Dennis McCafferty

About

Dennis McCafferty, a contributing writer for eWeek, Baseline and CIO Insight, has more than 20 years of experience as a writer. He has covered a variety of technology and business topics for a number of publications, including those of Ziff Davis. Dennis was also an editorial staffer for USA Weekend, the nation’s second-largest magazine, with more than 22 million readers.

How to Make Data More Manageable—and Trustworthy

“The data is wrong. … We can’t format it with our existing tools. … There’s so much of it—coming from everywhere! We can’t keep up with it all!” Do these complaints sound familiar? If so, you and your organization are in good company. In its recent report, titled “2019 Global Data Management Research,” Experian reveals […]

Seven of the Coolest–and Best-Paying–Jobs in Emerging Tech

In the Digital Age, we often contemplate which professions today won’t exist five or 10 years from now. But, fortunately, innovation is creating new ones to replace them, with many of these positions commanding salaries well into six-figure territory. Some, in fact, average in excess of $200,000 in annual compensation. Even better, a great deal […]

Organizations Seeing Less Resistance–and Greater Trust–for AI Initiatives

The C-suite is giving less pushback. Customers are more willing to disclose their personal data to improve the customer experience (CX). And modern professionals aren’t quite as jittery these days about artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled machines taking their jobs. At least those are the impressions conveyed in a new report from Genpact, titled “AI 360: Insights […]

The Next 7 Steps in Convergence of Technology, Business—and Humanity

Things are looking good for tech workers: The global IT industry will grow in value by at least 4 percent to $5 trillion—with an upside of 6.4 percent—over the next year. Emerging tech alone is expected to more than double over the next several years, accounting for a $1.4 trillion market by 2022. In 2018, […]

Six Trends for 2019 That Will Redefine Enterprise Tech

Big data/analytics, the cloud and even the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) have either already emerged as part of the organizational mainstream, or appear to be headed in that direction. Given this, it’s hardly hyperbolic to say that, if companies aren’t at least considering these technologies yet, they […]

Forecast 2019: IT Budgets Will Grow in Support of Enterprise Culture

In the current age of digital transformation, the walls between tech and other departments continue to crumble. Indeed, we may be swiftly heading to an end game in which there is no longer a designated place for “IT” and another for “business.” There will only be the enterprise, and everyone who is a part of […]

Multitasker Alert: App Overload Leads to Onslaught of Errors

Multitasker Alert: App Overload Leads to Onslaught of Errors Employees can’t get enough of their apps—using dozens in a day—and this is creating a large amount of work errors, according to recent research from Pegasystems. The resulting report, “Demystifying the Desktop,” primarily focuses on keystroke input errors, and there are plenty of them due to […]

Profit Potential Driving ‘All In’ Deployment Plans for AI

Profit Potential Driving ‘All In’ Deployment Plans for AI A notable share of companies intend go “all in” on artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, planning to implement AI enterprisewide in 2019, according to a recent survey from PwC. In doing so, organizations expect to boost profits, create a better customer experience (CX) and improve decision-making. To […]

With Insights Limited, Data, Analytics Efforts Remain Work in Progress

With Insights Limited, Data, Analytics Efforts Remain Work in Progress While the majority of organizations recognize the potential benefits of analytics initiatives, most have yet to maximize these advantages, according to a recent survey from Snowflake Computing, MicroStrategy, Wipro and Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. The resulting report, titled “An Inflection Point for the Data-Driven […]

AI and Robots and IoT, Oh My! Nine Tech Predictions for 2019

AI and Robots and IoT, Oh My! Nine Tech Predictions for 2019 Artificial intelligence and robots will create “digital workers” for companies. The internet of things (IoT) will go mainstream. “Zero trust” will rule cyber-security. These are just three predictions recently published by Forrester as part of its “Predictions 2019: Transformation Goes Pragmatic” guide. One […]