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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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In one use case, AR and VR are being used to re-create people’s spines in a model so that surgeons can look at them in advance of surgeries to help them perform better, says Peter Fleischut, group senior vice president and chief information and transformation officer. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6%

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

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Dow is reaping the benefits of a year-long program to roll out new digital technologies to one of its largest manufacturing sites, resulting in improvements in performance, reliability, and employee experience. It’s a project that has earned Dow a CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. Unified Communications

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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

With change happening so rapidly, and technology creating a widening gap between the top performers and the 2nd tier, it requires organizations to run a bit faster just to stand still while they make the changes needed to have a more sustainable future. Unified communication. Digital business leadership and transformation.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

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They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

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A cloud-based platform allows unified communications as a service (UCaaS), contact center as a service (CCaaS), communications platform as a service, and workstream collaboration to act together to accelerate innovation — allowing projects that once took months or years to be completed in weeks or even days. IT Leadership

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Just like you’d never let your organization operate without a well-articulated vision, a relentless focus on growth and development, regular investment in better performance, careful strategic oversight, and passionate involvement by leadership as well as the rank and file, your ESN can’t lack for these elements either.

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