The first electronic business reports required a highly skilled technician to physically patch wires into a board. The output was then printed on paper. It took months to get a new report written and even longer to provide data consumers with answers.

Fans of the UK Channel 4’s “IT crowd,” will be familiar with the IT department of the fictional Reynholm Industries, buried deep in the company’s basement with a pre-recorded message to turn the computer off and on again as a default response to anyone who bothers them with an IT… Read More →

Charles Darwin would have admired IT evolution. When some lines of business couldn’t get their needs met fast enough by IT and on-premise software, SaaS (software as a service) evolved and was quickly adopted. Corporate IT had to evolve to survive, and it did. Some IT organizations started to embrace… Read More →

You may be excited because you’re the new hotshot data scientist in your company. For that matter, you may be the only data scientist in your company. While you have the job and well-defined responsibilities, you might quickly realize that you still need some help from IT in order to… Read More →

Integration, as a market, has traditionally been loosely defined and often associated with current IT challenges. In the mainframe era, integration was primarily defined by the challenge of getting data into and out of mainframe systems. In the client server era, integration was referred to creating “data buses” that exchanged… Read More →

Businesses are always looking for a competitive advantage. It’s the nature of the beast, and really, the only way to move ahead of your peers. But where does this advantage come from? We live in a world of copycats, and your unique idea won’t be unique for very long. There’s… Read More →

What metrics should you be using for your business? Business leaders are focused on rapidly delivering high quality products and services to customers, selling products, and providing a great customer experience. You can relate meaningful metrics to top-line growth and profit and deliver this information in the most consumable way… Read More →

Business velocity is inherently a good thing in an increasingly competitive marketplace; but the more you know about the why of what’s happening and are able to predict the when, the greater your advantage. Fundamentally, IT is an ally in solving business challenges. It hasn’t always been perceived that way,… Read More →