Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies
Software companies continue to deliver the highest growth rates for the 25th straight year, representing 71% of the entire list, the highest-ever percentage in the history of the rankings. 353 of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America are in the software industry according to Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500, the most ever in the […]
Where Cloud Computing Jobs Will Be In 2019
$146,350 is the median salary for cloud computing professionals in 2018. There are 50,248 cloud computing positions available in the U.S. today available from 3,701 employers and 101,913 open positions worldwide today. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Deloitte and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have the most open cloud computing jobs today. Java, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software […]
Research: CIO relationships and priorities remain conflicted
A new global CIO study from Deloitte sheds light on why CIOs and IT have a tough time. The data offers lessons on how to fix the problem.
Digital transformation and the innovative CFO
Discussions about digital business transformation usually center on marketing and the CMO. The popular notion is that digital transformation is primarily a set of online marketing activities such as e-commerce, building communities, and interacting with customers on social media. However, more sophisticated observers recognize that digital transformation has significant implications for operations and business models. For example, […]
CRM Watchlist 2014 winners: Customer engagement
Disparate in what they do, they all involve technologies associated with engaging customers or at least understanding what they have to know so that they can engage customers.
Social Business: Pining for the Fjords!
“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it… It’s dead!” So, which is it dead or not dead? There is so much confusion in the market about what “Social Business” is, it might as well be a dead parrot (too). And there is no shortage of people who come at this conversation with a perspective […]
Marin County restarts ERP project; Deloitte under scrutiny in CA and MA
Three years after terminating a failed ERP project, Marin County, California, is once again trying its hand at an enterprise implementation. This time around, the county has learned lessons from the past that may help drive success. Marin’s original project went $30 million over budget and culminated in a lawsuit claiming fraud against Deloitte […]
PwC-Booz: The seven year itch
The recent PwC decision to acquire Booz took me back to younger days when I was an reluctant accountant at PW (the C came later after it merged with Coopers). I had little desire to do time in auditing or get a CPA certificate, but that was a requirement back them to qualify for its […]
Massachusetts grills Deloitte over large IT failures
This week, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts held a hearing, most likely the first of several, examining failed IT projects run by Deloitte Consulting. The hearing focused on Deloitte projects for the state’s Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Revenue. I attended as an observer. The complex nature of large IT projects makes untangling truth […]
And Oracle and Netsuite
When Oracle announced its cloud extensions via Microsoft and Salesforce this week, I wondered where NetSuite was in the mix. It was announced today, in a nuanced positioning. NetSuite ERP and Oracle Fusion HRM will go to market together in the mid market. And I was pleased to see for NetSuite’s sake, Oracle acknowledge its role in […]
