Project Unite: How a mini-ecosystem gained inspiration from the Tour de France
Driven by Xactly Corp., Project Unite is one of the first mature examples of a mini-ecosystem. Ultimately, the agility and capability of the people within your ecosystem is what wins your yellow jersey.
A Tale of Two Wildly Divergent Emotions
Dennis Howlett posted this weekend “The robots are coming and we are royally screwed”. In contrast, ZDNet ran my column “Automation is coming, but it’ll take longer than you’ll think (and won’t take your job)” The timing of the columns was coincidental, but leads to the question – why do we have such divergent views […]
Managing Business Content
The term “Digital Transformation” means a lot of different things to businesses today. It has to do with technology and the use of technology, sure, but it is also about new ways of operating, new strategies and new ways of creating innovation. The foundation to the digital transformation is the Internet and one of the […]
Workday’s 8/24/2016 Earnings Call — Non-Financial Thoughts
There’s been some great coverage of their latest earnings call, to include from Dennis Howlett at Diginomica and Larry Dignan at ZDNet (and please do point me to other high quality coverage). Now I’m neither a financial or IT analyst, but I do think there are a few items from that earnings call which deserve a […]
Intelligent Applications
Businesses implement software for many different reasons, and to solve, or maybe more accurately help solve, a wide range of business problems. There are some common expectations though across many types of software. Automating business processes was a very prominent theme in the 1990’s, and even though it’s not the most prominent theme today, it […]
Why is Gartner spewing such irresponsible and unsubstantiated data about “robobosses”?
Clients are being subjected to such a load of nonsense about the impending impact of robotics and cognitive computing on enterprise jobs, many are literally terrified. Conversing with the “head of automation” for a F500 organization today, is akin to meeting a Secret Service agent in a clandestine alleyway. These people do actually exist, but […]
Silicon Collar excerpt: Scheid Vineyards
Silicon Collar looks at machines and humans at work in over 50 settings across industries and countries. On this blog I will excerpt many of those settings over the next few weeks. On Deal Architect I will excerpt more of the policy parts of the book. Another hour south, in Salinas, Tyler Scheid explained the […]
Platform as a Platform (PaaP)
The platform land rush is definitely on. You can’t swing a dead cat, as the saying goes, without finding an announcement about some new platform or some established vendor’s attempt to enhance its existing platform. Some sorting out seems to be in order. What’s not a platform these days? Well, if you can easily substitute […]
Research Summary: Samsung Galaxy Note7 More Enterprise-Ready Than Ever
Why Customers Will Benefit From Samsung’s Investment in Enterprise-Grade Mobile Solutions In Constellation’s surveys, mobile enablement continues to be the top priority for CXOs. Unfortunately, concerns about enterprise-grade capabilities continue to hamper mobile adoption. Enterprise-class security, field-ready ruggedness, battery life, alternative user interfaces, payments and mobile wallets, dedicated enterprise sales and support, and industry-vertical focus […]
CXOs Seek Enterprise-Grade Mobile Solutions Despite Seven Barriers
Understand The Seven Barriers To Successful Enterprise Mobility Constellation’s annual survey of disruptive technologies among leading CXOs consistently places mobile enablement as a top three priority. In the 2016 survey, more than 58 percent of respondents revalidated that mobile enablement was their number one priority. Unfortunately, most CXOs and their organizations often find mobile solutions […]
