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State Of AI And Machine Learning In 2019
Marketing and Sales prioritize AI and machine learning higher than any other department in enterprises today. In-memory analytics and in-database analytics are the most important to Finance, Marketing, and Sales when it comes to scaling their AI and machine learning modeling and development efforts. R&D’s adoption of AI and machine learning is the fastest of […]
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5 Key Insights From Absolute’s 2019 Endpoint Security Trends Report
Endpoint security tools are 24% of all IT security spending, and by 2020 global IT security spending will reach $128B according to Morgan Stanley Research. 70% of all breaches still originate at endpoints, despite the increased IT spending on this threat surface, according to IDC. To better understand the challenges organizations have securing the proliferating number and […]
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How AI Is Protecting Against Payments Fraud
80% of fraud specialists using AI-based platforms believe the technology helps reduce payments fraud. 63.6% of financial institutions that use AI believe it is capable of preventing fraud before it happens, making it the most commonly cited tool for this purpose. Fraud specialists unanimously agree that AI-based fraud prevention is very effective at reducing chargebacks. […]
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Why going straight to digital from your legacy outsourcing engagement is like buying a Tesla
As we discussed last week, the 2019 State of Operations data shows a strong appetite from enterprises to dump legacy outsourcing practices and reinvest in operating models that can take them straight to digital. While the desire to invest in an outsourcing model nose-dived from 62% in 2018 to 28% this year, it’s also worth looking at […]
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Why Manufacturing Supply Chains Need Zero Trust
According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, manufacturing has been experiencing an increase in financially motivated breaches in the past couple of years, whereby most breaches involve Phishing and the use of stolen credentials. 50% of manufacturers report experiencing a breach over the last 12 months, 11% of which were severe according to Sikich’s […]
The Best IoT Companies To Work For In 2019 Based On Glassdoor
Employees would most recommend the following companies to their friends looking for a job in IoT: IGEL, SAP, ARM, Fortinet, Google, Microsoft, Bosch, Samsara, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Dell Technologies, Red Hat, Cisco Systems and Trend Micro. These 14 companies are the highest rated by employees working for them based on a comparison of Computer Reseller News’ Internet of Things 50, 2019 with their respective Glassdoor scores as of today, Sunday, August 18, […]
Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On Leading A Cybersecurity Company And The Power Of Resilience
Christy Wyatt’s career exemplifies what you would expect from a high-performing tech leader who thrives on turning challenges into growth. Showing persistence, resiliency, and tenacity – she has a long history of scaling high-growth technology companies and infusing them with greater creative energy, ingenuity, and intensity for results. As CEO of Absolute, she’s leading the company […]
If Rebranding’s the Answer, What was the Question?
From time to time, every CMO faces a key question: to brand or not to rebrand? Often, it’s right after joining a company and you want to make a big splash. Sometimes, it’s after you’ve been with a company for a while and you and some told-timers are bored with the current branding and want […]
Dealing With Fear and Anxiety At Work
Over the last few days – I had multiple conversations about different aspects of anxiety in the work place . I also chimed in on a couple of threads in social media about it . So when I woke up today – I felt like I should share some thoughts about how I deal with […]
Mobile Identity Is The New Security Perimeter
86% of enterprise executives say that mobile threats are growing faster than any other according to Verizon’s Mobile Security Index 2019 and 67% of enterprise execs are less confident about the security of their mobile devices compared to other IT assets. Mobile devices are hackers’ favorite platform to target, with over 905,000 malware packages installed in Q1 […]
As 47% of enterprises seek to reduce their reliance on outsourcing… we’re going straight to digital
It’s taken more than 12 years – ever since the first-ever blog post written right here – but the outsourcing marketing is on the cusp of its most seismic change since the offshore revolution… the majority of enterprises are seeking to pull away from their stale outsourcing relationships and replace people with intelligent cognitive workers […]
Things to Avoid in Selecting an Executive-Level Job at a Software Startup
This is a sister post to my recent one, Career Decisions: What to Look For in a Software Startup. That piece is all about what to look for when considering taking a job at a software startup. This piece is kind of the opposite: what to look out for when considering an executive job at a […]
CRM Watchlist 2019: The big engines that could (Part 2B, Microsoft)
Microsoft, another of this year’s CRM Watchlist winners, is perhaps the most complex of all because of the clarity of their vision and because they are dedicated to carrying it out – from products/services and partnerships to corporate social good. Here’s how it all works.
Good CEO Habits: Proactively Update Your Board at the End of Every Quarter
I am surprised by how many startup CEOs leave the board hanging at the end of the quarter. As a CEO my rule of thumb was that if a board member ever asked me about the quarter then I’d failed in being sufficiently proactive in communications. In tight quarters I’d send a revised forecast about […]
Time for Oracle Nation?
I have analyzed Oracle applications business since the early 90s – first at PwC, then Gartner, now at Deal Architect. I have long been a Larry Ellison admirer, much less so of his company’s applications. It has been a perennial, promising, second ranked “Avis” in the applications market. The problem is their “we try harder” […]
HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery
As enterprises commit to building microservices to enable greater software development velocity the market for infrastructure to manage and enable these microservices is beginning to mature. HashiCorp is ready to be a platform supplier for these tools, building on its existing beachheads, most notably Consul. That was pretty much my hot take from HashiConf EU […]
Business
- The Truth About Privileged Access Security On AWS And Other Public Clouds
- What Needs To Be On Your CPQ Channel Roadmap In 2019
- Goals and metrics
- Your Mobile Phone Is Your Identity. How Do You Protect It?
- How To Deal With Ransomware In A Zero Trust World
- AI Is Predicting The Future Of Online Fraud Detection
Startup Lessons
- Stopping Inception Churn: The Prospective Customer Success Review
- Career Decisions: What To Look For In a Software Startup
- SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)
- If Your Enterprise Customers Want An SLA — Just Give It To Them. You Owe Them That Much.
- All Platforms Have Their Favorite Partners. Be One Of Them If You Can.
- When scaling for high growth, make sure you hire cogs that can design wheels
Technology / Software
- Low code – how much of the promise can it really deliver ?
- Cake
- Where have all the process visionaries gone?
- A strictly personal take on multi cloud
- Kubernetes Matures: On Operator Experience, industry updates from Docker, Pivotal and Mesosphere.
- AWS Certifications Increase Tech Pay Up To $12K A Year
Trends & Concepts
- The side effects of “seamless” work life integration
- 10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Amazon’s Patent Growth
- Top 10 IoT Startups Of 2019 According To IoT Analytics
- The Automotive Industry at a Crossroads
- 10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of AI In Marketing
- Want to survive the AI era? YOU have a simple choice to make…
