8 technologies that will disrupt business in 2020
From artificial intelligence to augmented reality, these eight disruptive technologies and trends will begin driving how business gets done at forward-thinking organizations in the years to come. Metamorworks Technology’s pace of change has had a profound impact across nearly every industry. These days it’s not enough to keep atop of emerging technologies but to keep ahead of them. In the coming year, new and evolving ways of wrangling data will take center stage in the enterprise. Innovations in…
Word 2016 and 2019 cheat sheet
Are you getting the most from Microsoft Word 2016 and 2019 for Windows? Get to know the key features. Word has always been the workhorse app of the Microsoft Office suite. Nearly everyone who uses Office ends up using Word at some point, whether it be for writing memos, typing up agendas, creating reports, crafting business correspondence or any of a thousand other uses. Microsoft sells Office under two models: Individuals and businesses can pay for the…
H-1B visa cap fills quickly — and tech talent looks elsewhere
USCIS reports the H-1B visa cap has been reached on April 5, only four days after the application period opened. Getty Images As of April 5, 2019, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported it had reached the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap for fiscal year 2020. While the program fills rapidly every year, this is the sixth year in a row that the cap filled within four days of the application portal opening. The H-1B program will award 65,000…
How ServiceNow helped Thames Water regain insight into its live environment
When CIO Tony McCandless realised the utilities company’s existing IT strategy wasn’t fit for purpose, he turned to ServiceNow to help overhaul it Getty Images After years of outsourcing its IT services, Thames Water turned to ServiceNow in 2017 to regain insight into incident management and event monitoring and bring about an end to what was a self-confessed “pretty disastrous period for technology at the organisation.” “Before I joined, Thames water was signed up to an alliance agreement,…
Why we shouldn’t let AI write for us
Artificial intelligence will benefit business in myriad ways. But AI that writes for us should be rejected completely. Pixabay Machines are getting better at writing. They can finish our sentences. They can reply to our emails. They can write news reports and even novels. But just because they can doesn’t mean they should. Artificial intelligence (AI) is launching a technology revolution that will transform business over the next decade. The most powerful use for AI may be in the…
Microsoft provides group policies for enterprise control of ‘full-Chromium’ Edge updates
IT admins will be able to use the policies to manage, deploy and update the new browser to their corporate workforce. Microsoft has published the template and documentation that will be required to manage updates of the not-yet-finalized “full-Chromium” Edge browser, making good on a promise of earlier this summer. When Microsoft first pounded the Edge-for-enterprise drum in June, the Redmond, Wash. developer unveiled a preliminary catalog of group policies that IT administrators would use to deploy, customize and maintain…
7 Quick Base tips and tricks
Quick Base is a powerful low-code tool that lets business users create their own applications. These seven tricks will illuminate some of the paths to building successful enterprise apps and workflows. Damircudic /Quick Base The low-code/no-code development platform Quick Base lets so-called citizen developers create applications and workflows for their teams and departments without needing the intervention of IT. Based on the structure of a database, as its name implies, the platform relies on fields, records, and reports to create,…
Windows 10 quick tips: 13 ways to speed up your PC
If you want to speed up Windows 10, take a few minutes to try out these tips. Your machine will be zippier and less prone to performance and system issues. Thinkstock Want Windows 10 to run faster? We’ve got help. In just a few minutes you can try out this baker’s dozen of tips; your machine will be zippier and less prone to performance and system issues. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Change your power settings 2. Disable…
