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The first half of 2022 was one of the busiest on record for M&A activity, according to risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson: Only 2021 and 2015 were busier. But deals are taking longer to close, on average, and are not always beneficial to buyers, who underperformed the wider stock market by 4.8 percentage points, WTW said. That’s not stopping enterprise software and service providers, though: They are continuing to buy their way into new…

In the 1970s and ’80s, IT was the recognized driver of business change, albeit under the moniker “data processing,” followed by “management information systems,” followed by “information systems.” Having automated the daylights out of general accounting, IT’s programmers and their friendly supplicants — business managers under constant pressure to cut costs — attacked business processes with glee to automate the daylights out of them. The fun lasted until Joseph Juran invented the so-called “internal customer”…

Blockchain is one of the great blindsides in the history of technology.  Major trends around cloud technology, virtualization, and mobile you could see coming, but a novel distributed computing model based on public key cryptography?  That came almost completely out of the blue.  When the Nakamoto whitepaper dropped in 2008 it unceremoniously set off a ferment of innovation that continues growing to this day.  It wasn’t entirely unexpected if you were watching the digital currency…

For today’s organizations, improving customer experience is a top business priority for 2022 and beyond – and rightly so. Today’s customers are demanding more from companies, including a seamless experience where any concerns or questions are addressed quickly and efficiently. To retain current customers and to attract new ones, organizations must deliver. To do so successfully, they must be resilient, productive, and efficient. To accomplish the goal, it is critical to transform silo’d departments that aren’t…

The ANWR Group, a Mainhausen-based community of financial services and retailers in the footwear, sporting goods, and leather goods industries, has, until 2018, used the ERP system of its bank subsidiary DZB Bank, and as a result, banking sector regulations for financial accounting and controlling also applied to the retail area of ​​the company. Over time, these regulations became more restrictive, and the flexibility needed for the trading industry was no longer available. “We had already started…

Introducing Graboxy Sentinel By Tamas Zelczer, CEO, Cursor Insight Twenty years ago, it was much more likely to have your identity stolen out in the physical world, but today it happens online. Account takeover (ATO) attacks have been surging dramatically in recent years as cybercriminals sharpen their skills and become increasingly sophisticated in their techniques. In 2020, in a world thrown into remote work, attempted fraudulent logins increased by 282%. The situation has only become…

GitOps is arguably the hottest trend in software development today. It is a new work model that is widely adopted due to its simplicity and the strong benefits it provides for development pipelines in terms of resilience, predictability, and auditability. Another important aspect of GitOps is that it makes security easier, especially in complex cloud and containerized environments. GitOps can connect smoothly to the traditional practice of Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), however, it…

Ransomware attacks continue to plague organizations globally regardless of their size. In a press release by the NCC group that preceded the Annual Threat Monitor Report 2021 published for the year 2021, there were an estimated 2,690 ransomware attacks, a 92.7% increase from 2020s figures of 1,389. The increase of ransomware attacks builds upon the general gradual rise in cyber-attacks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ransomware accounted for roughly 65.4% of global cyber…