Special Features

COVID-19 has accelerated business trends like remote work and digital transformation, and forced IT leaders to adapt their budgets accordingly. ZDNet looks at how business leaders are spending their tech dollars, and offers valuable advice on optimizing your budget plans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

As we move into the post-COVID era, how can digital CX continue to best serve the ever-changing needs of customers?

The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and most everything else about how technology drives business forward. We look at the top trends for the coming year.

Today's most successful companies know how to turn data into actionable business insights that drive digital transformation. In this special feature, ZDNet examines how advances in AI, visualization and cloud technology are shaping modern data analytics, and how businesses are addressing data governance and a potential data science skills gap.

Today's data centers remain the nerve center of the enterprise, and automation is powering new levels of agility and digital transformation.

5G will be popularized via telecom carriers and the marketing of wire-cutting services, but the biggest impact and returns will come from connecting the Internet of things, edge computing and analytics infrastructure with minimal latency.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than workplace buzzwords. In 2021, moving forward from a white male work culture is a requirement for delivering real business value.

Machine learning, task automation and robotics are already widely used in business. These and other AI technologies are about to multiply, and we look at how organizations can best take advantage of them.

With the potential for high-bandwidth, low-latency wireless data transmission, 5G is set to play a key role in connecting edge devices to the cloud. In this special feature, ZDNet helps business leaders understand how cloud providers, telecoms, and carriers will make 5G part of their edge-computing plans.

Today's CES is as much a showcase for the latest business technology as it is for consumer electronics. Enterprise technologies like AI, data analytics, and 5G underpin the latest IoT gadgets, smart devices, and autonomous vehicles and will be on full display at CES 2021.