Blockchain for business: 6 promising pilots
By: Clint Boulton From financial services to agriculture and non-profits, several organizations are betting on the digital ledger technology as the future for facilitating and verifying business transactions. For all the hype, blockchain has yet to go mainstream in the enterprise. That may well change soon as the technology’s reputation for trusted transactions continues to […]
Is Adobe, Microsoft, and SAP’s Open Data Initiative a New Generation of Customer Experience, or a Nice Fantasy?
Microsoft’s Ignite conference kicked off with the announcement of an alliance between Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP called the Open Data Initiative (ODI). The timing of the announcement on September 24th—coincident with the opening day of Salesforce’s DreamForce event in San Francisco—was not accidental. The three vendors hope ODI will give customers and partners the impetus they […]
Centrica forms strategic partnership with Microsoft to transform field operations with Dynamics 365 and AI
Centrica, the leading international energy and services firm with well-known customer brands British Gas, Dyno and Direct Energy, has formed a strategic partnership with Microsoft designed to transform the way its 12,000-strong team of British Gas engineers serve customers across the UK. The agreement is at the heart of the Centrica purpose to “provide energy […]
How To Protect Healthcare IoT Devices In A Zero Trust World
By: Louis Columbus Over 100M healthcare IoT devices are installed worldwide today, growing to 161M by 2020, attaining a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.2% in just three years according to Statista. Healthcare executives say privacy concerns (59%), legacy system integration (55%) and security concerns (54%) are the top three barriers holding back Internet […]
How The IoT Will Reshape The City Experience
What cities will look like tomorrow greatly depends on what today’s urban leaders, planners, businesses—and of course, residents—are looking for today. “Smart cities are those that recognize these challenges and adopt their planning and strategy to address them,” the report states.iStock Understanding tech for tomorrow’s city begins with grasping today’s outstanding challenges. A Juniper Research […]
Adobe on its future as rival Salesforce invades its turf
By: George Slefo Although Adobe has long held kingpin status among marketers with its cloud services, recent developments indicate its world is changing. Adobe itself is doing very well — its stock is up 46 percent year-over-year — and products such as Photoshop, Analytics, Illustrator, Lightroom and Dreamweaver have allowed it to corner a market […]
NetSuite helps organizations across industries grow with powerful new innovations
New Commerce, Global Tax Management and Analytics Capabilities Help Organizations Adapt to Change and Successfully Grow and Scale SuiteConnect West — Oracle NetSuite today announced a series of new innovations to help organizations across industries grow revenues, expand internationally and empower business users. The new commerce, financial management and analytics capabilities help organizations take advantage […]
BARK selects NetSuite to help make dogs happy
BARK, the world’s most dog-centric company, has selected Oracle NetSuite to help support its delivery of the best products, services, and content to make dogs and their people happy. With NetSuite, BARK has access to a more unified and flexible platform that can meet the needs of its rapid growth across subscription, retail, and e-commerce […]
Microsoft Monday: 1.5 Billion Windows-Powered PCs, Xbox Game Pass For PC, Fake Ad Removed From Bing
By: Amit Chowdhry “Microsoft Monday” is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week “Microsoft Monday” features news about Xbox Game Pass coming to PCs, the fake Chrome ad removed from Bing, the quarterly earnings report and much more! Xbox Game Pass For PCs Microsoft has announced that it is bringing the Xbox Game […]
OpenText Announces Extended ECM for Microsoft Dynamics 365
OpenText, Together With Contesto, Adds to its Integrations With Microsoft OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced the availability of OpenText Extended ECM Enabler for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Service. The new solution, developed in partnership with Contesto, integrates OpenText’s leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portfolio […]