Workplace messaging vendor Slack recently filed a confidential registration for an IPO, becoming the latest of a group of richly valued tech enterprises to look to Wall Street.
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GDPR Is Tough and Set to Get Even Tougher
Many enterprises don’t believe they have a GDPR problem. Most enterprises think they have it under control. However, figures in the recent DLA Piper data breach survey show that many companies were unprepared for it.
Continue reading...Is Your Enterprise Ready to Fight Off ‘Rogue’ Chatbots
If your company has invested heavily in new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning, and is now looking at chatbots and digital assistants to improve digital experiences and workplaces, you need to take a look at WatchGuard’s cybersecurity predictions for 2019.
Continue reading...What to Consider Before Bringing Chatbots Into Your Organization
One of the biggest challenges over the years as new technologies emerge has been deciding what technologies and which vendors to trust. This is particularly true of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and one of its most common use-cases, notably chatbots. Getting Your Technology Right For their recent annual
Continue reading...Slack Announces 10 Mil Active Users, Google VoIP Nears Release and More News
Everything these days is about Slack. With an IPO widely expected before the summer, figures and performance matter. Among the most important gauges of usefulness is the Daily Active Users (DAU) statistic, and Slack has never been shy about sharing that information. The latest number is encouraging, according to a statement from Slack,
Continue reading...Blockchain Gains Ground, But Hurdles Remain
PwC’s 2018 survey on blockchain adoption in the enterprise revealed the technology was slowly gathering momentum. However, significant hurdles remain, mainly how enterprises can turn a technology that was essentially designed for financial transactions into a tool that could be used to manage the nightmare of organizational data security.
Continue reading...7 Ways Chatbots Help Digital Workplace Workers
At the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit in Mumbai last year, Van Baker, a research vice president at Gartner, told the audience that by 2020 over 50 percent of medium to large enterprises will have deployed product chatbots, which use artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic human conversations.
Continue reading...AI Adoption is Increasing But Challenges Remain
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining traction in the enterprise, however, there is still a great deal of resistance to using AI in the workplace. This is very much like what we saw with cloud computing in the early days in which a number of industries were reluctant to jump
Continue reading...Why Microsoft Could Deflate Slack’s IPO, WhatsApp Top Messaging App, and More
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the digital workplace, such as virtual personal assistants (VPAs) and other forms of chatbots, will grow by over 70 percent in the next two years, according to research from Gartner.
Continue reading...What Will Drive AI Adoption In The Coming Year?
It's no mystery that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a key enterprise technology. Recent research from Gartner, CIO Agenda 2019: Digital Maturity Reaches a Tipping Point, shows just how much ground AI has made over the past four years.
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