Mobile Business Intelligence: How Some Companies Use It
By James Bickers Mobile business intelligence, at its core, asks two simple questions: Where are your customers right…
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How to Build a Business Case for IT Asset Management
By Phara E. McLachlan, Natheava LLC Virtually every enterprise talks about IT asset management (ITAM) strategy, but how…
Mobile App Eases ATM Field Service
While there are lots of great off-the-shelf field service software applications on the market today, from the likes…
Startup Spotlight: Zarget’s Conversion Rate Optimization
Marketing, e-commerce and advanced analytics will be among the fastest-growing segments of enterprise software through 2019, Gartner predicted…
Investment in Fast Data Processing Growing: Survey
While Big Data still garners the lion’s share of attention, companies are increasingly looking to so-called fast data…
Why Open Source Graph Databases Are Catching on
Graph databases, which use graph structures for semantic queries, came into prominence through social networks like Facebook and…
How to Maximize Your CRM Spending
CRM systems are essential for many businesses, thanks to their ability to help companies establish and build relationships…
5 Steps to Getting Rid of Application Sprawl
By Maureen Polte, Flexera Software Application sprawl is a major challenge for IT operation teams. The modern enterprise…
4 Best Practices for Data Lakes
Data lakes sound simple: Pool data or information into a Big Data system that combines processing speed with…
SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database: What Can It Do?
By John Hughes, ManageForce When Microsoft released SQL Server 2016, the release was accompanied by a slew of…
Want Big Data ROI? Start with a Strategy
When it comes to Big Data, it is hard to overstate the importance of having a clear business…
How to Develop Enterprise Apps Employees Will Love
By Adam Fingerman, ArcTouch With 90 percent of enterprises planning to increase mobile app development this year, it’s…
7 Notable Data Visualization Tools
Data visualization has come a long way in recent years. Where once you might get an occasional bar…
Holberton School Wakes Students up to IT Operations
The Holberton School got its start in 2015, offering the promise of a new way to teach students…
Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Licensing Change: What Should You Do?
By Tim Hegedus, Miro Consulting As of July 1, 2016, the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement will double its license…
Tesora Positions OpenStack Trove Database-as-a-Service for the Future
The OpenStack Mitaka release debuted back in April of this year and with it came a series of…
Startup Spotlight: PowWow Mobile’s App Transformation
For years companies have bemoaned the scarcity of mobile development resources. Gartner last summer said that by the…
Business Apps: It’s the Application Lifecycle, Stupid!
Many enterprise leaders today understand the imperative of embracing digital transformation in the Information Age. A recent study…
Cloud Apps Gain Traction with Finance Function
Though the initial movement was slow, more firms are moving at least part of their finance functions to…
Can DBaaS Cure Your Data Management Ills?
Thanks to huge growth in data volume, as well as a proliferation of new data sources and data…
Hadoop Evolution: What You Need to Know
It’s been a decade since Hadoop became an Apache software project and released version 0.1.0. The open source…
4 Ways to Put Application Performance Management to Work
By Sneha Paul, ManageEngine With a rapidly changing business landscape, applications usually drive the enterprise. As proof, a…
Using NoSQL Databases to Handle Fast Data
NoSQL databases have grown markedly in popularity over the last few years, and for good reasons. Broadly speaking,…
Mobile CRM’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Mobile CRM has been with us for a while now. Some thought it would supplant other CRM platforms…
Your Next Big Data Project? Operational Analytics
If Big Data has a killer application, it is operational analytics. Companies using Big Data initially focused on…
14 Game Changing Database Trends for 2016
Databases are proliferating like, well, cockroaches. The overall database market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2017,…
3 Automation Initiatives to Boost Corporate Productivity
By Dave Wright, ServiceNow With mobile phones, instant messaging and more accelerating the speed at which we are…
6 Mobile CRM Mistakes You Do Not Want to Make
Sales people are among the most mobile folks at any company. So it’s no surprise that mobile CRM…
Does DevOps Have a Place at IT Service Desk?
No one gets more of an earful about enterprise applications than the technical support staff who are tasked…
Puppet, Orchestration and the Source of Truth [PODCAST]
In the world of DevOps, Luke Kanies and his company Puppet are well known for helping enable configuration,…
Mobile Apps Can Transform Business Processes
By Robert Lacis, Apperian Mobile apps have taken the consumer world by storm, and businesses are rapidly following…
Startup Spotlight: StreamSets’ Big Data Integration
Girish Pancha is a data integration veteran who spent the better part of two decades working at integration…
11 Cloud ERP Software Options
Enterprise Apps Today recently covered what the top four ERP vendors in terms of overall market share –…
How General Catalyst’s Steve Herrod Sees DevOps
Steve Herrod, managing director at venture capital firm General Catalyst, is no stranger to the world of applications,…
Beyond Excel: What Users Want from Data Preparation
Because data preparation has largely been the responsibility of time-crunched IT organizations, it often creates a bottleneck in…
Designing APIs with Restlet Studio [PODCAST]
Applications both consume and expose APIs as a way to extend and integrate different data and forms of…
Cloud ERP Software: What ERP Market Leaders Are Doing
Cloud ERP software was the poor relation of the ERP market not so long ago. Yet it has…
Enterprise App Stores, Mobile App Analytics Growing
Enterprise app stores are nowhere near as popular as consumer app stores like Google Play and Apple’s App…
8 Must-Have Two-Tier ERP Features
The two-tier ERP strategy trend, in which companies run a primary ERP system on-premise with one or more…
Goodbye, Flash: A Long Overdue Break up Letter
By Dan Cunningham, ReadyTalk Goodbye, Flash. I’m just going to say it: It’s been rough these past few…
Three Value-Adds for Fast Data Analytics on the IoT
Over the last two years, the increasing relative cost advantages of Flash memory have driven a new area…
6 Ways to Profit from Data Analytics
“Store everything” and “analyze everything” are popular IT mantras, leading companies to build data lakes and use data…
Integration a Big Digital Transformation Challenge
Digital transformation is challenging enterprises in numerous ways, from determining who should lead digital initiatives to modifying infrastructure…
6 Best Practices for Using ITSM in a DevOps World
Some organizations are well into their IT service management (ITSM) journeys, some have implemented part of it and…
Startup Spotlight: Swrve’s Marketing Automation
Gamers, not enterprises, built the first big mobile apps. They gave many of these apps away because they…
What’s Ahead for Enterprise Data in 2016?
by Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises look into 2016, they are faced with new and continually more…
Has IT Service Management Adoption Hit a Plateau?
IT service management (ITSM) is all about helping organizations achieve strategic targets and improve the efficiency of IT.…
Is Perl the Duct Tape of the Internet? [PODCAST]
Developers can choose from a lot of different programming languages to build applications and infrastructure in 2016. For…
Retailers Not Quite Ready for the Cloud
Retailers have a love/I’m not sure yet relationship with the cloud, according to retail industry observers. While companies…
9 Data Preparation Tips for Predictive Analytics Success
How important is data preparation when it comes to analytics success? It is so important, said Mike Gualtieri,…