Microsoft buys Intentional Software in bid to up its workplace productivity game

Microsoft says the acquisition will allow it to add new tools and services to its productivity offering.

By Justine Brown • April 19, 2017

Humanizing the digital workplace computing experience

Instead of boosting productivity and output, the current model of disjointed cloud services is over-complicating the digital workplace experience. Why?

By Yaacov Cohen • April 18, 2017

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Ongoing AI adoption efforts and the evolution of the executive scope ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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How is the PC market doing? Depends on who you ask

IDC and Gartner released PC market shipment trackers for the first quarter of 2017, but the firms differ on how many units were sold and which vendors lead the market. 

By Naomi Eide • April 12, 2017

The end of an era: Microsoft drops support for Vista

If you're a business still using Vista, it's time to move on. For Microsoft, all eyes are on Windows 10 and growing OS user adoption.

By Naomi Eide • April 11, 2017

How Box is changing conference room interaction using Amazon's Alexa

The user experience is going through a "paradigm shift." As companies become more digitized and efficient in back-end processes, IT leaders are looking toward new areas to streamline.

By Naomi Eide • April 10, 2017

Microsoft dishes on what data it collects with Windows 10

The company explains that for the basic level, it uses data to determine if there are problems in device hardware or software configurations. 

By Justine Brown • April 6, 2017

Facebook to offer a light version of Workplace

The social network is hoping a free version will hook small businesses or companies in emerging markets.

By Justine Brown • April 6, 2017

Conversational UIs like Alexa, Siri making inroads in the enterprise

As conversational UIs improve and natural language processing becomes more accurate, businesses are exploring how they could impact business strategy. 

By Justine Brown • April 4, 2017

Microsoft to shutter CodePlex and team with GitHub instead

The company's move indicates just how dominant GitHub has become. GitHub says 20 million developers and 1.3 million teams use the service.

By Justine Brown • April 3, 2017

Microsoft brings co-authoring to Excel

Windows desktop Excel users can now see when someone else is working on a spreadsheet at the same time and view changes automatically within seconds.

By Justine Brown • March 30, 2017

Why Apple, SAP are bringing iOS to the enterprise

SAP’s partnership with Apple is part of a broader recognition that by collaborating, large tech companies can do a lot more to serve their enterprise customers.

By Justine Brown • March 30, 2017

Report: Cisco planning to sell networking software separate from hardware

For the first time, Cisco customers may soon be able to use its operating system software in networking devices made by other companies.

By Justine Brown • March 29, 2017

Amazon is getting into the call center business

Traditional contact center solutions can prove complicated and expensive, so Amazon is offering a self-service, cloud-based approach. 

By Justine Brown • March 29, 2017

What CIOs need to know about containers

Given the mad dash toward digital transformation, container technology could play an increasingly important role in the enterprise by allowing companies to rapidly transform.

By Justine Brown • March 28, 2017

Microsoft polishes up Skype as business communications, conferencing space heats up

Google revamped Hangouts and Hangouts Meet. And talk of Amazon's enterprise productivity suite continue to circulate.

By Justine Brown • March 28, 2017

Why Intel is bringing AI efforts under one group

Aligning both focus and resources, the company will also create an applied AI research lab to serve as the home for AI innovation.

By Justine Brown • March 24, 2017

Cisco's acquisition of AppDynamics is official. What next?

For Cisco, AppDynamics offers an opportunity to move further into the subscription-based software space.

By Justine Brown • March 23, 2017

Adobe puts all its cloud offerings into one enterprise basket

Integrating services is never a bad idea. Rather than sell components like its marketing, advertising and analytics cloud separately, Adobe will now sell them as one unified piece. 

By Justine Brown • March 22, 2017

Open source: The new normal in enterprise software

The attitude toward proprietary software is changing, as providers like Microsoft and IBM have shifted to providing software services in response to customer demands. 

By Mary Catherine O'Connor • March 22, 2017

How to use predictive analytics to optimize software delivery

Predictive analytics is revolutionizing the software testing industry by helping businesses take advantage of DevOps continuous deployment pipelines to reduce the cost, time and risk of software delivery.

By Sanjay Zalavadia • March 21, 2017

MuleSoft earns investors' stamp of approval in public debut

Stock price leapt 46% above the IPO price of $17 per share on Friday.

By Justine Brown • March 20, 2017

Enterprise, consumer appetite for VR exploding

Sales of VR headsets for both enterprise and consumers is expected to grow 58% by 2021, according to new data from the International Data Corp. 

By Justine Brown • March 17, 2017

Technobabble: Ireland's ascent as data center haven not pure luck

As people hustled to fill out last minute brackets for the NCAA tournament, CBSSports.com went down. Also, what's the deal with all those Irish data centers?

By Naomi Eide • March 17, 2017

Amazon gives Alexa developers free rein — and free AWS credits

The company is working to grow the developer ecosystem around Alexa to increase the voice activated assistant's capabilities and use cases.

By Justine Brown • March 16, 2017

'Disruption' from the old guard: Microsoft takes on Slack, vying for collaboration tool dominance

The game is set. Now Microsoft and Slack are officially competing in the enterprise market and a member of the old guard of tech is acting as a market disruptor. 

By Naomi Eide • March 15, 2017