As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to reshape the digital landscape, CIOs and IT leaders are at a pivotal point, tasked with navigating the profound opportunities and challenges this disruptive technology presents, a new report from Info-Tech Research Group concludes. To help guide CIOs who wish to take advantage of what the technology can offer, […]
Data analytics developments, including AI-powered analytics, that we’ll see in 2024 offer significant benefits for expanding our knowledge and making better data-driven decisions. Data analytics examines, cleans, transforms, and interprets data to uncover valuable insights to advance the organization’s business plan. Data analytics is a technology that has become more capable during many years of […]
Data analytics developments, including AI-powered analytics, that we’ll see in 2024 offer significant benefits for expanding our knowledge and making better data-driven decisions. Data analytics examines, cleans, transforms, and interprets data to uncover valuable insights to advance the organization’s business plan. Data analytics is a technology that has become more capable during many years of […]
This is the first part of a multi-part series that will hopefully get you thinking about how to better leverage your own data. There is no shortage of pressure facing the banking world today. You have customers expecting personalization and innovation, talent is getting more expensive, and technical debt is rising. Add to that the […]
Eventually, the demands of successful Microsoft Excel applications outgrow the software’s capabilities. From a business perspective, you can recognize the need to replace the Excel workbook with a more formal application if the workbook has become an essential step in your daily, weekly, or monthly production cycle. Even though Excel is a wonderfully productive tool, […]
Eventually, the demands of successful Microsoft Excel applications outgrow the capabilities of the software. From a business perspective, you can recognize the need to upgrade the Excel workbook for improved reliability if the workbook has become an essential step in your daily, weekly or monthly production cycle. Even though Excel is a wonderfully productive tool, […]
A recent survey conducted by CDW Canada sheds light on the challenges that hybrid workers are grappling with in the realm of the digital workspace, highlighting the impact of IT issues on their productivity. The survey disclosed that 83 per cent of hybrid workers are losing hours to troubleshooting technology woes when they are working […]
ARMA International and The Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance (RIMPA Global), have jointly announced the establishment of the Global Information Consortium (GIC), tasked to become the voice of the information management profession. Both ARMA International and RIMPA Global work to promote best practices for professionals who manage and govern information assets. The GIC, the […]
If your IT department builds a data lakehouse, will business end-users come? Unfortunately, some CIOs forget they’re not working with Kevin Costner on a sequel to the Field of Dreams movie. Instead, they are sucked into sponsoring an enterprise data lakehouse project by their IT staff. A data lakehouse combines the low operating cost of […]
While data governance and regulation continue to become a growing concern, with discussions around how data is collected by platforms and corporations to ensure personal information isn’t misused, conversations surrounding regulating big data in agriculture remain minimal. In a panel hosted by the AI + Society Initiative, Dr. Kelly Bronson, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Sarah-Louise […]
Bissell Centre, an Edmonton-based social agency that offers services to people experiencing poverty and homelessness, is using analytics to understand its clients. The centre offers more than 20 programs to try and tackle poverty problems within communities, said Maria Savidov, manager, analysis & evaluation. “[We offer] anything from housing programs or employment programs, we’ve got […]
Last week at Technicity GTA, ITWC chief information officer Jim Love was joined by Nicole Cooper, the director of legislative and information services/clerk of the City of Ajax, to discuss ways to make data visual and useful for people to use. As open data gained traction 8-10 years ago, the City of Ajax, like many […]
Technology services and consulting company Wipro Limited Canada yesterday opened its newest Wipro-AWS Launch Pad Centre in Toronto, which the company said will allow its clients to experience the “art of the possible” in digital transformation. The centre, similar to locations in Bangalore, where Wipro, which operates in 66 countries, is headquartered, Sydney, and Sao […]
When Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) education workers walked off the job for two days on Nov. 4 and Nov. 7, Peter Singh, executive officer of IT Services at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), was asked by a superior on the first day of strike action for the following: An app that would […]
The pandemic showcased just how supply chain disruptions can bring industries to their knees. And even today, the push to fully restore the chain is far from over. In the meantime, Microsoft has announced the Supply Chain Platform and the Supply Chain Center to at least make managing it a little bit easier. The Supply […]
The recent release of key recommendations from a group of cyber security experts will form the cornerstone of the Ontario government’s security policies and help in the creation of a four-year strategic plan, the province’s chief information security officer (CISO) Rhonda Bunn said today. First formed in October 2020, the 10-member expert panel committed to providing […]
Canada’s small and medium sized businesses are more concerned than ever about being hit by a cyberattack on their businesses, and at last month’s MapleSEC conference, two executives with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and consultant Yogi Schulz outlined in separate sessions what is and can be done to help. The sad truth, […]
A revered cryptography pioneer has warned that anyone involved in securing systems must take quantum computing seriously, for it is not going to fade into the night any time soon. Dr. Whitfield Diffie, known for his co-invention of public key cryptography and digital signatures, and as the winner of the 2015 Turing Award, considered by […]
Schneider Electric last week launched a set of software, hardware and services offerings it said are designed to help businesses, industry and infrastructure providers navigate the energy and climate crises through increased electrification and digitalization (Electricity 4.0). They were unveiled at the Innovation Summit World Tour, the company’s annual customer and partner event, which continues […]
Salesforce today announced the general availability of the Genie customer data platform (CDP), a high-speed, hyperscalar data lake infrastructure to bring real-time insights from different systems to the Salesforce Customer 360 platform. The key word here is real-time. Sales reps now demand up-to-the-second insights from their customer relationship management software so they can act on […]
The case of a software giant selling personal data to a third party is troubling, Iris Akwetey, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research said today. Akwetey was responding to news of a class action lawsuit filed last Friday against Oracle Corp., which stated that the company has detailed personal information on the buying habits of […]
Google will be making changes to its search engine rankings to promote original content over purely search engine optimized articles that fail to inform and clickbait. Google dominates the search engine market; according to Statista, it accounted for 83.84 per cent of the global search engine market share in July 2022, dwarfing the runner-up, Bing, […]
Cybersecurity experts at VPNOverview.com, which is headquartered in The Netherlands, recently took on a unique research assignment: Given the fact that many of us are guilty of downloading face-transforming apps, just how safe is a person’s data in the hands of these apps. In order to find what they were looking for, the privacy policies […]
Saturday July 16th Welcome to Hashtag Trending – the weekend Edition, where we bring you an in-depth interview with an expert on topics relevant to today’s news. I’m Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, publishers or IT World Canada and Canadian CIO We might think we know all about data and analytics and how it affects […]
