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Yearly Archives: 2017

IT and Business: IT Increasingly Aligns More Closely with Business Goals than with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

A report from the Society for Information Management surveyed businesses and found that more than ever IT is aligning with business requirements and goals.  The findings of the report include: The focus of IT increasingly is on business requirements rather…

Smart Machines: Technology to Transform the Way Businesses Work

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive computing, deep learning and intelligent automation.  Gartner is classifying the combination of these technologies into a category called “smart machines”.  The research firm is forecasting smart machine revenues of $29 billion by 2021 with 30…

Enterprise Storage: Strong Growth in Shipped Capacity but Overall Revenues Flat

By Dick Weisinger

While businesses continue to store ever increasing amounts of data and new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) spew out massive amounts of data, revenues reported for enterprise storage declined. Enterprise storage is used to hold business information and…

Customer Journey Analytics: Digital Insights and Customer Profiles from Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

A major application of analytics is for companies to use data to understand how their business has interacted with customers in the past, what those customers want and how best to sell to those customers.  This specific field of data analytics…

CIOs: Changes in the World of Technology Cause CIOs to Lose Clout

By Dick Weisinger

CIO’s increasingly are owning less of the technology strategy for companies. Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) and CTOs are sharing responsibilities that traditionally belonged exclusively to CIOs. Cloud computing is also enabling many departments to access technology directly.  KPMG found in…