How to deliver a quality cloud communication? Most businesses today are using some sort of cloud platform. Some studies indicate that “by 2020, 80% of large enterprises will have migrated communications and collaboration infrastructure to cloud architecture, whether UCaaS, private or a hybrid cloud, up from 35% in 2016”.

Cloud communications is an entirely new way to build, deploy, and scale enterprise communications systems. It offers users with an array of sophisticated features such as edge traffic shaping, lower…

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Algorithmic Government: A better future or a new digital big brother? Governments are working earnestly in the direction of transitioning into the digital world. This is in response to the steadily improving citizen usage and satisfaction with online government services. As per a survey by BCG, 25% of the citizens in developed countries and 45% of the citizens in developing countries use digital government services more than once a week.

Going digital today is no more a “nice to have” feature for any organization that means business. Rather, it’s a “must have” attribute, because of the time-effective, cost-friendly, and high…

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New kid on the block – IGA In today's highly connected IT environment, it is becoming increasingly difficult for organizations to manage large numbers of users with different access requirements across many different applications, platforms, and operating systems.

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) is a new methodology that helps an organization with proliferating user account repositories and coordinating the management of granting access with privileges across repositories. Let’s…

Technology
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What should CDOs do with the value of connections? In our previous blog, we described the terms: value of connections and value of information. The value of connections allows us to analyze the data generated from connected things, devices, and organizations to draw out significant business plans and strategies.

A real world example is that of Uber. The business of Uber solely runs on the network of connections. The service is dependent on, among other things, the quality of…

Big Data
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Smart cities need open data governance As the vision of creating a smart city using IoT and integrated communication technology has turned into reality, the access to meaningful data or open data has become a core demand. This meaningful data is the key to smart city development. Access to meaningful data will provide the people of smart cities with a citizen-specific and contextualized service environment.

Cities can use an open data framework to tailor it to their specific needs. This can be a city’s infrastructure expansion, making policies or determining the investment levels for technology…

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Kickstart your data integration initiative Companies are bombarded with a huge amount of data such as text, figures, images, video, etc. streaming in from multiple channels like feeds, email, and Twitter at a non-stop pace. Information is now pouring in from all fronts, and it all needs to be analyzed, categorized and properly integrated.

The discipline of data integration comprises the practices, architectural techniques, and tools that ingest, transform, and combine data from several platforms within the enterprise and beyond. Gartner estimates that revenue…

Big Data
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