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Content management tools: Features users love and hate

IT pros say what they like, and donu2019t like, about Microsoftu2019s SharePoint, IBM ECM, Box and Alfresco.

By IT Central Station

Collaboration Software Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business

The future of work is today. Are you ready?

Here are six factors transforming the workplace today.

By Morag Barrett

IT Leadership

Spring cleaning

Clean up your 'piling' system and make room for new ideas.

By Paul T. Cottey

IT Governance IT Leadership

How microcertifications work for IT job seekers and employers

Microcertifications are gaining popularity as a way for IT job seekers to quickly and affordably prove their skills, and organizations are coming around to the idea.

Certifications IT Jobs IT Skills

Mar 6, 2017 5 mins

IT Resume Makeover: Find focus by building a theme

The longer your career, the more difficult it can be to pull out the right details to create a focused resume. Finding a common theme that runs through your experience, can help guide the process.

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

Analytics 50: Call for 2017 entries (deadline extended)

Deadline extended to May 31. Drexel Universityu2019s LeBow College of Business and CIO.com will again honor 50 organizations that excel at using analytics to solve business challenges. If you have an innovative project, nowu2019s the time to nominate

By Dan Muse

Big Data CIO Technology Industry

Updated TripIt app tells you when to leave for the airport

TripIt's new Go Now feature shows a countdown clock with the remaining time before you need to leave for the airport, based on current traffic and other data. It's a welcome addition to an essential app for business travelers.

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Docker draws distinctions between enterprise and community editions

The company that popularized container technology has fine tuned its marketing strategy, creating enterprise and community editions of Docker.rn

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Mar 3, 2017 5 mins

Cloud Computing Linux Open Source

Uber’s CEO needs some serious mentoring – fast

Uberu2019s Travis Kalanick lacks the experience to be an effective CEO, writes columnist Rob Enderle The answer is getting him a mentor, perhaps Joe Trucci.

By Rob Enderle

IT Leadership

Augmented education isn’t just for children

Visual, interactive and dynamic learning powered by augmented reality (AR) is being adopted across industries, and in future will become the standard for education and training within the global workforce and across all professions.

By Alice Bonasio

Smart Home Virtual Reality

AWS, Microsoft and Google take different paths to the cloud

CIOs concerned about betting too heavily on a single vendor for cloud services hear pitches from the industryu2019s leading vendors.

By Clint Boulton

Google Microsoft Technology Industry

The quiet revolution: the internet of data structures with IPFS

Everything of value involves data. Where data lives and how itu2019s accessed is about to change. The internet of data structures (IoDS) is transforming the web from linking data by location to linking data with hashes. Is your organization prepared?

By Peter B. Nichol

Healthcare Industry IT Strategy Innovation

Walgreens names new CIO

Steve Turner's position as a Walgreens veteran focused on data analytics could advance the pharmacy retailer's digital transformation.

By Clint Boulton

CIO Careers IT Jobs

Snap soars on IPO, now what?

Snap began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today and shares soared. The company — now valued at $28.33 billion — has no profits to speak of, so where does it go from here?

By Matt Kapko

Messaging Apps Startups Technology Industry

How older IT pros can crack the ‘hidden job market’

Recent studies are demolishing negative stereotypes about workers over 50. But where do older IT workers find jobs? The 'hidden job market' holds a mother lode of opportunities.

By Donald Burns

Mar 2, 2017 9 mins

Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building

A process with just one page?

In which I think about focusing away from boring process documents into action…

By Joel Pomales

IT Leadership ITSM

Artificial intelligence, the tech revolution and the future of consulting

Consultants will soon need to offer value that exceeds what technology will be able to do on its own.

By Andre Bourque

Artificial Intelligence Careers

Humans and machines: The rise of robo-advisors in the investing world

With robo-advising, institutions can provide automated, algorithm-based portfolio management advice

By Rob Hetherington

Analytics Big Data Financial Services Industry

Understanding Windows 10’s Unified Update Platform

Since UUP was introduced in December, it's gotten faster, more robust and much more stable. By the time the Windows 10 Creators Update comes around, it should indeed be ready for prime time.

By Ed Tittel

Mar 2, 2017 9 mins

Operating Systems Small and Medium Business Windows

Charitable donations made via PayPal may be going astray

Donors who use the PayPal Giving Fund claim in a class action lawsuit that few of their donations reach the proper charity.

By Bill Snyder

Internet Payment Systems Technology Industry

How geospatial analytics can give your business a competitive edge

What happens when you combine geographic information system (GIS) and internet of things/sensor data with data from operations, customers, finance and marketing? You get an unbeatable competitive edge for business.

By Matthew Zenus

Analytics Big Data

The campaign and election of 2016 was unprecedented in so many ways; news reporting and social media has forever changed the way candidates campaign and citizens vote. I think mistrust of the media and the divide between parties is the most noticeabl

By Samantha Leggat

Government Internet Marketing

12 ways bad web design can hurt your online business

Experts in web design and SEO discuss some of the most common u2013 and problematic u2013 mistakes businesses make when creating web or ecommerce sites and what they can do to avoid them.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff

E-commerce Software Retail Industry Web Development

Is the business-IT gap intentional?

IT and business executives must decide whether to transform the way their organizations interact. Maintaining the status quo may feel safe, but itu2019s risky.

