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The State Of Cloud Business Intelligence, 2018
Cloud BI adoption is soaring in 2018, nearly doubling 2016 adoption levels. Over 90% of Sales & Marketing teams say that Cloud BI is essential for getting their work done in 2018, leading all categories in the survey. 66% of organizations that consider themselves completely successful with Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives currently use the cloud. […]
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Cloud Computing and vague recollections of the Anarchical Society.
Mark Zuckerberg says the world is much more divided than he ever expected https://t.co/EPPQLiMtYp #division pic.twitter.com/rxZ0iwbDu3 — World Economic Forum (@wef) April 7, 2018 elicited this magnificent response. Study STEM, they said. It’s not like a degree in Political Science and International Relations will ever be useful for anything… https://t.co/Z3CxQGHWAw — Eva (@evacide) April […]
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Zoho at a crossroads: Stepping up means stepping out
Zoho has been one of the great successes in the world of small business technologies. Few companies have been able to succeed with a similar business model, yet Zoho has been wildly successful. But they are also enshrouded in mystery. Read on to see what’s under their veil and what they have to do next — if they want to.
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We’re becoming obsessive social networkers with a huge appetite to learn from each other
Remember that 70’s movie “Logan’s Run” when, in the 23rd century, the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30? They found a simple fix to solve their problems. Today, we seem to be entering a similar situation with employment and intelligent automation: why not […]
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To Be Funded or Not to Be Funded with Medallia (Video + Transcript)
One company, two sides of the funding debate. Medallia, #7 on Forbes’ 2017 top 100 private SaaS companies, bootstrapped for 10 years, then took $255M in investment from Sequoia Capital over the past 6+ years. Company co-founder Amy Pressman talks about the pros and cons of being bootstrapped vs investor-backed and provides tips for entrepreneurs […]
On Hortonworks, data management and mind blown by GDPR. First notes from Dataworks 2018
At its DataWorks Summit 2018 in Barcelona this week Hortonworks set out its stall for the next stage in its evolution. A year ago it was looking like the Cloud would simply eat the Big Data market, but geopolitical concerns, and enterprise inertia, have combined to create a somewhat more nuanced picture. Hortonworks argues the […]
Oracle MCX: We’re not in Kansas anymore
I did not get much notice for the Oracle MCX event in Chicago this week, so could only spend a day there, but even in that short timeframe I got the vibe over and over that things are finally humming in the CRM marketplace, or as Oracle calls it the Modern Customer Experience space. We […]
Workday: The relentless pursuit of excellence
I am a big fan of Tom Peters’ classic. He has a new book out on excellence and I will get to that but this week at the Workday analyst summit I found I was reading a live case study on excellence. Between taking notes and photos of slides, I kept going back to my posts […]
What’s Missing From Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant For CPQ
Bottom line: The 2018 Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) Application Suites doesn’t reflect the need for a more enterprise-wide integration across ERP, PLM and CRM systems and the need for vendors to intensify their efforts to innovate. Magic quadrants and market analysis grids are designed to guide enterprise buyers to the best possible […]
83% Of Enterprises Are Complacent About Mobile Security
89% of organizations are relying on just a single security strategy to keep their mobile networks safe. 61% report that their spending on mobile security had increased in 2017 with 10% saying it had increased significantly. Just 39% of mobile device users in enterprises change all default passwords, and only 38% use strong two-factor authentication […]
AIIM18 keynote with @jmancini77: it’s all about digital transformation
I haven’t been to the AIIM conference since the early to mid 90s; I stopped when I started to focus more on process than content (and it was very content-centric then), then stayed away when the conference was sold off, then started looking at it again when it reinvented itself a few years ago. These […]
Tales of a Modern CEO with Atlassian and Trello (Video + Transcript)
What keeps CEOs up at night? Shareholders, competition, the next big thing? Sure, but there are many other challenges. Modern CEOs are also thinking about how to build inclusive workforces, how their companies will positively impact the world, or what societal issues to advocate for. In this session, Atlassian co-CEO and co-Founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, and […]
How Machine Learning Quantifies Trust & Improves Employee Experiences
Bottom Line: By enabling enterprises to scale security with user behavior-based, contextual intelligence, Next-Gen Access strategies are delivering Zero Trust Security (ZTS) enterprise-wide, enabling the fastest companies to keep growing strong. Every digital business is facing a security paradox today created by their proliferating amount of applications, endpoints and infrastructure on the one hand […]
SAPs new ERP pricing model: Quick analysis
SAP pre-briefed me on the new ERP pricing they announced this morning. It is meant to dampen the angst in the customer base about high-profile Indirect Access disputes which have become public in the last year. CEO Bill McDermott had announced an initiative to tackle the concerns at SapphireNow last May. Three items of note in the announcement: a) […]
Gartner fails spectacularly with its 180 degree flip on the impact of AI Automation on jobs
Whiplash alert: You may have noticed how Gartner recently flipped its core messaging from automation/AI being a seismic job destroyer to being now a job-creator. And both times, they just can’t seem to back up the rhetoric with actual facts. Plus, they don’t even seem to be able to define consistently what they actually mean by “AI […]
We’re Setting Aside 1,000 Diversity + Inclusion Tickets for 2019 SaaStr Annual. APPLY NOW!
We’re proud to have > 60% women and multicultural speakers at the 2018 SaaStr Annual, and we hope to meet or exceed that in 2019. But our bigger goal is to drive our attendees to similar levels of inclusion and diversity. Our 2018 attendee Diversity and Inclusion program was fully subscribed and worked well, so […]
Business
- Kahuna announces a purpose-built SaaS solution for Digital Marketplaces
- Five Ways Machine Learning Can Save Your Company From A Security Breach Meltdown
- My Appearance on DisrupTV Episode 100
- 10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing In 2018
- The Question that CEOs Too Often Don’t Discuss with the Board
- Oracle is becoming a growth company again
Featured Posts
- CIO playbook: Citizen development is your ‘most important’ tool
- Mark meet Larry
- Infor Innovation Analyst Summit 2018: I totally get it and yet, I don’t see it
- Business Process Re-imagination: Turning rectangles into octagons
- That Facebook Thing? We’re Stupid, That’s Why We’re Mad
- CIO advice from Aaron Levie, CIO of Box: Part two
Startup Lessons
- Founder to Founder: 10 Toughest Lessons Getting to the First $100m ARR (Video + Transcript)
- Peter Thiel’s leaving. Should we care?
- Can You Scale Sales in the Bay Area? $30k ACV is Probably The Cut-Off
- When to Add a European (or Other International) Office
- 15+ of The Top Sales & Marketing Mistakes SaaS Startups Make
- Moneyball for movies: Data science and AI in Hollywood
Technology / Software
- Verticals, the Uptake way
- Designing Five Pillars For Level 1 Artificial Intelligence Ethics
- The future isn’t all what it used to be anymore
- Shifting to Slack Requires New Practices and Re-tooling
- Five Categories of On-Demand Mobility Services Companies
- The future of IT: Snapshot of a modern multi-cloud data center
