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2016: The year in crisis provides The Economist Intelligence Unit’s assessment of sources of corporate risk in the year 2016, its evolution over the next three years, and a perspective on the role of the board of directors in managing crises.

A Great Use of the Cloud: Recent trends in information management see companies shifting their focus to, or entertaining a notion for the first time of a cloud-based solution. In the past, the only clear choice for most organizations has been on-premises data—oftentimes using an appliance-based platform. However, the costs of scale are gnawing away at the notion that this remains the best approach for all or some of a company’s analytical needs. This paper, written by McKnight Consulting analysts William McKnight and Jake Dolezal, describes two organizations with mature enterprise data warehouse capabilities, that have pivoted components of their architecture to accommodate the cloud.

With high user expectations shifting faster than ever, the software landscape is evolving at a feverish pace to deliver higher–quality software—and testing must be able to keep up. CA has worked with Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting, to identify some of the new challenges that the digital economy presents for testing, and the trends that have emerged to meet them. We cover some of these topics in this e–book.