As a business focused technologist we have another name for “disruption”, its called streamlining, innovation, or even productivity in some instances. Meaning the marketplace has been constantly evolving and demanding efficiencies in face..

Tesla launches a stationary battery aimed at companies with variable electricity rates and homes with solar panels. Source: Tesla’s Home Battery Is Built for a Solar Boom | MIT Technology Review As Tesla experiences moderate success in the car market and the recent development….

SAP is rolling out “Simple” over the next few days[/caption] Source: Sapphire Now: SAP promises users a ‘Roadmap to simple’ | ZDNet SAP’s CEO Bill McDermott is giving the SAP community a glimpse into the roadmap that will be unveiled over the next few days. …

With IT staff shortages a reality for CIOs in most industries, healthcare – driven by federally mandated incentives for such IT-intensive projects as Electronic Health Records – is experiencing even more of an IT labor crunch. Is poaching experienced IT talent from other industries the answer? Source….

Tony Scott, U.S. federal government CIO, says big cloud providers are just as secure as today’s largest financial institutions and advises his fellow IT leaders to embrace cloud sooner than later. Source: U.S. CIO tells IT leaders to trust the cloud | CIO Leadership within the fed are….

Industry giants like Google, Facebook and Ericsson have already solved many of the large-scale problems that smaller companies are now facing. Source: How tech giants spread open source programming love |
CIO Tech giants have introduced their own coding languages when other languages have fallen short in …

SAP has acquired a mobile business data visualization provider, added Apache Spark support to its SAP Predictive Analytics 2.5 software, and enhanced its SAP HANA Cloud predictive services. Here are the details. Source: SAP Integrates Apache Spark, Buys Into Mobile Analytics…