It’s difficult to imagine a business that doesn’t rely on a product or service provided by an external resource. Think of your local restaurant using a point of sale system, a brewery getting their beer labels from a print shop, or a college using third-party grading tools. These organizations all…

We’ve learned a few things from Harvard Business Review, Gartner, and Forrester since we last talked as we continue exploring and defining a digital transformation strategy. We recall earlier comments regarding CIO challenges of how the pandemic saved many of us from needing to recover our prior floundering efforts. These…

Discussions about software security are ubiquitous in every industry since breaches can come from any part of the technology. There are numerous ways of compromising a computer system. While breaches aren’t common, they often have disproportionate financial and reputation costs. …

In the post-pandemic world of rapid digitalization, more and more companies are pursuing the goal of becoming data driven organizations. Making better use of data and the insights it provides is critical for sustainable growth and scalable business development. …

Last Christmas, I found myself in the emergency room and unexpectedly laid up in a hospital bed for the better part of a week. Fortunately for me, this is not a common occurrence. But it did provide a front-row seat to the entire patient experience and allowed me time to…

Within the MentorMate Cloud Center of Excellence team (CCOE), we don’t limit ourselves to a single IaC tool. Instead, we consider the strengths and weaknesses of each, so we can select what works best for a particular project. This blog reviews the pros and cons of AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp…

Flutter is an open-source toolkit backed by Google for building beautiful, fast user experiences for any platform. It lets you write your UI with a single shared codebase — whether you’re targeting web, mobile, or desktop. And it’s built to short circuit the traditional edit, compile, deploy, and debug lifecycle…

The ability for businesses of all sizes to collect data has exploded in recent years. A terabyte of data is no longer an unheard-of occurrence that only lives in a defense mainframe — it exists on average users’ laptops. But what can businesses do with all of that data? And…

Data is eating the world. It’s the new beating heart of business, from using artificial intelligence to predicting the optimal number of items on a lunch menu to addressing real-time healthcare diagnostic challenges. But all that data is powerless without data management. What is Data Management? Data management is the practice of collecting, storing…