Citrix has announced the acquisition of enterprise micro-app software provider Sapho for $200 million (£155.6m) to help ‘redefine the employee experience.’

Regular readers of this publication will be aware of Sapho’s modus operandi. The company aims to break down monolithic behemoth apps into micro-apps in one mobile, social-esque feed, whether it’s expense approvals from Concur or PO approvals from...

Global ICT is constantly evolving and the emergence of network application programming interfaces (APIs) and programmability is paving the way for more agile, friction-free networking models.

By 2021, the telecom API market is expected to exceed US$ 231.86 Billion according to MarketsandMarkets. The industry is entering a new era where control is directly in the hands of the network-centric businesses and legacy...

Google was the first cloud provider out of the blocks when it came to providing pre-packaged AI services for organisations – and now the company is furthering that goal with two new launches.

The launch of AI Hub and Kubeflow Pipelines aim to further...

Barcelona this week has not only been host to VMworld, but Gartner's latest Symposium/ITXpo - and according to the analyst firm's latest research, CIOs in EMEA feel more able to put their digital initiatives to the test.

The study polled more than 3,000 CIOs -  with almost 1,000 in EMEA representing almost $5 trillion in revenue or public sector budget. Success among EMEA CIOs in scaling digital endeavours is better than their counterparts in North America, Latin America and Asia/Pacific, Gartner...

Believe it or not, but once upon a time, we expected the computer industry to sell us products that were complicated to set up and required specialist expertise at every turn. Early personal computer software involved spending lots of time reading manuals and scratching heads before we got to grips with character-based operating systems and their applications’ cryptic syntax and commands. If you’re in your middle age, you might recall WordPerfect’s scary empty screen or WordStar where you...

These days, you’d think it would be obvious to most companies that they need enterprise mobility management. And yet, time and time again we’re shown that that’s not the case.

While there are of course numerous reasons that a company may choose not to implement EMM, some of the most common reasons we hear are (perceived) complexity and cost. Those can certainly be factors, but they aren’t as significant as you might think. What’s more, despite the rigorous IT structures many...

Quantum computing, real-time language translation and nanotechnology will be among the far emerging technological trends – and according to Gartner, CIOs need to be aware of them sooner than later.

The analyst house posited seven ‘digital disruptions’ that the C-suite needs to recognise at its Gartner Symposium/ITxpo event. Some of the trends were more cultural than technological. For instance, there will be...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be an important transformational tool in the enterprise – that much is perfectly clear. Yet so far initiatives have been in silos, or individual contributions. What is going to be needed to take the next step?

A new research report from Algorithmia has focused on the ways companies of all sizes are exploring machine learning – and found that larger organisations have the advantage...

Some good news around the state of enterprise, mobile and automation; almost nine in 10 companies polled by mobility provider MOBI said they were either undertaking or planning AI-driven initiatives, with three quarters of those seeing return on investment from it.

The study, which took responses from 100 US-based IT decision makers at companies with at least 5,000 employees, found that companies were generally confident...

“Put simply, enterprise mobility management (EMM) is dead and focus has shifted towards a unified IoT solution.”

Those were the words of SOTI CEO Carl Rodrigues in an interview with Enterprise Mobility Exchange’s Jason Koestenblatt in which the two discussed mobile transformation, IoT, and what’s next for EMM and MDM.

Rodrigues continued: “EMM will remain a fundamental element of that...