Artificial Intelligence Will Enable 38% Profit Gains By 2035
By 2035 AI technologies have the potential to increase productivity 40% or more. AI will increase economic growth an average of 1.7% across 16 industries by 2035. Information and Communication, Manufacturing and Financial Services will be the top three industries that gain economic growth in 2035 from AI’s benefits. AI will have the most positive […]
SapphireNow – is SAP poised to lead the industry again?
I went to SapphireNow in Orlando. I am getting requests to write an update to SAP Nation. There is plenty I could write about – how thousands of SAP customers are trying out one or more of the “coping strategies” I had outlined in the book to manage their exposure to SAP and partners – […]
Machine Learning Is The New Proving Ground For Competitive Advantage
50% of organizations are planning to use machine learning to better understand customers in 2017. 48% are planning to use machine learning to gain greater competitive advantage. Top future applications of machine learning include automated agents/bots (42%), predictive planning (41%), sales & marketing targeting (37%), and smart assistants (37%). These and many other insights are […]
Business Intelligence And Analytics In The Cloud, 2017
78% are planning to increase the use of cloud for BI and data management in the next twelve months. 46% of organizations prefer public cloud platforms for cloud BI, analytics and data management deployments. Cloud BI adoption increased in respondent companies from 29% to 43% from 2013 to 2016. Almost half of organizations using cloud […]
5 Ways Integration Is Enabling The Factory Of The Future
93% of global product leaders say that predictive maintenance combined with real-time equipment monitoring enabled by integration is a must-have for factory planning today. 75% of global product leaders plan to implement factory of the future initiatives and programs in the next five years or less, starting with Industry 4.0 67% of automotive executives expect […]
Top Tech Trends for 2017
For many years, like most analyst and/or analyst firms I know, I’ve published some sort of annual “predictions” at the start of the new year. This year, in my new role (I can still say “new” for the rest of January, my 1 year anniversary isn’t till tomorrow) I’ve put together a small team (Rob […]
In-Memory Analytics: The Other Kind – A Key Success Factor for Your Career
I’m not going to talk about columnar databases, compression, horizontal partitioning, SAP Hana, or real-time vs. pre-aggregated summarization in this post on in-memory analytics. I’m going to talk about the other kind of in-memory analytics. The kind that can make or break your career. What do you mean, the other kind of in-memory analytics? Quite […]
McKinsey’s 2016 Analytics Study Defines The Future Of Machine Learning
U.S. retailer supply chain operations who have adopted data and analytics have seen up to a 19% increase in operating margin over the last five years. Design-to-value, supply chain management and after-sales support are three areas where analytics are making a financial contribution in manufacturing. 40% of all the potential value associated with the Internet […]
Analytics, Data Storage Will Lead Cloud Adoption In 2017
U.S.-based organizations are budgeting $1.77M for cloud spending in 2017 compared to $1.30M for non-U.S. based organizations. 10% of enterprises with over 1,000 employees are projecting they will spend $10M or more on cloud computing apps and platforms throughout this year. Organizations are using multiple cloud models to meet their business’s needs, including private (62%), […]
6M Developers Are Creating Big Data And Advanced Analytics Apps Today
2M developers are working on IoT applications, increasing 34% since the last year. Over 50% of the developers working on IoT applications are writing software that utilizes sensors in some capacity. 4M enterprise developers play decision-making roles when it comes to selecting organizational IT development resources. Another 5.2 million hold decision-making authority for selecting IT […]
