AS9100 & the Supply Chain By Michael Deitrick, Director Of Quality, Sonfarrel Aerospace LLC - After just completing two consecutive AS9100D re-certification audits as the Director of Quality at Sonfarrel Aerospace, I have...

Innovative Enterprise Architecture By Falk Rieker, Global Head of Banking Business Unit, SAP - SAP Banking Solutions A critical priority for the CIO of any banking insitution is toestablish an enterprise architecture...

A Global Approach to Digital Manufacturing By Paolo Avagliano, Head of Digital Platform - NAFTA, Comau - Comau, a member of the FCA Group, is a worldwide leader in delivering advanced industrial automation products and systems....

Using Collaboration for Insightful Business By Kevin McCarron, Vice President Collaboration, Carousel Industries - Currently serving as the Vice President Collaboration at Carousel Industries, Kevin McCarron has two decades of illustrious...

The Biggest Challenge to Effective Data Visualizations By Kevin Loudermilk, Director, Auto Data, USAA - Executives, your company's infrastructure is not the most significant challenge impacting your data visualization program....

What Happened to My Spreadsheet? By Kevin Loudermilk, Director, Data Visualization, USAA - Data visualization. It’s a phrase heard more and more within the analytical community to describe a new, radical way...

Dynamics: Coordinating Business Functions By Mark Poling, Co-Founder and CEO, Colibrium - Facilitating Customer Engagement for Health Insurers HGS Colibrium, provides Tuo® 360, a Dynamics CRM overlay...

CIO Driven Collaboration By John Miller, VP-IT, American Textile Company - We IT professionals are in a unique situation. Sometimes, we fill the role of “Lightening Rod of Hate”. After all,...

Leveraging on Microsoft to Take Diligent Decisions By Harsh Sood, CTO, Fareportal - Fareportal is currently the fastest-growing online travel brand. As a world’s leading online travel company, we are able...

How Automation is Transforming Field ServiceSupport By John Manasso, General Manager, IBM Technology Support Services, North America - As enterprises around the world continue to shift the way they select, deploy, and manage technology for their clients and...

Preventive security for data protection By Nelson Moe, CIO, Commonwealth of Virginia - You can take steps to protect the information, the best you can. You can make the effort to get to the information so hard that...

The Point of Digital Signage By Wayne Rasor, Director of Digital & Exterior Technology, FASTSIGNS International Inc. - With the mass of information and data out there, sometimes it helps to just “get to the point!” Digital Signage...

Embracing the Mundane By Steve Madsen, CTO and Co-Founder, TERSUS Solutions - I was recently asked by a soon to be entrepreneur where the best opportunities in the technology business lie. I told her to...

How to Deliver SAP in Half the Time and at Half the Costs. By Dmitriy Gerzon, Director, SAP Architect - ERP is dead -long live ERP! Focus is the key of any strategy. When you focus you concentrate your resources on things that...

Making Workflow Work By Darren Wright, Consulting Principal – Team Leader, Leonardo Consulting - The appeal of modern workflow systems is obvious: through automating processes, organizations can make savings and increase...

Azure and Jet - Awesome Much? By Mike Hanrahan, Cofounder & CTO, Jet.Com - How ecommerce wunderkind Jet.com has fared using Azure for the last 18 months. As one of the most awesome companies in the...

Is Data Visualization a Joke? By Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer, International Institute for Analytics - “Data visualizations are like jokes.”I initially heard this claim made by a speaker at a conference. While...

SMAC: The Acronym That is Revolutionizing the Industry By Jack Clare, CIO, Dunkin Brands - Social media is today understood as another marketing channel and medium, and the Cloud is really the opportunity to buy...

Money Ball Retailing By Peter Charness, SVP America's & Global CMO, TXT e-solutions [MI-TXT] - Great Assortments have to please at least 2 distinct groups. In first place, of course, are the customers who want exactly...

Are You Analyzing the Right Data? By Stephen Baker, CEO, Attivio - A couple of years ago, I ran across a blog post that observed, “Big Data does not necessarily mean Good Data. If data is...

Building a Texas-Sized Call Center Model For Our Customers By Elena Ford, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Ford Motor Company - One of our goals at Ford Motor Company over the last year has been to put customers at the center of every decision we make....

Planning a Rigorous Project Management Approach By Mike Maiolo, CEO, Vesta Partners - As CEO of Vesta Partners, I have had the pleasure of leading an international SAP services firm that focuses on the Enterprise...

