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Data Protection

Can the Internet Ever Be Secure?

By David Edborg February 10, 2017

By some estimates, over 150 million phishing emails are sent every day. Think about that number for a moment, that’s 1,736 attempted crimes every second of every day. And by and large, it’s those phishing emails that get through... READ MORE

Big Data

Business Model Transformation and What it Means to the Data Industry

By Bill Schmarzo February 6, 2017

I recently read an MIT Sloan Management Review article by Clayton Christensen’s recent book titled “The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovations.” While the article is full of great observations about business model transformation, the most important motivation for... READ MORE

Big Data

Is Data Science Really Science?

By Bill Schmarzo January 30, 2017

My son Max is home from college and that always leads to some interesting conversations. Max is in graduate school at Iowa State University where he is studying kinesiology and strength training. As part of his research project, he... READ MORE

Cloud

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. Are you ready?

By Scott Peyser February 1, 2017

Organizations around the world are in various stages of a digital transformation that is redrawing the global business landscape. Some call it a fourth industrial revolution – one where the Internet of Things (IoT) and powerful software harness massive... READ MORE

Technology

4 Fearless Predictions for Virtual Reality in 2017

By Matt Cooney January 24, 2017

Steady (but slow) progress toward greater mainstream adoption as the Virtual Reality (VR) industry takes shape Okay, “fearless” may be a bit of a stretch. But if you consider the collective ineptitude of such “expert” prognosticators as weather forecasters,... READ MORE

Getting Started with IT Transformation

A Proven & Practical Approach

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Unlock Customer Intimacy Through Big Data

A practical approach to deliver a more personalized customer experience.

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Think Like a Data Scientist: Interactive Guide

How do data scientists utilize predictive and prescriptive analytics to create business value?

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Aggregated Data Dilemma

By Bill Schmarzo February 13, 2017

Okay, I am weird (tell me something that I don’t know, say most of my friends). For Christmas I wanted a Nike Apple Watch to go with my existing FitBit and Garmin fitness trackers (I look sort of like... READ MORE

Service Excellence

Customer Experience: Expert Predictions for 2017

By Nishita Roy January 23, 2017

Many companies are in the midst of their strategic planning for the year. One area of business that cannot be ignored is the importance of customer experience (CX)—in fact, Gartner predicted that, by 2017, 89% of marketers expected customer... READ MORE

Cloud

NFV Operating Models – How to Mix Oil and Water (also known as IT Operations and Network Operations)

By Laddie Suk January 20, 2017

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) brings the concept of a common, virtualized infrastructure (now prevalent in most Telecom IT shops) to the core network. Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) such as Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) will operate on a robust,... READ MORE

Big Data

Data and Economics 101

By Bill Schmarzo January 17, 2017

As more organizations try to determine where best to deploy their limited budgets to support data and analytics initiatives, they realize a need to ascertain the financial value of their data and analytics – which means basic economic concepts... READ MORE

Technology

5 IT Transformation Trends for Asia Pacific Insurers

By Aaron Berger January 13, 2017

On a recent trip to Bangkok and Hong Kong I had the privilege to facilitate a series of discussion on digital transformation in the financial services industry. It always amazes me when I travel to speak with IT managers... READ MORE

Service Excellence

Say goodbye to labor-intensive, hello to light-touch deployment for PCs

By John Moody January 10, 2017

I was struggling with the right way to convey my excitement in this blog when I ran across this quote from the late senator and astronaut, John Glenn, “To sit back and let fate play its hand out and... READ MORE