Tech Trends

More small- and medium-sized businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI) while they scale up, according to a new study by UpCity and Pollfish: “Insights: 46% Of SMBs Are Using AI While Growing Their Team In 2022.” Here’s what they found. Artificial intelligence use is on the rise in small- to medium-sized businesses, according to the…

CNBC released its 2022 America’s Top States for Business, and many midwestern states are on the list, though the flyover states scored better in some categories than others. 

Flyover cities are seeing a rise in tech salaries, and they’re still not aligned with compensation in coastal hubs.

Memphis has long been the home of cutting-edge companies, from Sun Studio to Piggly Wiggly, and now it’s become a center of innovation for space, healthcare and internet-based services.

While we love to be forward-thinking about the latest software or tech gadgets, right now, many people in the U.S. are actually worrying about how they’re going to feed their families – literally. Thanks to supply-chain delays, critical shortages in basic necessities such as baby formula and feminine hygiene products, grain shortages from Ukraine, and…

A writer for Forbes recently discussed the emerging “Hard Tech Corridor” of Northwest Indiana, from Indianapolis to Lebanon to West Lafayette. The area is already ripe for tech with the help of Purdue University and reasonable access to larger cities such as Chicago and Detroit. But the potential for growth is enormous. Indianapolis already has…

If you haven’t visited Columbus, OH lately (or ever), you’re in for a treat. The city is exploding with smart city initiatives, new businesses, and its tech scene. Columbus is the second-most populous city in the Midwest. This shouldn’t be surprising—Columbus has been on the move from the get-go. Shortly after the town was laid…

IT leaders outsource business functions for a number of reasons: to drive efficiency, to free up the internal team to focus on innovation, to meet tech needs until internal skill gaps can be closed, and so on. Business functions that are outsourced run the gamut from web and mobile app development to software maintenance to…

According to Gartner, businesses believe a shortage of talent to be the biggest obstacle standing in their way of adopting new tech. A lack of talent availability was cited far more often than other barriers this year, like implementation cost or security risk. Flyover Cities are not taking this lying down, as many of them are…

  A huge trend we’re seeing from the big data center industry has been a midwestern crawl run. Google kicked off the Midwest data center boom with its 2007 announcement of a new facility in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Over the last decade, that data center has grown, with well over 1 million square feet of…

Kansas City, Missouri’s nickname is the Heart of America because its location is near both the mean center of the United States population and the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states. The city has more than 100,000 net-tech employment, and grew 1.7% year-over-year in 2020, ranking it third in tech job growth, after Austin…

For much of the last 20 years, tech startup success was often tied to Silicon Valley. With the pandemic, however, came a geographic equalizer, making the location of a company’s headquarters matter less. Now metro areas in the heart of the U.S. are positioning themselves to become the next major tech hubs. Last week, we…

Funding is trending up in key Flyover Cities, a testament to the intentional innovation development in the region. One of those cities is Ann Arbor, more specifically Washtenaw County, which is home to the sprawling University of Michigan. As the home to nearly half of all high-growth tech companies in Michigan, Washtenaw County boasts a…

Technology touches just about every aspect of life, including education. Although school systems took advantage of technology during the pandemic to continue classes with students, we’re referring to EdTech companies that are making software to enhance, and sometimes equalize, the educational experience. Mastery Portfolio, located in Columbus, OH, makes a standards-based software called MasteryBook, which…

It’s hard to overvalue the hiring process. With many IT pros moving inward from the West Coast, the war for tech talent is at an all-time high. CIOs need to be prepared with a game plan for attracting the best talent in a candidate-driven market. That includes having a strategy for differentiating between the candidates…

Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services and includes all processes that transform raw materials into final products. It is also a high-growth industry. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects jobs within the logistics sector will grow by 30 percent through 2030, much faster than the average…

Nonprofit organizations have unique CRM needs. They don’t have customers and they’re not selling products in the strictest sense but they need to be able to manage their accounts and asset valuations, along with extra layers of compliance. And, of course, with limited budgets, many of them have to find ways to raise money while…

Last year was a record year for digital ad spending and it is expected to keep growing, according to Forbes. Facing competition from all over, companies are under pressure to get better ad placements and to deliver the right content to the right person. Adtech provides comprehensive behavioral data that can be used to target…

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