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CRM Watchlist 2019: The big engines that could (Part 2A, Oracle)
Oracle, one of the winners of the CRM Watchlist 2019, is a gigantic company that’s been in the public eye for decades. Now they are realigned and ready to travel to new frontiers and engage a new breed of customer. Are they ready?
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10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of AI In Marketing
Top-performing companies are more than twice as likely to be using AI for marketing (28% vs. 12%) according to Adobe’s latest Digital Intelligence Briefing. Retailers are investing $5.9B this year in AI-based marketing and customer service solutions to improve shoppers’ buying experiences according to IDC. Financial Services marketers lead all other industries in AI application adoption, with 37% […]
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Want to survive the AI era? YOU have a simple choice to make…
When it comes to staying relevant in today’s workforce, let’s get to the heart of the matter – YOU have a simple choice to make: Do nothing and be part of the “Frozen Middle”. Decide you can’t be bothered to learn anything new, so make sure your firm has the same attitude (or has […]
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The DIY movement in IT – what does it take to succeed ?
A few days ago, my friend Frank Scavo wrote about the pendulum starting to swing from commercial software to custom built software . Today morning, I listened to his podcast with another common friend Den Howlett . Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I would highly encourage you to read Frank’s blog and listen to the […]
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OpenText Enterprise World 2019: AppWorks roadmap and technical deep dive
I had an afternoon with AppWorks at OpenText Enterprise World: a roadmap session followed by a technical deep dive. AppWorks is their low-code tool that includes process management, case management, and access to content and other information, supported across mobile and desktop and platforms. It contains a number of pre-packaged components, and a technical developer […]
GitHub Satellite 2019 Berlin. The Social Code – It’s Just Dependencies All The Way Down and Up
The keynote at GitHub Satellite 2019 in Berlin last month was a model of crisp story-telling. The comms team did a bang up job. The opening narrative was engaging and emotionally powerful. It asked us to think about our place in the world, our role as collaborators, at a very deep level. It began, as […]
Progressive Delivery at GitLab
I have been talking about Progressive Delivery for a while now – it’s an approach to deliver application and service functionality incrementally, to targeted user segments and production environments, limiting the last radius, enabling experimentation with reduced risk. Progressive Delivery builds on the foundations laid by Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration. It’s gratifying to see engineers and […]
SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)
Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Anish Shivdasani, CEO @ Giraffe FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW How’s it guys? You guys good? How’s everyone feeling? Yeah, great. Awesome, man. It’s […]
If Your Enterprise Customers Want An SLA — Just Give It To Them. You Owe Them That Much.
Many start-ups and even larger SaaS customers are reluctant to provide a Service Level Agreement — an SLA — that says they will, well, stay up. It’s not our fault, they think. What if Amazon goes down? Or our email provider? That’s not our fault. The lawyers tell you to try to not to do […]
On Open Source Dependencies, GitHub, Gender, Philosophy of Science and the nature of Self
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu Recently I posted about GitHub. One reason it took me so long to write the piece was the amount of thinking time I gave it. Why should a report about a tech conference require that much attention? One reason is that I was deeply inspired by the event. When the framing narrative concerns […]
All Platforms Have Their Favorite Partners. Be One Of Them If You Can.
Recently I was catching up with an exec from a SaaS company well in excess of $100m ARR. One of the key platforms their app integrates with has started to … slow down their access. Slow down access to new features, to semi-documented APIs. Slow down access to their team. In fact, the partner’s sales […]
What’s Next For You? How AI Is Transforming Talent Management
Bottom Line: Taking on the talent crisis with greater intelligence and insight, delivering a consistently excellent candidate experience, and making diversity and inclusion a part of their DNA differentiates growing businesses who are attracting and retaining employees. The book What’s Next For You? by Ashutosh Garg, CEO and Co-Founder and Kamal Ahluwalia, President of eightfold.ai provide valuable insights and a data-driven roadmap […]
When scaling for high growth, make sure you hire cogs that can design wheels
One of the many things that stuck with me from the excellent annual Sequoia Capital Founder/ CEO summits was an astute comment about scaling growth stage companies by Sequoia partner and early President/ COO of VMWare Carl Eschenbach that went something like this: Think very carefully about whether you want to hire someone who grows […]
Control your own destiny when it comes to EOL of your packages
A recent Rimini Street survey says that in spite of the announced 2025 end of life for core applications in SAP Business Suite 7 ERP product and older versions, “Of the IT leaders surveyed, two-thirds state they either have no plans to migrate to S/4HANA (35%) or are undecided about moving to S/4HANA (32%) ” IDC, on […]
My head’s SPINning with storytelling acronyms
Sam Sethi’s podcast A few days ago I was the latest victim on Sam Sethi’s Marlow FM 97.5 radio show and podcast – Sam Talks Technology (and there’s a Facebook group here). Sam and I go way back to the start of the London social media scene in the mid 2000s and it was a […]
What’s hot this summer? @Camunda Day NYC 2019
I popped down to a steamy New York for the half-day local Camunda Day, which was a good opportunity to see an update on their customer-facing messaging and also hear from some of their customers. It was a packed agenda, starting with Robert Gimbel (Chief Revenue Officer) on best practices for successful Camunda projects. Since […]
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