“Always Scrubbing the Pipeline” Means “Never Scrubbing the Pipeline.”
Perhaps you’ve seen this movie: CEO: “Wow the quarterly pipeline dropped 20% this week. What’s going on sales VP?” Sales VP: “Well, that’s because we cleaned it up this week.” CEO: “That sounds great, but you said that last week.” VP of Sales: “Well, that’s because we scrubbed it then, too.” CEO: “So shouldn’t it […]
The State Of Cloud Business Intelligence, 2018
Cloud BI adoption is soaring in 2018, nearly doubling 2016 adoption levels. Over 90% of Sales & Marketing teams say that Cloud BI is essential for getting their work done in 2018, leading all categories in the survey. 66% of organizations that consider themselves completely successful with Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives currently use the cloud. […]
My Appearance on DisrupTV Episode 100
Last week I sat down with interviewers Doug Henschen, Vala Afshar, and a bit of Ray Wang (live from a 777 taxiing en route to Tokyo) to participate in Episode 100 of DisrupTV along with fellow guests DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth and big data / science recruiter Virginia Backaitis. We covered a full gamut of topics, […]
10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Marketing
84% of marketing organizations are implementing or expanding AI and machine learning in 2018. 75% of enterprises using AI and machine learning enhance customer satisfaction by more than 10%. 3 in 4 organizations implementing AI and machine learning increase sales of new products and services by more than 10% according to Capgemini. Measuring marketing’s many contributions […]
Roundup Of Machine Learning Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2018
Machine learning patents grew at a 34% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 2013 and 2017, the third-fastest growing category of all patents granted. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that spending on AI and ML will grow from $12B in 2017 to $57.6B by 2021. Deloitte Global predicts the number of machine learning pilots and […]
Event Report: Microsoft Biz Apps Analyst Day Highlights Strategic Transformation #MSBizApps
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Seeks End To End Coverage Of Business Apps On February 10th to 12th, 2018, industry analysts converged onto Building 92 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA, for an update on the Microsoft Business Applications. The Business Applications Analyst Forum was hosted by key executives including: Source: © 2018 R Wang […]
2018 Will be A Breakout Year For Supply Chain Analytics
While 94% of supply chain leaders say that digital transformation will fundamentally change supply chains in 2018, only 44% have a strategy ready. 66% of supply chain leaders say advanced supply chain analytics are critically important to their supply chain operations in the next 2 to 3 years. Forecast accuracy, demand patterns, product tracking traceability, […]
53% Of Companies Are Adopting Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics adoption reached 53% in 2017 for all companies interviewed, up from 17% in 2015. Data warehouse optimization remains the top use case for big data. Among big data distributions, Cloudera is the most popular, followed by Hortonworks, MAP/R, and Amazon EMR. These and many other insights are from Dresner Advisory Services’ insightful 2017 Big Data […]
Putting the A Back in FP&A with Automated, Integrated Planning
I was reading this blog post on Continuous Planning by Rob Kugel of Ventana Research the other day and it reminded me of one of my (and Rob’s) favorite sayings: We need to put the A back in FP&A This means that the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) team at many companies is so busy […]
The emergence of intelligent HR software
I recently wrote from Workday Rising about the Age of Intelligence. It’s not just Workday which has been busy. John Sumser of HE Examiner has a study which looks at intelligent tools at Workday and 29 other HR-centric vendors. He has some interesting observations and caveats including We began the report as an investigation into Artificial Intelligence. […]
