By Dave Kellogg on August 6, 2018
If all you’re looking for is the free download link, let’s cut to the chase: here’s where you can download the new 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions and the new 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close Solutions. These MQs are written jointly by John Van Decker and Chris Iervolino […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged budgeting, Close, Close Management, Cloud, consolidation, Consolidations, CPM, EPM, finance, financial close, financial modeling, financial planning, financial planning & analysis, FPA, gartner, Magic Quadrant, management reporting, modeling, planning
By Denis Pombriant on July 17, 2018
There’s a confusing dynamic happening in the software industry caused by the inexorable shift to the cloud. Even before you can get into the analysis you need to identify which cloud(s) you’re thinking about (infrastructure, apps, platform). Also, once you’ve done that you need to decide if you’re partial to technology or financial analysis. It […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud, CRM, Digital Disruption, oracle, Seeking Alpha
By Sandy Kemsley on May 30, 2018
Just because there’s a land rush towards SaaS business applications like Salesforce for some of your business applications, it doesn’t mean that your content and data are all going to be housed on that platform. In reality, you have a combination of cloud applications, cloud content that may apply across several applications, and on-premise content; […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, ECM
By Sandy Kemsley on May 14, 2018
I attended Alfresco’s analyst day and a customer day in New York in late March, and due to some travel and project work, just finding time to publish my notes now. Usually I do that while I’m at the conference, but part of the first day was under NDA so I needed to think about […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AI, AlfrescoDay, BPM, Cloud, Digital Transformation, ECM
By R "Ray" Wang on May 11, 2018
It’s The Experience, Stupid! Over 18,000 customers, partners, prospects, and influencers gathered at the Sands Convention Center and Expo in Las Vegas for the annual ServiceNow Knowledge Event (see Figure 1). The vendor best known for its success in IT Service Management has been on a growth tear. In March 2017, CEO Frank Slootman handed […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 23, 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. […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, Analytics and Big Data, Cloud, Cloud BI, Cloud Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Louis Columbus' blog
By Dave Kellogg on April 4, 2018
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, […]
Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, BI, Business Objects, Cloud, data, data science, disruption, enterprise software, EPM, Leadership, lessons learned, Management, SaaS, Uncategorized
By R "Ray" Wang on March 26, 2018
Focus On Humanizing AI As organizations begin their journey into artificial intelligence (AI), ethics often enter the design process. While achieving a uniform set of ethics may seem insurmountable, some design points will help facilitate the humanization of artificial intelligence and provide appropriate checks and balances. Constellation has identified design pillars for Level 1 AI. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 5, 2018
Amazon AR View Targets Android Amazon has added its AR View augmented reality (AR) offering to Android devices on Google’s ARCore. Developers can create AR experiences in applications, games, and other apps. The feature runs from Amazon’s app icon. The offering was launched on Apple iOS in November for customers using ARKit. Amazon AR […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 16, 2018
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 […]
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