SPONSORED ARTICLE As business leaders look toward 2023, many see the possibility of tough economic times. Inflation, the war in Ukraine, and continuing supply chain and pandemic-related challenges are taking a toll. Respected economists are warning of sluggish growth. For example, the International Monetary Fund’s Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas released a statement that said, “The three largest […]
Messaging platforms often offer encryption; but not all offer “end-to-end encryption.” In the former, communications data sent via a messaging service is only encrypted while it is in-transit. Once it reaches its destination, the service provider could access the message content. “In many cases, a service provider’s sole purpose for using this kind of encryption […]
Since the dawn of the dot-com era, more and more business models have come to rely on convincing customers that there is indeed such a thing as a free lunch. Wise people know that isn’t true. “Free” nowadays just means you don’t pay with your money; you pay with your life. At least, that is, […]
At last week’s DeveloperWeek Enterprise 2022 conference, Victor Shilo, CTO of EastBanc Technologies, gave a keynote that aimed to clear up some of the confusion that can come with trying to make soup out of huge datasets. “In many cases, big data is a big data swamp,” he said in his presentation, “The Big Data […]
(SPONSORED ARTICLE) Data and analytics executives have always known in broad strokes the business value they can achieve from adopting machine learning (ML). The value tends to come in three ways: improving the user experience (customers and employees), generating operating efficiencies, or driving top-line growth. But line-of-business teams face persistent challenges on the road to […]
It’s no secret that business leaders are excited about the metaverse. Tech companies are in a frenzy of anticipation over this immersive digital utopia and executives are scrambling to secure their place in this new world. There is just one problem: The metaverse does not exist yet. Right now, the majority of metaverse investment amounts […]
Business leaders are growing increasingly concerned over a troubling trend known as “quiet quitting.” This is when employees perform the bare minimum of their duties to get by as they plan their prolonged, but eventual exit. Although quiet quitters can negatively affect a business in any department, perhaps the most damaging examples can be found […]
There are many challenges facing the CIO today: finding and retaining talent, a hybrid workforce and the resulting security issues, and supply chain shortages. Meanwhile, CIOs are being asked to take on more than ever. They, and their teams, are becoming the facilitators of organizational strategy and innovation as IT is now largely responsible for […]
Automation has become widely recognized for saving employees time and effort by carrying out high volume, repetitive and typically error-prone tasks. By utilizing robotic process automation (RPA), enterprises can more easily manage their manual, time-intensive tasks while also boosting accuracy, timeliness, and compliance. RPA also has been leveraged for cost avoidance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
(Sponsored Article) Prior to machine learning (ML), complex and large-scale data set analysis was conducted by statisticians. Today, organizations rely increasingly on ML to do this work with greater accuracy, speed, and scale. As more companies move to the cloud and begin managing big data, business leaders are now asking how they can scale data […]