OpenTelemetry and its positive impact on IT departments

By Gregg Ostrowski, Executive CTO, Cisco AppDynamics Today, OpenTelemetry offers more flexibility for enterprises of all sizes to have greater visibility into performance and availability by providing control of every technical element of their IT environment. This has proven to be a crucial factor for business growth by enabling the collection of data from distributed […]

Breaking down silos: Combine legacy and modern data sets for successful data transformation

By Steven Karan, Vice President of Insights & Data, Capgemini Canada Data is the key to unlocking business insights, and organizations looking to remain competitive in the market must master the art of data strategy. Despite this need, most modern enterprises struggle with where to start – and how to make data transformation a financially […]

Future-proofing Canadian business success in the anywhere economy  

by Andrew Eppich, Managing Director, Equinix Canada Despite the anticipated economic headwinds that threaten business growth, Canadian businesses and IT decision-makers are embracing the surging “anywhere economy” by investing in digital infrastructure to help deliver on the increasing expectations of anything, anytime, anywhere. To further understand the sentiments of IT decision-makers as they continue to navigate the anywhere economy, the most recent Equinix Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS) sought out opinions on technology trends that will enable […]

Three Ways Corporate Leaders Can Step Up Climate Action 

by Adrian Thomas, Canada Country President, Schneider Electric We recognize the global signals of climate change: rising sea levels, extreme temperatures, wildfires and floods. With these impacts becoming more persistent, when will we collectively accept the current state of climate change is a crisis that we must resolve now?  Canada has pledged commitments to cut greenhouse gas […]

What does digital transformation mean in 2022?

By Garry Hamilton, Chief Growth Officer and Founder, Equator Amid global economic gloom, the manufacturing sector remains a beacon of hope that a second “Roaring Twenties” decade of industrial investment and unrestrained productivity might still happen. Central to this positive outlook is the promise of the vast sums that are set to be spent on intelligent manufacturing. According to ABI Research, a global […]

Why Enterprise Leaders Need to Invest in Next Generation Blockchain

By Dr. Tim Wagner, Co-founder and CEO of Vendia Enterprise leaders today are facing more data-related challenges than ever before. An airline can’t offer passengers the best itineraries at the best price without access to the latest information from all sales channels. Car manufacturers struggle to ship cars quickly and cost effectively when they can’t […]

5 Spend Management Strategies to Increase Profit Margins for CFOs

LinkedIn: Vaccine Specialist is 2022’s Top Job on the Rise

Unsurprisingly, many of the jobs forecast to be 2022’s most popular include skill sets associated with the pandemic, including vaccine specialists and public health specializations. Many workforce factors on workforce are shifting, whether temporarily or permanently. From digitization to hybrid offices, the workplace is changing at a rapid pace. Industries have been upended, while at […]

nCino and Accenture Help Vancity Transform Its Commercial Lending Operations

Canada’s largest community credit union implements cloud-based platform to manage its commercial loan lifecycle   nCino, Inc.  a pioneer in cloud banking and digital transformation solutions for the global financial services industry, and Accenture, have supported Vancity, Canada’s largest community credit union, in evolving its commercial lending business through the implementation of the nCino Bank Operating […]

How Cloud Native Solutions Can Enable Scale and Resilience for Critical Business Systems

Whether we’re tackling customer relationship management or collaborating with remote teams in real time, the way we work has evolved because of applications leveraging cloud technologies. Cloud has enabled customers to adopt new features more quickly and easily scale to meet demand. These digital tools have quickly become essential in our current business landscape where […]

PayPal study: Pandemic accelerated digital transformation in Canadian SMBs

A new study by PayPal Canada, Business of Change: PayPal Canada Small Business Study, shows how dramatically the pandemic has accelerated digital commerce for Canadian small businesses. Two in three small businesses (67%) accept payments online and half (47%) of them only started doing so this year. Of all small businesses selling online, one third […]