Insights News
October 29, 2026

Outcome based pricing: Pros, cons and nuances

Revenue & Growth Effectiveness
Outcome-based pricing sounds good, but it is hard to put into a contract. However, there's enterprise buying interest in sharing risk with vendors and the likely end state is a hyb...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Microsoft delivers strong Q3, Azure growth up 48%

Data to Decisions
Microsoft reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings as Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion, up 30% from a year ago....
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Teamwork in the AI age: Pods, clusters, flocks

Future of Work
Team structures need to adapt as AI agents and humans increasingly work together in smaller structures, or pods. A pod is a hybrid team of humans and AI that will also include peop...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Carbon

Data to Decisions
Gemini 4 Carbon builds on Gemini 4 Argon, which launched two weeks ago. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

An early read on your 2027 AI budget

Board Strategy
Enterprise AI budgets are likely to tighten and be scrutinized amid concerns about returns and value. In addition, cybersecurity has taken back some of the AI budget even if it's s...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Zoho revamps Zoho Analytics, could extend its reach

Data to Decisions
Zoho revamped Zoho Analytics with business context, including ontology and semantics, AI agents that specialize in analytics, governance and a unified platform that operate headles...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 27, 2026

2027 themes to watch and what you should do now

Data to Decisions
For 2027, the AI playbook is going to include a lot of volatility, build your own approaches, agentic AI at scale, governance headaches and a focus on humans on multiple fronts. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 27, 2026

Boomi CEO Lucas: Beware your zombie AI agents

Data to Decisions
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas said there are plenty of real returns from AI agents, but companies will need to get serious about costs and the quot;zombie agents running in your organizati...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 26, 2026

Verizon vs. Starlink: It's about AI's edge, last mile

Tech Optimization
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman weighed in on the potential competition from SpaceX's Starlink and said the assumption is satellite mobile service will become a reality, but it'll take ab...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 23, 2026

How Google Public Sector’s RISE unit works: Show don’t tell

Innovation & Product-led Growth
Google Public Sector's Rapid Innovation Specialist Engineering (RISE) group is a bit of a vibe coding jazz band that aims to show customers what they can do via prototypes and the...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 22, 2026

Open models gain traction in enterprises, tech CEOs say

Data to Decisions
Technology leaders from IBM, SAP and Meta all said that usage of open models internally and among customers is gaining momentum. The comments are just the latest indicator that fro...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 21, 2026

Meta optimistic about Muse, Meta Enterprise Platform returns

Next-Generation Customer Experience
Meta said it will continue to invest heavily in AI infrastructure, but can't predict how efforts like Muse, Muse Wonder and Meta Enterprise Platform will juice growth beyond its co...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 21, 2026

SAP posts strong Q3 on cloud growth

Data to Decisions
SAP posted third quarter revenue growth of 13%, cloud revenue growth of 26% and crossed the €10 billion quarterly revenue mark for the first time. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 21, 2026

Microsoft launches Contact Center Intelligence in public preview

Next-Generation Customer Experience
Microsoft launched Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence in public preview in a move that keeps existing systems in place, but adds an agentic AI layer that can add context to cust...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 20, 2026

Security at machine speed has its growing pains

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
CTO of the Department of the Navy Justin Fanelli, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Timothy James White, Chief of Texas Cyber Command, and Jamie Wolff, CIO of the National Nuclear Administration...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 20, 2026

Salesforce buys Braze for $5.66 billion

Next-Generation Customer Experience
Salesforce said it will buy customer engagement company Braze for $5.66 billion, or $47.50 a share in cash. ...
Larry Dignan