AI’s moment
There’s lots of talk pro and con these days about bots, AI, and intelligent assistants. A lot of this talk is not necessarily new; it’s been percolating around the industry for decades. Vinnie Mirchandani, a friend and truly gifted analyst, wrote a book recently, Silicon Collar that accepts that this automation might be eliminating jobs […]
Oracle AI: Adaptive Intelligence
As Steve Miranda previewed last week, one of the more interesting announcements this week at Oracle OpenWorld is around its Adaptive Intelligent Applications. Steve had said “Basically, what we’re doing is leveraging our data cloud, which I know you’re familiar with (having profiled BlueKai), together with machine-learning algorithms and incorporating that into our transactional applications […]
Seven Ways Microsoft Redefined Azure For The Enterprise And Emerged A Leader
As of Q2, 2016 Microsoft Azure has achieved 100% year-over-year revenue growth and now has the 2nd largest market share of the Cloud Infrastructure Services market according to Synergy Research. Microsoft’s FY16 Q4 earnings show that Azure attained 102% revenue growth in the latest fiscal year and computing usage more than doubling year-over-year. 451 Research […]
Roundup Of Analytics, Big Data & BI Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2016
Big Data & business analytics software worldwide revenues will grow from nearly $122B in 2015 to more than $187B in 2019, an increase of more than 50% over the five-year forecast period. The market for prescriptive analytics software is estimated to grow from approximately $415M in 2014 to $1.1B in 2019, attaining a 22% CAGR. […]
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 […]
5 Ways Brexit Is Accelerating AWS And Public Cloud Adoption
Deutsche Bank estimates AWS derives about 15% of its total revenue mix or has attained a $1.5B revenue run rate in Europe. AWS is now approximately 6x the size of Microsoft Azure globally according to Deutsche Bank. These and other insights are from the research note published earlier this month by Deutsche Bank Markets Research […]
Data Driven Software Buying Decisions
We live in an information flooded world fueled by a constant state of “connected”. Businesses have tried for quite a long time to become “data driven”, so with the avalanche of data and ubiquitous connectivity you would think that supporting business decisions would be a routine approach at most companies. But, as all of you […]
10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
Bottom line: Every manufacturer has the potential to integrate machine learning into their operations and become more competitive by gaining predictive insights into production. Machine learning’s core technologies align well with the complex problems manufacturers face daily. From striving to keep supply chains operating efficiently to producing customized, built- to-order products on time, machine learning […]
Machine Learning Is Redefining The Enterprise In 2016
Bottom line: Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data, leading to diverse company-wide strategies succeeding faster and more profitably than before. Industries Where Machine Learning Is Making An Impact The good news for businesses is that all the data they have been […]
Usability
Usability and overall user experience with a software product is one of the most significant factors in user satisfaction. At G2 Crowd, as a part of the product review process we capture 7 different satisfaction metrics including usability. The other metrics, ease of doing business, maintenance, meets requirements, net promoter (NPS), setup and support, will […]
