This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
DisrupTV Episode 337: Leadership Lessons from Navy SEALs and Management Experts
In DisrupTV Episode 337, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in insightful conversations with two distinguished guests:
Akamai Technologies wants to be your infrastructure as a service alternative by offering compute at the edge of networks for low-latency workloads. Akamai, which acquired cloud services provider Linode in 2022, has just completed its third wave of new compute regions.
Kathleen McLaughlin, Walmart's Chief Sustainability Officer, said Walmart has integrated sustainability and ESG efforts into its business operations as well as its planning cycles.
Despite a lot of talk and mandates about moving back to the office, enterprises are more likely to adopt hybrid work plans over the next three years, according to a Bank of America survey. That data point is just one of many highlighting how the future of the office is still being debated.
Accenture said generative AI deals are accelerating and enterprises are focusing on transformation even as they remain cautious about the economy.
Those takeaways were revealed on Accenture's fourth quarter earnings conference call. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $2.15 per share on revenue of $16 billion, up 4% from a year ago. For fiscal 2023, Accenture reported earnings of $10.77 per share on revenue of $64.1 billion, up 4%.
Workday said it is aiming to deliver annual subscription revenue growth of 17% to 19% over the next three years with a plan that revolves around expanding its enterprise wallet share, winning midmarket companies and international expansion.
That outlook comes after a bevy of announcements around generative AI and platform updates at Workday Rising in San Francisco. The outlook for fiscal 2027 disappointed Wall Street analysts.
Catch the latest episode of ConstellationTV: Co-hosts Liz Miller and Holger Mueller give the rundown of the latest #tech news trends, then catch a #CX convo between Liz and Nitin Badjatia, SVP of SAP Solution Management. The episode concludes with a #Salon50 roast of Larry Dignan
00:00 - Introduction
01:03 - Tech News (Oracle Cloud World, AI & co-pilot leaders)
15:42 - CR CX Convo with Nitin Badjatia, SVP of SAP Solution Management
26:41 - Salon 50 with Larry Dignan 35:18 - Bloopers!
CX and how an organization orchestrates strategies to ensure that this enterprise-wide team sport develops durable profitable relationships with customers is undergoing a massive shift that is blurring the lines between functional fifedoms. So how will technology stacks and solutions follow suit?
Workday launched a series of HCM and Adaptive Planning update along with generative AI tools for enterprises, managers and developers.
Workday's generative AI rollout and updates across its finance and human resources applications come as ERP vendors are racing to add features that streamline work, bolster productivity and deliver real-time insights. Rivals SAP and Oracle recently outlined generative AI updates across applications.
The company outlined the updates, strategy and approach to generative AI at its Workday Rising annual customer conference.
SAP launched Joule, a generative AI copilot that will be embedded throughout SAP's cloud applications to deliver insights based on the company's platform data and third-party sources. SAP is trying to move its customers to S/4HANA Cloud and dangling innovations such as Joule to prod enterprises off of on-premises deployments.
MongoDB launched a series of new features across its platform that illustrates that the company is staying aggressive on adding generative AI tools while remaining focused on developers.
DisrupTV Episode 336: Innovative Leadership in Real Estate, Fashion, and Design
In DisrupTV Episode 336, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in insightful conversations with three distinguished guests:
Mega acquisition spree continues in the Observability space
This time it is the blockbuster deal in which Cisco is buying Splunk for $28B in cash. While the numbers look eye-popping at first glance, Splunk is bringing in significant revenue at $4B ARR - the purchase price is only 7 times ARR.
These were the other acquisitions in the observability front in 2023 alone:
The dust hasn’t even settled from breaking down the mega-campground known as Dreamforce that we see Salesforce following through on a promise made in those crowded halls of Moscone Center: AI should be simple, trusted and available for all to deploy in meaningful ways. Salesforce has announced its intention to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code/no-code bot-builder that has been hot in the customer service and contact center space with their easy to deploy and manage AI-powered agents.
Enterprises are being barraged by IT incidents, face a shortage of skilled personnel and lack the time to follow best practices or automate response processes, according to a new Constellation Research report. And major IT incidents aren't cheap.
Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available to enterprises Nov. 1 in a move that will test the limits of the add-on approach to cloud services and create a new condition: Copilot fatigue.
At an event allegedly focused on Microsoft Surface hardware, the software and cloud giant outlined plans to roll out Copilot to Windows 11 with more than 150 new features. Microsoft is also adding OpenAI's latest DALL.E model to Bing and updating Bing Chat Enterprise.
Cisco said it will acquire Splunk for $28 billion, or $157 a share, in a deal that will give the networking giant a big play in security, AI and observability.