Dennis McCafferty

Going Outside of IT, ‘Citizen Developers’ Speeding Up App Delivery With frustrations growing over their IT department’s inability to deliver business apps on a timely basis, a significant number of organizations are allowing—if not embracing—app development on the part of non-IT employees, according to a recent survey from Kintone, which markets a cloud-based rapid application […]

CIOs Cite Company Culture as Top Barrier to Technology Innovation Intro: A small minority of CIOs and IT directors perceive their organization as a “digital innovator,” according to a recent survey from Logicalis. The resulting “Global CIO Survey 2017–2018” report reveals that survey respondents are most likely to cite their company’s culture as a major […]

Why IT Remains Unprepared for Digital Transformation, Big Data While a majority of IT executives and tech professionals report that their organization have launched a digital transformation project, few describe their technology stack as “sophisticated,” according to a survey from Commvault. The resulting report, titled “Measuring IT’s Readiness for Digital Business,” reveals that only a […]

McKinsey Predicts Cloud Service Dominance, Greater DevOps Use by 2020 With companies looking to free up capital while increasing operational flexibility, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) are positioned to dominate IT investments in 2018, according to a recent trend report from management consulting company McKinsey & Company. The report, […]

Forrester 2018 Predictions See GDPR, AI, Recruiting as IT Challenges Intro: A recent “predictions” report from Forrester indicates that a significant share of organizations will fail to take full advantage of the latest information technology. The report, titled “Predictions 2018: A Year of Reckoning,” finds that many companies will have to deal with eroding customer […]

10 Things to Know About Amazon’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Here’s a look at the new Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service and how it might stack up against established services from Apple Music and Spotify. A Streaming Service Like Apple Music Amazon isn’t trying to do something new or groundbreaking with Music Unlimited. Instead, the […]