African CIOs: 4 key IT leader tips for handling the coronavirus crisis
CIOs can leverage their knowledge of the enterprise to ensure business continuity as COVID-19 hits, and lay a path to recovery. Portra / Getty Images The spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 disease has prompted many businesses in sub-Saharan Africa – often under government orders — to instruct their employees to work from home and restrict business travel. In this environment, enterprise IT leaders can, and should, exercise leadership that helps their businesses minimise disruption, according to tech executives polled by…
Data Analytics: 10 Top Contenders in the Industry.
Here’s our rundown of what makes these 10 analytics vendors the biggest power players within the enterprise. ipopba / Getty Images Enterprises are investing heavily in data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and cognitive capabilities. According to IDG’s State of the CIO 2020 report, 37 percent of IT leaders say that data/business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year. The landscape is in flux as web scale businesses continue to displace old-guard business analytics vendors…
5 hurdles to AI value — and how to overcome them
AI experimentation is high, but deriving value from deployments is challenging, say experts from BCG and Gartner, who recommend IT-business collaborate as a solution. Art24h / Getty Images The vast potential AI holds for businesses worldwide is of little doubt. But flawed strategy, poor approaches to process change, expertise shortfalls and a general lack of technical understanding prevent many enterprises from deriving value from artificial intelligence. Among the 90 percent of companies that have invested in AI fewer…
What is Project Treble? The Android upgrade fix explained
Google’s Project Treble promised to pave the way for faster Android upgrades — so what exactly is it? Two years in, how well is it working? IDG Android SEE ALL WHITE PAPERS It’s tough to talk about Project Treble without getting lost in a forest of technical gobbledygook. And it’s no wonder: Project Treble (take a deep breath) is Google’s ambitious effort to rearchitect Android in order to establish a modular base in which the lower-level code created by…
Africa’s ICT infrastructure: building on China’s expertise
Chinese technology is the foundation for Africa’s networking infrastructure and increasingly, Chinese tech giants are moving into enterprise software and services. Is the continent too dependent on China, and will U.S. and European enterprise lose out on a burgeoning market? Etereuti (CC0) Some are calling it the next wave of colonisation. Others are praising China’s canny foresight. Whichever way you look at it, China is playing a significant role in ICT development across Africa and there is no end in sight. Companies…
COVID-19 challenges e-health record systems
The ongoing pandemic is putting healthcare systems under strain worldwide and forcing hospitals and other medical facilities to scramble to make sure data can be shared effectively. metamorworks / Getty Images As healthcare providers face unprecedented challenges fighting the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, electronic health record (EHR) systems are having to adapt to shifting requirements for patient care. “We have never had an international crisis of this proportion in the lifetime of the current EHR,” said Dana Bensinger MSN, RN-BC, informatics…
Doubling down on digital transformation during the coronavirus pandemic
CIOs opting to hunker down and wait out COVID-19 should think again. By revving up their digital business strategies, they position themselves for growth when the pandemic subsides, say experts and CIOs Florian Olivo / Nathan Dumlao As the coronavirus, or COVID-19, paralyzes businesses and society worldwide, it’s tempting to backburner digital strategy amid the sharp uptake in business continuity and resiliency efforts. Don’t do that: Rather, accelerate business transformation efforts now to put yourself in better position after the pandemic…
Pandemic will push Microsoft to repeat 2019’s major-minor Win10 upgrade cadence
The ongoing coronavirus outbreak makes it even more likely Microsoft will release a minor update for Windows 10 this fall. Mark Hachman / IDG Although Microsoft has not yet said how it will deal out the year’s Windows 10 feature upgrades, it’s becoming clear there’s next to no reason for the company to diverge from 2019’s major-minor cadence. As the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to climb worldwide, and the disruption of modern life and business continues to…
