Actually, Microsoft needs Bing and Xbox as much as it needs Windows

Project will let doctors stitch together real-time data to help intensive care patients | How Avanade helps companies go digital at their own pace Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE November 11, 2013 InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT Actually, Microsoft needs Bing and Xbox as much as it needs Windows You can't take Bing, or Xbox, out of Microsoft and you don't want to. The future is devices and services, not platforms, and Microsoft can't afford to only be an enterprise company White Paper: Lua Technologies The New Mobile Business Communication Landscape The traditional challenges that CIOs and IT Managers face to procure solutions with optimal business value are being met with new demands. Today, IT departments need to also deliver technologies that are easier to use, deploy and implement – similar to consumer technologies. This phenomenon is known as the "consumerization of IT." Learn More Project will let doctors stitch together real-time data to help intensive care patients Doctors treating patients in an ICU need to make up to 20 decisions per day for as many as 20 patients, and they often do it with data that's hours old. A joint effort by a hospital and tech firms aims to make that decision making much easier.   How Avanade helps companies go digital at their own pace Digital transformation is vital, but you can't force it, says Avanade's Chief Innovation Technology Officer. Instead, you have to take a first small step, find advocates to help you spread change virally, and eventually create an organization that works toward change. Fighting the people problem: When employees resist change Employees are often resistant to change. At the CITE Forum, one speaker told a tale of an employee who literally turned her back on a meeting to explain a new entetrprise social system. So how do you get around this resistance? Android KitKat security: Some nice additions, and one mind-boggling blunder While Google has included some nice security features in Android 4.4, the search giant's quiet disabling of Android Device Manager in the latest Google Play Services update was irresponsible. Box CEO talks European plans, warns about meeting BlackBerry's fate At an event in London, Box CEO Aaron Levie talked about the company's European expansion and its relationship with governments -- and the future of enterprise software in the light of increasing consumerization. Platform-as-a-service market will triple in the next four years The platform-as-a-service industry will triple to more than $14 billion by 2017, due to high interest in faster application development and lower IT costs, predicts IDC. Skype backtracks, will continue support for third-party products Customers revolted when Skype said a backend change would hobble or break third party hardware and software, but now the company has at least temporarily relented.   Follow CITEworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to citeworld_weekly_update as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Copyright (C) 2013 CITEworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 **Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@citeworld.com.**