OpenText Enterprise World 2017 day 2 keynote with @muhismajzoub
We had a brief analyst Q&A yesterday at OpenText Enterprise World 2017 with Mark Barrenechea (CEO/CTO), Muhi Majzoub (EVP of engineering) and Adam Howatson (CMO), and today we heard more from Majzoub in the morning keynote. He started with a review of the past year of product development — specific product enhancements and releases, more applications, and […]
Major Data Loss Bug in WPEngine and Yoast SEO Plugin
What would you think if I told you that while using the most popular WordPress SEO plugin on one of the most popular WordPress hosting platforms you’d lose a blog post approximately every 30 days and be locked out of your account? It’ll cost you the time it took to write the blog post plus […]
Cloud ECM with @l_elwood @OpenText at AIIM Toronto Chapter
Lynn Elwood, VP of Cloud and Services Solutions at OpenText, presented on managing information in a cloud world at the AIIM chapter meeting in Toronto. This is of particular interest to Canadians, since most of the cloud service offerings that we see are in the US, and many companies are not comfortable with keeping their private […]
Why has Standalone Cloud BI Been Such a Tough Slog?
I remember when I left Business Objects back in 2004 that it was early days in the cloud. We were using Salesforce internally (and one of their larger customers at the time) so I was familiar with and a proponent of cloud-based applications, but never felt great about BI in the cloud. Despite that, Business […]
Research Summary: Artificial Intelligence Delivers Mass Personalization In Commerce
Why Mass Personalization Efforts Fail and Ten Simple Steps to Fix Them Over the past four decades, valiant attempts at personalization have failed due to the lack of relevant and intelligent automation. Moreover, expectations of consumers and prospects have only grown. The result – an expectations gap in personalization that manifests itself in fickler consumers […]
Research Summary: How Ensono Used Workday Finance And HR Cloud To Innovate And Save Money
One Integrated, Global System For Finance And HR Delivers Business Success This case study examines Ensono’s experience implementing Workday’s HR and Finance enterprise applications in the cloud. Ensono provides infrastructure management services for global companies. Ensono delivers next-generation IT solutions and helps organizations plan for optimized, future infrastructures. By implementing Workday, Ensono was able […]
5 reasons why 2007 was a Tipping Point (and a Turning Point) in our Digital Journey
Both really. 2007 was pivotal. A big year in our digital history. It was also the year “An Inconvenient Truth” won the Oscar for best documentary, and Al Gore told us we only had 10 years to save the planet. It was the year my literary hero Kurt Vonnegut died. The Police and the Spice […]
Event Report: #GoogleNext17 On Path To Enterprise Ready
Google Cloud Takes Key Steps To Enterprise Class Over 10,000 customers, prospects, partners, Google developers, and employees gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone West Conference Center for Google’s flagship enterprise event. Of note, Alphabet CEO, Eric Schmidt, book ended the event by highlighting the $30 billion capital infrastructure investment into the overall Google Cloud Platform. The […]
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 […]
Why A Bi-Modal Approach to Digital Transformation Is Just Stupid
Multi-Modal Approach Key to Successful Digital Transformation Like fake news, the over hyped, bi-modal approach to IT and digital transformation is a flawed fallacy perpetuated by ivory tower, non-pragmatic legacy research firms. Lessons learned from successful digital transformation projects emphasize an organizational design comprised of six key virtual or physical teams (see Figure 1): Figure […]
