Samuel Greengard

Today’s business and IT environment serves up a mind-boggling array of challenges. But, increasingly, at the center of everything lies data governance. According to a Deloitte survey conducted in 2014, only one-half of respondents had a high degree of confidence in the metrics they use to track data, and 18 percent weren’t confident that their […]

These days, there’s a certain Alfred E. Neuman (“What, me worry?”) element to enterprise security. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, nothing ever seemed to fluster the odd and entirely disturbing character from Mad magazine. Unfortunately, most enterprises and many of their leaders seem to live in a permanent state of Neumanistic thinking. […]

While digital technologies have unlocked enormous productivity gains and helped businesses boost the bottom line, there’s also a growing risk of significant data loss. Recent media focus on the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and ongoing coverage about cyber-attacks and state-sponsored cyber-wars masks a critical issue: Cyber-attacks do not register on a list of primary reasons […]

One of the biggest challenges for many businesses is keeping a Website operating smoothly during major fluctuations in traffic. Lagging performance can translate into disgruntled customers and lost business. At BARBRI, a leading provider of live and online bar exam review courses, Website performance rates as critical. “We have two periods during the year when […]

The lingering effects of the Great Recession have been both a blessing and a curse to CIOs. On one hand, a wheezing economy has made it a lot easier to hold down wages and, in some cases, get IT talent for less. On the other hand, the environment has put a lid on budgets and […]

A few years ago, mobility consisted mostly of voice calls on flip phones and laptops equipped with modems or Ethernet cables. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad three years later, it radically changed the stakes. Suddenly, a robust platform that supported data and apps existed. Today, no CIO would dismiss mobility. […]

The digital age has introduced a growing need to tap into data and drive decision making on a real-time basis. Organizations that succeed gain a competitive edge through improved operational efficiency, lower costs and improved profitability. A recently released brief from EY, “Why an Integrated Platform Is the Key to Real-time Insights,” notes that the […]

For schools, managing student health data is a tedious and time-consuming task. As a result, some institutions outsource the function. But that introduces other challenges, including gaining on-demand access to crucial data and reports. At CareFlow Student Health Records, a West Chester, Pa., firm that manages electronic health records and provides reporting services for private […]

While information technology introduces opportunities to achieve enormous efficiency and cost gains, it also creates a level of disruption that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago. Barcode readers built into smartphones are a perfect example. They, along with easily available information about products and pricing via the Internet, have introduced showrooming—which has fundamentally […]

Over the last decade, CIOs have faced growing challenges related to managing enterprise information technology and ensuring that systems deliver maximum results and ROI. At the center of this complex equation: IT metrics. The ability to gauge costs, speed, efficiency, performance and overall productivity is critical. Here are five factors that CIOs should focus on: […]

One of the problems of modern commerce is how incompletely most companies integrate business activities across conventional and digital channels. The public Internet is now about two decades old, and smartphones have been around for nearly a decade. Yet, it’s difficult to get a consistent and highly connected experience in both stores and on Websites, […]

The recent Sony Pictures Entertainment hack is like witnessing a slow-motion train wreck Hollywood style. Obviously, Sony’s IT systems weren’t secure enough. However, there’s a bigger problem than Sony and its leaked documents and emails rife with celebrity drama. Forget execs mocking Angelina Jolie and reports of unequal pay for men and women. Forget the […]