Exploring the next wave of blockchain innovation
The first thing that comes to mind when we talk about blockchain, is Bitcoin. Blockchain has been stereotyped or correlated with Bitcoin and crypto currencies even though its applications lies far beyond, with high potential in auditing, healthcare, business and even cloud computing. The technology has come a long way since its inception and is now being adopted by... By Karthik Ramarao
M&M CIO VS Parthasarathy is president, Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry
V S Parthasarathy, Group CFO, Group CIO and Member of Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd has taken over as president of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). Parthasarathy unveiled a mission statement under which the BCCI’s primary focus will be “Corporates for Change” – to promote sustainable social, economic, financial and environmental initiatives, and projects... By CIO & Leader
Very few privacy executives confident about adapting to new regulations: Gartner
Adapting to an increasingly volatile regulatory environment is the top priority for privacy executives, with only approximately four in 10 confident in their current abilities to keep pace with new requirements, according to Gartner. Conversations with Gartner clients and Gartner’s annual survey data reveals where data privacy executives plan to focus their strategies and budgets for 2019. Their... By CIO&Leader
Global CRM software market rises in 2018: Gartner
Worldwide spending on customer experience and relationship management (CRM) software grew 15.6% to reach USD 48.2 billion in 2018, according to Gartner. CRM remains both the largest and the fastest growing enterprise application software category. Worldwide enterprise application software revenue totaled more than USD 193.6 billion in 2018, a 12.5% increase from 2017 revenue of $... By CIO&Leader
Business email compromise – when defying an ‘executive’ is the right thing to do
Email security is a top-of-mind concern for many organizations, with business email compromise (BEC) gaining prominence as one of the lethal tactics adopted by cybercriminals to attack enterprises. Law enforcement agencies worldwide have been keeping a close watch on BEC scams as a result of the increasing losses year on year. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), BEC has... By Nilesh Jain
BullSequana S800 becomes the highest performing server on the market world wide for SAP HANA with record benchmark result
Atos, global leader in digital transformation, today sets a world-record with its BullSequana S800 which has become the highest-performing server on the market for use in SAP environments, as measured in the latest SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark test (version 3), published 22 May. The BullSequana 800 server from Atos, equipped with second-generation Intel Xeon... By CIO&Leader
Automation Anywhere ties up with Microsoft to advance intelligent automation
Automation Anywhere, a global leader in robotic process automation (RPA), today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft that will help thousands of enterprises of all sizes across multiple industries improve business processes through automation. Customers will now be able to access Automation Anywhere bots from Microsoft Azure to help manage large, unstructured datasets, decrease... By CIO&Leader
Data-centric security in the era of data protection and privacy journey
Data is key to any organization. Every organization has data which is vital for their organizational growth. Most organizations build security around structured data which is mostly stored in the Database. But typically, more than 80% data are unstructured. Organizations need to protect the data from unauthorized access not only from external users but also from internal users. Data-centric... By Prakash Kumar Ranjan
NEXT100 Winner among ‘Women Leaders in AI’
NEXT100 2013 award winner Seema Gaur, Executive VP & Head - IT, IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Company, India has been selected as one of the “Women Leaders in AI” by IBM. The only other honoree from India is Harmeen Mehta, Chief Information Officer & Head - Cloud and Security Business, Bharti Airtel. This is as per the list of global women leaders and pioneers... By ITNEXT
DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance selects Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider
DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider and will move the majority of its applications and over 70 terabytes of systems data across policy generation, agent management, mobile, website, and other customer engagement applications to AWS. By moving from multiple managed hosting datacenters to AWS, DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance expects to... By CIO&Leader
Majority of healthcare professionals concerned about IoT security: Study
Healthcare professionals are mostly concerned about the risks associated with Internet of Things (IoT), medical devices, third-party vendors, and program development/management, according to CynergisTek’s CAPP Conference Survey. The survey was administered to attendees of the company’s first inaugural CAPP Community Conference: Cybersecurity 2019 this past May, which focused on tackling... By CIO&Leader