“Technology is used to take admin heavy tasks and automate them, freeing our people up to focus on what value they can add,” says Stella Ward, chief digital officer at Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board.
Exactly a year after taking on the top role at VMware, Pat Gelsinger says the period of disruption has become greater, and warns, the “fastest will win”. The four trends of social, mobile, Cloud and Big Data are affecting consumer and business IT, says Gelsinger.
Enterprises are much more interested in management of an increasingly wide variety of data and in particular of unstructured data, such as email and images.
These views emerged during a recent conference organised by Interwoven for its Asia-Pacific customers.
Growing inboxes
Financial services firms make a lot of noise about the rise of identity theft and fraud coming from phishing, key loggers and internet attacks.
Forrester, however, points out some of the practices of these firms actually contribute to the effectiveness of identity theft and fraud scams.