Nathan Eddy

The vast majority (94 percent) of would-be buyers would abandon an e-commerce site if product content is deficient and they are unable to find the information they need, according to a recent survey by Salsify. The study of more than 1,000 online shoppers also revealed Millennials are 60 percent more likely than other adult age […]

Most organizations are neglecting at least one of the three major marketing functions—brand marketing, demand generation and customer marketing, according to an Act-On survey of 250 senior level marketers from U.S.-based business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies. The study found that nearly 69 percent of respondents have at least one area with staff coverage level in the […]

Swift programming jobs grew in 2015 as more developers took notice of the newly open-sourced programming language, and the number of freelance delivery jobs also rose in 2015, according to a report from Freelancer.com. Swift appeals to developers who are aiming to build on Apple’s multiple platforms, such as iOS, OS X and WatchOS. The […]

IT management specialist Landesk announced the release of the latest version of IT Asset Management Suite (ITAM), Asset Central, which integrates with the company’s Service Desk offering to provide access to asset data from the Service Desk platform. Along with this platform alignment, the new release extends the existing hardware and software asset management processes […]

Over the next two years, most large pharmaceutical companies are planning to increase their investment in patient-centric capabilities, including remote patient monitoring and medication delivery, according to an Accenture survey of 200 pharmaceutical executives. The survey also found that 85 percent of respondents said their organizations plan to ramp-up spending on patient-centric capabilities over the […]

Accenture has launched an intelligent automation platform, myWizard, designed to enable smarter, more innovative and more efficient application services consisting of systems integration and application development and management. The platform has several virtual agents that use “machine learning to collaborate with human co-workers” so they can manage projects, apply analytics to support business goals, advise […]

More than 80 percent of banks polled recognize that online and mobile banking channels improve customer engagement, and 93 percent of banks said they would expect increased customer satisfaction if a high-quality video banking service were put in operation. Those were the findings of a survey of 136 banking professionals from 52 countries, which was […]

Big data health analytics specialist CloudMedx announced the latest version of its analytics platform, which provides real-time visual insights and predictive analytics around population clinical risk and outcomes based on machine learning and natural language processing. CloudMedx provides a risk calculator for patients so that doctors can address their care, which allows doctors to treat […]

NGINX, a specialist in delivering sites and applications for the Web, announced the availability of Plus Release 9 (R9), the latest release of its application delivery platform. The introduction of dynamic modules in Plus R9 allows the platform to be extended at runtime. Customers can now select the extensions they want, and install them directly […]

Cyber-terrorism should be taken more seriously as 63 percent of respondents feel terrorists are capable of launching a catastrophic cyber-attack on the U.S. within one year, according to a Thycotic survey of more than 200 security industry representatives. The study revealed the key concerns of information security executives, which included the growing threats of global […]