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Dropbox pops 35% in public debut on the road to profitability
The company must continue to flip freemium customers into paid seats and level the playing field with other offerings in the market.
By Naomi Eide • March 26, 2018 -
Slack could struggle to survive with more outages, so it's building a team to prevent them
Competitors of the company, including HipChat and Stride, face far less outages.
By Samantha Schwartz • March 23, 2018 -
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Shifts in compute infrastructure, ongoing AI adoption plans and talent challenges ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.
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Slack partners with Workday to provide workers real-time access to HR
The partnership will allow employees to request time-off via Slack, allow real-time peer feedback and make looking up coworker info simpler.
By Kathryn Moody • March 22, 2018 -
Deep Dive
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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Deep DiveDropbox 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Deep Dive
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 -
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 -
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 -
Opinion
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 -
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 -
Deep Dive
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
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