Dennis McCafferty

Most Companies Won’t Make GDPR Deadline, Putting Customer Trust at Risk As the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline approaches on May 25, most companies do not expect to be fully compliant by then, according to a recent survey from IBM. The resulting report, titled “The End of the Beginning,” categorizes companies surveyed […]

10 Red Flags Warning That Your Advanced Analytics Program Will Fail Too often, organizations fail to develop a comprehensive vision to maximize the value of analytics, according to a recent article from McKinsey & Co. The article, titled “Ten Red Flags Signaling Your Analytics Program Will Fail,” focuses on issues related to advanced analytics technology, […]

Capgemini Survey Find Enterprises Reaping Profits From IT Automation Organizations that are leading the pack in investing in IT automation technology to improve application testing and deployment, IT configuration and infrastructure provisioning, are reaping higher profits and other tangible benefits, according to a recent survey from Capgemini. The survey report, titled “The Automation Advantage,” places […]

Poor Data Sharing, Outdated IT Leads to Costly ‘Digital Downtime’ The majority of executives encounter frustrations with their organization’s technologies, primarily because they waste too much time attempting to track down and share digital information, according to a recent survey from PointSource. The survey findings reveal that, on average, these inefficiencies cost companies more than […]

What Marketers Want From IT for Customer Engagement Success A significant share of senior marketers believe their job security depends upon the effectiveness of their organization’s technology investments and innovation, according to a recent survey from the CMO Council and customer engagement technology company RedPoint Global. Why? Because the stakes are high when it comes […]

IT Execs Say Cost Savings Make Cloud-Based Analytics ‘Inevitable’ Organizations are steadily migrating their analytics functions to the cloud – with two-thirds of these functions expected to make this transition by 2020, according to a recent survey from Teradata. The resulting report, titled “The State of Analytics in the Cloud,” indicates that the vast majority […]

Lack of Database Deployment Automation Creates ‘App Downtime’ An abundance of manual processes—that introduce “many” steps that can fail—is hindering database deployments, according to a recent survey from Datical. The resulting report, titled “The State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery,” indicates that the lack of database deployment automation negatively impacts app production. In fact, […]

How Brand Trust and Relationships Drive IT Purchase Decisions When asked what they primarily look for when making decisions, IT purchasers are most likely to say they need to “trust” a tech brand before moving forward with a sales agreement, according to a recent survey from Spiceworks. They also take comfort in acquiring enterprise products […]

Demand for Security Features Boost Windows 10 Migration Momentum Within a year, the vast majority of organizations are expected to migrate at least one-half of their desktop systems to Windows 10, according to a recent survey from Adaptiva. The “2018 Windows 10 Enterprise Impact Survey” report indicates that security features are driving the demand, especially […]

Through Data and DevOps, IT Emerges as Crucial to Competition Companies that are considered the most advanced in their tech transformations are far likelier to view IT as a key, competitive differentiator, according to a recent survey from Dell EMC and Intel. They’re also more inclined to involve the tech department “at the outset” of […]

‘Old School’ Still Cool: COBOL Apps Play Strategic Enterprise Role It may be six decades old, but COBOL still plays an essential role in app design for many companies, according to a recent survey from Micro Focus. The resulting report, titled “The Future of COBOL Applications,” reveals that COBOL developers favor Agile approaches and that […]

How Tech Issues, Distractions and Other Problems Make for Bad Meetings Whether it’s a faulty conference call connection or a failed video feed, tech problems have emerged as quite common during business meetings, according to a recent survey from Barco. The resulting report, titled “Science of Success: Factors Impacting Meeting Engagement,” indicates that reliable tech […]