The cloud transition state
There’s a confusing dynamic happening in the software industry caused by the inexorable shift to the cloud. Even before you can get into the analysis you need to identify which cloud(s) you’re thinking about (infrastructure, apps, platform). Also, once you’ve done that you need to decide if you’re partial to technology or financial analysis. It […]
What I learned at the conferences
The end of the second quarter ended the first wave of vendor customer events. Still to come are Salesforce Dreamforce and Oracle OpenWorld—and others—in the fall but mercifully, we have the summer to digest all the information absorbed this spring and re-synch with our native time zones. Here are some things I learned during show […]
Zero Trust Security Update From The SecurIT Zero Trust Summit
Identities, not systems, are the new security perimeter for any digital business, with 81% of breaches involving weak, default or stolen passwords. 53% of enterprises feel they are more susceptible to threats since 2015. 51% of enterprises suffered at least one breach in the past 12 months and malicious insider incidents increased 11% year-over-year. These […]
Why AA’s investment windfall locks up the RPA market for the Big Three
We’ve now seen three pretty small software firms demonstrate 20x valuations… Blue Prism went public on the London Stock Excheng, UiPath received $150m in series B funding and Automation Anywhere has now announced $250 in series A funding. So it’s pretty clear there are three established leaders at the front of the RPA market and investors […]
Relational Databases: Gradually, then Suddenly?
In The Sun Also Rises, the Ernest Hemingway character is asked “How did you go bankrupt?”. His response ‘Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly” I thought of that relative to relational databases during a meeting with Hasso Plattner of SAP in Orlando recently. There was a palpable sense of vindication that his view on columnar databases […]
Where Business Intelligence Is Delivering Value In 2018
Executive Management, Operations, and Sales are the three primary roles driving Business Intelligence (BI) adoption in 2018. Dashboards, reporting, end-user self-service, advanced visualization, and data warehousing are the top five most important technologies and initiatives strategic to BI in 2018. Small organizations with up to 100 employees have the highest rate of BI penetration or adoption […]
Analytics Are Empowering Next-Gen Access And Zero Trust Security
Employee identities are the new security perimeter of any business.
80% of IT security breaches involve privileged credential access according to a Forrester study. According to the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2018 Report, 89% of organizations are relying on just a single security strategy to keep their mobile networks safe.
CIO advisory: Does enterprise software have a soul?
Software runs our companies and lives but remains complex, hard to buy, and expensive to implement. Two top industry observers offer important observations and advice for buyers, vendors, and technologists. Watch for the special advice to avoid “profiteers and charlatans!”
Seven reasons why the Internal Combustion Engine is a dead man walking
The age of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is over. Electric cars are the future. The transition has just begun, but the move from ICE vehicles to Electric will happen sooner and more quickly than most people suspect. What are the factors that lead me to say this with such confidence? China says so! China is […]
The end of Cloud history?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 17, 2018
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then deputy director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff (he has since taught at Johns Hopkins and Stanford among other institutions) predicted the fall of Communism and the world beyond in an article titled “The end of history”. In 1992 he elaborated his thoughts in a book. His view was optimistic – […]
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