By Hakan Altintepe

Business IT Alignment C-Suite CIO

From medical records to Merkle trees with IPFS

Be prepared for the blockchain discussion by improving your knowledge of Merkle trees and Merkle-DAGs. Do you know how they relate to healthcare?

By Peter B. Nichol

Healthcare Industry IT Strategy Innovation

Uber scandal highlights what’s wrong with Silicon Valley

Sexual harassment, discrimination, favoritism, nepotism … and you wonder why women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community don't want to work in tech.

Careers IT Leadership

3 ways to gauge employee engagement and satisfaction

If you're trying to find a way to get honest employee feedback — beyond annual reviews and surveys — start by asking your workers these three questions.

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Leadership Relationship Building

Hopper travel app helps you decipher — or avoid — basic economy airfares

Most business travelers want to avoid basic economy fares at all costs (literally). The Hopper travel search app offers a new feature designed to help you identify the hidden costs of basic economy, or avoid that airfare class altogether.

By James A. Martin

Android Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Facebook criticizes ad industry’s reliance on ‘proxy metrics’

Facebooku2019s operations and finance chiefs praised third-party measurement tools at a Morgan Stanley conference while criticizing the ad industryu2019s myopic view of what should be measured.

By Matt Kapko

Facebook Social Networking Apps Technology Industry

Trump’s executive order travel ban and IT workers

Is there anything tech employers should keep in (or out of) contracts for third-party service providers or temporary tech workers?

By David Adler

Careers H-1B Visas Legal

Edge computing will blow away the cloud

Self-contained devices, such as autonomous vehicles, drones and IoT devices, will push out cloud services as more computing moves to the edge, say venture capitalists.

By Clint Boulton

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry

SaaS is eating the infrastructure world

Itu2019s going to be a bumpy road ahead as companies start to adapt to serverless computing. Hereu2019s a look at what will happen when software eats the infrastructure world.

By Chris Stone

Cloud Computing Data Center SaaS

Lesson from AWS outage: stop putting your eggs in the same basket

Itu2019s a dangerous scenario that the internet is becoming so reliant on a single product by a single vendor. It's time to adopt a multi-cloud strategy.

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Mar 1, 2017 3 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage Open Source

Follow these career roadmaps to 7 hot IT jobs

What skills, education and experience do you need to land some of todayu2019s hottest IT jobs? Find out in this free report from the editors of CIO.com.

By CIO staff

Careers

Apple: Mac users don’t believe Tim Cook’s hype about pro products

Pipeline Tim is at it again, talking up Apple's pro products. But his words ring hollow to many frustrated Mac users. Will Apple ever release updated desktop Macs? Will there ever be a new Mac Pro?rn

By Jim Lynch

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How Trillium Precise enhances customer interaction and satisfaction

The Trillium Precise data-as-a-service product is a data quality and enrichment offering thatu2019s designed to provide single view of your customers enhancing identification, communication and interaction.

By Thor Olavsrud

Big Data CRM Systems Marketing

How unfilled tech jobs impact the U.S. economy

How much are those open IT roles costing the economy and your company? The answer is probably a lot more that you think.

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

4 things you’ll love about Dell’s XPS 13 2-in-1 and 4 you won’t

The Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 offers a fresh design for the enterprise, without sacrificing productivity and functionality. But as a device trying to be two things at once, there are some downsides.

By Sarah K. White

Computers and Peripherals Laptops Tablets

3 ways to transform a carry-on bag into smart luggage

Smart luggage is cool, but it often costs $300 and up u2014 and why buy it if you love your current bag? Instead, add some tracking smarts to your bag with one of these three products.

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Tired of looking at the same old background when you login on your Mac? Hereu2019s how you can customize it with a new image.

By Jim Lynch

Feb 28, 2017 3 mins

Consumer Electronics Enterprise Applications MacOS

Cisco completes live trials of Narrow Band IoT

The Cisco Jasper IoT connectivity platform now supports a standard for Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) designed to help mobile carriers pave the way for an explosion in internet of things devices in areas like smart meters, smart cities, smart

By Thor Olavsrud

Emerging Technology Internet of Things Technology Industry

A tale of two user experiences

The perception of software quality will be forged in the first 90 seconds. Donu2019t let your users experience what I had to go through.

By David Taber

CRM Systems SaaS Software Development

Apple and SAP to release ‘developer-centric’ tools for iOS

As the fruits of a relationship forged last May, Apple and SAP will offer developer tools and training to build iOS apps for the enterprise.

By Matt Kapko

Apple Mobile Development Small and Medium Business

Unlocking the value in patient-generated health data

Harnessing data from a multitude of sources to develop a comprehensive view of patients to drive health outcomes could be coming of age. Hereu2019s how one health system is approaching it. rn

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Big Data Healthcare Industry Wearables

15 unfilled tech jobs that cost the U.S. billions

What's the overall cost of unfilled technology jobs? New research from Glassdoor shows it's in the billions. rn

Careers Developer IT Jobs

Can you say what strategic outcomes your project is targeting?

To make a strategic contribution to the organization, your tech project must be specific about 3 categories of business outcomes.

By Pradeep Henry

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy

Scrum vs. Lean vs. Kanban: Comparing agile project management frameworks

Agile frameworks like Scrum, Lean or Kanban are widely used across many industries. Each has its own focus, features, process, benefits and drawbacks. Here's how to decide which framework work best for your next project.

By Moira Alexander