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• IDG Contributor Network: Why (and how) utilities see a future in the cloud

  22-01-2018 21:00
  Disruptive technologies have the capability to trigger rapid advancement in any given industry, yet their adoption is rarely linear, especially in the case of regulated industries. For utilities, times have changed; increasing competition from non-traditional providers (think: Walmart and Amazon providing solar panels straight to consumers) means your local utility can no longer just “keep the lights on” to keep your business.An industry that has enjoyed its monopoly status for deca
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why low code platforms are the future of app development

  22-01-2018 19:46
  If you’ve never heard of the low code approach to app development before then get ready because you’re about to start hearing it everywhere. The streamlined approach involves rapid design and development with minimal amounts of coding, often relying on third-party application programming interfaces (APIs).There’s not really any individual definition of low code development because it’s more of a mindset than something that’s directly measurable. But the very fact t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Marketers deserve mobile location data transparency, not smoke and mirrors

  22-01-2018 18:53
  Today’s savvy marketers are investing more and more in mobile location data. They are working with providers of data and insights, campaign measurement services and ad attribution reports to understand where consumers travel along the consumer journey and how advertising affects consumer interactions with bricks-and-mortar businesses. They’re becoming increasingly reliant on insights gleaned from mobile location data to measure marketing ROI and even decide where to build new busine
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 steps to become an AI-enabled enterprise

  22-01-2018 18:30
  After two decades, platform companies are still collecting tons of data, filling their databases with information of everyone’s knowledge, opinions, recommendations, locations, movements, buying behavior, relation status, lifestyle, etc. This is not a secret and nothing new. And speaking of artificial intelligence (AI), the platform companies are fully embracing and heavily investing into AI. However, most enterprise leaders underestimate the effect this will have on their businesses. And
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Should you trust those agile charts?

  22-01-2018 17:35
  Most CTO's and IT leaders have received the agile message by now.  Your staff tells you about agile and this "scrum" thing from your IT department and they say agile has taken over the development world.  They then show you all these pretty graphs with sprint burn down charts, cumulative flows, velocity over time, MVP (Minimum Viable Product) burn down charts, release burn up charts, etc.Everything looks stellar, but when you start asking about how those charts are measured, it will o
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Achieving business transparency

  22-01-2018 17:24
  Today’s CIO need to achieve many things to be relevant to their business counterparts. At the top of this list should be establishing business transparency. The question is how do they achieve it? And what things are needed to put transparency in place? These are the questions that I posed recently to the #CIOChat. Their answers should be relevant to all CIOs and key members of their management teams.Transparency matters
  CIOs believe transparency matters. They say that transparency is abo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Infrastructure-as-a-Service set to outpace in 2018

  22-01-2018 17:16
  This month, Synergy Research Group released a review of the 2017 cloud market. According to their analysis, the cloud services and infrastructure market has grown by nearly a quarter annually. Among the cloud services analyzed, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) saw the highest growth rate at 47 percent while Software-as-a-Service grew by 31 percent. According to Synergy, this growth is part of a broader trend: The cloud-services market is growing three tim
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Communicating and marketing portfolio of initiatives that drive digital transformation

  22-01-2018 17:04
  Whenever digital transformation comes up in a group of CIOs, there’s often debate on what constitutes a transformation program. Is a cloud migration transformational? When IT organizations adopt agile practices to deliver new applications, is that transformational? If the CIO sponsors a citizen data science program and deploys new self-service data visualization tools, is that transformational? What about devops, investing in artificial intelligence, or experimenting with blockchain?To re
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Communicating and marketing a portfolio of initiatives that drive digital transformation

  22-01-2018 17:04
  Whenever digital transformation comes up in a group of CIOs, there’s often debate on what constitutes a transformation program. Is a cloud migration transformational? When IT organizations adopt agile practices to deliver new applications, is that transformational? If the CIO sponsors a citizen data science program and deploys new self-service data visualization tools, is that transformational? What about devops, investing in artificial intelligence, or experimenting with blockchain?To re
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 factors that form a formidable business leader, according to Oracle CIO Mark Sunday

  22-01-2018 16:48
  Lead, but follow. Be transparent, but discreet. Be caring, but tough. Be fair, but strategic. It seems that current business philosophies change with the days of the week.  But for me, I look to Sunday for an inspiring example in leadership. Mark Sunday, that is. As Senior Vice President and CIO at Oracle, Sunday has seen his share of shifting business trends. Where other leaders may scramble to adapt, the secret to his success is his consistent execution of five dynamic strategies day in
  
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• Get 29% Off This 6-Sheet Micro-Cut Paper and Credit Card Shredder

  22-01-2018 16:08
  This powerful micro-cut shredder from AmazonBasics turns a letter-sized sheet into 2,235 pieces of confetti, up to 6 sheets at a time (5/32 by 15/32 inches; security level P-4). Inserted one at a time, it also destroys credit cards, rendering them completely unusable. It features a generous 4.1-gallon waste bin that is easy to manage. This micro-cut shredder averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 1,900 people (72% rate a full 5 stars: read reviews). Its typical list price of $50 has be
  
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• The unexpected benefits of data analytics

  22-01-2018 12:00
  Successful IT projects require clear goals, and data analytics is no exception. When conducting analysis, data teams seek to discover useful information about customers, to support decision-making on a project, to enhance productivity, and a host of other outcomes.But given the exploratory nature of data analytics, sometimes benefits or insights gleaned are out of the blue, completely unexpected and not part of the original business plan. These happy accidents support the idea that all data ana
  
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• Blockchain is poised for a big business breakout

  22-01-2018 12:00
  For all the hype, blockchain has yet to go mainstream in the enterprise. That may well change in 2018 as the technology's reputation for trusted transactions continues to grow among IT leaders.Blockchain is a shared digital ledger for recording transactions. Each transaction among participants in a network is tucked into a record known as a block that is digitally signed to ensure its authenticity and create consensus about the state of transactions at any given second. What has CIOs excit
  
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