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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Gartner research predicts that SSDs will be in 90% of data centers by 2017. Hyper scalable software defined data centers are expected to further increase data center efficiency. Solid state drives have permeated both private and public data center facilities at an increasing rate.

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KotlinConf is back this year and Apiumhub is a proud supporter

Apiumhub

JetBrains has been organizing this event with great success since 2017. Building Scalable Microservices with Ktor and Kafka by Anton Arhipov and Viktor Gamov. Every year, thousands of attendees from all over the world participate either in person or online, to learn best practices and the latest trends and network with the community.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. Its pace of investing in financial services venture-backed companies has skyrocketed since 2017.

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Making the Best of a New Winning Relationship – Robotic Process Automation & Business Process Management

Newgen Software

BPM is a deliberate holistic approach that looks in-depth and critically at a company’s existing business processes in order to streamline them for maximum agility and efficiency. Enter Business Process Management (BPM), one of the key enablers for implementing digital transformation and helping it scale across the enterprise.

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10 Reasons Why Costa Rica is the Ideal Place to Outsource Software Development

Gorilla Logic

However, for Agile development projects that require ongoing communication and collaboration within a similar time zone, offshoring can hinder project velocity. Costa Rica’s Location Makes it Perfect for Agile Development. Custom software applications built using an Agile Software Development approach. Download our guide.

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Reimagine Real-time Analytics with Apache Kafka

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

According to NewVantage Partners, only 31 percent of executives say their organizations are data-driven, down from 37 percent in 2017. Data virtualization utilizing the Kafka enterprise data fabric Streaming BI with Kafka for self-service analytics AI-augmented intelligence and scalable data science. Time to Reimagine Kafka.