There Is Only ‘One’ (1) IT Strategy in 2025 and Beyond
Procurement remains the life blood of many businesses. Today's procurement teams must focus on alignment with business outcomes while achieving pricing and quality requirements. Because technology remains a growing part of the budget, procurement leaders must craft policies and strategies that enable both line of business and technology teams to procure the right product or service at the right price, and delivered at the right time. Constellation brings expertise in technology vendor selection and contract negotiations across a range of disruptive technologies. The result - procurement leaders gain needed insight and best practices in driving down costs without jeopardizing relationships.
Tesla reported production and delivery numbers and missed analysts estimates of 504,770 units delivered versus 495,570 estimated for the fourth quarter of 2024. This was the first ever drop in delivery numbers reported by the EV pioneer. While 9200 may not seem like a lot, the market perception of demand based on delivery numbers led to a 7% drop in stock price for the first day of trading in 2025.
Matt Garman Has Positively Impacted AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted over 70,000 attendees at its 13th annual reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2nd to 6th, 2024. Since its humble beginnings in 2012 when there were 6,000 attendees, this event has been on the must-attend list developer and innovation focused business and technology leaders. After losing three years of momentum, AWS finally found the right replacement for Andy Jassy with Matt Garman as the new AWS CEO. This year’s announcements showcase significant product investments that will provide a stronger roadmap of how AWS will support AI startups and enterprises moving fast into AI. Overall, announcements from reinvent reflect a deep customer understanding.
Expect Regulations For National Security, But Overall Lighter Regulatory Framework
For the most part, tech has done well regardless of presidential administrations due to the light regulation of the overall industry. This has allowed large digital giants to emerge and dominate global markets across a multitude of industries. Amidst a national security backdrop and increasing capital required in the tech arms race, government has been hesitant to over regulate.