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2018 Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates
Cloud computing platforms and applications are proliferating across enterprises today, serving as the IT infrastructure driving new digital businesses. The following roundup of cloud computing forecasts and market estimates reflect a maturing global market for cloud services, with proven scale, speed and security to support new business models. CIOs who are creating compelling business cases […]
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RPA is the gateway drug. AI is the drug…
Anyone failing to escape the swirl of intense hype threatening to destroy everything great about RPA, is probably thinking that these cute products are going to solve all their artificial intelligence needs, providing them with a “digital workforce” that will go way beyond scraping screens, producing scripts and running unattended recorded process loops. Now don’t get me wrong […]
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SAPs Rainbow Coalition
I spent a day at SAP TechEd last week. I was there primarily to meet some customers and execs for interviews for SAP Nation. I knew the theme of “open” would be prominent during the event, but I was not prepared for the extremely wide range of tools and technologies that now define SAP Nation. […]
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Microsoft-Adobe’s amazing partnership: Creating a new category?
Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, is a great believer in the potential of the Adobe/Microsoft partnership. So am I. But can it create a new category and market around digital engagement and customer experience management?
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A different Vegas. A very different Workday.
This was my sixth trip to Vegas this year. Coming from humid Florida, I have a routine for that city. Gallons of water and lotion to compensate for the heat and dryness. Gear to protect against the excess of artificial light and sound. But this time in town for Workday Rising, Vegas felt a bit […]
5 Things I Wished I Asked Before Switching from Employee to Founder (Video + Transcript)
Co-Founder and CEO at GoCardless, Hiroki Takeuchi and CEO and Founder at Shipamax, Jenna Brown on their switch from the employee role to the founder role and what they learned along the way. If you’re a current founder, do you agree? What lessons did you learn along the way? Also, if you didn’t join SaaStr […]
Why print?
Office printing, a key part of any business’ IT strategy, is slowly declining mostly due to better printing options. Better, higher capacity printers, networked throughout an organization are often cited for small declines in printing activity in part because taking printers off desktops causes people to consider whether a printout is worth a trip to […]
Lost and Founder: A Painful Yet Valuable Read
Some books are almost too honest. Some books give you too much information (TMI). Some books can be hard to read at times. Lost and Founder is all three. But it’s one of the best looks I’ve seen when it comes to giving the reader a realistic look at the inside of Silicon Valley startups. […]
10 Secrets to Putting on a Great Event
So we’ve been putting on events for a while at SaaStr. It started off by accident — we did a meet-up in 2013 as an experiment, with no content. And almost 400 folks came! Then we did a second meet-up in 2014 with a little content, and it went well. Then 2015 was the first […]
Adobe buys Marketo: Who wins, who to watch
Chris Fletcher, founder of the Aegean Group, former senior analyst at Gartner Group, and now an independent, opines on Adobe’s Marketo acquisition. You’d do well to read and listen. Chris has the chops. And the knowledge. And the experience.
Sneak Preview: Workday Rising
It’s an annual ritual. A Workday executive does our readers a favor and shares a curtain raiser on their Rising event, which this year is expected to draw over 10,000 attendees. This time it is Barbry McGann, senior vice president of products. She leads product management for applications including Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and […]
Mission impossible: Can you regain access after Twitter lockout?
If your Twitter is hacked, it could be gone permanently and Twitter may not help. Here is one user’s sad story and how you can protect yourself.
Inforum – peeling an onion
I wrote last week that I was looking forward to getting an update on Infor’s verticals – hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail and others. At Inforum in Washington this week, I only got a detailed briefing about the Retail vertical. So, in the couple of days I spent at Inforum this week I kept thinking this is […]
Apple vs Samsung phones: We compare the Galaxy S series and the iPhone XS
As phones become more sophisticated and mature, choosing one brand over another is increasingly hard. Is Apple really better than Samsung, or is Samsung the top phone maker? Selecting the right phone for you depends on several factors: Do you prefer a large screen or small? Are you super picky about pictures the camera takes […]
Dreamforce Keynote – the good and not-so-good
I am not at the Salesforce event this week but changed my travel plans to make sure I could watch yesterday’s streaming of the 2 hour keynote. Some of it was predictable. Marc Benioff has an admirable loyalty to Hawaii, friends in the music industry, Monastic monks and Deepak Chopra and as far back as […]
Business
- Seven deadly misnomers why these billion dollar RPA valuations are insane
- How AI & Machine Learning Are Redefining The War For Talent
- Oracles streak of missed opportunities
- The Quickening: a keynote about software development velocity at New Relic’s Futurestack 2018 Conference
- Barely a third of outsourcing deals are now safe: Window-dressing legacy engagements is over
- 58% Of All Healthcare Breaches Are Initiated By Insiders
Featured Posts
- The biggest insights and trends in digital transformation for 2019
- Infor’s Vertical Journey
- A subdued SuccessConnect
- Evolution of data platforms: Using the right data for the right outcomes
- Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations
- What to do with the data? The evolution of data platforms in a post big data world
Startup Lessons
- How To Present a Quarterly Sales Forecast to Your SaaS Company Board
- Assume Your Top Partners Compete With You By Year 4
- Using “Win Themes” to Improve Your Sales Management and Increase Win Rates
- The Three Types of Customer Success Manager
- Video of my SaaStr 2018 Presentation: Ten Non-Obvious Things About Scaling SaaS
- 10 Non-Obvious Things About Scaling SaaS with David Kellogg (Annual Video + Transcript)
Technology / Software
- It’s Bots-on-Seats as IBM, Cognizant and Accenture lead the HFS TOP 10 Cognitive Assistants
- Implementation Groundhog Day
- Products are Conversations
- Google Needs To Make Machine Learning Their Growth Fuel
- When Will We See an Open Platform to Connect People & Work?
- What is the Difference Between an Application and a Platform and Why it Matters?
Two HCM institutions
By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 2, 2018
As Workday Rising kicks off in Vegas, it is time to also recognize two other HCM resources which allow us to keep annual tabs on the changing face of HR HR Executive magazine announces their annual list of top products “This year’s winning products represent the full gamut of priorities facing HR leaders: from employee financial […]
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