There can be little doubt that recent technological advances have enormous potential to benefit both patients and practitioners across the healthcare sector. As administrators and engineers strive to capture the benefits sensor technology and big data analysis can offer however, EHR systems are increasingly coming under threat from cyber security breaches, and, in particular, from increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks. That …
The Artificial Intelligence Market is Growing Rapidly. Read This to Get Up to Speed.
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is on fire—the good-growth kind of fire, not the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 kind of fire. AI’s boom encompasses natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, voice recognition, and image processing. Enabled by mobile devices and cloud technology, some analysts predict the enterprise AI market alone will reach $31.5 billion by 2025. What companies are investing, …
How Signing Emails Can Help Keep Your Company Secure
On average, business users send and receive 42 emails per day via a number of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. All that online activity is inviting to hackers, which is why phishing and malware attacks are common in office email breaches. Are the email accounts in your office protected? We’ve discussed cyber security in the past, including strategies …
Converge Tech and Business Weekly Roundup: November 19, 2016
Our team at Converge is focused on researching and writing about all things related to the intersection of business and technology, leveraging technology to drive business success—and helping our clients do the same. To help you to stay up-to-date with the constant change that is technology and how it affects business we present the inaugural edition of the Converge Weekly …
Skills to Pay the Bills: Cloud Computing and What IT Pros Need to Succeed
Do you have your head in the clouds? These days, most of us do. Cloud computing has seen a boom in the last couple of years, not only making LinkedIn’s annual Global Hottest Skills for the first time ever in 2015, but topping the charts as the single “hottest skill” worldwide. “Cloud and Distributed Computing” surpassed “Statistical Analysis and Data …
STOP: Read This Before You Hire an SaaS Vendor
It’s no secret that software as a service (SaaS) solutions have become mainstream for enterprise organizations. In fact, a recent survey of CIOs found a whopping 56 percent of enterprise application deployments over the next five years are expected to be SaaS-based. All that growth makes good sense, right? Optimizing SaaS solutions can boost efficiency and ultimately profitability for businesses, …
Oracle’s Recent Acquisition of NetSuite is anything but Business as Usual. Here’s What You Missed.
Organizations strategically acquire other organizations every day—it’s but one move in the cyclical dynamic of enterprise growth. Every once in a while, though, one of those acquisitions warrants a big-picture discussion, not just a press release. Oracle’s late-July, $9.3 billion-dollar acquisition of NetSuite is one of those instances. Here are the cliff notes: Oracle is a large-scale enterprise database provider …
When AI Chatbots Attack: What You Need to Know About the Struggle to Program Empathy
What’s new in the world of AI and chatbots? Plenty, actually. Love them or hate them, you’d better be prepared for these technologies to power the future of the B2B sales process. First, though, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out—or manners to be worked in, however you want to look at it. Don’t think so? …
Modern CMOs Can Have It Rough. We’ll Tell You How to Power Through
What does it take to be a successful CMO in an increasingly demanding, highly digital, constantly changing marketplace? In short, it takes a lot—a lot of focus on digital transformation, a lot of movement, a lot of diplomacy, and a lot of grit. To rise to the top and keep organizations competitive, modern CMOs must be adaptable, innovative, and agile. …
10 Questions to Ask a Prospective Cyber Insurance Provider
With all the data organizations produce, collect, and store, the digital space is rapidly becoming a playground for cyber attackers. PwC reports cyber crime costs the global economy $400 billion annually, and that number keeps rising. There are steps your organization can take to prevent these costly breaches, including honing your encryption strategies and making sure employees pay close attention …