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AI in Cancer care and managing the great expectations around it
I woke up on Saturday morning and read this WSJ article IBM has a Watson Dilemma . As always when such articles get published, this was followed by a lot of criticism on twitter, linkedin etc – and I read most of them. And today morning, I saw this article on IBM blog site from Dr […]
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Time to kick out quadrants, paralyse peaks and wash away waves. Hello HFS TOP 10
Yes, folks – the rumors are true. HFS is officially out of the quadrant business. We’re done, the whole quadrant craze is starting to smell pretty bad and we know the industry is fed up with it. Increasingly, many of these 2×2 matrices are missing several of the market leaders (who refuse to participate) and having them […]
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Is Blockchain relevant for any Business Model?
We’ve been thinking and talking Blockchain here, trying to pull the reality out from the hype since 2015. Recently I heard a respected colleague suggest that it’s applicable in “less than 1/10 of 1% of corporate processes”. At the other end of the scale it’s going to take over the world. So what’s the reality […]
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Don’t dog nod your way to unemployment. Read this and get on your soap box
After yesterday’s slightly risqué rant, I received an interesting comment from Nigel Barron (pictured) this morning, an avid follower of HFS over the years, who spent much of his career with CSC and subsequently DXC before recently going independent (and clearly off the leash and wagging his tail!): “Since 2008 every job has become a hustle and analysts […]
Rant Warning: Nodding dogs and vendor marketing – this is all our industry deserves
As an analyst, you spend your time with a lot of other analysts – for better or for worse. And, recently, worse is taking up more than its fair share. It just seems like, as an industry, we’ve lost our collective teeth, our ability to question, challenge and find out the truth. We’d even go […]
Why so many no-go software decisions?
Most people assume Gartner analysts spend their lives drawing up magic quadrants. Actually the biggest single activity for most analysts is handling client calls as they look for new solutions. When I run into Gartner analysts at industry events I will sometimes ask them how many calls they average a year. Best I can tell, […]
The New Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrants for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis and Cloud Financial Close Solutions
If all you’re looking for is the free download link, let’s cut to the chase: here’s where you can download the new 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions and the new 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close Solutions. These MQs are written jointly by John Van Decker and Chris Iervolino […]
Towards Progressive Delivery
At RedMonk we generally try to avoid coming up with new terms for technologies and trends – after all, where there is an available term in common use why not just adopt it?. The pragmatic approach means we often end up using terms that seem kind of silly (Ajax, noSQL, Serverless, Cloud even) , but […]
Passionate about #AI? Then look no further…
We are hiring a Research Director, Artificial Intelligence, based in Cambridge, England, the home of AI!
IBM’s 2018 Data Breach Study Shows Why We’re In A Zero Trust World Now
Digital businesses that lost less than 1% of their customers due to a data breach incurred a cost of $2.8M, and if 4% or more were lost the cost soared to $6M. U.S. based breaches are the most expensive globally, costing on average $7.91M with the highest global notification cost as well, $740,000. A typical […]
10 Non-Obvious Things About Scaling SaaS with David Kellogg (Annual Video + Transcript)
Filled with actionable insights and pro tips on how deliver better business metrics to the board, David Kellogg’s session on 10 non-obvious things about scaling SaaS was one of the most anticipated during Annual 2018. Want in on this awesome SaaStr content? Check out the full video and transcript below! And in case you […]
Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and UiPath make up the top three in the inaugural HfS Top 10
The rise of RPA is nothing short of spectacular as the market closes on $2bn this year. It has captivated the attention of the digital operations executives with the promise of cost-savings beyond labor arbitrage, cost avoidance by extending the life of legacy IT, quicker implementation than traditional IT projects, business-user friendliness, auditability and […]
Digital with Impact
This is the third in my midsummer updates around cloud computing, renewables and digital transformations. Over the last few months, I have been collaborating with my colleague, Brian Sommer as he works on a book titled “Digital with Impact”. Both of us saw the practice of Reengineering start off with much promise in the early 90s, only to […]
This medical pioneer trains digital doctors with AR and VR
A prominent surgeon uses the latest tech to teach med students and physicians around the world. Every enterprise using VR and AR can learn from his experiences.
It’s time to give these poor Millennials a break
What is wrong with us old timers these days? We go to conferences where we make sure no one under age of 40 comes near the place, and we spend half our time bemoaning the lack of a “digital mindset” from our colleagues because we all have these world-class digital mindsets ourselves. And can someone please […]
Startup Lessons
- As Soon As You Have Your First Real Management Team — It’s Time to Add Redundancy
- 10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress
- The Big Mistake You Might Be Making In Calculating Churn: Failing to Annualize Multi-Year ATR Churn Rates
- How To Sales Manage Upside and Unlikely Deals
- How Many Leads Are You Losing Due to Ad Blockers?
- Champion Change: You Gotta Jump On It
Technology / Software
- Lenovo CIO’s big question: Did we move the needle?
- Some thoughts on Docker post DockerCon 2018
- Twitter’s Nuclear Option
- Atomist–making software development observable, programmable
- Zero Trust Security Update From The SecurIT Zero Trust Summit
- Why AA’s investment windfall locks up the RPA market for the Big Three
Trends & Concepts
- What I learned at the conferences
- On putting together better keynotes and conferences – stretches and petting zoos
- Rancher Labs: Treating Cattle like Cattle
- Hey Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle
- The Long Game
- Conference Attendee Tips — Illustrated Journaling, Golden Age mysteries, Boat Shows and More
Tis the season for software lawsuits
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 16, 2018
Oracle, SAP and Workday have all been hit with lawsuits in the last few weeks for very different reasons as I describe below. But first a preface – lawsuits draw a lot of attention but it’s usually wrong to extrapolate too much from them. Couple of perspectives on that: – A vendor once asked their […]
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