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2 years later: Software takes a starring role

Companies are asking more from their software — it’s now a coworker, an assistant and a morale booster. For workers, it’s a trusted hub for their daily workflow. For employers, it keeps business running through disruption and competition. Enterprise software is the highest-growth area in IT, according to Gartner projections. Globally, businesses are expected to dole…

Culture, technical barriers hinder IT asset management

IT asset management has bedeviled CIOs and CFOs for years. The infamous “black box” of IT spending has kept most CFOs and CIOs from truly understanding what their technology budgets buy. From a technology perspective, tracking IT assets should not be that difficult. Network monitoring and cybersecurity tools can tell when a device connects or…

CIOs tout guardrails as prevention for shadow IT woes

SaaS democratized technology procurement for business leaders and, in some cases, circumvented the need for IT involvement. Line of business technology adoption liberates CIOs from technology minutiae, creating more bandwidth for strategy, yet compliance gaps and security concerns persist. Every SaaS app the business purchases — so-called “credit card applications” — can have implications for…

Enterprise app sprawl swells, with most apps outside of IT control

Dive Brief: Lines of business are managing more enterprise applications than IT, accounting for 56% of all company app ownership and management, up from 4% year over year, according to a report from Productiv. The company compiled and analyzed data on 30,000 applications used by 190 companies. Most departments use between 40 and 60 different applications, the…