How can we accelerate diversity in the tech sector?

Whenever we think about Silicon Valley, we tend to picture groups of white men in their 30s coming up with the latest tech innovation. Films and TV series about tech reinforce this demographic, with women, Black people or those with disabilities rarely getting to feature. According to analysis of Office for National Statistics figures by the British Computer Society, women accounted for just 17% of IT specialists in the UK in 2019, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic workers 18%. Just 11% of IT specialists are reported to have a disability, and under a quarter (22%) over the age of 50.

The technologies set to boost the finance sector in 2022

With every sector taking a knock these past two years, many businesses have struggled to regain any momentum they had achieved before the pandemic took hold. The finance and banking sector in particular has faced unprecedented challenges, with a 1,318% year-on-year increase in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021, causing many businesses to focus on survival rather than growth.

Three Tips for Intrusion Prevention with Managed File Transfer

With some organizations furloughing their cybersecurity teams during the pandemic, it’s clear that each business places cybersecurity somewhere different on the scale of importance. Security is an intrinsic aspect of any managed file transfer (MFT) solution. And organizations which are new to this must be aware of the various security options in order to make an informed choice. At the other end of the scale, some MFT users are paranoid about security, so it’s important to know that MFT is not a one-size-fits-all feature.

Demystifying Grids For Developers and Designers

Designers and developers each have their own individual definition and use of grids, making the concept a relatively nebulous and unclear concept to all. To some, grids could mean layout and structure, while to others grids refer to interactive tables that manage data. Understanding the target audience is key here because there might not be a universally understandable direction which can lead designers to be misguided during the cross-collaboration process. When given the time, developers and designers can fully evaluate the user story and create a thoughtful user experience together through the use of grids. But first, we need to find common ground to work from.

Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: Dr Shirley Knowles of Progress Software On The 5 Leadership Lessons She Learned From Her Experience

The 5 leadership lessons I’ve learned from my experience as a woman in STEM and further a woman in a predominantly male-dominated industry are the following: representation matters, leading with empathy, organizations need to sponsor non-profit organizations, authenticity is pivotal, and evolving the meaning behind leader positions. I hope some of these lessons will look unfamiliar to the untrained eye. It’s become easy to suggest common life lessons such as strategic development and fostering innovation — it’s time we approach leadership from a new perspective.

5 Strategies Leaders Can Follow To Set Effective Goals For The New Year

The key to hands-on leading with empathy is building a foundation of trust rooted in assessing everyone's level of capabilities and committing a degree of accountability across the organization

What can be done about ‘The Great Resignation’?

Since the summer of this year, the UK employment sector has been hit by a new phenomenon called ‘The Great Resignation’, in which all industries are seeing staff leave, or plan to leave, their jobs in large numbers. In fact, a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed that 38% of employees are planning to quit in the next six months to a year.

“Recruitment starts with retention”: navigating the Great Resignation

Business Reporter talks to seven human resources experts about how organizations can ease their employees back into work and avoid mass resignations as life gets back to normal.

Tips to address the most common cyber security mistakes to get ready for 2022

There is no doubt that the pandemic has catapulted cyber threats at the top of organizations' business risks list. 

Almost 75 per cent of Australian businesses experienced as many as ten cyber incidents or breaches over the last year – the ACSC saw a 13 per cent increase in the cyber incidents reported.

Customer experience in 2022: What do the experts predict?

What is in store for CX and UX in 2022?

We’ve had some clues in 2021 – sustainability, inclusion, privacy, user-centricity, video, automation, empathy and trust. How will these play out in customer experience over the next 12 months?

SD Times news digest: Progress announces Fiddler Everywhere 3.0

Progress recently unveiled the newest release of its web debugging tool, Progress Fiddler Everywhere. With this, users gain support for HTTP/2, a revision of the HTTP network protocol. 

Network Monitoring Trends for 2022

Global networks and network users are spreading farther and more densely across the globe, and the enterprise network monitoring market is working hard to catch up and protect these new networking scenarios. 

Read on to learn about some of the top network monitoring trends and how they’re impacting network infrastructures, cybersecurity, and user experience (UX).

2022 DevOps Predictions

Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2022

The Rise of India’s Tier-2 & Tier-3 Tech Talent

In an exclusive interview with All Things Talent, Srikanth Reddy, Manager, Talent Acquisition, Progress, talks about women empowerment initiatives at Progress, how remote hiring has opened up opportunities for both employees and employers, and the emergence of tier-2 and tier-3 cities as future tech talent hubs.

{FDI watch: Progress} Expanding in India to tap into Indian IT talent to build global products

This 40-year-old US listed IT company is expanding its business in India putting up new offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru and is actively hiring DevOps engineers from India for global business.

Indian IT has been transforming the country for decades now and continues to do so in areas like DevOps, cloud, digital transformation. India is expected to have a digital economy of US$1 trillion by 2025, which means digital is expected to have about 20% contribution to the economy.

Three considerations when upgrading network monitoring system

The work-from-home phenomenon is here to stay. Many existing staff prefer to work remotely and when they need new hires, organizations can add headcount from anywhere in the world. This has led companies in every sector to look again at the effectiveness of their tech stack.

In Southeast Asia, just 15% of respondents to a survey by EY said they would prefer to work from the office full-time. Working remotely full-time and having hybrid work arrangements scored 29% and 23% respectively.

In-built infrastructure security advantage with policy as code

It is impossible to discuss where DevOps trends are heading without mentioning policy as code, the writing of code in a high-level language to manage and automate policies in the developmental process.

In an ever-evolving regulatory landscape, organizations simply don’t have the right technology or resources to scale their security and compliance efforts. Policy as code provides the much-needed agility to address regulations or standards as they emerge. This means that new compliance checks can easily be programmed and shared with the community, allowing both organizational and industry collaboration.

Belonging: Your cure for the great resignation

With the Great Resignation in full swing, many employers are in panic mode. Each is trying to solve the major retention issues that are rocking the job market. Better pay and elevated titles aren’t enough to reduce attrition. What employers are missing is a crucial third factor: whether employees feel like they are included and belong at their organizations.

Choosing the right DXP to optimise your digital experiences

With all the lessons brands have learned during the pandemic, as digital leaders plan for 2022, digital experience couldn’t be higher up the agenda. Organisations need to take advantage of the right tools and technology to engage with customers the way they want to be interacted with. This means investing in the right blend of human expertise and technology innovation for the optimal customer experience.

Is Progress' Newest Sitefinity DX 14.0 Release an Attractive DXP Option?

With a global pandemic that has compelled organizations to adopt a cyber-first approach to product and service offerings, digital experience platform (DXP) vendors have been hard-pressed to respond by defining and delivering streamlined, innovative solutions to meet the demands. While some have been left scrambling to reinvent themselves to avoid fading into the shadows, most DXP vendors have adapted to match the accelerated pace of technological evolution.