Scaling Cloud Services Is Key To Growing A Digital Business
93% of enterprises are securing remote locations with a centralized approach that rarely scales to secure every endpoint and identity of remote branch locations, leaving an enterprise more vulnerable to a breach. Enabling network security is the greatest challenge enterprises face when managing a highly distributed network with numerous remote locations. In an era of […]
What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2019
Between 2018 and 2019, organizations that have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) grew from 4% to 14%, according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Agenda survey. Conversational AI remains at the top of corporate agendas spurred by the worldwide success of Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and others. Enterprises are making progress with AI as it grows more widespread, […]
Why Manufacturing Supply Chains Need Zero Trust
According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, manufacturing has been experiencing an increase in financially motivated breaches in the past couple of years, whereby most breaches involve Phishing and the use of stolen credentials. 50% of manufacturers report experiencing a breach over the last 12 months, 11% of which were severe according to Sikich’s […]
Plex ML project – something every software vendor/systems integrator could emulate
Plex ML project – something every software vendor/systems integrator could emulate Machine Learning is a hot topic. Every software vendor is talking about ML and AI in their products. Plex applied ML to something very different – an understanding of how their customers configure parameters in the Plex system. This conversation with Jerry Foster, CTO, […]
Where have all the process visionaries gone?
A recent visit to an Amazon Fulfillment Center was eye-opening. They have completely redefined the old warehouse pick, pack, ship mindset. It’s now stow, pick, pack, verify, and in their lingo, SLAM and “chaotic storage”. Kiva robots and miles of conveyor belts bring work to employees not the other way round. Scanners, scales, sensors monitor […]
Oracle is a marketing company not a tech company
In an industry where transparency is important, and everyone is committed to improving it’s natural that some review of any outcome is expected. So, after some good quarterly and annual financial reports, there are inevitably Monday morning quarterbacks who will find nits to pick. These are distinctly different from the people forecasting doom and gloom for […]
Cloud Applications – A long, winding road dotted with Bystanders
Frank Scavo’s Computer Economics has a nice post about the the long, winding road – the slow customer march to cloud applications. Bill Kutik pointed to similar slow movement more specific to HCM cloud applications in a recent LinkedIn post. My recent book and my advisory work provide an additional perspective to their data. I identified a large […]
Control your own destiny when it comes to EOL of your packages
A recent Rimini Street survey says that in spite of the announced 2025 end of life for core applications in SAP Business Suite 7 ERP product and older versions, “Of the IT leaders surveyed, two-thirds state they either have no plans to migrate to S/4HANA (35%) or are undecided about moving to S/4HANA (32%) ” IDC, on […]
Customer Experiences Define Success In A Digital-First World
91% of enterprises have adopted or have plans to adopt a digital-first strategy. Of these enterprises, 48% already have a digital-first approach in place. Creating better customer experiences (67%), improving process efficiency through automation (53%), and driving new revenue (48%) are the top three digital business strategies enterprises are investing in today. 35% of enterprises […]
TAMyopia
By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 11, 2019
When I was at PwC in the early 90s, I remember we used to throw out statements like “we have 40 to 50% market share in the SAP (or PeopleSoft) implementation market” When I got to Gartner I saw their competitors were saying similar stuff. So, I started telling them – “no, actually you have […]
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