• IDG Contributor Network: CIO reflections on Dreamforce

    On my way to this year’s Dreamforce, I was surprised by just how many CIOs were already sharing their Dreamforce experiences. Given this, I collected their responses to Dreamforce through a #CIOChat that I ran during Dreamforce. Hopefully, this will prove useful to Dreamforce attendees and IT leaders alike.Digital creating a better society or not?
    During his Dreamforce keynote, Marc Benioff, asked conference attendees whether digital is creating a better society—an interesting questi
  • IDG Contributor Network: AI strategies – know thy capabilities

    Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology movement is transformational and will require new leadership skills that are embracing of change. However, the key driver will not be technology along, but assuring the maturity of the right capabilities. Companies committed to adopting AI will need to develop corporate strategies and governance policies that will require in-depth knowledge of the capabilities to assure expectations are in alignment with the promised value to their business p
  • BrandPost: Delphix + AWS = Safer, Faster Movement to the Cloud

    Wait times for data can be painfully slow for teams that are tasked with moving data to the cloud and utilizing that data for application development. Delphix recently combined the power of Amazon Web Services with the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to help speed up and secure migrations to the industry-leading AWS cloud platform.Available today in the AWS Marketplace, the combination of Delphix on AWS can trim migration time on cloud projects from weeks and months to days. Customers can als
  • How to ensure IT works on the right projects

    When your company makes a major acquisition and the demand on IT increases, how do you know that you are spending your precious IT dollars on the most important projects? That’s what I asked Dave Hudson, CIO of Veritiv, the $8 billion packaging, facility solutions, print and publishing, and logistics company. Hudson says a combination of vision, goals and governance is the key.How do you turn IT from a culture of order takers to business partners?
    Sometimes I find there are a few incorrect
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  • 7 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

    Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence. You can use it to pull data from a wide range of systems in the cloud and on premises and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most, or drill in and (literally) ask questions about your data. You can create rich reports or embed dashboards and reports into reporting portals you already use. The dashboards, reports and visualizations you can create go far beyond bar an

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