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IT talent biggest roadblock to digital transformation
A global study from IDT, conducted in collaboration with SAP, surveyed 81 executives (65 percent of which identified themselves as CIOs) and found that 80 percent of businesses cite digital transformation as a priority. However, according to the report, only 35 percent of respondents said their business actually had a "clearly defined digital transformation strategy."
4 Smart Fan Engagement Initiatives The Green Bay Packers Are Working On Right Now
NFL Teams are not often seen as innovators in the digital space. In most cases, they’re the last people to find out about a technology their fans have been using for years. Most teams see the social writing on the wall but battle against the truth for years, desperately clinging to the traditional shreds of last decades’ communication channels. This is not the case with Green Bay Packers who are tackling several digital and social initiatives at once.
Connectivity is king: The democratization of data | #SparkSummit
Connectivity is the theme of this interview, as Sumit Sarkar, chief data evangelist at Progress, works to enable connectivity in any direction, making it open in what he calls a “democratization of data.”
What, Exactly, Is A Digital Strategy? It Depends Upon Who You Ask
A recent survey, sponsored by Progress, finds digital transformation, where it is occurring, is happening in fits and starts, not as part of any grand sweeping strategies. Most of the 700 decision makers in the survey — which appear to be executives in charge of digital initiatives — say they are still taking incremental steps (75%), rather than having a digital strategy fully rolled out or in production.
7 habits of highly effective developers
Great programmers aren't always the most productive ones, and the developer who gets the everyday jobs done well is much more effective than the one who occasionally reaches dizzying coding heights. And for most employers it's the area under the curve that counts, not the highest point it reaches.
SD Times blog: Telerik mostly blends into Progress
Paul Nashawaty, senior director of product and solutions marketing at Progress, was discussing the new DigitalFactory solutions the company has created to bring a more holistic view to companies across multiple types of development and deployment. Those solutions combine several Progress product lines—DataDirect, Telerik and Modulus among them—into a comprehensive suite.
Progress Launches Development Platform For Digital Transformation Applications
Progress is jumping into the digital transformation arena, launching a new software development toolset that digital agencies and strategic service providers can use to build omni-channel customer engagement applications for their customers.
Companies Hit Road Blocks En Route to Digital Customer Experience Transformation
According to a new global survey (“Are Businesses Really Digitally Transforming or Living in Digital Denial?) from Progress, most marketers freely support and understand the inherent benefits of “going digital,” but the majority of respondents are hitting road blocks.
In The Name of Progress (Software)
For Progress Software chief executive Phil Pead, a corporate rebranding has turned out to be more than presenting a new corporate face to the world. It's also about rallying employees around unifying themes.
Progress creates DigitalFactory solutions
Organizations today understand the need to digitally transform their businesses, as customers do more shopping online and on mobile devices, yet the complexity of this transformation has made many organizations feel like they’re already too late.
Businesses in denial over digital transformation
Businesses have conflicting thoughts when it comes to digital transformation, a new and extensive study by Progress suggests.
Study finds businesses have two years to get digital transformation in the bag, or lose out
Businesses must transform their processes with digital technology to survive - and do it quickly, a new study finds.
More than 700 decision makers surveyed on the current state of digital business– results indicate significant digital denial.
More than half of businesses are in digital denial
New research from apps, data development and integration company Progress shows that 62 percent of respondents believe their business is in denial about the need to transform digitally.
What Will Happen To Digital After Two Years? Look At the Survey Of Progress Software
An interesting survey has been conducted by Progress on the digital living or digital denial. The company did the survey during the first quarter of 2016 by Loudhouse, which is a special research segment of Octopus Group. The survey found that businesses have less than two years to make digital inroads before suffering financial, as well as competitive losses.
How Chatham Financial optimized its big data for better insights
Chatham Financial serves more than 1,600 customers around the world, providing interest rates, FX (forex currency), and commodity hedge and hedge accounting. As a small and medium-sized company (SMB), it must compete with very large enterprises that have magnitudes of greater IT resources and budget. Consequently, Chatham Financial must find a way to optimize its intelligence gathering from big data at the same time that it assures the safety and the security of client data.
Telerik Launches NativeScript 2.0 for App Development With Angular 2
Progress Software's Telerik announces NativeScript 2.0 for native mobile application development with Google's Angular 2 JavaScript framework.
Beware The Chief Digital Officer
The desire for a CDO is likely the manifestation of a larger problem, notably that your chief information officer and your chief marketing officer—and their respective teams—don’t effectively collaborate.
Advanced Data Projects May Be More Common Than Realized
Big data projects are increasingly finding their way into hybrid cloud environments, which suggests that advanced data projects may be significantly on the rise.
