Author: enews

 Telenor Group is launching a company-wide retail roaming initiative in a move to eliminate high and unpredictable costs for data-hungry consumers using mobile services while abroad. The company will gradually introduce roaming initiatives across the group, starting with Europe in 2015. (Fornebu/Barcelona – 3 March 2015) –“We want to encourage our customers to use data services wherever they are when on international travels.  There shouldn’t be any reason for Telenor subscribers not to use mobile data services also when they are abroad,” says Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO of…

Businesses are becoming increasingly tech-led and innovation is being hailed as the fuel for Europe’s next growth spurt. The pace of innovation is dictating whether firms win or lose as they transform into digital businesses. Forward-thinking companies are recognising the importance of diversity in driving their creative and operational processes. It might be tempting to create teams of like-minded employees, with similar ages, education and experiences, but without diversity, the team will be missing out on new ideas and efficiency. Diversity sparks innovation. By bringing together people from different cultural…

“The Third Platform” – Big Data, cloud computing, mobile, and social – is having a tremendous positive impact on government and citizens alike. Analyzing trends in real time, and capturing all data sources where they originate is game changing. This past fall at the EMC Federal Summit, Federal leaders gathered to discuss how to “Redefine Federal IT.” In my morning keynote, I looked at how to utilize the third platform in the rapidly changing IT environment. Here are some takeaways: According to the recent IDC Digital Universe study, the digital universe is enormous…

With the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit kicking off in Las Vegas, March 30 – April 1, we asked Kurt Schlegel, research vice president at Gartner and conference chair, to share his views on the outlook for the business intelligence (BI) market and the key trends that will be discussed at the Summit this year. Q: What are the key areas in BI that CIOs should focus on in 2015 and why? A: Putting the right team together. CIOs need to make sure there is a cross functional team of technical and…

Connected devices are changing the workplace. Organizations must adapt to support the evolution of mobility. The explosive growth of connected mobile devices is in no way slowing down, and neither are the network speeds users will demand to support these devices. In recent years, the conversation around mobility and the workplace has revolved around the influx of smartphones and tablets and an organization’s ability to support employee-owned devices to enable a new way of working. However, with the new wave of high-speed mobile devices coming quickly online and into workplaces, a new…