Data management

Robotics, digital transformation, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things will be among the top driving forces for corporate growth and competitiveness, says Forrester Research.

A growing number of organizations are increasing their investments in big data, ERP and IoT technologies, but are encountering obstacles to those efforts that do not involve technology readiness.

Digital transformation efforts are going well beyond the domain of IT to involve the entire organization, elevating digital strategy to the top of the board of director agenda.

Andrei Girenkov was hired due to experience with fintech regulation and enterprise data management, the company says.

Digitally mature organizations have higher revenue growth and net profits, according to a report by business and technology consultancy West Monroe Partners.

There are several pressing issues related to the IoT and data transparency practices. These problems concern both businesses and consumers using IoT devices.

A high percentage of organizations identify enabling technologies as critical for driving business strategy for the remainder of 2018.

Cloud adoption is growing for virtualized workloads, with a majority of organizations running or planning to run virtual machines in the cloud this year.

Carriers are looking to deploy AI and RPA tools to help defend against the onslaught.

More than 60 percent of respondents to a new survey said that their data currently exists in organizational silos, with more than half reporting difficulty sharing, linking and using data to drive their risk management strategies.