Filter Results
Results
It turns out "shadow IT" is a bigger phenomenon than many of us believed, at least according to Cisco. The company has determined that on average, large enterprises are using 1,220 individual public cloud services—up to 25 times as many as IT departments it surveyed believed. Cisco is targeting the shadow IT epidemic with a new SaaS product called Cloud Consumption as a Service:
Insight Blog
One of my favourite parts of my job is meeting with collaboration software vendors to discuss with them how they are going to improve, or in the rare case change, the way people work. I have hundreds of briefings each year, some with billion dollar software companies and others with brand new startups. To organize all their products, I've created three categories:
Analyst Blog
Back in January it seemed as though 2015 would be the year of Hype for the Internet of Things, as industry pundits competed to claim how many billions of IoT devices there would be in the coming years. At the end of 2015 many people in IT can state that for them there was no sign of IoT happening, and if you work in the IT department that’s arguably true. IoT is happening, and just like the Internet after the 2002 bust, it’s changing some sectors slowly but surely.
Analyst Blog
NICE Systems is expanding its portfolio of customer interaction analytics software with the purchase of Nexidia, in a move that expands its customer base and allows it to support more use cases.
Insight Blog
This morning Unit4, a rising ERP player with European origins, announced its partnership with the 'hot' collaboration startup Slack. As such its the first partnership of Slack, which has covered more than mindshare in SiliconValley, becoming the 'de-facto' collaboration tool for many local enterprises, and an enterprise software vendor.
Analyst Blog
Red-hot Apache Spark startup Databricks is starting off the new year with a series of top leadership changes that it says will help the company manage rapid growth and hit key targets for 2016. Here are the details from Databricks, which was founded by Spark's creators:
Insight Blog
Vendor Profile
Vendor Profile: Facebook at Work Outlining the challenges and opportunitites Facebook faces in the collaboration market.
Premium Research
Market Overview: Social Business The Software Vendors Changing How Employees Create, Connect, Communicate and CollaborateThis report highlights some of the social business software vendors who are delivering innovative solutions that improve the way people get work done. The software vendors in this report are each challenging the status quo in the way people work.
Salesforce Analyst Summit 2016 highlights Wave Analytics Cloud makeover and work in progress on the Internet of Things strategy and Salesforce Thunder. Salesforce has successfully rebooted its Wave Analytics Cloud. … Continue reading →
Analyst Blog
Insight Blog
The complexity of marketing has increased exponentially. The question on many CMO’s mind’s range from: Do I have the right technology? Am I using what I have well? What else do I need? Are my processes efficient and effective to take advantage of the technology? Do my people have the right skills, mindsets and […]
Analyst Blog
Organizations In Search Of Growth Must Consider Macro ForcesBurgeoning money supplies in both the US and China have fueled an indefensible growth post Global Financial Crisis. Since 2000, the money supply has tripled from $6000 USD billion to 12288.10 USD billion in November of 2015 (see Figure 1). Since 2005, china’s money supply has grown 7X from 20000 CNY Billion to 137400 CNY Billion in November of 2015 (see Figure 2). While this level of money supply growth would normally cause inflation, income inequality has played a key role in keeping inflation in check because the richest 1% of people in the world now own more than 50% of global wealth...
Analyst Blog
Earlier this week Salesforce held their 2016 Analyst Summit. At this event, they shared information about their product and marketing plans, we heard customer stories, and we were able to ask questions to several top executives. In the video below I provide an overview of the Salesforce product portfolio, explain some of the terminology they use (ex: Lightning, Thunder, Wave, Salesforce1), and highlight some of their strengths in the collaboration market.
Analyst Blog
I think most brands, when they started in social and digital media didn’t realize the commitment they were heading into to be content creators or essentially publishers. But what the recent past has shown is that engaging customers in digital and social is that great content is key – for engagement, interaction, thought leadership, social selling and being on customer’s radar as relevant and authentically genuine in this new digital era. And interesting chart by SmartInsights, shows what happens every 60 seconds:...
Analyst Blog
Happy New Year to all, I hope that your 2016 is already off to a great start. Looking forward to this year there are some exiting changes as well and continued progress in other areas. Here are some trends we are focusing on for 2016: Continue reading →
Analyst Blog
The fallout from Chipotle's recent norovirus outbreak at some of its stores continues to mount, with sales plummeting and a federal criminal investigation underway, as NPR reports:
Insight Blog
A first post for 2016 aiming to start the year with a mix of fun and a serious point concerning a $29.99 virtual reality ‘toy’ that will have been Christmas present for a lot of kids. The View-Master is a toy only because it is being marketed that way, it is actually a quality product based on Google Cardboard. This is mass consumer market Virtual Reality ideal for Smart City Services!
Analyst Blog
Large systems integrators are going on a bit of a shopping spree in recent days, with the objects of desire being specialized services firms focused on prominent SaaS applications such as Salesforce and Workday.
Insight Blog