Enterprise Irregulars
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Maybe this will spur SAP?
I honestly cannot remember the last time SAP showed in the lower left quadrant – for niche players – in a Gartner MQ. But in the latest MQ for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises” , it does. That has to be a concern because SAP has been positioning S/4HANA, […]
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Don’t confuse chatbots with artificial intelligence
I have been taking a look at the various chatbot platforms – and something struck me about how we’ve got away from some of the original beauty of chat as UI. The problem is the focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, as if every bot had to pass a Turing Test. But they really […]
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IBM’s cognitive, AI and ML with @bigdata_paulz at BigDataTO
I’ve been passing on a lot of conferences lately – just too many trips to Vegas for my liking, and insufficient value for my time – but tend to drop in on ones that happen in Toronto, where I live. This week, it’s Big Data Toronto, held in conjunction with Connected Plus and AI Toronto. […]
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Enterprise Software In 2017
81% of IT leaders are currently investing in or planning to invest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Cowen predicts AI will drive user productivity to materially higher levels, with Microsoft at the forefront. Digital Marketing/Marketing Automation, Salesforce Automation (CRM) and Data Analytics are the top three areas ripe for AI/ML adoption. According to angel.co, there are […]
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Episode 29 – The Internet of Things and customer use cases and success stories
SAP’s Nils Herzberg and I were on an ASUG webinar earler this year where he outlined some great use cases SAP’s customers have for the internet of Things. Nils had some great examples, but the webcast was limited to ASUG members only, so I asked him to come on the IoT Heroes show to share the […]
European Founders: A Fundraising Primer with Front, Automile, and Algolia (Video + Transcript)
Being an American founder in the Valley is difficult enough, but as a European founder, what unique concerns do you have to think about while running a company and trying to scale it? Teddie Wardi, Partner at Atomico, leads this session with Mathilde Collin, CEO of Front App; Jens Nylander, CEO of Automile.com; and Nicolas […]
What is GraphQL and why should you care? The future of APIs
“We’re going GraphQL, we’re replacing everything with GraphQL” Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab founder and CEO GraphQL is an open source technology created by Facebook that is getting a fair bit of attention of late. It is set to make a major impact on how APIs are designed. As is so often the case with these […]
Time to hangout with the real robo-bosses at the FORA Council this September
When an industry is enduring a secular shift that is literally redefining how we do work, it’s pretty important to get some real, unfettered dialog going among all the key stakeholders this impacts. We need to break free from the glitzy paid-for sales presentations, robot keyrings, stress balls, nasty logo-ed leather notepads and greedy events firms vying […]
Are ERP vendors in touch with a changing services economy?
UNIT4 had an analyst day last week. FinancialForce is hosting its user conference this week. I missed both due to other commitments but I see lots of tweets from fellow analysts. Good to see both vendors, focused on service sectors, get the attention. The services sector has been on my mind for several gut-wrenching changes […]
Stoicism and Product Management
Tim Ferriss has made Stoicism hip and accessible. That is a good thing. I came across Ryan Holiday via Tim’s podcast, and it rekindled a long lost interest in things Greek philosophy. I have quoted liberally from Ryan’s Daily Stoic. Thanks Ryan and Tim. Buy Ryan’s books and read them. I reckon Epictetus would have been […]
Minimum Viable Architecture – good enough is good enough in an enterprise
Minimum Viable Architecture — Good Enough is Good Enough in a Startup from Randy Shoup Randy recently shared this great set of slides, which summarises a bunch of experience in scaling Web companies. My only quibble would be the title – in that the lessons are just as relevant to modern enterprise IT. One […]
Episode 28 – The Internet of Things, SAP Leonardo, and Sapphirenow reviewed by Diginomica’s Jon Reed (aka @jonerp)
I had a chat recently my old friend Diginomica co-founder, content curator extraordinaire, and fellow Enterprise Irregular Jon Reed (@JonERP on Twitter) shortly after the big SAP Sapphire conference to get Jon’s unique take on SAP, and the Internet of Things. We had a wide-ranging discussion about the Sapphirenow announcements (including the expanded Leonardo innovation […]
Artificial intelligence and privacy engineering: Why it matters NOW
The growth of AI and large data sets pose great risks to privacy. Two top experts explain the issues to help your company manage this crucial part of the technology landscape.
Theres gold in them thar piles of contracts
The category of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software has been rapidly evolving from its document management and audit roots to automation of complex legal language and sophisticated measurement of exposure to risk. That came out loud and clear when I interviewed Bill Hewitt, CEO of Exari last year for my book, Silicon Collar Our vision […]
How AWS And Azure Competing Is Improving Public Cloud Adoption
Public Cloud spending is predicted to grow at quickly, attaining 16% year-over-year growth in 2017. Cowen’s AWS segment model is predicting Revenue and EBITDA to grow 25% and 26.8% annually from 2017 to 2022. Microsoft Azure is viewed as the platform that customers would most likely purchase or renew going forward (28% of total vs. […]
The race to own the pipeline. Atlassian ain’t playin–introducing DevOps Marketplace
The play to become the standard industry backplane play for Pipelines and DevOps – integrating tools across the application lifecycle, ALM 2.0 if you like – is heating up. Atlassian launched DevOps Marketplace and the list of launch partners is impressively comprehensive. The vendors above represent a who’s who of modern dev and ops tooling […]
Business
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- Rimini Street: 50 shades of grey
- Introducing: Marketing Master Profiles [Guide to the World’s Best Marketers]
- SapphireNow – is SAP poised to lead the industry again?
- PowerPlex celebrating the American Mittelstand
- A company like me: Beyond customer-centric to customer-engaged
Featured Posts
- Augmented reality: Field service proof points in the enterprise
- On process tool and people shelfware. How are we going to achieve escape velocity for modern software development?
- The Robotic Process Automation market will reach $443 million this year
- “Serverless and the the death of devops”. Can you not?
- How to Fix Your Biggest Problem Converting Visitors to Customers
- Does the enterprise matter?
Startup Lessons
- How To Use Evergreen Traffic Drivers So Your Blog Grows While You Sleep
- Blocking the End Run: Eleven Words to Reduce Politics in Your Organization
- The 10-Year (And Longer) Customer
- SaaStr Podcast #126: Jeetu Patel, SVP of Platform & Chief Strategy Officer @ Box On Why You Must Only Monetize To 30% of Your Value
- 11 Instant Traffic Hacks to Build Your Business (#5 is our favorite)
- “Find a Daphne”
Technology / Software
- Get Ready to Give Up on LinkedIn for Marketing
- So what even is a Service Mesh? Hot take on Istio and Linkerd
- So where’s the Visual Studio Code at?
- Just how many darned developers are there in the world? GitHub is puzzled
- Major Data Loss Bug in WPEngine and Yoast SEO Plugin
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning: How to invest for the enterprise
