IT Glossary

Blockchain offers enormous promise, but enterprises are unsure how to extract business value from it. Enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders should focus on the four types of blockchain business initiatives and evaluate which ones will match their strategic objectives.

Blockchain is evolving from a digital currency infrastructure into a platform for digital transformation. This report helps CIOs understand its use, and whether the hype is true about how it can help with transaction costs, integration, technology readiness, business-model creation and efficiency.

Blockchain platforms are not created equally. They vary from enabling true decentralization of a business process to just implementing shared ledgers. Technical professionals need a clear understanding of blockchain platforms design goals and how to enable functional components before selecting a use case for proof of concept.

Everyone is talking about blockchain, but there's a great deal of misunderstanding around this disruptive innovation. We find that 90% of enterprise blockchain projects actually don't need blockchain technology, and in fact would be better off without it. This session covers root causes for this misalignment, shows how to deal with avoidable mistakes in blockchain projects and how to conceive realistic projects that will deliver business value.