Securing Machine Identities Needs To Be A Top Cybersecurity Goal In 2021
Bottom Line: Bad actors quickly capitalize on the wide gaps in machine identity security, creating one of the most breachable threat surfaces today. Why Machines Are the Most Challenging Threat Surface To Protect Forrester’s recent webinar on the topic, How To Secure And Govern Non-Human Identities, estimates that machine identities (including bots, robots and IoT) are growing […]
10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Microsoft Azure’s Growth
Microsoft Azure revenue grew 50% year-over-year in fiscal Q2, 2021, contributing to a 26% increase in Server products and cloud services revenue. According to the latest earnings call, more than 1,000 Microsoft customers now use Azure Arc to simplify hybrid management and run Azure services across on-premises, multi-cloud and at the edge. Commercial cloud gross […]
SAP acquiring Signavio is a cheap play to migrate enterprises onto S4/HANA. Instead it just handed the market to Celonis
Why we think SAP acquiring Signavio is a non-event and actually frees Celonis from its SAP shackles to inspire its loyal following The initial buzz from SAP leaders with its Signavio acquisition all points to helping its clients migrate from legacy systems onto cloud-based S4/HANA applications. While that is a worthy goal, SAP needs to embrace how to […]
The Analyst Cam: RISE with SAP
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. I explained here I have been trying to fit the many Analyst Cam episodes…
Workday and Peakon. My take.
Workday agreed to acquire Peakon. There is an obvious logic to this deal. Engagement tools are an important part of HRTECH today, and the cycle of larger vendor absorbing edge innovators continues. Cue Disney circle of life music. Engagement tools have done well under COVID-19, with the move to more remote work etc. Whereas 2 […]
SAP acquiring @Signavio into Business Process Intelligence unit
I first met Signavio CEO Gero Decker in 2008, when he was a researcher at Hasso Platner Institut and emailed me about promoting their BPMN poster — a push to have BPMN (then version 1.1) recognized as a standard for process modeling. I attended the academic BPM conference in Milan that year but Gero wasn’t […]
76% Of Enterprises Prioritize AI & Machine Learning In 2021 IT Budgets
43% of enterprises say their AI and Machine Learning (ML) initiatives matter “more than we thought,” with one in four saying AI and ML should have been their top priority sooner. 50% of enterprises plan to spend more on AI and ML this year, with 20% saying they will be significantly increasing their budgets. 56% […]
UiPath will finally find its true path as IPO beckons. Now can its leadership develop some humility to embrace this incredible opportunity?
Having introduced RPA to the world in 2012 I have (sometimes grimly) clung to the belief that RPA will eventually find its path to be a vital cog in the enterprise technology potpourri. Blue Prism opted for the comfort of floating on the London stock exchange less than four years later in 2016, where its founders and […]
Virtual conference best practices: 2020 in review
Wow, it’s been over two months since my last post. I took a long break over the end of the year since there wasn’t a lot going on that inspired me to write, and we were in conference hiatus. Now that (virtual) conferences are ramping up again for 2021, I wanted to share some of […]
Burning Platform: Business Continuity
Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here. Last couple of months, we have had several guests – Rob Kugel of Ventana, Josh Greenbaum of EA Consulting, Bonnie Tinder of Raven Intel, Frank…
