Salesforce gets more horse than donkey in enterprise integration software deal

As Salesforce reaches into the market and pulls new capabilities "back into the mothership" with the MuleSoft deal, other companies will watch and play catch-up.

By Alex Hickey • March 22, 2018

Salesforce acquires MuleSoft to the tune of $6.5B

MuleSoft will bring API management capabilities, a key investment for the CRM company integrating AI throughout its portfolio.

By Alex Hickey • March 21, 2018

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Shifts in enterprise software use, ongoing generative AI adoption plans and budget pressures ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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Dropbox targets vertical sectors, back office integrations on the road to IPO

While the company is taking a vertical industry approach to new integrations, there is room for growth across SaaS suites, including HR and ERP.

By Naomi Eide • March 21, 2018

Apple, IBM venture allows companies like Coca-Cola to rethink custom apps

Relationships Apple has forged with companies like IBM are a positive signal in its journey to becoming a more powerful vendor in the enterprise market.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 20, 2018

GitHub takes aim at EU proposal to filter uploaded code

The technology sector is taking a second look at a proposal calling for the automatic filtering of user-uploaded content on digital platforms.

By Alex Hickey • March 19, 2018

Software is king and developers are in high demand

Most developers have been coding professionally for five years or less, but that number is sure to grow alongside the expanding software market.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 16, 2018

Intel CEO: We're addressing Meltdown, Spectre flaws with hardware 'partitions'

As for software updates, 100% of impacted Intel products from the last five years have been issued microcode updates.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 16, 2018

McDonald's mobile app triggers worker discontent

Employees say the new ordering technology is causing more trouble than it's worth, with chaos ensuing alongside self-service kiosks, mobile app ordering and traditional checkouts.

By Robert Williams • March 15, 2018

Seeing double: Digital twins increasing across enterprise IoT deployments

A "virtual counterpart to a real object," digital twins are finding homes in manufacturing and other industrial environments, according to Gartner. 

By Naomi Eide • March 14, 2018

Coty turned to the cloud to integrate 12K employees after a major acquisition

The move to Microsoft 365 decreased Coty's dependence on local hardware and increased users' ability to "be productive anywhere," said George Katsouris, global IT VP, operations and services at Coty.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 14, 2018

How Coca-Cola migrated from a single data warehouse to global application deployment

After choosing the microservices architecture best suited for the company, Coca-Cola turned to a DevOps-based model.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 14, 2018

NCAA's IT team transitions from back office order-taker to leader and innovator

"I'm hoping that the IT at the NCAA takes more of a leadership role, [that] we start getting ahead of conversations," said CIO Judd Williams. 

By Alex Hickey • March 13, 2018

After 1 year, Microsoft Teams racks up 200K customers including Macy's, General Motors

The communication platform is used by organizations worldwide and is available in 39 languages.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 13, 2018

Dropbox is becoming a serious enterprise option with Salesforce partnership, increased infrastructure

Ahead of its IPO, Dropbox is well suited to storm the enterprise market. Along the way, the company is showing Wall Street it can become an enterprise mainstay. 

By Naomi Eide • March 9, 2018

Selection Sunday, made possible by AI, the cloud and data analytics

NCAA CIO Judd Williams spoke to CIO Dive about the technology behind college basketball's annual March Madness. But data cannot account for buzzer beaters, of which the NCAA has a long history.

By Alex Hickey • March 9, 2018

App overload wastes 32 days of employee productivity each year

Is it time to rein in the multitude of workplace apps?

By Naomi Eide , Valerie Bolden-Barrett • March 7, 2018

Walmart relies on DevOps and the IoT to better its business model

In the last year, CIO Clay Johnson has worked to create transparency in DevOps practices.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 7, 2018

Dropbox is establishing critical partnerships to boost its enterprise appeal

In the past two months, Dropbox has formalized partnerships with Google, Microsoft and Adobe, just in time for the its IPO later this year.

By Naomi Eide • March 5, 2018

What CIOs need to know about enterprise licensing agreements

Despite cutting into profit margins, ELAs protect vendors that arrange steep discounts for high dollar, lump sum purchases.

By Simon Park • March 5, 2018

Hershey's sweet spot for Accenture: Consulting company helps implement SAP ERP

Hershey is looking to draw better customer insight as its sales face continuing decline.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 5, 2018

Let your kids play Minecraft: Game teaches 85M users how to code

Minecraft is also being used to teach students practices beyond computer science, including algebra, history and chemistry.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 2, 2018

Dropbox's public success will come from SMB customers, not the enterprise

While many have looked toward the enterprise market as the saving grace for Dropbox's future profitability, the heavy investment by enterprise giants makes it a more difficult market to break into. 

By Naomi Eide • March 1, 2018

Salesforce's Einstein AI makes 1B+ predictions daily. But how much will it cost customers?

The company's machine learning and deep learning platform has become integral to its CRM.

By Alex Hickey • March 1, 2018

Google Chats and Microsoft Teams are ramping up intercompany collaboration

Each room in Chat allows up to 8,000 members, and users will be able to upload and collaborate on documents through Drive. 

By Samantha Schwartz • March 1, 2018

DevOps offers 'end-to-end flexibility,' but businesses slow to implement

Finding the right skills to support the software development lifecycle is just as important as encouraging a collaborative culture across departments.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 28, 2018