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10 Ways AI Is Improving Cannabis Yields And Security
According to BDS Analytics, the Covid-19 pandemic drove retail sales up 35% above industry forecasts, accelerated by cannabis businesses being declared “essential” for medical purposes in virtually every U.S. legal market. Fueled by strong consumer demand, annual legal (medical and adult-use) sales are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%, […]
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The proposed Atos-DXC takeover is papering over some very deep cracks from a bygone era
The IT services market has arrived at its most critical infection point in 20 years, where the role of service providers that survive the Covid era will be those that have made the shift from support firm (Phase 1) to a business partner (Phase 2). We’ve talked about this services shift ever since Tom Reuner […]
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Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise
Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021 Source: R Wang This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events. Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies. As one of the […]
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The Holy Grail of the Repeatable Sales Process: Is Repeatability Enough?
Most of us are familiar with Mark Leslie’s classic Sales Learning Curve and its implications for building the early salesforce at an enterprise startup. In short, it argues that too many startups put “the pedal to the metal” on sales hiring too early – before they have enough knowledge, process, and infrastructure in place – […]
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Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist
Bottom Line: Cyberattacks enter a new era of lethal impact when threat actors are sophisticated enough to compromise SolarWind’s software supply chain with infected binary code while mimicking legitimate protocol traffic to avoid detection. To gain greater insights into the SolarWinds breach, its implications on cybersecurity strategy in the future and what steps enterprises need […]
The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor
Glassdoor shows 3,937 companies in the middle of a hiring surge during Covid-19, 960 of which are in information technology. Leading software companies going through a hiring surge right now include Aha! Software, Appen, Clevertech, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Dataiku, Fastly, Hashicorp, Leidos, Liveops, Netskope, Proofpoint, Rackspace, Zapier and Zendesk. Modern Tribe, Dataiku, Zapier, PartnerCentric, Slack, […]
Research Report: Inside Constellation’s 2020 Enterprise Awards
By The Constellation Research Team The 2020 Awards Demonstrate The Power Of Humanity Amidst A Global Pandemic And Mass Digitization What started out as an amazing beginning to a new decade ended with one of the worst economies and global health crises in history. Cultural, technological, and business model changes that would have taken a […]
12 Cybersecurity CEOs On What Each Learned Leading During The Pandemic
Bottom Line: Cybersecurity CEOs’ lessons learned from navigating the pandemic provide a valuable framework for leading and growing a business through anxious, uncertain times. How each cybersecurity CEO responds to the challenges of keeping employees safe, customers secure, and product release cycles on schedule while still achieving customer success – all virtually – provide valuable […]
Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies
Software companies continue to deliver the highest growth rates for the 25th straight year, representing 71% of the entire list, the highest-ever percentage in the history of the rankings. 353 of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America are in the software industry according to Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500, the most ever in the […]
News Analysis: Celonis Launches Ecosystem Management System
Eliminating System Complexity Is Celonis’ Number One Priority On October 14th, 2020, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Rinke, kicked off its Ecosystem Summit and showcased its new Execution Management System (EMS). The goal is to improve an enterprise’s execution capacity by simplifying complex processes. Celonis defines execution capacity as the ability to get things done over […]
Lego, enterprise architecture and the job advert.
Who’s your pick for 2021? pic.twitter.com/j8iHnzPjyR — Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) December 12, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The brilliance of @EthicsInBricks and @econinbricks reminds me that the software industry should give the Lego metaphor a rest, we can’t compete. I won’t be talking here about how APIs are like the dimples on the lego bricks. I have […]
News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]
Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software
Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here. For the next few episodes, I will be joined by guest analysts and industry observers. Rob Kugel, SVP & Research Director of Office of Finance…
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
Business
- Marketing Targeting: It’s Not Just Where You Fish, It’s What You Put on the Hook
- How not to work with HRTECH start-ups. The enterprise edition.
- What Are The Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Skills In 2021?
- Centrify’s New CEO Has A Compelling Vision For The Future Of Cybersecurity
- 83% Of Enterprises Transformed Their Cybersecurity In 2020
- Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On The Future Of Endpoint Security
Featured Posts
- What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020
- The difficult second album. Advice for HRTECH vendors.
- How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities
- 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
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
- The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace
- Introducing Zapps, The Platform for Apps on Zoom
- 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
- Improving Online Learning Experiences One Secured Endpoint At A Time
Trends & Concepts
- 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
- How To Improve Channel Sales With AI-Based Knowledge Sharing Networks
