Why AI Is The Future Of Cybersecurity
61% of enterprises say they cannot detect breach attempts today without the use of AI technologies. 48% say their budgets for AI in cybersecurity will increase by an average of 29% in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. Breach attempts are proliferating with Cisco reporting that in 2018, they blocked seven trillion threats on behalf of their customers. […]
Passwords Are The Weakest Defense In A Zero Trust World
90% of security professionals have witnessed security incidents stemming from the theft of credentials, according to a recent MobileIron study conducted by IDG. 86% of CIO, CISO and Security VPs would abandon password authentication if they could. Another survey by EMA found that mobile devices secured by biometric authentication methods present the best option for […]
OpenText Enterprise World 2019: AppWorks roadmap and technical deep dive
I had an afternoon with AppWorks at OpenText Enterprise World: a roadmap session followed by a technical deep dive. AppWorks is their low-code tool that includes process management, case management, and access to content and other information, supported across mobile and desktop and platforms. It contains a number of pre-packaged components, and a technical developer […]
GitHub Satellite 2019 Berlin. The Social Code – It’s Just Dependencies All The Way Down and Up
The keynote at GitHub Satellite 2019 in Berlin last month was a model of crisp story-telling. The comms team did a bang up job. The opening narrative was engaging and emotionally powerful. It asked us to think about our place in the world, our role as collaborators, at a very deep level. It began, as […]
Progressive Delivery at GitLab
I have been talking about Progressive Delivery for a while now – it’s an approach to deliver application and service functionality incrementally, to targeted user segments and production environments, limiting the last radius, enabling experimentation with reduced risk. Progressive Delivery builds on the foundations laid by Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration. It’s gratifying to see engineers and […]
CRM Watchlist 2019: The big engines that could (Part 2A, Oracle)
Oracle, one of the winners of the CRM Watchlist 2019, is a gigantic company that’s been in the public eye for decades. Now they are realigned and ready to travel to new frontiers and engage a new breed of customer. Are they ready?
10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of AI In Marketing
Top-performing companies are more than twice as likely to be using AI for marketing (28% vs. 12%) according to Adobe’s latest Digital Intelligence Briefing. Retailers are investing $5.9B this year in AI-based marketing and customer service solutions to improve shoppers’ buying experiences according to IDC. Financial Services marketers lead all other industries in AI application adoption, with 37% […]
The DIY movement in IT – what does it take to succeed ?
A few days ago, my friend Frank Scavo wrote about the pendulum starting to swing from commercial software to custom built software . Today morning, I listened to his podcast with another common friend Den Howlett . Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I would highly encourage you to read Frank’s blog and listen to the […]
On Open Source Dependencies, GitHub, Gender, Philosophy of Science and the nature of Self
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu Recently I posted about GitHub. One reason it took me so long to write the piece was the amount of thinking time I gave it. Why should a report about a tech conference require that much attention? One reason is that I was deeply inspired by the event. When the framing narrative concerns […]
What’s Next For You? How AI Is Transforming Talent Management
Bottom Line: Taking on the talent crisis with greater intelligence and insight, delivering a consistently excellent candidate experience, and making diversity and inclusion a part of their DNA differentiates growing businesses who are attracting and retaining employees. The book What’s Next For You? by Ashutosh Garg, CEO and Co-Founder and Kamal Ahluwalia, President of eightfold.ai provide valuable insights and a data-driven roadmap […]
