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• BrandPost: Avoiding Vendor Lock-In Carries a Variety of Benefits and Challenges

  12-01-2018 23:06
  Smart business is all about managing risk. That same principle is the guiding force behind enterprise cloud strategies, which are shifting to a multi-cloud environment as companies try to mitigate dependence on any one cloud service provider (CSP).A recent RightScale survey found that 85% of enterprises have embraced a multi-cloud strategy in 2017—a bump of 3% over last year. On average, the survey found that companies are running applications in 1.8 public clouds and 2.3 private clouds.W
  
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• BrandPost: 5 technology trends affecting GRC — and how to navigate them effectively

  12-01-2018 21:59
  Managing risk and compliance is a challenge for any large business, but the rapid changes affecting this department due to technology have raised the stakes even higher. Businesses are collecting and processing more data than ever, from more sources, and they’re sharing it more widely than ever, with partners, customers, and suppliers. With all this data moving around, internally, externally, and in the cloud, it’s clear that Governance, Risk, and Compliance (to use its official nam
  
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• BrandPost: Data-Driven Digital Transformation: Filling the Gaps between Strategy and Execution

  12-01-2018 20:13
  IT leaders believe they have made significant progress mapping out next-generation data strategies. But selling the strategy to business leaders, translating policy into projects, and effectively executing on the details of specific initiatives remain barriers to data-driven digital transformation.According to an exclusive IDG QuickPulse survey, 76% of IT decision-makers say their organization has been extremely or very effective at mapping out a data strategy. That positive view, however, is s
  
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• BrandPost: 3 Biggest-Impact Work Processes to Automate

  12-01-2018 18:04
  Automated processes equate to time saved, and workers freed up for  higher-value work. That’s the view of 1,000 information workers who were surveyed about their perceptions of automation. The results were largely positive, and it’s no wonder: More than 40% of those surveyed said they currently spend over a quarter of their work week on manual, repetitive tasks.Helping your organization free up time for innovation is clearly a benefit of automating repetitive work; what’s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: No more Post-It’s: The case for software in your digital innovation sessions

  12-01-2018 14:21
  With so much interest and activity around innovation workshops, design thinking workshops and other forms of event-based idea generation (ideation) sessions in support of digital transformation initiatives, it’s time to re-visit the age-old Post-It’s versus software debate.Of course, a well-run ideation session using Post-It’s will trump a less-effectively run session using software every time, so it’s more about the magician (in this case the facilitator) and the overal
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The future is now: 2018 market predictions for database and data management

  12-01-2018 14:00
  Part of me wonders why we focus our trend and market predictions at the beginning and end of each year, when we all know these changes are fluid, and don’t happen according to a perfect calendar date. But it’s important to constantly evaluate the changes we are seeing, and understand where they will take us next. And in that spirit, I’d like to share three market predictions my team and I believe will come to pass in 2018 and beyond.1. Expectations for database systems have ex
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Value-as-a-Service: the importance of strategic supplier management

  12-01-2018 13:30
  We are in an everything-as-a-service era. The shift from product to service delivery originated in the B2C world, but quickly spread to the B2B world. For example, take the services provided by Spotify or Apple Music instead of consumers purchasing products like CDs, or the example of our being able to purchase Wi-Fi coverage instead of buying routers. As customers, most of us don’t want to think about what is necessary to get something done, we just want it done. Let me provide a common
  
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• How AI could revolutionize project management

  12-01-2018 12:00
  From software development to construction to logistics and finance, every company has projects that need planning, managing and monitoring. But the tools we use to do that are often complex, designed for specialists and don’t do as much as they could to warn about potential problems. Could AI-powered decision support systems and automation make more of your projects successful by reducing costs and mistakes, analyzing risks, making things more efficient or keeping things on time and on bu
  
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• BrandPost: Are You Positioned for IT Optimization and Innovation? — Podcast Episode 3

  12-01-2018 02:23
  In this episode, IDG’s Tom Schmidt talks to Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research and author of the best-selling book Disrupting Digital, about how a multi-modal approach is the key to successful digital transformation.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• BrandPost: Liberate2Innovate Podcast Series

  12-01-2018 02:21
  Welcome to the Liberate2Innovate podcast series, brought to you by IDG and sponsored by Rimini Street. These podcasts feature leading industry experts in conversation with IDG’s Tom Schmidt on a variety of topics imperative to IT decision makers on a path to digital transformation. Hear about the real world strategies, tactics, and partnerships you need to know about to drive your organization forward to free up critical resources and discover a path to rapid innovation.Don’t miss o
  
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• BrandPost: Enterprise Apps Are at a Crossroads — Podcast Episode 2

  12-01-2018 00:28
  IDG’s Tom Schmidt continues his conversation with Nucleus Research’s Rebecca Wettemann as they delve into the findings of IDG’s latest State of the CIO Report.Be sure to check out Episode 1 here.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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