Filter Results
Results
The traditional pyramid is under attack. AI arbitrage is here.
Most professional services firms have operated in a pyramid model where the most senior owner of a P&L would have a staffing ratio of 1:3 to 1:5 and their next reports would have a staffing ratio of 1:5 to 1:10. This pyramid structure would continue until the last level. There could be as many as 8 to 10 levels in a structure that looks like this with billable rates per hour that would correspond to seniority and level of expertise.
Analyst Blog
Open Research
Equifax in 2024 will decommission mainframes and data centers in North America as it largely completes a cloud transformation that dates back to 2018. Now Equifax CEO Mark Begor is looking for more product velocity, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and competitive advantage.
ServiceNow CFO Gina Mastantuono said the company's new generative AI SKUs, Pro Plus, is seeing rapid adoption, but it will take time to move the revenue needle. She also provided insights on how ServiceNow decides how to price its products.
Insight Blog
Snowflake CFO Michael Scarpelli said it's foolish to pigeonhole new CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy as a technology when the business he ran at Google, the ad unit, had more employees than Snowflake has today.
Speaking at a JMP Securities conference, Scarpelli talked about last week's big news that Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman was stepping down and Ramaswamy was taking over. The transition news rattled Snowflake's market cap as shares tanked.
Insight Blog
Doug Henschen talks Zoho #analytics with Kris James of Sparex Limited. Kris describes his experience with Zoho's unique features, pricing, and #AI/natural language query capabilities (specifically with Ask Zia).
If you're considering adopting Zoho #AI technology, watch the full interview to learn why Kris chose to continue with Zoho rather than other competitors...
Video
The impacts from a Feb. 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack continue to be felt as physicians still cannot file claims in many cases and practices are beginning to feel the squeeze.
Change Healthcare, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group, was hit with a ransomware attack that disconnected systems. Change Healthcare processes claims and other financial processes and was attacked by ALPHV/Blackcat.
Insight Blog
Deadline for Submissions June 21, 2024
We are excited to announce the launch of our fourteenth annual SuperNova Awards. This prestigious program recognizes early adopters who demonstrate true leadership in digital business and shines a light on those teams who have overcome the odds to successfully apply emerging and disruptive technologies.
Analyst Blog
PC giants are all betting that AI-enabled PCs will get sales growing again and create new use cases, but it's unclear whether technology buyers will play along.
Apple's launch of the new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the M3 processor dedicated a good bit of space to AI applications. Apple noted:
Insight Blog
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has scaled the company with humility, a focus on giving back to smaller communities, and playing the long game when it comes to #technology, people and customer value...
At #ZohoDay2024, Constellation Research CEO R "Ray" Wang sat down with Sridhar to talk about approaching #business and social good, #innovation and focusing on #customers. Their conversation touches on the following topics...
📌 Transnational localism
📌 Taking a long-term view
Video
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has scaled a company with humility, a focus on giving back to smaller communities and playing the long game when it comes to technology, people and customer value.
Insight Blog
Dell Technologies reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter as the company saw strong demand for AI-optimized servers.
Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and chief operating officer, Dell Technologies, said orders for AI-optimized servers grew 40% sequentially and backlog doubled to $2.9 billion. "We've just started to touch the AI opportunities ahead of us, and we believe Dell is uniquely positioned with our broad portfolio to help customers build GenAI solutions that meet performance, cost and security requirements," said Clarke.
Insight Blog
Hewlett Packard Enterprise posted a mixed first quarter where sales fell short of expectations due to what CFO Marie Myers said were "challenges brought by the softening of the networking market and GPU deal timing."
Insight Blog
Oracle continued to build out its generative AI tools for its Autonomous Database with conversational AI, a broad set of large language models, new analytics for knowledge graphs, spatial learning and no-code modeling.
By bringing generative AI models to its database portfolio, Oracle is looking to make models more dynamic by connecting them to real-time data. The general theme behind Autonomous Database Select AI is to enable insights in natural language without the user needing to know where and how data is stored.
Insight Blog
The Leap Year Brings A New Copilot - Finance
Microsoft announced the public preview of Copilot for Finance. With tools such as Copilot, the user experience begins and ends with generative AI. In conversations with Vice President of Business Applications Engineering - Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications Marketing - Emily He, Vice President of AI-led ERP Engineering - Georg Glantshnig, users can now apply geneative AI across departments such as sales, service, finance, and IT with Copilot for M365, Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, Copilot for Finance, and Copilot Studio.
Analyst Blog
If you want to know what VMware customers are plotting in the wake of Broadcom's acquisition it's worth checking out Nutanix's results, which are getting a gradual boost.
Insight Blog
Imagine you walk into a pharmacy to get a critical medicine that you need right now. The pharmacist says, “we can’t fill your prescription because your insurance provider’s system has been hacked.”
Analyst Blog
Snowflake has a new CEO. The company said Sridhar Ramaswamy will become CEO immediately as Frank Slootman stepped down but remains Chairman of the board.
Insight Blog
Salesforce delivered revenue growth of 11% from a year ago and joined the ranks of tech companies paying dividends.
The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $1.47 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $2.29 per share on revenue of $9.29 billion.
Wall Street was expecting Salesforce to report fourth quarter earnings of $2.27 a share on revenue of $9.22 billion.
Insight Blog
Travis Trembath, VP, Fan Strategy & Experience at the PGA Tour, sees Apple's Vision Pro potentially as the future of golf experiences and engagement with fans.
Speaking at Constellation Research's Ambient Experience in Austin, Trembath detailed PGA Tour's Apple Vision Pro rollout and how it can influence experiences, advertising and gambling.
Insight Blog
Constellation Research kicked off its Ambient Experience 2024 in Austin and the key theme was the intersection of data, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and employee and customer experiences.
Here's the recap of everything we learned.
Ambient Experience Summit | AX100 2024 | All AX Leaders
Insight Blog
Zoom Video Communications reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter, raised its first quarter outlook and said it would buy back $1.5 billion in shares.
The company reported fourth-quarter revenue of $1.15 billion, up 2.6% from a year ago, with net income of $299 million, or 95 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings for the fourth quarter were $1.42 a share.
Insight Blog
Workday's delivered fourth-quarter sales that were slightly below expectations, but handily topped its earnings estimates. Separately, Workday said it will buy HiredScore, which specializes in talent orchestration.
The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $4.42 a share, which includes a $1.1 billion tax benefit. Non-GAAP earnings for the fourth quarter were $1.57 a share on revenue of $1.9 billion, up 17% from a year ago.
Insight Blog
Mistral AI said it released Mistral Large, a next-gen text generation model that's designed to be on par with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude 2 and Google's Gemini Pro. Mistral AI said Mistral Large will be available on Microsoft Azure.
Insight Blog