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

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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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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

Incumbents like Unilever, Procter & Gamble are giving tech giants a run for their data

Until the last year or so, incumbents were "suffering" from declines in revenue or loss in competition.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 28, 2018

Microsoft CEO: Office 365 holds the most promise across product suite

Natural growth in the cloud market is due to "more pre-built models" compared to Microsoft's competitors in the public cloud space. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 27, 2018

Tyson Foods to reduce custom apps in favor of standard processes

CTO Scott Spradley hopes to reduce reliance on custom-made solutions, which comprise 55% of its application stack. 

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 26, 2018

Are developers retiring faster than the programming languages they use?

Some developers may show a resistance to a new language, particularly when younger generations are readily equipped to more or less replace their aging counterparts.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 23, 2018

Oracle wants to take down IaaS leaders, but its success will always be SaaS-y

While its technology stack matures, Oracle has to convince its customer base and CIOs across sectors to adopt its cloud products. For now, Oracle is looking toward the marketability of autonomous features as the answer.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 22, 2018

AI, software, AI, data science, AI: Tech that defines the world's most innovative companies

From classics like Apple, Amazon and Tencent to surprising newcomers like the NBA and Cava, Fast Company's 2018 ranking of the most innovative companies shows how a little technology can go a long way.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 21, 2018

Technology of love: Between the sheets of OkCupid's amorous applications

Big data, the cloud, cybersecurity and software may play a bigger role in your love life than you think.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 13, 2018

Google bug bounty program shelled out $2.9M last year

While a prize of more than $100,000 may make a sweat break out on most CIOs' brows, in reality most bug bounty payouts come in at a few hundred dollars — and this price pales in comparison to the cost of a breach. 

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 8, 2018