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The gap between analytic aspirations and enterprise-scale ability is widening across a number of industries. Successful global market leaders are achieving returns above the cost of capital for their analytics investments, yet many companies are stuck in “pilot purgatory,” eking out small wins but failing to make an enterprise-wide difference. The economic shock created by […]

The IoT powers some of the most critical use cases in the enterprise – including physical security and access control – yet there’s a huge IT pain point that no one is addressing: the need for automating the security and management of IT devices. Enterprises today have hundreds, or thousands, or even tens of thousands […]

Healthcare organizations today are storing petabytes of medical imaging data — lab slides, X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and more – a data storage number that is expanding with no end in sight. To make matters worse, due to regulations, healthcare providers typically must retain medical imaging files for several years; they may even have an […]

For those automating work and augmenting knowledge tasks, the COVID-19 crisis presented a big question: go big, or hunker down? As part of an ongoing research program on intelligent automation at Knowledge Capital Partners (KCP), we wanted to understand how this choice played out. We found a clear division in outcomes between the 85% who […]

Day after day, companies of all sizes are victimized by cybercrimes and malicious insider threats. In fact in 2020, Verizon reports that there were over 3,950 confirmed data breaches, almost double compared to the year prior. These data breaches impact millions of people, cost companies large amounts of time, money and resources, and have long-lasting […]

The hype about machine learning (ML) is warranted. Machine learning is not just making things easier for the companies that are taking advantage of it. It’s also changing the way they do business. For example, machine learning is: Being used by financial institutions to quickly detect fraudulent activity Enabling healthcare practitioners to diagnose diseases and […]

The recent executive order will expand what companies must disclose to the government when a data breach occurs. Like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), these new rules will shield software developers from legal liabilities associated with a breach disclosure. However, it will require due diligence on the part of software companies, which includes collecting and sharing […]

Contrary to what many believed prior to early 2020, we now know the concept of the home office actually works. This is one of the most important insights of 2020. Granted, its implementation was somewhat ad hoc for most of us, but with systems and processes now in place, hardly anyone will claim that working […]

In our latest State of AI report, Appen investigated the landscape of the AI industry to try to understand its current challenges, successes, and strategies for launching AI solutions. We interviewed business leaders and technical leaders alike from companies large and small to capture a snapshot of an evolving industry. In doing so, we unearthed […]

The 21st century is the age of Big Data. Now that we have data warehouses with massive capacity, cloud-operated computers with virtually unlimited storage space, and sophisticated open-source machine learning software, the power of data is becoming more and more widespread. Everyone and their mother can learn to build a model online. What’s much harder […]

Every corporate IT organization feels the pressure to keep costs and solution delivery times down.  But during the COVID pandemic, these pressures have become even more intense. The global economic slowdown, reorientation towards a mobile, remote workforce, a growing home-delivery service model, and rapidly changing regulatory environment compound pressures on corporate IT to quickly deliver […]

Enterprises are struggling with a swelling number of cloud identities, credentials sprawl and privilege creep. Gartner has sounded the alarm: by 2023, 75% of cloud security failures will result from inadequate management of identities, access and privileges. It’s time to tame the beast. The Four Pillars of Entitlement But first, we need to understand the […]