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NFL, AWS to use player digital twins to model scenarios and combat injury

Digital twins are also cropping up in the back office, where companies can use the technology to map the enterprise technology stack, visualizing the network and other moving parts of the business.  

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 06, 2019

Q&A

'The Unicorn Project' turns DevOps into a rebellion

CIO Dive spoke with author Gene Kim about the sequel to the "The Phoenix Project," which tackles DevOps from the developer's perspective.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 26, 2019

Southwest Airlines plugs accessibility into customer service with Salesforce

The airline's leaders see the move to an accessible tool set as an investment in customer satisfaction.

By Roberto Torres • Nov. 22, 2019

Meet the co-bots: How tech is aiding Whirlpool Corp. employees, not ousting them

The company has worked to find the right balance of tech and process to keep staff ahead of digitization — while still prioritizing product quality.

By Riia O'Donnell • Nov. 19, 2019

Mirantis' Docker Enterprise acquisition a lifeline as industry shifts to Kubernetes

For Docker fans, it's the end of an era. Industry is retooling, standardizing on container technology and orchestration on Kubernetes. 

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 14, 2019

Companies edging out rank-and-file staff in digital transformation efforts

On their way to digital maturity, companies are called to keep employees in focus while disruptive changes unfold.

By Roberto Torres • Nov. 06, 2019

Gartner's strategic tech trends for 2020: Part 2, computing moves to the edge

AI-based systems are becoming smarter, giving rise to autonomy. Hardware is shrinking, pushing computing to the edge. And the ever-hyped blockchain is finding "practical" applications.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 05, 2019

5 key Forrester predictions for the future of software development

Market consolidation, service mesh and the rise of AI testing will drive the industry forward in 2020 and beyond. 

By Roberto Torres • Nov. 04, 2019

Wyndham Destinations deployed Salesforce to go digital. Now it really wants the full ROI

CIO Brad Dettmer said the timeshare staple plans to use the software platform to build applications and expand its data analytics strategy.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 28, 2019

6 predictions from Gartner could reshape C-suite priorities

By 2023, the analyst firm sees "augmented humans" becoming a ubiquitous part of the workforce. It's one of many changes set to reshape industry in the coming years.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 25, 2019

Rent the Runway shouldered the blame when a software bug hampered delivery

Rather than point fingers and push "blame" on the third party the company called it a "software issue internally," said CEO Jennifer Hyman.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 25, 2019

Opinion

3 ways to drive a customer-first engineering team

When push comes to shove, many executives fall short in creating actionable short-term goals and broader culture standards that align with a customer-first vision.

By Hector Aguilar • Oct. 24, 2019

What does a 130-year-old company do to fix a modern-day communications problem?

It's a common problem: Legacy companies are fighting to remain competitive in a modern world. Yamaha found its solution with global cloud communications and collaboration software.

By Deborah Barrington • Oct. 23, 2019

2020 IT spending priorities — and the traps a cloud shift creates

Spending trends coalesce with a shift in how companies manage technology budgets, transitioning from CapEx to OpEx in the "as a Service" era. But the pivot is not seamless.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 21, 2019

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