How to simplify, collaborate, and focus to enable endless digital business opportunities

It is no secret that enabling digital business offers new opportunities for growing revenue and achieving business goals. But for many companies, it’s a struggle to pivot from their complex business and technology environments toward a true agile digital business model. The top-performing enterprises right now are prioritizing digital innovation, according to a recent Gartner survey of 2,000 CIOs, and …

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Most business intelligence software isn’t getting used

Businesses are investing large sums of money into Business Intelligence (BI) software, only to have it collect virtual dust on their systems. This is according to a new report from financial performance management and business intelligence consultancy firm MHR Analytics, which states that just four percent of all BI software is being actively used. For a fifth of businesses, more …

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Fusing business and Artificial Intelligence: The ideal way to salvage your now-useless Covid data

Back in February, Gartner issued a very timely warning: that organizations using traditional analytics techniques that relied heavily on large amounts of historical data have had to wake up to a significant post-Covid reality; as many of these models are no longer relevant—and that the pandemic has rendered a lot of that data essentially useless. That’s going to come as …

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Criminals are disguising themselves as your business partners

Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint spent a week in February monitoring email correspondence received by 3,000 organizations in the UK, US, and Australia. What they found was that virtually every business (98 percent) was targeted by a malicious email coming from a trusted domain operated by a supplier. According to Proofpoint, the majority of these attacks did not carry a malicious …

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The business case for hyperautomation

Authentic technology revolutions are easy to spot because they are also economic revolutions. Hyperautomation, pairing humans with AI and RPA bots to improve the speed and accuracy of work by a factor of 10 or more, is one such revolution. Done right, it unlocks entirely new business models and will drive economic and social change beyond our current imagining. Hyper-hype …

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Threat data feeds could be the key to keeping your business safe

Threat data feeds play a major role in helping organizations tighten up their cybersecurity posture, a new report from Neustar and the Ponemon Institute claims. Polling more than 1,000 security professionals, the pair found that almost four in five (79 percent) believe data feeds are essential to a strong, secure IT environment. For more than half (55 percent), threat data …

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New digital shoppers mean ecommerce is everyone’s business

Life before the global pandemic sometimes feels like another era. Retailers who were once focused on how to engage with Gen Z’s and millennials online – the ones at the forefront of the ecommerce experience – are now considering how to cater for every generation. As a result of the pandemic, online adoption has accelerated and even my grandmother now …

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Developers are at the core of the business recovery

Digital transformation was important for business growth even before Covid-19 arrived, but the pandemic has made it pivotal. At the center of every digital transformation are software developers, and it seems that decision-makers in the UK are well aware of this fact. This is according to a new report from cloud communications provider Twilio, based on a poll of CTOs, …

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Transparency is the key factor when it comes to business security

Businesses prefer working with technology providers that are transparent and proactive when it comes to helping their clients manage cybersecurity risks. This is according to a new report from Intel, based on a poll of 1,875 IT decision-makers from across the globe. Organizations prefer partners that can offer “hardware-assisted” capabilities in mitigating software flaws, that are transparent about available security …

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Identity theft: How to prevent it happening to your business

It is vital to know how to protect your business and employees in a digital world that regularly provides new avenues of exploitation for criminals. Given that pandemic-hit 2020 saw cases of identity theft double in the USA alone—with nearly 1.4 million cases identified by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—the risk to businesses is clear. In this article, we’ll outline …

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