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• BrandPost: Standard or Custom Cloud Instances? How to Decide?

  29-01-2018 21:23
  Throughout the computing era, we’ve seen the pendulum swing between customized and standard solutions. Custom solutions, tailored to the precise needs of an application or user, can boost efficiency, productivity, and ease-of-use, but come at a premium price. Standard solutions provide economies of scale, greater compatibility, and lower prices, but the “one-size-fits-all” approach doesn’t always live up to the promise in its name.On balance, standardization has carried
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Big data is not a barrier to entry

  29-01-2018 20:33
  As I argued in a "Data is not the new oil or the infrastructure of the digital economy," data is not a finite exhaustible resource like oil and it is not an information infrastructure. It is a valuable input that allows companies to improve their products and services to make our lives richer and more productive.But in some cases, data could act as a barrier to entry. As the Economist puts it, “Vast pools of data can…act as protective moats.”  Some competition policy aut
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Predictive software engineering: the ultimate way to deliver working software

  29-01-2018 18:23
  According to a Deloitte survey, distributed and remote collaboration is expected to grow across multiple functions, particularly IT, in the coming years. The survey reveals that the share of subcontracted functions increased by 31% in 2016, compared to 26% in 2014. The numbers show that leading organizations choose remote resources to drive transformational change and improve business results, especially when it comes to software development. To achieve their transformational goals, they expect
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Hybrid cloud holding you back? Try Microsoft Azure Stack

  29-01-2018 17:46
  Cloud computing, in both public and private mode, has become the new enterprise standard. At the same time, enterprises are continuing to work with managed service providers (MSPs) for a widening range of IT solutions, including cloud support.These two trends are linked. CIO Senior Writer Thor Olavsrud last summer noted that “leaning on an MSP for a subset of your IT services can be a boon.” He also pointed to a CompTIA study indicating that the percentage of MSPs who say that cloud
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 15 places to use requirements when selecting enterprise software

  29-01-2018 17:41
  Industry is littered with enterprise software purchases that failed to meet expectations and objectives. While you might read about outright failures that end up in court, most partial failures are never exposed because those involved don’t like talking about them, and that is why so few organizations appreciate the risks they are taking with these projects.When an organization decides to purchase enterprise software, their needs are documented as requirements, and inadequate requirements
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Apple and the democratization of patient health records

  29-01-2018 17:04
  Unexpected is the new normal. Apple announced this past week that it is bringing patient medical records to their Health app, the most significant update to the Apple Health app since its original launch in 2015. We may now be entering the era of democratized health records, with patients gaining some long-awaited control over their personal medical information.Let’s break this down: first off, the launch is limited to healthcare consumers served by a handful of institutions which include
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The Big-D Jargon Hit list: Cutting out Disintermediation

  29-01-2018 16:39
  If you’ve been following any of my blogs lately you’ll know that I’ve been on a rant about jargon, and, so far, have tried to exorcise both digital and disruption from our daily lexicon. Good luck, you say? Ok, well, the point I'm trying to make is that many of these words have gone past their due dates, and should be sent out to the business-as-usual pasture.Generally, the rampant use of jargon isn’t only annoying, it blocks our ability to see with fresh eyes and stifle
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 steps to build a business case for customer journey mapping

  29-01-2018 13:00
  “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” That’s what Elbert Hubbard, an American writer, artist and philosopher, said more than 100 years ago, when the world was still in the manufacturing era and long before the fast pace of today’s digital age.His words are more than applicable today, especially if a company is challenged to respond quickly to increased competition and changing c
  
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• What is TOGAF? An enterprise architecture methodology for business

  29-01-2018 12:00
  The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture methodology that offers a high-level framework for enterprise software development. TOGAF helps organize the development process through a systematic approach aimed at reducing errors, maintaining timelines, staying on budget and aligning IT with business units to produce quality results.The Open Group developed TOGAF in 1995, and in 2016, 80 percent of Global 50 companies and 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies used th
  
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• The 11 most difficult IT hires today

  29-01-2018 12:00
  Ask any recruiter or tech pro what roles are most hard to fill in 2018, and you won’t be shocked.AI and data science jobs are at the top of the list, in part because they’re relatively young technologies, and they’re being introduced in all sorts of companies going through their digital transformation.At the same time, there are some surprises. We’ve focused on those here, both to identify the demand for managers doing the hiring and to help IT pros interested in explori
  
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