Instead of relying on data-driven signals of past accomplishments, Eightfold.ai is using AI to discover the innate capabilities of people and matching them to new opportunities in their own companies. The company's innovative approach of combining their own AI and...
Despite the economic setbacks shaped by the pandemic, demand for cloud communications services continues to grow. The remote “work-life” arrangement and increased displacement of face-to-face meetings by video conferences has managed service provider (MSP) leaders clamoring to take...
Data has always been there. Right back at the start of the last century, organisations of the age still ran their operations using log books, paper folios and hand-drawn accounts sheets. It was still data, but it was predominantly static, often duplicated or inaccurate, tough to search and only...
Customers’ expectations, preferences, changing patterns in how and why they purchase need to be the core of any digital transformation effort.
63% of organisations say delivering an excellent customer experience as measured by customer satisfaction scores defines...
In all areas of business, customers are expecting more. The typical vendor-client relationship is a thing of the past, becoming a partner to your customers is the new norm. However, this is not an overnight process, rather one that takes time, effort, and cultivating.
Of course,...
There’s a lot to be said for a really snazzy Lego kit. Maybe it’s the Millennium Falcon that your front room is crying out for (complete with hinged smuggling compartments for hiding from the Empire). Or perhaps paying homage to the city of New York with a 1,600-piece Statue of Liberty is...
Has your business ever avoided investing in key software systems simply because of perceived high costs? This inaction is an example of a sunk cost fallacy.
Both psychologists and behavioural economists have noted that humans have a stronger natural tendency to avoid losses than to...
The COVID-19 crisis has not radically changed the future of technology. It has accelerated our path towards it. Conversations regarding digital transformation, moving to the cloud or using distributed architectures have been resonating in the market since the dot-com bubble. What this crisis...
Global mobile phishing attempts surged by 37% amid shift to work-from-home for the thousands of businesses needing to adhere to shelter-in-place directives. According to Verizon, over 90% of breaches start with a phishing attack and with more than 60% of emails being read on mobile, mobile...
Professional services company Accenture found itself in a crisis. The company’s growth stunted. When leadership investigated the reasons why, they came to realise that their promotions and rewards system benefited those employees who were more focused on self-promotion, compared with those...
Cybersecurity has traditionally been viewed as the department of ‘no’ – thought to be cautious, restrictive, and restrained. COVID-19 demonstrated this to be far from the truth. When physical offices had to suddenly transform into digital, virtual hubs, cybersecurity became an essential...
The European Union (EU) was enjoying its highest labour participation rate since 2000 when COVID-19 hit. The economic impact has yet to be fully calculated but will surely be felt for years to come. The pandemic has also highlighted a critical and growing shortage of workers, and the region...
Enterprises who are increasing the average number of endpoint security agents from 9.8 last year to 10.2 today aren’t achieving the endpoint resilience they need because more software agents create more conflicts, leaving each endpoint exposed to a potential breachOne in three enterprise devices...
Most large enterprises rely on a globally connected ecosystem of workforce, workplace, technology and other key resources for their business operations. Not surprisingly, they have very robust business continuity plans (BCP) in place to protect their human capital, technology and other critical...
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in enterprises is 'rapidly evolving' with particular focus on the customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource management (ERM) spheres, according to IDC.
As per the analyst firm's latest Worldwide Semiannual...
As we move towards a new world of business, post the pandemic, without a doubt COVID-19 has severely disrupted supply chains on a global scale. Procurement leaders are having to maintain business operations, fulfill urgent demands, and mitigate supplier challenges against a backdrop...
Startups’ ambitious AI-based new product development is driving AI-related investment with $16.5B raised in 2019, driven by 695 deals according to PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report, Q1 2020. AI expertise is a skill product development teams are ramping up their recruitment efforts to find,...
Today, IT pros find themselves in a new reality, where IT roles have converged in response to the interconnected nature of modern environments. While a focus on cloud and hybrid IT architectures has been crucial in breaking down silos, it’s not without complexities. Ensuring uptime,...
For years we have been promised that the gap between consumer and workplace technology is closing – from the introduction of policies such as bring your own device (BYOD) to some businesses directly consulting employees on which new technologies they’d like to use.
This sounds...
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced companies around the world to do something most of them were not ready to do – ask all their employees to work from home. A recent Gartner survey showed that 74% of chief financial officer respondents stated they planned to transition at least part of their...
Think about what has become a common scenario: you’re at home working throughout the day, probably connected to the internet for long stretches. Because you’re working remotely, you’re asking more of the broadband capacity than usual, running video conferencing sessions with different...
It is hard to run and set up IT systems without solutions from large players. Their offerings are now industry standards and make financial sense, with system compatibility and employee skills the main reasons for their success. While there are many advantages for using solutions from...
Bottom line: Absolute’s 2020 Endpoint Resilience Report illustrates why the purpose of any cybersecurity program needs to be attaining a balance between protecting an organisation and the need to keep the business running, starting with secured endpoints. Enterprises who have taken a blank...
86% of all breaches are financially motivated, where threat actors are after company financial data, intellectual property, health records, and customer identities that can be sold fast on the Dark Web.70% of breaches are perpetrated by external actors, making endpoint security a high priority in...
A report from Frost & Sullivan has praised BlackBerry's security capabilities, saying the company can protect 'upwards of 96%' of all cyberthreats as well as all IoT endpoints.
The report assessed the cyberthreat landscape more generally and found that comprehensive endpoint-based...
A key goal of visual analytics and data science is to identify actionable insights that impact business processes – to grow revenue, improve productivity or mitigate risk. Automated AI, or specifically automated machine learning for data science, can help with this goal. AutoML can...
The last few months have brought in some drastic changes to the way we work and live. One thing that it has highlighted is the extreme value that IT brings to all organisations.
It’s clear to people at all levels of organisations that we’re not just about providing laptops and...
Budgets naturally need to be redrawn and tightened amid the global Covid-19 pandemic - and according to the latest report from Gartner, CIOs need to focus on a multi-faceted plan incorporating business impact and organisational risk to succeed.
The analyst firm has released a six-step...
Usually, the word “legacy” evokes feelings of tradition, pride, and achievement. But when it comes to today’s business world, it’s not so simple. Legacy technology — computer systems and software from a previous era that are still in use — presents significant challenges to...
Bottom line: Endpoint security business cases do much more than just quantify costs and benefits; they uncover gaps in endpoint and cyber protection that need urgent attention to avert a breach.
Bad actors and hackers prefer to attack threat surfaces that are isolated, vulnerable...
