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10 Ways AI Is Improving Cannabis Yields And Security

10 Ways AI Is Improving Cannabis Yields And Security

By Louis Columbus on January 12, 2021

According to BDS Analytics, the Covid-19 pandemic drove retail sales up 35% above industry forecasts, accelerated by cannabis businesses being declared “essential” for medical purposes in virtually every U.S. legal market. Fueled by strong consumer demand, annual legal (medical and adult-use) sales are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%, […]

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Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI in Cannabis production, AI-based surveillance monitoring systems USDA, BDS Analytics, Cannabis Commercial farming, Machine Learning in Cannabis production, Marijuana Cultivators of Oregon, Marijuana production, New Frontier Data, The Rand Corporation, Twenty 20 Solutions | Leave a response

The proposed Atos-DXC takeover is papering over some very deep cracks from a bygone era

The proposed Atos-DXC takeover is papering over some very deep cracks from a bygone era

By Phil Fersht on January 12, 2021

    The IT services market has arrived at its most critical infection point in 20 years, where the role of service providers that survive the Covid era will be those that have made the shift from support firm (Phase 1) to a business partner (Phase 2).  We’ve talked about this services shift ever since Tom Reuner […]

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Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services | Leave a response

Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise

Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise

By R "Ray" Wang on January 12, 2021

Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021 Source: R Wang This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events.  Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies.  As one of the […]

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Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged @constellationr, #CES2021, 2021, 8K, AI, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, Augemented Reality, Autonomous vehicles, BlueJeans, Bosch, C-Suite, CDO, Celonis, CEO, CES, CFO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Creative Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Technology Officer, China virus, CHRO, CIO, CISO, CL, com, connected devices, Constellation Research, Consumer Electronics Show, Consumer Technology Association, COO, COVID-19, CTO, CXO, Cyber security, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, display technologies, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, electric vehicles, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Awards, enterprise class, enterprise software, Environmental, environmental sustainability, event report, extended reality, Hisense, hybrid cloud, ibm, intel, Intel Corporation, Kohler, las vegas, Lenovo, lg, LG Chem, Magma, Mercedes, Mercedes Benz, microsoft, mixed reality, mobile apps, MobileEye, nVidia, Omron, Pansophic Systems, partnerships, Philips, Pre-recorded virtual events, R "Ray" Wang;, Rendever, Royole, rwang0, salesforce.com, samsung, schneider electric, Skyworth, smart buildings, Smart homes, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy, Verizon, Verizon Business, Video, video meetings | Leave a response

The Holy Grail of the Repeatable Sales Process:  Is Repeatability Enough?

The Holy Grail of the Repeatable Sales Process: Is Repeatability Enough?

By Dave Kellogg on January 12, 2021

Most of us are familiar with Mark Leslie’s classic Sales Learning Curve and its implications for building the early salesforce at an enterprise startup.  In short, it argues that too many startups put “the pedal to the metal” on sales hiring too early – before they have enough knowledge, process, and infrastructure in place – […]

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Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Culture, Enterprise Sales, process, repeatable sales process, revenue ops, sales, Sales process, salesops, Silicon Valley, startups | Leave a response

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Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Alert AA20-352A, FireEye, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, SolarWinds, SolarWinds breach, Zero Trust Security | Leave a response

The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor

The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor

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 | Leave a response

Research Report: Inside Constellation’s 2020 Enterprise Awards

Research Report: Inside Constellation’s 2020 Enterprise Awards

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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12 Cybersecurity CEOs On What Each Learned Leading During The Pandemic

12 Cybersecurity CEOs On What Each Learned Leading During The Pandemic

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 | Leave a response

Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies

Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies

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

News Analysis: Celonis Launches Ecosystem Management System

News Analysis: Celonis Launches Ecosystem Management System

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 2020, acquisition, acquisitions, AI, ambient experience, ambient experiences, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, business graph, CDO, Celonis, CEO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CTO, Customer Experience, digital, Digital acceleration, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, digital feedback loops, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, disruptive business models, dynamic feedback loops, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, event driven architectures, events, excecution management system, execution capacity, Integromat, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microservices, News Analysis, personalization at scale, precision decisions, process mining, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

Lego, enterprise architecture and the job advert.

Lego, enterprise architecture and the job advert.

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

News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition

News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition

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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 2020, acquisition, acquisitions, AI, ambient experience, ambient experiences, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, business graph, CDO, CEO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CTO, Customer Experience, digital, Digital acceleration, Digital Business, Digital Transformation, disruptive business models, Dr. Yoshua Bengio, dynamic feedback loops, Element AI, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, event driven architectures, events, Jean-François Gagné, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microservices, Montreal, News Analysis, personalization at scale, precision decisions, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, servicenow, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software

Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software

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

The Key to Branding Success:  Staying in Character

The Key to Branding Success: Staying in Character

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

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

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

5 Interesting Learnings from Slack at $1B in ARR

5 Interesting Learnings from Slack at $1B in ARR

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons | Tagged Blog Posts, scale

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