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SAP's S/4HANA Migration Pivot Offers Lessons For IT Pros

Enterprise application giant SAP made an unplanned change to its own migration to its updated S/4HANA ERP and in-memory database platform. Here's how the acquisition of Concur changed SAP's approach.

Farmers Insurance Transitions Customer Service With Salesforce Mobile App

Farmers Insurance CEO Jeffrey Dailey explained at this month's Dreamforce how his firm was migrating the customer experience into the digital age.

Let's Patent This: A Primer For Enterprise App Developers

Patents aren't typically the first thing on your mind when you're developing an application for your enterprise. Yet, there's a great deal of creative development work going on at organizations of all types and sizes. Attorney Lincoln Essig provides five steps IT professionals and enterprise app developers can take to make sure your company's intellectual property is protected.

5 Ways Agile Boosted Our IT Team's Happiness

Chris Savoie, director of product strategy at Workfront, has spent the past 12 years leading Agile IT teams. While the productivity improvements of Agile methodology are well documented, we rarely hear about how it affects IT morale. Here, Chris shares five things he learned along the way - and tell us how you can apply these to your own Agile dev efforts.

Mobile Market Forecasts Send Mixed Signals

Separate reports from Gartner and IDC paint different pictures of the state of the mobile market in 2016, and what the next few years may hold for space.

How We Built Our Own BI: When Off-The-Shelf Apps Won't Do

Sagi Bakshi, GM of Digital Solutions for ironSource, needed a business intelligence application to meet all of his organizations unique needs. When off-the-shelf options proved inadequate, his team decided to build their own layer on top of an existing system. Here's how they did it - and the role IT played in the process.

SaaS Growth: Why IT Support Is Crucial

Despite mass adoption in recent years, there is still room for SaaS to grow. IT needs to support -- not resist -- it, reports Parthenon-EY's technology practice of Ernst & Young.

10 Priorities, Concerns Facing State CIOs

State CIOs are not immune to the enterprise transformation issues that are hitting IT organizations everywhere. Here's a look inside the trends at the state government level, from the annual NASCIO State CIO Survey for 2016.