Spring is upon us, which means many people in corporate America have recently completed the annual review process. The annual review process is a mechanism of accountability that gives an organization an opportunity to review employees’ goals achieved, progress made, as well as growth opportunities for the upcoming year. But how do companies hold themselves accountable to social and...
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Phishing is one of the most pervasive security threats today and it’s only getting worse Over the last few years, phishing attacks have continued to rise as attackers refine strategies, execute successful programs, and make money. Attackers are taking advantage of end users to steal credentials or get them to click on malicious links.…
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Several news outlets are reporting recently that over the past month, the City of Atlanta has been struggling with a ransomware attack – specifically, an attack by SamSam ransomware, which encrypts data and holds decryption keys for a cryptocurrency ransom. The City of Atlanta opted not to pay the roughly $50,000 ransom and instead is expected to spend more than $2.5 million on recovery...
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As more enterprise scale organizations shift to using cloud technology providers, like Amazon Web Services, mid-market organizations are working to determine if moving some of their workloads to the cloud delivers the return that larger organizations are recognizing. When we meet with clients, often we’re educating leaders on how cloud infrastructure and services differ from on premise...
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As companies incorporate data science and machine learning to help them push into the new AI frontier, some are finding it difficult to get data science operationalized. We know organizations have data, and lots of it, but not every organization achieves the same level of agility from its analytics and data science initiatives, meaning one organization may see the impact of data science more...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Native Functionality As more organizations adopt cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, they are forced to consider how they want to manage their cloud networks. When every device is virtual, how will network teams deliver traditional network functionality that they are used to delivering with physical appliances like firewalls and load balancers?…
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This year’s annual TOPO Summit was billed as “the only event where the world’s best sales and marketing leaders share exactly what they do to achieve scalable revenue growth.” The specificity of that statement, it turns out, was quite accurate. The two-day event featured a one-hour welcome and broad industry overview from TOPO CEO Scott Albro, but the remaining time focused on breakout...
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Distributed Energy Resource (DER) advancement is the driver to create significant growth in two-way data flow between DER devices and grid control systems, as well as between DER owners/aggregators and other market actors. Driven by requirements to support greater amounts of renewables, our distribution grids are transforming to accommodate two-way electricity and two-way data flow on the...
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The market for “Digital Health” technology should reach $400 Billion by 2024, according to Global Markets Insights. A convergence of factors is driving this growth, with technology the biggest single factor. Though the outpour of investment in digital health startups over the past few years has been significant, we have yet to see a major shift in the way healthcare is being delivered.…
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For financial services organizations, operating systems have the reputation of being inefficient and inconsistent due to a reliance on manual data entry, siloed activities, lack of system-wide integration, and providing low visibility across the entire enterprise. Apart from the frustrations felt by these systems’ users, customers often feel the brunt of these legacy systems due to the...
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What about AMI battery life? Water utilities throughout the United States are evaluating advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) as a way to improve meter read accuracy and reduce operational costs. In virtually every planning meeting, the topic of AMI battery life bubbles up. AMI devices are battery powered, and once the battery fails, the device must be replaced.…
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Part 3: The Consumer & Provider Relationship This is the final blog of a three-part series discussing the key contributions of the human element within a digital strategy. The term “digital transformation” can prompt thoughts of a change related event that is purely technology driven; however, the opposite is true. To “go digital” requires a cultural shift that places human collaboration...
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