4 Data Analytics Success Stories
There is a lot of hype out there about Big Data’s ability to transform your business and how…
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Should You Build an Apple Watch App?
By Glenn Gruber, Propelics The allure of Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS) is strong. And whether it be “a-loo-min-ium”…
Startup Spotlight: ToutApp’s Sales Platform
San Francisco-based startup ToutApp is trying to bring a platform approach to sales software, in the same way…
8 Trends Boosting Supply Chain Efficiency
As the supply chain becomes more complex with suppliers, their customers and consumers interacting with each other across…
Data Lake or Information Reservoir?
Data lakes are drawing new attention these days, as Gartner criticizes the idea and EMC touts a “data…
3 Keys to BPM Success
By Cesar Fernandez, PMG Business management guru Tom Peters once said, “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification…
Is Salesforce for HR an HCM Game Changer?
Though most folks still associate Salesforce.com with CRM, given that the company pioneered the concept of CRM delivered…
Here Come Enterprise Apps for Apple Watch
Many experts believe the success of the Apple Watch, which is landing in the eager hands of early…
How to Keep BYOT out of Bimodal IT Strategy
By Fima Katz, Exadel According to Gartner, by 2017 75 percent of IT organizations will have gone bimodal…
Where Are Mobile Payments Headed?
Apple has garnered much of the mobile payments hype following the introduction of Apple Pay last October and…
How to Get a Human Capital Management Project Funded
The CFO and the human resources executive are the Mars and Venus of the enterprise, which can make…
How Is Hadoop Evolving to Meet Big Data Needs?
Hadoop just keeps on growing. According to Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is worth around $3 billion…
Is Apache Spark Enterprise Ready?
Apache Spark is making headlines as potentially the next big thing in Big Data. Coverage has focused on…
Social Software: What Works for Business, What Doesn’t
By Tony Ventrice, Badgeville The future of the workplace has been re-imagined in the image of Facebook. More…
Diving into Data Lakes
There is a lot of hype out there about the wonders of data lakes, as well as cautions…
Project Management Tool Scores at NCAA Championship
Plenty of balls will fly through the air during tonight’s NCAA men’s college basketball championship game between Duke…
Is Application Economy an ‘Architectural Moment?’
By Michael de Groot, Geneca In today’s fast-paced world, new information is constantly available at our fingertips. People…
Email Due for a Reboot
Imagine a new enterprise application that could save every knowledge-based employee in your organization an hour a day.…
Mobile Apps: HTML5, Native or Both?
Last year was a good one for HTML5. The World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) gave the cross-platform application…
Big Data, IoT Drive Enterprise Adoption of Wearables
Saar Bitner, Sisense Will.i.am recently released his version of the smartwatch, the Puls, which cements wearable technology as…
Mobile Apps and the FDA: What You Need to Know
With growing interest in mobile medical apps among health care providers, enterprises need to educate themselves on the…
Startup Spotlight: Sisense’s Big Data Analytics
If there is one trait that distinguishes successful startups from less successful ones, it is coming up with…
How to Build a Great Data Governance Team
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates The quality of data has become a priority as organizations strive to gain…
Human Capital Management Buying Guide
Earlier this month, we covered 5 key trends in human capital management. (HCM). In this buying guide, we…
Custom Mobile Apps Growing in the Enterprise
As anyone with a smartphone knows, mobile apps are becoming a big deal in the workplace. Anecdotally, many…
5 Key Human Capital Management Trends
While human capital management (HCM) is far from the hottest area of the enterprise applications market, it is…
Will Businesses Want the Apple Watch?
Now we know how much the Apple Watch will cost ($350 to $1,099 and, for big spenders, an…
Using Data Virtualization to Simplify Application Modernization
Application modernization is a big deal for most organizations this year. According to the most recent CSC Global…
Siri Getting More ‘Human’
By Steven Brykman, Propelics The trend with Apple products has always been to make things smaller and faster…
8 Tech Trends Changing Health Care
While expensive technology has been part of health care for years, the industry has remained more conservative than…
Developing IoT Apps Is Easier Than You Think
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has enterprises wondering how easy it is to build their…
Mobile App Backlog? 5 Ideas on Reducing It
By Sean Allen, OutSystems The pressure is mounting. Business managers want mobile apps to drive revenue. Marketing wants…
7 Ways Docker Containers Can Change Enterprise Apps
Docker has certainly gotten a lot of press of late. It is an open platform for distributed applications…
6 Tech Trends Shaping Financial Services
Financial institutions will count on technology more than ever in 2015 to handle the increasing complexities of business…
Startup Spotlight: Xplenty’s Data Integration Service
It’s hard to read a technology publication – including this one – without encountering multiple mentions of Hadoop,…
App Integration Should Not Be an Afterthought
Thanks to the consumerization of IT, enterprise software has gotten a lot sexier. Folks bring their personal software…
9 Tech Trends Transforming Retail
With the continuing evolution of mobile and other technologies, the shift to omni-channel strategies and continuing evolution of…
4 Data Governance Trends to Watch in 2015
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises enter the New Year, many are reflecting on the initiatives that…
Unlocking CRM’s Data Treasure Trove
CRM systems hold much of an organization’s most valuable data, including customer records, product purchase and return information.…
5 Alternatives to the Traditional Relational Database
The ongoing popularity of the Hadoop approach to data management should not blind us to the opportunities offered…
Finance Departments Need More Advanced Analytics
Analytics is nothing new in finance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their staffs have been using them for…
9 Business Intelligence and Analytics Predictions for 2015
When we asked analysts, forecasters and pundits for their predictions for the most relevant business intelligence and analytics…
Analyzing Big Data: General Purpose Tool or Domain-Specific App?
By Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks The explosion of data across the enterprise has led to an increased focus on…
10 CRM Predictions for 2015
When we surveyed experts about CRM trends, cloud, integration with analytics and speed of deployment are among the…
Mobile Business Intelligence: Hot, or Not?
Last month when I spoke to Carsten Bange, CEO of BARC and co-author of its BI Survey 14,…
7 Enterprise App Trends for 2015
The enterprise application playing field of today is quite different from that of only a few years ago.…
Startup Spotlight: Qubole’s Hadoop-as-a-Service
If you want to make a CEO’s eyes glaze over, talk to her about Hadoop. While techies and…
ERP’s Channel Management Blind Spot
By Kelly Baig, Revitas If your business is like many, it earns more than half of its annual…
Data Analysis Enables Omni-channel Marketing
Marketing has been called more of an art than a science. Yet in today’s financial services environment, the…
Top 3 CIO Resolutions for 2015
By Cesar Fernandez, director of Product Solutions at PMG Struggling to bridge the gap between IT and the…