Stories by Mary K. Pratt

The award-winning CIO at Schindler Group is using digital tools -- sensors, analytics, mobile -- to take the No. 2 elevator company to the top.

The manufacturer revamps IT to improve visibility into its supply chain and prevent late deliveries.

A CRM system helped this city, a 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honoree, categorize and map calls from concerned citizens.

This 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honoree uses a predictive tool to combine advanced weather data and outage modeling technology to pinpoint areas at risk of losing power

Analyzing multiple streams of data helps this 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honoree determine the best routes for delivery truck drivers

A business intelligence tool helps this 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honoree dig through mounds of data previously hidden in spreadsheets

Intelligent monitoring systems at this 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honoree help prevent failures in agriculture equipment

The 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honorees were selected for their ability to make smarter decisions for their organizations using big data.

This 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honoree analyzes user activity and business needs to help secure individuals' information across campus

An advanced end-to-end system helps the online payment service, a 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Award honoree, detect and fight fraud

This real-time index, created by a 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Award honoree, inventories the world's ‘events, emotions and narratives' every 15 minutes

Milwaukee Tool's designers in the U.S. and China no longer have to wait hours for their CAD files to open. They can open the latest files instantly in a cloud-based storage system.

A big law firm handling sensitive documents uses its ISO security certification as a competitive differentiator
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1. Bi-modal IT is real, and it's likely to be embraced by your company

Noah Consulting is a completely virtual company -- its 89 employees live and work in various cities and states nationwide. But those 89 people say they feel completely connected with and supported by their colleagues and supervisors, and that's a big part of the reason why, for the second year in a row, the consultancy was named the No. 1 small employer on Computerworld's list of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT.