Remove Applications Remove Course Remove Hardware Remove SAP
article thumbnail

How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.

article thumbnail

What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value. Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process.

Analysis 128
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

IT leaders tackle the high price of talent

CIO Business Intelligence

As the CIO from the BFSI vertical says, “There was a 30% increase in salaries, but it was absorbable as we had already outsourced most applications such as mobile banking and internet banking. Iyer has already outsourced 90% of the company’s IT — everything from the network to the hardware maintenance.

Resources 111
article thumbnail

VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Pat believes that it’s all about the applications, and that enterprise applications are becoming more like consumer applications. He pays particular attention to mission-critical apps on VMware, calling out Oracle, SAP, and others. But what is software-defined storage? First, the control plane must be policy-driven.

Vmware 63
article thumbnail

Righting the vessel

CIO Business Intelligence

“We do not want to deal with distracting things such as IT and cyber security, software and hardware support, VPNs (virtual private networks), backups or on-premise servers,” said YANMAR Marine’s senior vice president of sales Floris Lettinga. That decisiveness helped – and focused executives on the course they needed to take.

SAP 111
article thumbnail

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

I do think that operating systems are important, but they’re important in so far as they compose with everything else that’s part of my life, whether it’s other devices with other operating systems, [or] whether it is clouds that I use, which are powering some of the applications and experiences. We, of course, have a browser.

Windows 80
article thumbnail

Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Tools such as Michael Porter’s five forces model of competition are still applicable, but their value is fading because they are based on the concept of an industry as something static and defined. The idea of a firm’s distinctive competences and strengths of course has been central to business strategy for over a decade now.