Brian Jackson

Former editorial director of IT World Canada. Current research director at Info-Tech

Articles by Brian Jackson

CIO as a ‘decision architect’ – one psychologist’s view

Author and speaker Dan Ariely shared some keen psychological insights on human behaviour on the first day of Gartner Symposium 2016.

Salesforce Einstein poses data-sharing dilemma for CIOs

Analytics tool works best if every Salesforce customer shares anonymized data for mass processing. Will CIOs agree?

Small company looks to scale big with cloud storage

Montreal-based startup BusinessMobileSolutions.ca has a small IT team, but its online product offering requires enterprise-grade storage and capabilities

BlackBerry will be “very active” in finding partners to make devices, says exec

In an interview Ralph Pini says the company is determined to find a way to keep devices with its brand on the market

BlackBerry to stop designing, making its own devices – focus pivots to software

BlackBerry will no longer design or make its own hardware, CEO John Chen announced on Wednesday morning.

FreshBooks refreshes its mobile accounting software platform

The Toronto-based company revamps the look and function of its cloud-based solution

Salesforce updates its CRM platform with AI capabilities

Salesforce Einstein will provide users with new functions such as predictive lead scoring and vision-based search

‘Black Code’ film tells cautionary tale of digital transformation’s dark side 

The documentary film, which made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, examines today's IT challenges as entrenched governments tap the power of the Internet for the purposes of surveillance

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