoption is incr
  
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• Modernizing IT: How to thrive as a CIO ‘value broker’

  25-09-2017 12:00
  You might think that the CIO of a billion-dollar business would have nothing good to say about shadow IT. After all, rogue deployments have been keeping senior IT execs up at night for years, wondering if those a la carte antics will open the gates to a major security breach or break applications across the network.But that’s not at all how Ian Pitt, CIO of LogMeIn, sees it. “Shadow IT keeps the IT people on their toes. It introduces competition and we learn that if we’re not d
  
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• IBM CIO bets big on digital workplace to lure tech talent

  25-09-2017 12:00
  It wasn’t long ago that IBM’s 400,000 employees performed their duties on PCs with the company’s commercial productivity and collaboration applications. Oh, how times have changed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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