Emerging Technologies

Explaining buzzwords like AI and digital twin in the context of emerging business trends

An IT map reveals relationships between employees, software, and IT infrastructure

NextTech: The Holy Grail of IT—A Digital Twin of People, Process, Tech

The enterprise technology GIS creates analyses like this map, with data values that look like city buildings of varying heights.

How GIS Became the Enterprise Technology It Is Today

A fire truck races to a call, using the same technology a food delivery company might.

The Curious Connection Between Fire Departments and Food Delivery Services

True cost accounting is illustrated by an apple with a price tag

A New Type of Price Check Gains Ground

An IT map displays constallations of software and processes, with thier interdependencies

Fast Four: The CIO and the IT Map

A series of gears indicates the manufacturing enterprise.

Location Intelligence at Work: Real-World Applications in Manufacturing

Designer handbags like these may be involved in the shopping practice called daigou.

A Luxury Shopping Trend with a Geographic Wrinkle

A closeup of a beer--nonalcoholic or alcoholic; it\'s hard to say

Cheers to Change—Nonalcoholic Beer Is Having a Moment

A rack of servers hints at new value from technology

Think Tank: New Expectations for the CIO—and New Opportunities

An artist\'s rendering of the industrial metaverse, with a worker in VR goggles reaching for a manufacturing tool

The Industrial Metaverse: A Roadmap Emerges

A package with a 2D barcode and UPC being scanned

The Barcode Turns 50—Retiring the UPC and Ushering in a New Era

Generative AI, or GenAI, is connecting people across enterprises, symbolized by this connected cityscape.

NextTech: Generative AI Enhances GIS across the Enterprise

A road sign with an EV charger icon symbolizes EV infrastructure

New Grants Aim to Tame Range Anxiety for EV Owners

Gammon\'s construction site digital twin shows the design for an apartment building

On-Site with a Construction Industry Digital Twin

Insurers must price risks like this wind event, which is buffetting palm trees

Climate Risk Analytics: The Key to Sustainable Insurance

Business travel is on the rise, as exemplified by this airplane interior

Meet the New Business Traveler

Retail crime represented by a security camera at a store

Fast Four: Addressing Retail Crime

A 3D model of a wellpad in the oil and gas industry

Fast Four: New Questions for Oil and Gas Companies

Densely packed city buildings hint at the need to monitor subterranean infrastructure

New Research Spotlights Need to Monitor Heat-Induced Changes Below Buildings

Streaming cars represent traffic noise

Working through the Noise—At a Cost to Productivity

Could empty office space like this spur the trend of competitive socializing?

Community Trends Hold the Key to Repurposing Empty Office Space

A map of a logistics and transportation route with various routes, stops

Fast Four—Moving Logistics Beyond Route Optimization

Two office towers stretching toward the sky

WhereNext Confidential: What’s All This Talk about the Enterprise?

A 3D rendering represents a retail digital twin for store planning

Digital Twins and the Store of the Future

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