WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

Put this all together and what do you get? If you are an optimist, the office of the future will be a spacious, collaborative environment that makes the commute worth it. If you are a pessimist, it will be a building full of heavily surveilled drunkards. In reality, pragmatic considerations—how much time is left on the lease, the physical constraints of a building’s layout, uncertainty about the path of the pandemic—will determine the pace of change. Whatever happens, the office won't be what it was.

Nonfungible tokens (NFTs), digital humans and physics-informed AI join the 25 technology profiles on the Gartner emerging technologies hype cycle for 2021.

Emerging Technology Roadmap benchmark adoption plan, risk factors, and value drivers. Use this roadmap to help you make technology investment decisions for the coming 12- to 24-month time period.

Performance chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac covering Core Web Vitals (Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, First Input Delay) as well as First Contentful Paint and Time to First Byte

The goal of the Web Almanac’s Structured Data chapter is to explore how structured data is currently being used across the web. We hope that this will provide insight into the landscape, the challenges, and the opportunities at hand.

Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.

Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we've found useful when working on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.

Within a matter of hours of each day beginning, we ingest tens of billions of records from online sources to HDFS, aggregated across 50+ offline data flows, and visualize 40+ metrics across our business lines to support a dashboard providing company leaders with timely and critical business insights. Dubbed the Daily Executive Dashboard (DED), this dashboard contains critical growth, engagement, and bookings metrics that indicate the health of LinkedIn’s business. In this blog post, we’ll spotlight the challenges to DED’s delivery and performance posed by the growing complexity of computing and aggregating these metrics, and how this dashboard transformed our approach to data pipelines across the company.

This year's State of the API report covers the largest and most comprehensive survey on APIs, ever. More than 28,000 developers and API professionals shared their thoughts on a range of topics, including their organizations' development priorities, how they get their work done, and where they see the industry going. We combined this data with data we've observed on the Postman API Platform to build a robust picture of the current state—and the future—of APIs.

This year, customers will do a lot more than window shop, so we’re gathering the data and statistics and putting the insights on display. Download the Holiday Forecast 2021 report to understand when, how, and what consumers plan to spend money on this season, and use our findings to create shopping experiences your customers want. We know you’re excited. So come, take a close-up look, but hands off the glass, please.

E-commerce conversion rate and lead generation stats compilation desktop and mobile devices benchmarking averages across different industries

Choose more than one vendor solution, if necessary. Vendors in the enterprise search functionality segment have cognitive search solutions that apply to the widest number of use cases and include website search and digital commerce. However, the actual features offered by these vendors vary greatly and may not be the best choice for digital commerce. For example, some vendors in the digital commerce functionality segment have sophisticated tools for merchandising that many more general-purpose solutions lack. It is reasonable and not uncommon for enterprises to have more than one cognitive search solution depending on use cases, data sources, content types, and other factors.

The majority of US online adults want retailers to provide advanced site search features — and will reward merchants that do so with greater loyalty and lower operational costs (e.g., lower returns and fewer contact center calls). To provide the best in product findability and consumer convenience, merchants must explore how new relevance tools powered by AI and machine learning (ML) can boost KPIs for engagement, conversion, and loyalty.

Demand for APIs, fueled by new business models, application development trends and the urgency of modernization, is directing software engineering leaders to the diverse, evolving market for full life cycle API management products. This research assesses 17 vendors to help you make the right choice.

The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape Project is intended to be a resource map to help enterprises and developers through the previously uncharted terrain of cloud native technologies.

The cloud native landscape (png, pdf), serverless landscape (png, pdf), and member landscape (png, pdf) are dynamically generated from github repositories.

As B2B buyers become more digitally savvy, they prefer less human interaction and expect more from their digital interaction. COVID-19 has accelerated this expectation. B2B buyers expect a similar shopping experience to B2C buyers. This means B2B buyers expect the digital commerce platform to understand them and anticipate their needs as a sales representative might do. They expect better tools for researching and comparing products. They want to engage with organizations digitally without having to resort to a call or email to get a quick response and a good deal.

The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to technology frontiers.

In this article we introduce earned growth as the accounting-based counterpart for the Net Promoter Score, one that will reinforce the effectiveness of NPS, providing firms with a clear, data-driven connection between customer success, repeat and expanded purchases, word-of-mouth recommendations, a positive company culture, and business results.

Less than 20% of retail sales occur online today, and the proportion of retail sales happening online is expected to be 21% in 2023*. Shoppers indicate that they want engaged in-store experiences with deep personalization and smooth transitions between online and physical stores – an omnichannel experience. The retail store is highly relevant for many shoppers as it affords a visceral experience and provides instant gratification on a purchase impulse. The ability to touch and feel a product before buying and taking it home are key factors for many shoppers – as indicated by the fact that just 5% of grocery sales occur online. While the retail store is here to stay, the nature of shopper-seller interactions is undergoing profound change.

In his new book ‘Make to Know,’ ArtCenter College of Design President Lorne Buchman reveals how Apple’s iconic retail store design owes less to the visionary genius of Steve Jobs than to a collaborative process of iteration, experimentation, and improvisation.

The 23rd edition of World Energy Markets Observatory (WEMO) research report reveals a world struggling to balance the critical need to accelerate energy transition while maintaining energy affordability.

Explore how advances in enabling technologies, new investments, and industry transformation have the potential to help mitigate the effects of climate change – and the steps that must be taken to turn possibility into impact.

Download the 2021 digital marketing survey eBook to discover emerging digital marketing trends, goals, and priorities that help CMOs drive the digital future.

Enhance your social marketing strategy and execution. 

You will gain insights into:

• Best practices and trends for 2021 
• How marketing leaders are prioritizing their social marketing budgets in 2021
• Innovative strategies from best-in-class brands to increase brand awareness and demand generation
• How marketing leaders are prioritizing social platforms in 2021