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• BrandPost: The Role of Risk Management and Governance in Intelligent Automation

  12-12-2017 22:21
  Intelligent Automation (IA) is rapidly transforming the way organizations handle everything from finance and accounting to operations and human resources. Basic Robotics Process Automation (RPA) and enhanced process solutions such as artificial intelligence (AI) unlock the potential to do things faster, better, and cheaper relative to what used to be — and these technologies have become fairly easy to obtain and deploy, with quick ROI, according to Martin Sokalski, Principal, Emerging Tech
  
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• BrandPost: Data Security Needs to be Re-Imagined for the Cloud

  12-12-2017 21:28
  Data is growing in size, with IDC predicting 163 Zettabytes of data by 2025, and also in complexity. The rise of open-source software, DevOps, and NoSQL databases has created a new generation of developers empowered to choose the right tool for the job across an ever more heterogeneous technology stack. Companies are not just migrating to the cloud, but are embracing multiple public and private clouds — choosing carefully where these applications run in order to best utilize thos
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Who in the C-suite owns emerging technology?

  12-12-2017 21:15
  Digital transformation may seem like a glimpse into the future as we start implementing artificial intelligence, blockchain, and robots, but companies have been driving toward this cloud-enabled, data-driven future for nearly 10 years. The technologies we’re implementing may be new, but the problems transformation creates in the organization are not.Take the clash in the c-suite over who owns emerging technology, and who’s responsible for it. The answer is never easy, and I’ve
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Enterprise service management: what’s in a name?

  12-12-2017 20:32
  I admit I don’t remember much from the English literature classes I’ve taken, but somehow the quote from Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, has always stayed at the top of my mind. “What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”Working in an IT environment where things are constantly evolving, and frameworks or new software pop up like mushrooms, I believe that the way we name solutions and tools sometimes matters more than
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Purging overused buzzwords from the lexicon

  12-12-2017 19:30
  Business has always been plagued by jargon and buzzwords, and they’re everywhere. Utility compute morphed into the “cloud” today. We ask people if they have “bandwidth” as if they’re a network device. Consultants want us to “think outside the box” so that we “push the envelope” to create “cutting-edge” solutions. I mean, who wants to hire someone when they can “leverage” an existing employee instead? Why not open
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 pitfalls to avoid when defining IT’s mission in the digital age

  12-12-2017 19:00
  As we forge ahead in the digital age, IT departments are starting to make up the majority of most organizations’ investment, operations, and risk. Thus, the term “IT is the business” has taken hold. Therefore, the further along your organization overall is on its digital journey, the more the IT mission should resemble the overall organization’s mission. In fact, taken to its logical extreme, the best practice would be to repeat the organization’s mission as IT&rsqu
  
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• 2017's biggest tech mergers and acquisitions

  12-12-2017 18:40
  The biggest tech mergers and acquisitions of 2017Image by Peter Sayer/IDGOne of the most talked-about acquisitions of the year, a $78 billion takeover of Accenture by Oracle, turned out to be nothing more than rumor, roundly dismissed by Oracle.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIO 2020: Greater collaboration, and an end to control-based security

  12-12-2017 17:21
  In “The CIO should report to the CISO,” contributor Richard Stiennon suggests organizational structures should be changed such that the CIO reports to the CISO, instead of the current scenario where the CISO reports either to the CIO, or sometimes directly to the CEO.This approach, however, will not increase the security posture of a company. Security typically is, or has been, “control based,” and simply flipping the reporting structure isn’t going to change anythi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Holiday greetings: some assembly required

  12-12-2017 16:30
   “Some assembly required”– These are a parent’s three most dreaded words on Christmas morning. But believe me, the business equivalent of that phrase is even worse to hear during an ERP implementation.I’m sure this situation is familiar to you: Parents buy a present for their daughter, but fail to notice the “some assembly required” printing on the package until Christmas morning. When their daughter looks at them with teary eyes because the ro
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Are you digitally transforming?

  12-12-2017 15:58
  Digital transformation has clearly moved into the mainstream for the majority of companies, with analysts reporting that most corporations are pushing to complete their “wave 1” projects within the next year (“70% of corporations will complete their first wave of digital transformation projects” – Gartner). Case studies published by the major cloud providers highlight some intriguing transformational customers. Effective use of IoT (actually, IoME) by Sensoria
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data enrichment – a force multiplier in a big data environment

  12-12-2017 15:41
  As you have probably heard or read, IBM’s Marketing Cloud recently published that “90% of world’s data today has been created in the last two years alone.” Growing daily at 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily, this number will only explode over the next few years.This may seem impressive, but much of it is simply raw data. Nonetheless, you may point out that with all this data we are advancing technology, improving outcomes, enriching lives and making better decisions. Th
  
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• BrandPost: Addressing Network Complexity

  12-12-2017 15:00
  Imagine creating and orchestrating 1 million containers—in less than two minutes. That’s a whole new dimension of IP management issues. Almost all organizations depend on IP-based devices to ensure worker productivity. But few, if any, workers remain in one fixed location for their entire employment—many may move several times within a year. This causes immense complexity in managing the movement of devices, and the inevitable address conflicts and limitations. And it
  
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• Blockchain pilots show big-business promise

  12-12-2017 12:00
  Blockchain, the complex technology that supports bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, is poised for a move into mainstream business.A growing number of industries and at least three national governments are conducting pilots or, in a few cases, actual deployments of blockchain applications. Early use cases are aimed at harnessing the technology to improve supply chain management and food safety, verify identities, conduct real estate transactions, and handle medical records and insurance transac
  
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• Salesforce Lightning vs Classic: What you need to know now

  12-12-2017 11:56
  What is Salesforce Lightning?
  More than just a new, more modern-looking skin, it’s a completely different UI for Salesforce.com (SFDC), it really is mobile ready (if not yet mobile optimized) and it really has completely different technical underpinnings than SFDC’s Classic UI and VisualForce. SFDC’s engineers have put a ton of thought and hundreds of man-years of development effort into the user experience, technical infrastructure, APIs, tools and documentation (both the &ldq
  
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