| | | INSIDER Alert | | Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members | | | | InfoWorld Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the Office 365’s APIs were the company’s most strategic -- and most valuable. Designed to open Microsoft’s cloud productivity platform to developers, Office 365 APIs are collections of tools that simplify building Office’s cloud services into your apps. Microsoft’s cloud services are at the heart of its current strategy, and its APIs are a big part of how it delivers those services to everything from Android phones to Node.js Web applications. Using familiar REST APIs, and providing SDKs for common platforms, Microsoft is aiming to use Office 365 and Azure Active Directory as hubs where apps store files and users build collaborative relationships with others. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here. | | CIO Even at the CIO level, many IT professionals find it difficult to position their knowledge, skills and accomplishments to attract the attention of hiring managers and recruiters. This month, our tech resume expert Stephen Van Vreede helps a CIO-level consultant better dictate the response he wants his resume to generate. READ MORE | | Computerworld The Domain Name System (DNS) is a very simple, yet extremely important, service that most of us take for granted. Without it, Web browsing would be a much different experience. Instead of typing google.com into your browser, for instance, you would have to remember one of the company's many IP addresses. A sluggish DNS service can slow your browsing, and website DNS changes can trigger that dreaded Not Found page. Here are some tips and tricks to help DNS be all it can be for your business or home network. READ MORE | | Computerworld Hiring 60 new Java programmers in a year is a challenge for almost any IT organization, but it's a near Herculean task when your company is based in the Midwest rather than the heart of Silicon Valley. Undeterred, Orbitz, the travel site, tried out-of-the-box methods such as attending and hosting Meetup events and deploying talent-sourcing software to help meet its ambitious recruitment targets.With only 40 Java programmers hired by the end of 2014, the company did fall short of its goals, but it had managed to fill two-thirds of the open positions and was better-positioned to meet future hiring requirements. READ MORE | | Computerworld As companies pursue digital transformation initiatives, one of the strategic questions that often arises relates to the organizational model for programmatically managing these initiatives from strategy to execution.While it’s well recognized that digital transformation initiatives have to be a team sport, with sponsorship, involvement and collaboration of many key stakeholders from the CEO to the chief marketing officer, chief digital officer and chief technology officer, another key consideration is the role of corporate innovation programs. READ MORE | | InfoWorld Appery.io is a rather capable cloud-based mobile Web and hybrid mobile development platform with online visual design and programming tools, as well as integrated back-end services. You can think of it as a cross between an app builder and an MBaaS (mobile back end as a service). READ MORE | | | |
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