Analyst Blog

Get updates about trends, events, and research.

Interested in Membership?

See if membership is right for you
Membership Options
Analyst Blog
October 12, 2026

Trust, Identity & Control: Every Action Earns Authority

Board Strategy
Enterprise access was designed around a relatively static bargain. Establish an identity, decide what that identity may access, grant the permissions, and assume they remain appropriate until something triggers a review. Authentication has improved, and permissions have become more granular, but the underlying model st...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
October 8, 2026

Microsoft Brings More Agentic Intelligence into the Flow of Work for CRM Users

Instead of forcing professionals to log into a separate platform to do business, Microsoft is embedding CRM directly into everyday work tools, turning AI assistance into autonomous execution, modularizing domain knowledge into reusable skills, and opening up clear migration pathways to an agentic future....
Martin Schneider
Analyst Blog
December 13, 2019

#AskingFor Liz

New C-Suite
If you weren’t able to be at CCE2019, you missed it....
Liz Miller
Analyst Blog
November 24, 2019

Reframing Digital Identity as Data Protection

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
lt;pgt;If as David Birch says quot;we are getting nowhere in digital identityquot; then why not re-frame the problem? Identity is a special type of data, needing extra protection o...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
November 21, 2019

#DF19 from a healthcare perspective

Next-Generation Customer Experience
It was a meeting of the minds as always with the Salesforce Dreamforce confer...
David Chou