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…

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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…

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In an ornate hall in the Philadelphia State House in 1787, a few dozen men drafted the US constitution. For four months, they debated and revised the document until they had something they could generally agree on. Today, they wouldn’t even have to leave their homes. A new site could let any diplomats-to-be work on drafting a new constitution in real time over the web. Constitute is a repository of all the world’s constitutions, run by the Comparative Constitutions Project, and funded by Google Ideas and the Indigo Trust—a British…

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By now, nearly every CIO must appreciate how mobility and bring your own device adoption is ultimately good for their organizations, especially when it comes to increased employee productivity. For starters, employees in the field complete mission-critical tasks in real-time; they no longer gather information in one place, and then return to an office to transcribe what they learned on the road. Because workers are constantly connected, they’re always able to communicate, and are more likely to keep working even during off-hours. (Of course, this can be a good and a bad…

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We’re all consumers in one way or another. So how can we redefine the way we do business?  It’s all about mobile: self-service, information on-the-go and the convenience to access information where and when we need it. Mobile has changed expectations of consumers today. So what do consumers expect today in terms of mobile?  They expect real-time responses and want to quickly remove bottlenecks to provide accurate and fast service capturing information at the point where it originates, and to deliver this information to enterprise applications for processing to accelerate…

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Rackspace is going to stop distinguishing between the money it makes from public cloud and what it derives from “dedicated” cloud, a category that encompasses a bunch of options. Rackspace President Taylor Rhodes                                                         Credit: Rackspace Well that’s one way to sidestep the whole “is private cloud dead?” debate. The move may show a fanatical obsession on managed cloud or indicate that Rackspace is giving up on public cloud where leader, Amazon Web…

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