CA Technologies on Tuesday unveiled CA Cloud Service Management, a mobile-ready, SaaS-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that delivers simplicity and speed across the enterprise.
CA Cloud Service Management is designed with a unique ‘configure, don’t code’ approach that offers implementation in weeks, not months, without new development and maintenance resources or complex upgrades. In fact, service delivery and resource provisioning can be automated in just a few minutes. And, it provides a consumer-like experience to accelerate adoption and empower end users.
CA Technologies Redefines SaaS-based IT Service Management
CA Technologies on Tuesday unveiled CA Cloud Service Management, a mobile-ready, SaaS-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that delivers simplicity and speed across the enterprise.
CA Cloud Service Management is designed with a unique ‘configure, don’t code’ approach that offers implementation in weeks, not months, without new development and maintenance resources or complex upgrades. In fact, service delivery and resource provisioning can be automated in just a few minutes. And, it provides a consumer-like experience to accelerate adoption and empower end users.
Coca-Cola: How to move a 100 year old brick and mortar firm into the cloud #CloudWF
Onyeka Nchege, the CIO of Coca-Cola, cited the importance of education and adaptability in how to transform a brick and mortar business to the cloud.
Speaking during the keynote of Cloud World Forum in London, Nchege noted that the 100 year old company, consistently voted as one of the most powerful global brands, has partially migrated to the cloud with technology not a huge standpoint.
«A lot of folks tend to focus on the technology…but you realise very quickly the technology isn’t where you want to focus your time to begin with,» he told delegates.
Coca-Cola has moved what Nchege called ‘non critical’ apps, such as HR and time-keeping, into the cloud, with a look on migrating core ERP in the near future. «If my HR partner were here, he’d kill me for saying this stuff is non-critical,» he joked.
Nchege noted the five important reasons companies …
Using Tools to Create Mobile Apps Quickly
Perfecto Mobile is using a variety of cloud-based testing tools to help its developers rapidly create the best mobile apps for both enterprises and commercial deployment.
We have surely entered a golden age of mobile apps development, not just for app stores wares, but across all kinds of enterprise and productivity applications. The notion of mobile-first has altered the development landscape so much that the very notion of software development writ large will never be the same.
How big data is set to boost the effectiveness of analytics in banking
Jaroslaw Knapik, Senior Analyst, Financial Services Technology
Big Data will dramatically enhance key areas in banking such as fraud analytics, customer analytics, and web analytics. It does not replace banks’ current analytical infrastructure, but extends its scope: it has become conceivable to conduct analyses based on all data, not just a sample.
Big Data also extends the range of data types that can be covered, the problems that can be addressed, and the user groups able to use it within a single organization. Beyond the familiar base of transactional data and text, emerging technologies and frameworks are providing banks with the power and tools to digest digital and physical channel interactions and various types of data such as customer data, graph data, and geo-location data.
This is not just a matter of the data being available, or of technology seeking a problem to solve. Data from customers, banking channels, back-office …
An API Strategy Is a Business Strategy
It used to be that only application developers knew what APIs were, but things have changed to the point where there are entire conferences dedicated to APIs, websites track them, and people can make a living from doing API reviews. CEOs tout their own APIs in keynote speeches, and CMOs allocate budget to API development. The fact is, however, that what an API is and does hasn’t changed. Functionally, APIs were created to expose data to, and across, applications. Originally based on SOAP/XML endpoints, they evolved into Web-based services that enabled ecommerce, data and communication transactions. Before long, it became clear that there isn’t much one can do online unless it involved an API.
Five Questions Every CEO Should Ask Their CIO / CISO
We’ve distilled lessons learned from Snowden scandal and created 5 questions every CEO should be asking their CIO / CISO in order to avoid a catastrophic rogue insider event in the private sector both in using cloud as a vector of exfiltration as well as protecting their data stored in the cloud.
Today is the one-year anniversary of the historic Snowden disclosure. In the year since the first stories about Edward Snowden appeared, one of the lasting affects of the scandal is a heightened awareness of the risk posed by rogue insiders. This increased focus on rogue insiders has spread beyond the government to the private sector, and from security circles to corporate executives.
Why DevOps Needs a Friend
Application Performance Management (APM) has been bred with all the right elements to give us the insights we need to see the health of our applications. Similar to your most trusted watch dog, it alerts us to anomalies when events occur, providing awareness to the environment that only they can observe.
As enterprises embrace the DevOps philosophy, and the coalescence of the Development and Operations continues, I foresee the conditions ripening to foster innovative methods of making application performance better and code deployments smoother. To me, the argument that system monitoring is just a “nice to have” and not really a core requirement for operational readiness dissipates quickly when a critical application goes down with no warning.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 6/9/2014
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of tech news and stories you may have missed!
- Google Pays $500 Million to Buy Satellite Maker Skybox Imaging
- Brown University goes personal with 100 percent virtualized cloud
- How Hackers Set Up Illegal Mines for Virtual Currencies
- Increased Productivity & Design Flexibility: The Case for Migrating to SharePoint 2013
- Georgia Tech Engineering Students Use Virtual Desktops to Access Specialized Tools Anywhere, Anytime
- Google Offers Cloud Database to Aid Autism Research
- Some clouds may bypass IT, but someone still needs to keep the lights on
- Food Chain, PF Chang’s, Investigates Possible Card Breach
- LEAKED: LG’s First Android Wear Smartwatch Will Supposedly Offer 36-Hour Battery Life
- Clean Cloud Is the Future
- Top Ten Competencies of the Modern CIO
- Target Names Its First CISO
- How Big Data is Redefining the Role of a CIO
- Data Never Sleeps {Infographic}
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Gets from 97 Data Centers Down to 8
- 14 year olds finds manual online, hack an ATM during their school lunch hour
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Wearable tech and the future of cloud ERP
A recent study conducted by the University of London looked into the positive aspects of introducing wearable technology at the workplace.
One of the key takeaways from the study is that wearable technology can improve employee productivity by as much as 8.5% while enhancing job satisfaction by 3.5%. Writing for CNN, Dr. Chris Brauer, the person who spearheaded the study tells us that such wearables could help in building a symbiotic growth relationship between the employer and the employee – while the employer could use behavioural data from such technology to pick the best resource for a task, the employee could use this very data to build a “biometric CV” that would help them personalize their work space.
While the use of such technology at the workplace still seems like a distant dream, at least one industry has taken the first stride towards using wearable technology to enhance their …