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Informationweek Microsoft Viva Heralds New Wave of Collaboration Tools With so many workers at home full time, collaboration apps like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams have become a virtual substitute for the office, but without the balance. Now they are about to get better. Video conferencing, group chat, and other collaboration software tools were never intended to be the main channels for workforce collaboration. When everyone worked in the same office, these tools augmented in-person collab...

Informationweek CIOs to Accelerate Digital Business Transformation in 2021 With 2020 in the rearview mirror, finally, CIOs are looking at bigger budgets and an acceleration in their digital transformations. After a year of responding to a crisis, CIOs in 2021 are taking a more proactive stance, looking to help their organizations as they build out digital business projects that make the most of shifting markets and revenue opportunities in a changed economy. Box CEO Aaron Levie put it this way ...

Informationweek Cybersecurity, Modernization Top Priorities for Federal CIOs Cybersecurity, modernization, H1-B visas, COVID-19 data and analytics. These are a few of the items that are on the agenda for the Biden administration. Now that the Trump Administration is gone and the Biden Administration is leading the executive branch of the US federal government, will IT organizations within the government notice a difference? What changes can they expect? Will those technology changes make a diff...

Informationweek DocuSign Automates to Scale IT for Big Business Growth Digital signature and contract management company DocuSigns IT automation projects paid off when the pandemic lockdowns hit. Heres why. Its been nearly a year since the world of office workers made a sudden and unexpected migration to work from home, often over a period of just days. It was an impressive feat when you consider how long such a project would have normally taken in pre-pandemic times -- probably at least six mo...

Informationweek How CDOs Can Solve the Top Data and Analytics Challenge Enterprises have made a lot of progress in becoming data driven over the past several years, but organizations continue to cite one major impediment. As organizations look to speed up their digital transformations and technology progress, one of the big strategy questions is, what is the best approach to getting there? When it comes to data, analytics, machine learning and the rest of artificial intelligence, many organizat...

Informationweek ITs Pandemic Year: Lessons Learned for the Year Ahead CIOs and IT organizations rose to meet tremendous challenges driven by a 100-year pandemic and how it has reshaped the world. Here are the lessons they are taking into 2021. Theres a meme thats been making the rounds of the internet that reads like a social media restaurant review: "2020: Do not recommend. one star." Its funny because its true. This past year was like no other in our collective memories because none of us ali...

Informationweek Enterprise IT Leaders Face Two Paths to AI Enterprise IT leaders no longer always need to follow the build-it-yourself path to AI. Heres how the market will shape up in the future. First mover organizations in the initial wave of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence generally had to blaze their own paths. The technology leaders inside of these organizations hired the expensive and hard-to-find unicorn data scientists to build their own data science platforms b...

Informationweek How Data, Analytics & AI Shaped 2020, and Will Impact 2021 Artificial intelligence and automation were key tools in the IT enterprises pandemic war effort in 2020. Heres how they will continue to change the game in every organization in 2021. Image: charles taylor - stock.adobe.com The IT enterprise may have started the year stalled on its efforts to deploy at scale production machine learning and artificial intelligence projects, but that didnt last long. The global pandemics i...

Informationweek Automation Revs Pandemic IT Toolbox Enterprise IT executives saw huge acceleration in automation deployments in 2020, and that trend will continue next year as they look to expand into intelligent automation. Enterprise IT organizations were certainly among the silent heroes of 2020. These organizations and professionals came to the rescue to equip for the sudden pivots and challenges that characterized 2020, the year when a pandemic shifted markets and sent so many to work from...

Informationweek The Year in Security: Adversarial AI and the Rush to the Cloud Interop keynoter Gunter Ollmann, Microsofts cloud and AI security leader, shares insights on 2020s instant pivot to the cloud, the state of adversarial AI, and how top organizations can stop attackers. Image: jirsak - stock.adobe.com A global pandemic and its impact on the way we work and live served as a catalyst for enterprise digital transformation in 2020. The enterprise did two years worth of digital transformat...