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Analyst Blog
March 27, 2024

Tuesday's Tip: Why Unethical Marketing Costs Tech Vendors 100’s of Millions Every Year

Marketing Transformation
What Every Tech Vendor CEO and CFO Should Know About Their CMO’s Wasted Investments In Vanity Metrics Marketing professionals face massive pressure to show that their marketing investments have paid off. In a zero-interest rate environment, budgets were flush and marketers had a lot of leeway in building brand, hosting amazing events, and buying ads to improve market presence. However, a shift to a five percent interest rate environment has many CMO’s focused on performance marketing, showing return on investment, and moving MQLs from SQLs as fast as they can.
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
March 18, 2024

New Analysis: Nvidia GTC 2024 Is The Davos of AI

Data to Decisions
New Chips, New Business Models Ahead In Accelerated Computing Nvidia stock is up 267% YoY. With over 10,000 people in physical attendance and up to 100,000 people virtually attending, this could be the largest AI conference. All eyes on the next wave for AI with CEO Jensen Huang ready to keynote at 1:00 pm PT at the SAP Center in San Jose. The key things to look for in the keynote:
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
March 17, 2024

Monday's Musings: Will AI Force Centralized Scarcity Or Create Freedom With Decentralized Abundance?

Data to Decisions
Age of AI Ushers Exponential And Transformational Power In The Hands Of A Few Society has often swung from centralization to decentralization and back in the distribution of power and rights. Living in a culture of abundance versus a culture of scarcity can alter the prioritization of decisions, the quality of interactions, and the overall optimism or pessimism of a society. AI has the power to transform societies for both good and evil.
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 26, 2024

Workday to buy HiredScore amid mixed Q4

Data to Decisions
Carl Eschenbach, CEO of Workday, said the company saw "continued momentum with full platform customer wins and expansions within our base." ...
Larry Dignan
Analyst Blog
January 14, 2024

Monday's Musings: Trust In The Age of AI

Data to Decisions
Enter AI And The Real Fourth Industrial Revolution Running out of ideas to inspire, a false fourth industrial revolution was coined by the World Economic Forum. The move to digitization and digital transformation was a necessary half-step to the move towards AI. While some will now profess that the Fifth Industrial revolution is AI, AI is more exponential than the internet or the fake fourth industrial revolution. The dawn of the fourth industrial revolution begins with AI. This Cognitive Era will be with us for decades to come. Constellation Research has seen a projected CAGR of 19.8% in global AI IT spending from $151 billion to $490.6 billion by 2030.
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
January 13, 2024

Event Report: Rebuilding Trust - The 2024 Davos Agenda

Data to Decisions
The World Economic Forum's Four Themes Seek To Rebuild Trust The 54th annual convening at Davos brings 2700 delegates from over 130 countries to officially attend the World Economic Forum’s event. Meanwhile, an additional 5000 individuals join events around Davos in a series of programing known as UnDavos. This year’s official Davos proceedings center on four main themes:
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
January 07, 2024

2024 in preview: 11 things in enterprise technology to watch

Data to Decisions
Some years are all about questions. Other years deliver answers. For enterprise technology, 2024 is likely to be about the answers to generative AI use cases, data strategy and tra...
Larry Dignan
Analyst Blog
December 27, 2023

Trends: Tech IPOs Will Come Back In 2024

Data to Decisions
Two Year IPO Drought Coming To An End In 2023, only 148 companies completed an initial public offering (IPO). This was the worst year on record and followed a 15% decline from the number of IPO's in 2022, another disappointing year. In 2023, ARM was the sole blockbuster tech IPO. After a brutal two years with a paucity of tech IPOs, the market is poised for a resurgence in 2024.
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
December 06, 2023

Recognising digital government excellence

Digital Safety, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
It's not every day that we recognise a large government agency for its digital transformation, vision, innovation, agility and privacy protection.
Steve Wilson
Insight News
November 28, 2023

Workday Q3 shows strength, raises outlook

Future of Work
Carl Eschenbach, co-CEO of Workday, said the company was seeing momentum from "AI innovation, strength in full platform deals, expanding partner ecosystem, and international growth...
Larry Dignan