Bilal-Biag

Securing hybrid cloud will be the key differentiator in 2021

As the pandemic has peaked, Middle East businesses have done more digital transformation in the past three months than in the previous three years! Amongst surveyed organisations, 79% want to learn more about digital tra...

Thierry-Nicault

AI merged with CX is expected to be a regional game-changer

As the Middle East begins to emerge from the pandemic, 81% of service decision-makers are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives, according to Salesforce’s State of Service Report. In the UAE, 79% of sales...

global

As business gets back on their feet, leaders expected to do things differently, Salesforce Survey

Salesforce has published its first Global Stakeholder Series: Future of Work, Now research study, a data-driven look at how the Covid-19 pandemic is shaping people’s attitudes about current work environments and their pe...

Khalid-al-shami

48% META manufacturers realised cost efficiencies in DX, Infor IDC brief

Manufacturers in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region are experiencing significant gains from their digital transformation, DX, projects. Still, they could achieve far more if they improved the way they define, plan...

Kristine-Dahl-Steidel

VMware’s pick of future workforce trends to look out for in 2021

Unquestionably, 2020 has been the year of change. We have changed how we work, where we work, when we work, even to some extent why we work. And it has happened, but at a pace few would ever have imagined. This has given...

Nikesh-Arora

Why you are not prepared for the next SolarWinds type of attack

Instead of winding down at the end of the year, already strapped security teams were scrambling over the last week to ensure their organisations are safe in the wake of the SolarWinds disclosure. Attackers got in via a c...

Vikas-Nand-Kumar

How technology has impacted the business of education

Dr Vikas Nand Kumar Batheja at Capital College explores how present and future technology will shape the business front of the education industry. In recent years, technology has evolved to be an integral part of almost ...

Jassim-Haji

The rise of neobanks

Dr Jassim Haji, President, Artificial Intelligence Society Bahrain talks about how Artificial Intelligence and neobanks are creating a new banking model. Gartner estimates say 80% of traditional banks as we know will die...

Rajesh-Ganesan

Will the power of the cloud supersede that of the nation?

Due to increasing power of hyper scalars, states within big countries could have their own regulations, and hence businesses should be aware of this. With the accelerated cloud adoption, it is inevitable that governments...

Mohammed-AbuKhater

Click farms, 5G architecture, open banking are key trends

Attackers embracing click farms, deploying a horizontal 5G architecture with layers, and open banking to share customer data, are kye trends ahead. How do you make sense of 2020? Suffice to say, it has been an incredible...