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Walmart's in-store AI lab offers testing, evaluation and tweaking in a live environment
Walmart has been working with virtual reality, expanding its partnership with Microsoft and adding an augmented reality-based price-scanning feature.
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How Target reclaimed more than 40K hours of productivity
The retailer began cutting contractors in favor of building internal software engineering talent.
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SAP buys Qualtrics for $8B, giving global scale to experience management data
Qualtrics expects to exceed $400 million in revenue for FY18, with a growth rate greater than 40% year-over-year.
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CIOs and other tech execs to watch in 2019
The industry will watch as these 13 prominent leaders come into their own in the new position — or fail to meet high expectations.
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TBM software company Apptio set for $1.9B acquisition
The deal with Vista Equity Partners includes a month-long "go-shop" period during which Apptio's board can solicit and evaluate alternative acquisition proposals.
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Opinion5 warning signs to look for in a predictive analytics program
The complexity of predictive programs puts them at greater risk for failure than success.
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Deep DiveExperience matters: Veterans fill a cybersecurity niche
The concentration of military installations, federal agencies and contractors has allowed for a "Cyber Corridor" to emerge in the greater Washington area. But can the industry feed the cybersecurity talent pipeline?
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Forrester: 'Blockchain' is out, 'distributed ledger technology' is in
Shifting language can help businesses be realistic about DLT capabilities, but failure to reconcile hype with reality could cause backlash for the technology.
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Tyson Foods' emerging tech team creates a hatchery for innovation
"Tyson might be an incumbent company," said Chad Wahlquist, director of emerging technology, but "that means there's just a breadth of opportunity for digital transformation."
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Gap chooses Microsoft's cloud, as retailers avoid AWS
The retailer wants to use Azure for e-commerce operations, inventory and workforce systems.
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6 tech analysts to follow on Twitter in 2018
Analysts help cut through the business technology hype and boil down the realities.
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Midterms add legislators hawkish on tech
Congress has been grappling with the powers of big tech and the impact of cybersecurity incidents more than ever over the last year.
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Robots and software are improving warehouse ROI
Faced with low unemployment, companies are increasingly investing in automation.
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When it comes to digital strategy, companies can either eat or be eaten
"I'm the first chief digital officer of PwC," Joe Atkinson said. "I may also be the last because if I accomplish what's on my agenda, then we won't have a set of projects to digitize the firm. It will simply be the way we do business."
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Companies struggle to scale automation, but still welcome disruptive tech
There will always be resistance to disruptive technologies; the companies that don't take the initial first steps to prepare for them will be pushed aside.
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Why 'hustle porn' can disrupt company productivity for the wrong reasons
Companies look to Silicon Valley to model how they run tech operations, but ignore the underlying fundamental flaw: the creation of toxic culture.
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3 key factors drive women from tech. What's the fix?
For starters, employers can improve salary transparency.
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IT professionals looking for work can name their price
Companies of all sizes plan to increase their cybersecurity talent, but smaller organizations also want more skills for DevOps, hardware and infrastructure.
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3 cities in 'late-stage' talks to win Amazon HQ2
Reports suggest the winning location could end up in Dallas, New York or Arlington County, Virginia — but Amazon remains tight-lipped.
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Walmart and Microsoft expand partnership to unite engineers, hasten speed
Engineers from both companies will work "side by side" to migrate Walmart’s business apps to Azure.
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Reports: Amazon to split HQ2 between NYC, Northern Virginia
The split reportedly comes with Amazon wanting to make it easier to recruit talent in the technology sector.
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What businesses can learn from election security vulnerabilities
It's inevitable that voting machines will be hacked, according to Absolute's Josh Mayfield. The real question is how widespread it will be and whether a catastrophe can be avoided.
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Johnson & Johnson completes cloud migration with a boost from early adoption and its CIO
Top-down investment paved the way for J&J to prioritize technology transformation, placing it ahead of the adoption curve for then-emerging technologies like hybrid cloud.
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Total Reboot: A game for power-hungry technologists
Think you've got what it takes to lead an IT team? Play our interactive game and find out. And here’s a hint: Choose wisely.
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Look out millennials: Gen Z is coming for the highest-paying tech jobs
Gen Zers have an attraction to tech careers with strong job security, as well as fair and inclusive workplaces.
Leadership & Careers