Increasing the percentage of women in technology — including leadership positions — is one of the challenges schools and companies face today.

The compound annual growth rate for big data is expected to be 26.4 percent through 2018, creating governance challenges for organizations.

The combination of school, work, family issues and financial pressures has at times made Joshua Key-Bieber consider quitting school.

In a world connected by high speed Internet, businesses are increasingly seeking a competitive edge by outsourcing software development offshore. For many companies, the strategy promises dramatically lower labor costs and better access to a vast pool of talent.

“Long and winding” doesn’t even begin to describe the road Rozaliya Everstova has traveled to land at the Department of Information Systems — and more specifically, her decision to focus her studies on computer information systems.

The Department of Information Systems added four new faculty members this fall, building expertise in business analytics among other relevant areas of research, and adding to the department’s store of industry experience.

Every summer, a group of researchers are selected for Dean’s Summer Research grants. These funds allow professors to use the summer months to dig into new work or bear down on a large project.