
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 Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace
As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Zoho launched Workplace last month – it is a suite of 9 applications to…

New Normal: A conversation with Aneel Bhusri, CEO of Workday
I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the “New normal” they can expect as the economy wakes…

New Normal: A conversation with Tamas Hevizi of Automation Anywhere
I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the “New normal” they can expect as the economy wakes…

New Normal: An inspirational talk with Ray Lane
I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the “New normal” they can expect as the economy wakes…
Workday continues its innovations in Analyst Summits
A decade ago, Workday pioneered with its Technology Day format. I wrote back then “Few vendors have the guts to be open to such a smart and opinionated bunch as Workday was during its Technology Day yesterday. Like a marathon…
The Most Transformative C-Level Exec: COVID-19
I heard someone recently say we have seen more digital transformation in the last month than we had in the last decade. Matthew Price, CEO of Cloudflare summarized it nicely for Jim Cramer of CNBC “while the real heroes of…

Enterprise Software: Emergency Apps and Empathy
I was talking to a vendor exec last week and I mentioned the agility and innovation I am seeing in various sectors – agile manufacturing, re-jigged supply chains, reshaped shopping experiences, last-mile delivery, telework, telemedicine, teleschool- as we are fighting…
The positive impact of COVID-19
Somebody once told me I could make a brown paper bag sound interesting. Not sure if that was a compliment but I do find interesting aspects to most anything. While there is so much doom and gloom around the coronavirus…

More COVID-19 impact – the age of agility
The one thing I vividly remember from my first few days as an audit rookie at PwC was a class where the instructor said “never forget – an internal control should deliver more savings than the burden it puts on…