By Louis Columbus on January 4, 2021
Bottom Line: Cyberattacks enter a new era of lethal impact when threat actors are sophisticated enough to compromise SolarWind’s software supply chain with infected binary code while mimicking legitimate protocol traffic to avoid detection. To gain greater insights into the SolarWinds breach, its implications on cybersecurity strategy in the future and what steps enterprises need […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 27, 2020
Glassdoor shows 3,937 companies in the middle of a hiring surge during Covid-19, 960 of which are in information technology. Leading software companies going through a hiring surge right now include Aha! Software, Appen, Clevertech, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Dataiku, Fastly, Hashicorp, Leidos, Liveops, Netskope, Proofpoint, Rackspace, Zapier and Zendesk. Modern Tribe, Dataiku, Zapier, PartnerCentric, Slack, […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aha! Software, Appen, Clevertech, CrowdStrike, datadog, Dataiku, Fastly, Hashicorp, leidos, liveops, Louis Columbus' blog, Netskope, Proofpoint, Rackspace, Zapier, Zendesk |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2020
By The Constellation Research Team The 2020 Awards Demonstrate The Power Of Humanity Amidst A Global Pandemic And Mass Digitization What started out as an amazing beginning to a new decade ended with one of the worst economies and global health crises in history. Cultural, technological, and business model changes that would have taken a […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 21, 2020
Bottom Line: Cybersecurity CEOs’ lessons learned from navigating the pandemic provide a valuable framework for leading and growing a business through anxious, uncertain times. How each cybersecurity CEO responds to the challenges of keeping employees safe, customers secure, and product release cycles on schedule while still achieving customer success – all virtually – provide valuable […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged absolute software, Centrify, Evernym, Founder Shield, Gramener: Insights as Data Stories, Hexnode, Kount, Louis Columbus' blog, MobileIron, Osborne Global Security, Prometeo, Qohash, RapidSpace |
By Louis Columbus on December 15, 2020
Software companies continue to deliver the highest growth rates for the 25th straight year, representing 71% of the entire list, the highest-ever percentage in the history of the rankings. 353 of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America are in the software industry according to Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500, the most ever in the […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2020 Technology Fast 500 Winners, cybersecurity, deloitte, Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, enterprise sofware, Louis Columbus' blog
By R "Ray" Wang on December 14, 2020
Eliminating System Complexity Is Celonis’ Number One Priority On October 14th, 2020, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Rinke, kicked off its Ecosystem Summit and showcased its new Execution Management System (EMS). The goal is to improve an enterprise’s execution capacity by simplifying complex processes. Celonis defines execution capacity as the ability to get things done over […]
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By Thomas Otter on December 14, 2020
Who’s your pick for 2021? pic.twitter.com/j8iHnzPjyR — Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) December 12, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The brilliance of @EthicsInBricks and @econinbricks reminds me that the software industry should give the Lego metaphor a rest, we can’t compete. I won’t be talking here about how APIs are like the dimples on the lego bricks. I have […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Architecture, dev/ops, HR, HRTech, leanix, lego, marketing, Product Management, SaaS, Start Up
By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2020
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on December 4, 2020
Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here. For the next few episodes, I will be joined by guest analysts and industry observers. Rob Kugel, SVP & Research Director of Office of Finance…
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Burning Platform, Enterprise Software (IBM, Enterprise Software (other vendors), M&A in Technology, microsoft, New Normal COVID-19, oracle, sap
By Dave Kellogg on December 3, 2020
Decades ago I had the pleasure of watching a branding video, created by a San Francisco ad agency, narrated by an advertising executive with a familiar voice who’d narrated scores of commercials [1]. It was, I believe, entitled Staying in Character and while I’ve searched the internet for it many times over the years — […]
Posted in Business, Startup Lessons | Tagged advertising, branding, character, Integrity, marketing, staying in character
By Thomas Otter on December 3, 2020
Thank you ! Creative commons: Jeremy Segrott https://www.flickr.com/photos/126337928@N05/ I’m not one to try and get a razor sharp analysis out before I have had my tea and rashers. There is a lot to ponder on this one, and it is rather long to tell. Some context and a bit of a diversion The big enterprisey […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, marketing, Product Management, salesforce, Slack
By Jason M. Lemkin on December 2, 2020
So this 5 Interesting Learnings post is a bit bittersweet. We’ve recently checked in with a bunch of our Cloud and SaaS favorites as they cross $1B in ARR: 5 Interesting Learnings from Zendesk. As It Crosses $1B in ARR 5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot as It Approaches $1 Billion in ARR 5 Interesting Learnings […]
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