Ever heard the saying that “perfect is the enemy of good”? It applies to many situations in the business world where quick decisions sometimes trump long deliberations. Still, not too many people would be surprised to hear that technology adoption moves more slowly in the enterprise than it does elsewhere. 

Which is exactly why it was so refreshing to hear a comment in a recent interview about how companies should be approaching the enterprise mobility process. 

In a conversation with Enterprise Mobility...

It is both an exciting and a confusing time to be a line-of-business (LOB) manager. A recent study by Forrester found that LOB professionals don’t always agree with the operational technology (OT) or IT security teams about who is responsible for what in their device-connected networks. Almost half (45 percent) of IT respondents think LOB staff should be responsible for IoT default configurations.

Why? Most likely because the IT department is already swamped with...

PowWow Mobile, a San Francisco-based provider of enterprise mobility software, has launched the latest version of its SmartUX product focused on enterprise mobile app creation and modernisation.

The latest offering, version 6.0, has a variety of updates, from the introduction of micro-app templates for mobilising common enterprise workflows, to extended drag and drop capabilities.

The product has four elements aimed at helping organisations build, repurpose and deliver enterprise mobile apps. These are...

When it comes to application outages and poor performance, customers are no longer prepared to forgive and forget. The ever-expanding market brings with it a wealth of opportunities, but it also means that it has never been easier to lose customers to rivals – to retain them, you must keep them happy.

Until recently, network and application teams have been siloed, with each focused on the demands of their specific role. But, by adopting a combined approach, these teams together can create the additional...

More than three quarters of organisations say sprawling IT complexity could soon make it ‘impossible’ to manage digital performance effectively.

That is the key finding from a new report from Dynatrace, who polled 800 CIOs in large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees. 76% of CIOs polled say multi-cloud makes it especially difficult and time-consuming to monitor and understand the impact cloud services have on the user experience, while a similar number (72%) say monitoring the performance...

Microsoft has launched a series of new features for Teams, its Slack-targeting collaboration tool, including shortcuts, @mentions, and a new search function.

The move represents the largest feature release for Teams since its rollout to Office 365 customers in March.

Users can now include information from apps in conversations, including project management tools Trello and Wrike, as well as access a personal view of apps.

Other features include integration with different Microsoft services. A feature called...

The latest Businesses @ Work report from identity management provider Okta has revealed many of the fastest growing apps in the enterprise are based around security – and suggests that GDPR may be behind the renewed push.

Of the 15 fastest growing apps in the Okta network last year, seven were based around security. These were, in order of popularity, Jamf, KnowBe4, Cisco Umbrella, DigiCert, Sophos, Mimecast and CloudFlare.

Writing in an official company blog, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon argues that the...

It’s 2018. Surely that means everything that could be digital is digital, right?

Not quite. 

A staggering amount of companies–some App47 customers, some not–still have large suites of products that aren’t yet “digital.” That is to say, their products are on closed systems, aren’t connected to the internet, and are limited in function to whatever the company is able to dream up. 

Luckily, this is changing, and companies are realising that when going digital,...

New year, new plans for organisations: according to a new survey from Sapho, more than three quarters of companies plan to upgrade their enterprise apps this year to help improve employee experiences and productivity.

Of the 160 IT directors, CIOs and CTOs polled at organisations with more than 1,000 employees, 94% say they will likely upgrade some of their apps next year. Primary drivers for improving enterprise apps is providing a better user experience, increasing data security, and improving employee...

With this year looking to be particularly pivotal for consumer applications, it is imperative to consider just how enterprise applications will be impacted as a result. Here are six areas set to notably impact enterprise applications in 2018.

Edge computing

Edge computing will permanently alter how enterprise applications are delivered by bringing demanding applications nearer to where the users are within a cloud model. As users become more application-aware as a result of sophisticated consumer...