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• IDG Contributor Network: Comply today and realize value tomorrow: GDPR readiness day one and beyond

  10-04-2018 16:55
  With less than two months remaining until the May 25th deadline, organizations should be well on their way towards General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. Privacy’s “new normal” will require you to demonstrate, on an ongoing basis, how you collect, use, retain, disclose and destroy personal information in line with the new GDPR requirements.This has a significant impact to the IT organization, as the custodian of this information, and is a significant transformat
  
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• Indirect access: SAP offers a new way to pay

  10-04-2018 14:56
  SAP is inviting customers to pay for its software per record created when they access it indirectly through third-party apps and services, and not per named user as it does today.It’s also promising to build a wall between its sales and license auditing departments, so that customers don’t feel threatened during commercial negotiations.
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• IDG Contributor Network: Using data to cross the finish line

  10-04-2018 13:00
  In today’s technology-driven business landscape, many organizations understand that data is the currency of digital transformation – yet very few have the foresight to look beyond the traditional sources of information we’re accustomed to. Focus tends to rest solely on the transactional nature of business as we know it and in the age of “disrupt or be disrupted,” stagnation does not bode well.New sources of data are appearing continuously, and these new sources oft
  
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• Why your IT team should be obsessed with your customers

  10-04-2018 12:30
  Customer-obsessed organizations are winning. It’s as simple as that. Amazon dominates because its track record of innovation has disrupted numerous industries. We know them because of their numbers: 42,000 percent rise in stock price since their IPO, market value of $423 billion, and a meteoric rise up the Fortune 500 ladder to No. 12 last year.How is Amazon doing it? What is driving these outstanding results, not only against brick-and-mortar stores, but countless online competitors? You
  
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• IT’s worst addictions (and how to cure them)

  10-04-2018 12:00
  Everybody has bad habits, but sometimes they can turn into compulsions.While technology addiction is a real thing, especially for teenagers, IT pros have their own monkeys on their backs.Whether you're an infrastructure junkie or a Slack head, chasing the data dragon or mesmerized by the blinking lights on your network operations center dashboard, your tech addictions can kill productivity, sap budgets and stall innovation. An inability to relinquish control can lead to technology silos an
  
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• GDPR is coming. Are you ready?

  10-04-2018 11:48
  The European Union will begin enforcement of its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25. Is your organization ready?"The thing about GDPR is you never know when a breach is going to take place," says Steve Durbin, managing director of the Information Security Forum (ISF), a global, independent information security body that focuses on cyber security and information risk management. "One of the biggest challenges that I think comes with the GDPR is how do you enable an ongoing progr
  
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