Refining a QMS with Technology By Dayna Nicholas, Director of Quality & Regulatory Affairs Manager, Land O' Frost - Quality Management Systems (QMS) have been the mainstay for Quality department professionals since the Industrial Revolution....

Data Visualization Made Better By Balaji Ramanujam, CIO and SVP for Products, ASI Government - Challenges in Technology While I see data sets everywhere, I don’t see them connected to or aligned with an...

Machine Learning is Not the Future- It's Here! By Cecilia Pizzurro, Senior Director of Data Science, SolarWinds - As with every New Year, the annual tradition of predicting that year’s technology trends is as eagerly anticipated as the...

Cybersecurity and Responsibility in the Organization By Robert McFarlane, Chief Revenue Officer, Mosaic451 - Data breaches are frequently followed by executive turnover and, increasingly, class-action lawsuits. Should the CISO reporting...

Stitching Together a Digital World By Dan Cantrell, North Central Territory Manager, Zund America, Inc. - Textile and Apparel are very interesting topics as of late. Whether it be draperies, pillows, apparel, sport uniforms, life...

Safeguarding Data Integrity with People, Process, and Technology By Mark Stevens, Operations Director, Formpipe Life Science - Data integrity refers to maintaining the accuracy and consistency of data over its entire life cycle. From creation, deletion...

More than a Year After Dyn, Businesses are Still Vulnerable By Ron Winward, Security Evangelist, Radware - The Dyn attack, one of the largest DDoS attacks ever seen, is back in the headlines after the three culprits pleaded guilty to...

Cybersecurity Today, 2020 and Beyond By Rizwan Hafeez, Managing Director, Information Technology, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association - Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and software programs from digital attacks. These...

3 Ways to Prove ROI in SAP Security By Markus Schumacher, CEO, Virtual Forge - For years, CIOs have focused on risk management as a key selling point for validating their budgets to the rest of the C-suite....

The Era of Frictionless Mobility By Dr. Derek Peterson, Chief Technology Officer, Boingo Wireless [NASDAQ: WIFI] - Today, the rising need for digital transformation is driving businesses to deploy new-age mobility solutions that can establish...

The Advent of Data Visualization Technology By Scott Briden, VP,Citizens Bank - Spreadsheets have been in use for over 100 years. Now obviously not the modern-day electronic spreadsheet that we know of today...

A Sunny Outlook for Solar Tech By Michael Ferguson, Director, Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings - As environmental appeal and regulatory support grow, technology improves, and costs decrease, solar energy is becoming...

How to Make the Most of your CDP Digitally By Lisa Siemaszko, Director of CRM & Email Marketing, Clark International Limited - Lisa Siemaszko is an experienced director of Customer Relationship Management with a demonstrated history of working in the...

IOT: Not Just Smarter, But Safer By Carol Fawcett, Chief Information Officer, Golden State Foods - No one will dispute that technologies associated with Internet of things (IoT) have infiltrated every aspect of our...

5 B2B Marketing Automation Tips By Josh Astete, Vice President of Digital Marketing, MicroD - For both large and small companies, getting leads and converting them into prospects is vital for growth. Traditional...

AI is a Litigation Force Multiplier By Martha Louks, Director of Technology Services - McDermott Discovery, McDermott Will & Emery LLP - In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or machine learning, has been incorporated into an increasing number of...

2020: The Year of Wireless By Steven McWilliams, Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Georgia Hospital Association - As I’m sure you know, technology is constantly evolving. It seems that, as soon as the latest cutting-edge solution is...

Digital Roadways By Jen Winter, P.E., Public Works Director, City of Cedar Rapids - Technology has come a long way in the fight against pavement decay. While field checks and on-site inspections will still play...

Everyone is Accountable for Customer Engagement - including IT By Matt Matsui, Senior Vice President of Products, Markets and Organizational Strategy, Calabrio - The departments within a company don’t always speak the same language—try having a conversation with someone...

High Efficiency Defect Removal for Software Projects By By Capers Jones, VP and CTO, Namcook Analytics LLC - Software quality depends upon two important variables. The first variable is that of “defect potentials” or the sum...

Make you Smart Solution Work for your Community By Tom Mullen, Chief Data Officer, County of Riverside - For instance, if we are asked to help improve mobility, we can respond with solutions such as congestion management systems...