Louis Columbus
Marketing and Product Management Leader, Forbes Columnist, Software Expertise in Analytics, Cloud, CPQ & ERP Solutions. Principal at IQMS, formerly with iBASEt, Cincoom, AMR Research.
5 Ways To Demystify Zero Trust Security
Bottom Line: Instead of only relying on security vendors’ claims about Zero Trust, benchmark them on a series of five critical success factors instead, with customer results being key. Analytics, Zero Trust Dominated RSA Analytics dashboards dominated RSA from a visual standpoint, while Zero Trust Security reigned from an enterprise strategy one. Over 60 vendors claimed […]
74% Of Data Breaches Start With Privileged Credential Abuse
Centrify’s survey shows organizations are granting too much trust and privilege, opening themselves up to potential internal and externally-driven breaches initiated with compromised privileged access credentials. Photo credit: iStock Enterprises who are prioritizing privileged credential security are creating a formidable competitive advantage over their peers, ensuring operations won’t be interrupted by a breach. However, there’s […]
Vodafone’s 2019 IoT Barometer Reflects Robust Growth In The Enterprise
85% of enterprises who develop deep expertise with IoT succeed at driving revenue faster than competitors. 81% of enterprises say Artificial Intelligence streamlines interpreting and taking action on data insights gained from IoT systems and sensors. 68% of enterprises are using IoT to track the security of physical assets, making this use case the most […]
10 Ways AI & Machine Learning Are Revolutionizing Omnichannel
Bottom Line: AI and machine learning are enabling omnichannel strategies to scale by providing insights into the changing needs and preferences of customers, creating customer journeys that scale, delivering consistent experiences. For any omnichannel strategy to succeed, each customer touchpoint needs to be orchestrated as part of an overarching customer journey. That’s the only way to […]
What IoT Leaders Do To Drive Greater Results
IoT Leaders are achieving cost and revenue gains of at least 15% or more, while laggards see less than 5%. Pursuing 80% more IoT use cases compared to their peers, IoT Leaders are progressing faster down the learning curve of monetizing their application areas. IoT Leaders anticipate that their IoT use cases will boost their […]
Top 25 IoT Startups To Watch In 2019
26,792 startups are relying on IoT as one of their main technologies to launch new products and services and support platform-based business models according to Crunchbase. 78.4% of IoT startups Crunchbase tracks have had two funding rounds or less with seed, angel and early-stage rounds being the most common. IoT startup funding reached $16.7B in […]
Digital Transformation’s Missing Link Is Zero Trust
Enterprises will invest $2.4T by 2020 in digital transformation technologies including cloud platforms, cognitive systems, IoT, mobile, robotics, and integration services according to the World Economic Forum. IDC predicts worldwide spending on the technologies and services that enable the digital transformation of business practices, products, and organizations will reach $1.97T in 2022. Digital transformation software and services […]
Top 10 Ways Internet Of Things And Blockchain Strengthen Supply Chains
The majority of enterprises are prioritizing their blockchain pilots that concentrate on supply chains improvements (53%) and the Internet of Things (51%) according to Deloitte’s latest blockchain survey. By 2023, blockchain will support the global movement and tracking of $2T of goods and services annually based on a recent Gartner By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics […]
How Machine Learning Improves Manufacturing Inspections, Product Quality & Supply Chain Visibility
Bottom Line: Manufacturers’ most valuable data is generated on shop floors daily, bringing with it the challenge of analyzing it to find prescriptive insights fast – and an ideal problem for machine learning to solve. Manufacturing is the most data-prolific industry there is, generating on average 1.9 petabytes of data every year according to the McKinsey Global Insititute. Supply […]
Predicting The Future Of Next-Gen Access And Zero Trust Security In 2019
Bottom Line: The most valuable catalyst all digital businesses need to continue growing in 2019 is a Zero Trust Security (ZTS) strategy based on Next-Gen Access (NGA) that scales to protect every access point to corporate data, recognizing that identities are the new security perimeter. The faster any digital business is growing, the more identities, […]
