When you hear the words "artificial intelligence," you might first think of impressive projects like self-driving cars, machines that play chess or even Apple's Siri virtual assistant. Yet the truth is that AI technologies have become essential to the way that thousands of companies of all sizes and industries do business.
Since its introduction in 2001, agile has passed from a trend to a way of life for many software development and consultancy companies. According to a 2015 survey by Hewlett-Packard, two-thirds of IT professionals report that their organization is either fully agile or leaning toward agile.
The Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and more: all of these technological trends are having a profound (if not revolutionary) impact on the way people communicate and collaborate. To take advantage of these groundbreaking developments and bring their businesses up to speed, more and more organizations are seeing the benefits of digital initiatives and digital transformations.
As technology continues to progress, the IT and business departments within an organization will grow further and further intertwined. Digital advances have profoundly transformed business processes — and, in turn, strong business processes have led to the development of better technologies.
Digital transformations have revolutionized business and society in the last 20 years — and they're only getting started. According to Gartner, there are currently 8.4 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things, with this number projected to rise to 20 billion by 2020.