Forget online banking. If there was ever an industry where mobile is not just first but full-steam ahead, it’s the financial services industry, where FinTech—a.k.a. financial services technology—is finding new ways to make spending, managing, and investing our hard-earned money even easier than ever before. From Venmo to Apple Pay, we’re seeing more and more consumers moving to digital currency—digital …
Six Ways Leaders Can Build a Culture of Innovation
What makes an enterprise organization successful? Is it a phenomenal understanding of the market? A visionary growth strategy? A value-driven customer focus? A strategy that enables digital transformation, both from a tech standpoint and a culture standpoint? Yes, yes, and yes. So many yesses. But there’s something else, something that would fall into the “all of the above” category: Winning …
How Collaboration Tech is Changing Everything about the Business of HR
It’s no secret technology has changed the HR industry. HR tech trends for 2017, in fact, include people data collection turning more to predictive analytics, and the line between marketing and HR blurring when it comes to prioritizing the employee experience—and that’s just for starters. One key shift changing everything about the business of HR is the rise of collaboration …
DevOps: How to Navigate the Chaos and Come Out the Other Side
DevOps—the continuous development, deployment and delivery of software—is here to stay, and it’s an approach to be seriously considered for any business that wants to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced world. DevOps means faster time to market, higher productivity, more stable applications, quicker fixes when issues do arise, and reduced costs and security issues, to name only a few of …
Health IoT Adoption in the HIPAA Compliance Landscape
By 2022, the healthcare IoT will likely reach a valuation close to half of a trillion dollars. While many advancements push the connected healthcare market forward, ePHI (electronic protected health information) security remains a distinct challenge. Discover the Growing Healthcare IoT Market Also known as IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), the healthcare IoT market puts sensor capabilities and big data …
How Real Time Stream Processing Changes Everything About Big Data
Technology is constantly evolving. Big Data, for example, went from buzzword to business staple a long time ago, exploding and offering actionable insights on how businesses approach everything from HR to marketing analytics. Today, instead of just using data in retrospective reports or to project future trends, companies are using it to harness that insight in the now. It’s called …
Disaster Recovery Plans in Broadcast are Key—What Every Plan Should Include
Disasters can strike in many forms, and cause both physical and emotional damage. Most broadcast organizations don’t have a disaster recovery plan in place until after they need one, which can increase the amount of damage a disaster causes. When it comes to broadcast, the majority of time is spent creating, managing, and delivering content, so making a plan to …
Virtualized Desktop Environments: The Future of Work in the Enterprise
Virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) was developed over 10 years ago, but it never really took off—until now. With mobility becoming a true force in the global workspace, VDI is quickly becoming a necessary part of the evolving office environment. The IDC predicts nearly 75 percent of the workforce will be mobile by 2020, and businesses worldwide will need to find …
Three Reasons Why Technology Companies Should Buy vs. Build Their Own Marketing Tools
Technology companies build technology. Since your company is already staffed with talented developers, why not build your own tools to market your technology? It seems to make sense, but there are compelling arguments for why it might not be the best idea. Here are three reasons why you should consider reviewing, with more attention, already available tools instead of forging ahead …
Improving Cyber Security Protections with Predictive Analytics
Let’s face it: cyber security isn’t sexy. Most of us would prefer to focus on implementing cool developments in big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in our day-to-day work lives. But the fact remains that none of those developments will amount to much if we aren’t able to keep our information safe—which is why cyber security remains so critical. …