The role of CIOs is increasingly changing as the business technology undergoes a major shift, making them face a difficult task of incorporating new technology while still retaining ethical standards of the healthcare industry. Below are some of the major challenges faced by CIOs in their efforts of...
Bob Gourley We should all collectively thank Mary Meeker for her continued efforts in helping capture key trends in our interconnected technology. Her yearly report on the state of the Internet (available at Internet Trends Report and embedded below) provides context relevant to just about every e...
Bob Gourley The threat of ransomware is hitting every sector of the economy. But the biggest, most dangerous and disastrous attacks have been occurring in the more lightly defended parts of industry and government. Healthcare has been especially hard hit. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv...
By Charles Hall CPPIB, Canada’s largest pension fund, teamed with Permira, a European private equity group, to acquire Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), the US data software and services company, in the largest leveraged buyout so far this year. The companies will pay $48.75 per share in cash to p...
By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: It has been a real pleasure to be able to work with Matt Southmayd at Cognitio. The press release below captures some of what he brings to our organization, our clients and the business community. – bg Matt Southmayd Named Vice President Commercial Markets f...
By Bob Gourley If you are an enterprise technologist you are bombarded with requests to participate in technology events. Some of these events are great! They can be fantastic ways to learn from peers, to give back to the community and share lessons learned. Others are unfocused, sub-optimized and a...
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The annual C5ISR Summit in Charleston, SC turned out a record number of attendees (over 1200) this year. While many Defense Contractors are finding it hard to make money from this market, in part due to the reducing DoD Budget, SPAWAR System Center Atlantic’s scale-back of Non-Navy Work, and a loc...