Software
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Startup in a box: 5 services helping businesses hit the ground running
From accounting to communications to project management, here are the tools founders, executives and consultants say are mission-critical.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 16, 2019 -
Slack hits 12M daily active users, on the heels of Microsoft Teams
The collaboration platform also announced its users rack up an average of 5 billion actions weekly, including messaging, searching, uploading and commenting on files.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 11, 2019 -
Who is responsible for digital accessibility?
As Domino's faces a lawsuit, here are four roles companies can lean on to ensure compliance.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 10, 2019 -
Low code 101 and the rise of drag-and-drop programming
By equipping non-technical staffers with alternative methods to build software, low-code platforms bring business and product closer together.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 09, 2019 -
Most blockchain applications sunk in the 'trough of disillusionment,' Gartner says
Immaturity in the space has dwarfed interest in blockchain applications, as experiments and implementations fail to deliver.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 09, 2019 -
Workplace by Facebook, targeting the enterprise, declares 3M paid customers
The company also announced a slew of video applications and access solutions for front-line employees.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 09, 2019 -
How to use RPA to increase back-office efficiency
Small successes can show employees what a company hopes to do with RPA, and how it will make their jobs easier.
By Jen A. Miller • Oct. 08, 2019 -
RPA can save finance teams 25K working hours, study claims
Avoidable rework can take up to 30% of a full-time employee's work day, according to Gartner.
By Jane Thier , Naomi Eide • Oct. 07, 2019 -
Success in DevOps adoption can boost security, research finds
Puppet research found companies that integrate security into the software development lifecycle are "twice as confident in their security posture."
By Naomi Eide • Oct. 01, 2019 -
Software eats the world, jobs double US employment growth rate
Though automation will reshape the future of the industry, expansion is poised to continue as more sectors embrace tech.
By Roberto Torres • Sept. 20, 2019 -
Email drains 5 hours of worker's time every day, Adobe finds
Workers spend more than three hours a day on work email, and another two hours on personal email.
By Roberto Torres • Sept. 18, 2019 -
Oracle, Microsoft play nice on the collaboration front
Integrating Oracle Digital Assistant and Microsoft Teams will help customers handle workloads that move across Microsoft 365 and Oracle Cloud.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Sept. 18, 2019 -
How one company used analytics to cut procurement costs 11%
Cimpress, the Vistaprint parent company, deployed a digital platform across subsidiaries to centralize bulk contracts.
By Morgan Forde • Sept. 05, 2019 -
Slack takes $8M revenue hit for customer credits after failing to meet uptime commitment
The company offers credits back to customers if it fails to meet its 99.99% uptime commitment.
By Naomi Eide • Sept. 05, 2019 -
Customer engagement key metric for SaaS companies, CFO says
SaaS companies rely on recurring revenue for growth. That's only achievable when customers are satisfied.
By Robert Freedman • Aug. 30, 2019 -
Video conferencing makes employees feel more included, report says
Professionals believe companies that use video communication are better at collaboration, according to a survey by video conferencing company Lifesize.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 28, 2019 -
Google delays Hangouts consolidation, as Teams and Slack try to narrow market
Google shares a lot of the same strengths as Microsoft in terms of holistic collaboration offering, strengthened by more than five million paying G Suite business customers.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 22, 2019 -
How Zoom became one of this year's biggest tech IPOs
CFO Kelly Steckelberg discusses how she organized operations to support sales and product development, leading to a successful public debut.
By Robert Freedman • Aug. 16, 2019 -
WeWork IPO hints at underlying enterprise tech play
The company has "experience technology," which includes calendar integrations, room booking apps and guest registration kiosks.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 15, 2019 -
Broadcom banks on software-defined future with Symantec buy
Broadcom will weave Symantec's enterprise business into its expansive portfolio, as it makes the transition from a hardware- to a software-focused provider.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 13, 2019 -
Amid SaaS thirst, vendors grapple with how to monetize software
Subscription models can lower the barriers of entry for tech adoption. For vendors, the rise of automation could make things more complex.
By Roberto Torres • Aug. 13, 2019 -
Zoom's rise carving market share from Microsoft, Cisco
The newcomer is "actually displacing some of these other giant vendors," Gartner's Tom Eagle told CIO Dive.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 09, 2019 -
Western Digital's roadmap to merging 3 distinct technology stacks
The company began the daunting task of technology rationalization planning around 2015 and broke the effort into chunks. First up: collaboration and communication.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 08, 2019 -
3 trends shaping the business intelligence market
BI market consolidation highlights emerging trends: Data analytics is more ingrained in daily workflows, connects with more SaaS platforms and runs on more modern infrastructure.
By Roberto Torres • Aug. 07, 2019 -
Slack adopts 'disasterpiece theater' strategy for running uptime exercises
While Slack is confident in its foundational infrastructure, it recognizes "luck" is not a viable strategy as the platform expands, the company said.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 02, 2019
