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Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.
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 […]
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5 Interesting Learnings from Slack at $1B in ARR
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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Marketing Targeting: It’s Not Just Where You Fish, It’s What You Put on the Hook
Back in the day I was taught that marketers do three things, memorized via the acronym STP: segment, target, position. Divide the audience into different segments. For example, dividing consumers by demographics or dividing businesses by size or industry. Select the segments that the company wishes to target for its marketing. For example, choosing small […]
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The Key to Branding Success: Staying in Character
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 — […]
What Are The Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Skills In 2021?
Cybersecurity professionals with cloud security skills can gain a $15,025 salary premium by capitalizing on strong market demand for their skills in 2021. DevOps and Application Development Security professionals can expect to earn a $12,266 salary premium based on their unique, in-demand skills. 413,687 job postings for Health Information Security professionals were posted between October […]
Centrify’s New CEO Has A Compelling Vision For The Future Of Cybersecurity
Bottom Line: Flint Brenton’s vision for the future of Centrify and cybersecurity, in general, prioritizes the need for privileged access management to become core to the multi-cloud architectures and DevOps environments he sees pervading customers’ enterprises today. Every new cybersecurity company CEO is writing their vision of the future by their decisions and the priorities […]
83% Of Enterprises Transformed Their Cybersecurity In 2020
73% of enterprises (over 500 employees) accelerated their cloud migration plans to support the shift to remote working across their organizations due to the pandemic. 81% of enterprises accelerated their IT modernization processes due to the pandemic. 48% of all companies surveyed have accelerated their cloud migration plans, 49% have sped up their IT modernization […]
Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On The Future Of Endpoint Security
Removing any doubt endpoints are resilient, self-healing and secure is what matters most to cybersecurity leaders today. It has become the highest priority across education, enterprise, financial services and government organizations in 2020 and beyond. At the same time, CIOs and CISOs are recognizing that endpoint complexity itself is a vulnerability. Absolute’s 2020 State of […]
What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020
47% of artificial intelligence (AI) investments were unchanged since the start of the pandemic and 30% of organizations plan to increase their AI investments, according to a recent Gartner poll. 30% of CEOs own AI initiatives in their organizations and regularly redefine resources, reporting structures and systems to ensure success. AI projects continue to accelerate this year […]
The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace
As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Zoho launched Workplace last month – it is a suite of 9 applications to…
From Engineering To Sales
A few weeks ago I woke up to see a mail that said I was given a “Thought leader” badge by IBM – which is our highest level of competence in consulting . We have switched a few different HR frameworks in my time here and this badge was a retrospective of the level I […]
Introducing Zapps, The Platform for Apps on Zoom
Today I’m excited to share something I’ve be working on since I joined Zoom to lead Product integrations. At our annual conference Zoomtopia, we launched Zapps — which enables 3rd party developers to create and distribute apps that enrich the Zoom experience and enhance the meeting workflow to increase productivity before, during and after a […]
Melting HR bureaucracy
The tastiest employment contract I‘ve ever seen. German version here. We talk a lot about making HR processes more engaging and improving the employee experience. Software for employee engagement has grown, in the space of a few years, to more than a billion euro market. Making HR processes easier and simpler is a big business. […]
The difficult second album. Advice for HRTECH vendors.
Warning: long, rambling metaphor. Readers of my blog and twitter feed will have seen that I have an interest in music. One of my favourite albums is the first Stone Roses Album, The Stone Roses. I play this record a lot. Here is the song, Waterfall, from the album. The wikipedia entry is worth a […]
How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities
Bottom Line: Eightfold.ai’s innovative approach of combining their own AI and virtual hackathons to create and launch new additions to their Project Marketplace rapidly is a model enterprises need to consider emulating. Eightfold.ai was founded with the mission that there is a right career for everyone in the world. Since its founding in 2016, Eightfold.ai’s […]
Business
- What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For Endpoint Security, 2020
- Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First
- Where AIOps Is Delivering Results Today
- 5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks
- Answers To Today’s Toughest Endpoint Security Questions In The Enterprise
- 10 Ways AI Is Accelerating DevOps
Featured Posts
- Improving Online Learning Experiences One Secured Endpoint At A Time
- Why Security Needs To Be Integral To DevOps
- Dissecting The Twitter Hack With A Cybersecurity Evangelist
- 10 Ways AI Is Improving New Product Development
- 5 Mistakes That Threaten Infrastructure Cybersecurity And Resilience
- Why Cybersecurity Is Really A Business Problem
Startup Lessons
- On the Perils of Taking Advice from Successful Business People
- Marketing Exists to Make Sales Easier
- Machines Protecting Themselves Is The Future Of Cybersecurity
- Monday’s Musings: Inside The Five Levels Of Autonomous Enterprises
- Personal Log: Understanding Case Fatality Rates For #COVID19 #CoronaVirus
- Does Enterprise SaaS Need a Same-Store Sales Metric?
Technology / Software
- How To Improve Channel Sales With AI-Based Knowledge Sharing Networks
- Why Securing Endpoints Is The Future Of Cybersecurity
- How Barclays Is Preventing Fraud With AI
- Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure
- 10 Ways Enterprises Are Getting Results From AI Strategies
- How To Build A Business Case For Endpoint Security
Trends & Concepts
- Emotions at Work
- Diversity & The Future of Work — We Can No Longer Sit on the Sidelines!
- New Normal: An inspirational talk with Ray Lane
- Gender Diversity & Future of Work Companies — We Can Do Better!
- Protecting Privileged Identities In A Post-COVID-19 World
- Six Areas Where AI Is Improving Customer Experiences
