10 Ways To Improve Cloud ERP With AI And Machine Learning
Capitalizing on new digital business models and the growth opportunities they provide are forcing companies to re-evaluate ERP’s role. Made inflexible by years of customization, legacy ERP systems aren’t delivering what digital business models need today to scale and grow. Legacy ERP systems were purpose-built to excel at production consistency first at the expense of […]
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IBM’s 2018 Data Breach Study Shows Why We’re In A Zero Trust World Now
Digital businesses that lost less than 1% of their customers due to a data breach incurred a cost of $2.8M, and if 4% or more were lost the cost soared to $6M. U.S. based breaches are the most expensive globally, costing on average $7.91M with the highest global notification cost as well, $740,000. A typical […]
Sports, engagement, and tech company lack thereof
The sports industry is exciting and cool and has brand equity like no other. Yet, the companies themselves don’t have a lot of money to spend on their business operations due to what they are (over)paying the athletes. Does this mean the tech companies selling tech to the sports world should ignore the industry they’re selling to? Apparently, they think so. Find out why is not only a bad idea, but a very very foolish one. And I’ll name some names.
The High Potentials
Ask any room full of corporate types “Please raise your hands if you think you are above average”, and I will bet you a venti coffee that more than half the hands will go up. I have also asked and have been asked this question myself. As soon as we raise hands, we also realize […]
Zero Trust Security Is The Growth Catalyst IoT Needs
McKinsey predicts the Internet of Things (IoT) market will be worth $581B for ICT-based spend alone, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 7 and 15% according to their study Internet of Things The IoT opportunity – Are you ready to capture a once-in-a-lifetime value pool? By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics […]
Is Syntel worth $3.4bn? And does this bring Atos to the adult’s table?
Syntel brings to Atos a larger platform into the North American market, stronger IT automation capabilities to augment its data management and analytics heritage and, above all, access to quality long-term engagements. And not to mention a mighty Indian offshore IT depth that fills a lot of delivery holes for the firm. And don’t forget, […]
The Use of Ramped Rep Equivalents (RREs) in Sales Analytics and Modeling
How many times have you heard this conversation? VC: how many sales reps do you have? CEO: Uh, 15. But not really. VC: What do you mean, not really? CEO: Well, some of them are new and not fully productive yet. VC: How long does it take for them to fully ramp? CEO: Well, to […]
A trade war in the cloud?
So far, the trade war is limited to actions and reactions related to durable things that trade throughout the global economy—cars, steel, and aluminum for instance. Add bourbon and Harleys for good measure. But will that remain the battleground or should we expect greater contentiousness around services, specifically software as a service and CRM […]
Tis the season for software lawsuits
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 16, 2018
Oracle, SAP and Workday have all been hit with lawsuits in the last few weeks for very different reasons as I describe below. But first a preface – lawsuits draw a lot of attention but it’s usually wrong to extrapolate too much from them. Couple of perspectives on that: – A vendor once asked their […]
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