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Louis Columbus

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Marketing and Product Management Leader, Forbes Columnist, Software Expertise in Analytics, Cloud, CPQ & ERP Solutions. Principal at IQMS, formerly with iBASEt, Cincoom, AMR Research.

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FinancialForce Services-as-a-Business Is What Their Customers Need To Drive Growth

By Louis Columbus on September 7, 2022

Service businesses must keep finding new ways to add value to existing clients while removing barriers that slow growth. Overcoming the challenges of outdated HR planning and human resource management (HRM), contract management, and CRM systems are table stakes for staying competitive. FinancialForce’s Summer 22 release aims to turn those weaknesses into strengths with one […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CPQ, Customer Success Cloud, Financialforce, Louis Columbus’ blog, Opportunity-to-renewal, Salesforce LEX Platform Salesforce, services, Services CPQ

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FinancialForce’s Spring 2022 Release Defines the Future of FP&A In Services

By Louis Columbus on May 3, 2022

Economic uncertainty sends shock waves throughout businesses, with service organizations seeing its brunt. The recent drastic drop-off in Netflix subscribers is a case in point. Services CFOs say there is an urgent need to track how well their overarching planning strategies linking finance and operations perform. However, getting the data to analyze has been challenging […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Professional Services ERP, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, erp, Financialforce, FinancialForce Spring 2022 Release, FPA, Louis Columbus' blog, Operations Planning, Professional Services ERP, SaaS

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Cybersecurity CEOs Share How Businesses Can Protect Themselves In 2022

By Louis Columbus on January 17, 2022

Bottom Line: Every business needs to resolve in 2022 to treat cybersecurity as a business decision first because the risk to operations and revenue are too great if they don’t. Any cybersecurity prediction for 2022 will likely be on the low side, given how ingenious ransomware attackers are at mining long-standing common vulnerabilities and exposures […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2022 cybersecurity, BOS Framework, cybersecurity, Founder Shield, Hexnode, Ivanti, Louis Columbus' blog, Orchestral, Prometeo, Rapid.Space, ThycoticCentrify

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How Services CPQ Helps Close Revenue Gaps

By Louis Columbus on January 11, 2022

Bottom Line: Professional services (PS) organizations need to close the gaps in their CPQ selling strategies to win more deals, capture more revenue and protect margins from ongoing price pressure.  Why Services CPQ Is Too Slow Today When PS organizations compete in sales cycles, the first competitor to have a complete quote with accurate pricing, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CPQ, Financialforce, FinancialForce Services CPQ, Louis Columbus blog, Salesforce CPQ, Services CPQ

2021 State Of The Machine Learning Market: Enterprise Adoption Is Strong

2021 State Of The Machine Learning Market: Enterprise Adoption Is Strong

By Louis Columbus on October 18, 2021

59% of all large enterprises are deploying data science (DS) and machine learning (ML) today. Nearly 50% of all organizations have up to 25 or more ML models in use today. 29% of enterprises are refreshing their data science and machine learning models every day. The higher the data literacy an enterprise can achieve before […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning

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2021 Roundup Of AI And Machine Learning Market Forecasts Show Strong Growth

By Louis Columbus on June 21, 2021

Forrester forecasts that the size of the AI software market will approach $37 billion by 2025. IDC predicts the worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, will grow from $327.5 B in 2021 to $554.3B in 2024 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5%. By 2024, 70% of enterprises […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence forecast, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, Machine learning market forecast, TensorFlow

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Salesforce Sees Surge In $1M+ Deals Powering Record Q1, FY22 Results

By Louis Columbus on June 1, 2021

Salesforce Q1, FY22 revenue was $5.96B, the best quarter in the company’s history.  $1M+ deals hit an all-time high and were up 120% year-over-year.  New $1M+ sales are averaging four or more Clouds, with senior management calling out Service Cloud during the earnings call as gaining strong traction in enterprises. Eight of the top 10 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CRM, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Louis Columbus’ blog, MuleSoft, Multi-cloud, Multi-cloud integration, SaaS, salesforce, Tableau

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The Most Innovative Companies of 2021 According to BCG

By Louis Columbus on May 26, 2021

Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021.  Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for the first time this year. The fastest movers include Toyota, who jumped from 41st to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alphabet, Amazon, apple, BCG's Most Innovative Companies 2021: Overcoming the Innovation Readiness Gap, Boston Consulting Group, Huawei, ibm, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Pfizer, samsung, Sony, Tesla

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36% Of Enterprises Predict Public Cloud Spending Will Increase In 2021

By Louis Columbus on May 16, 2021

451 Research’s recent survey, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Budgets & Outlook 2021, provides new insights into how the pandemic acts as a catalyst driving organizations to pivot toward new digital business models faster than they had anticipated. The survey is based on interviews with over 300 cloud and IT professionals. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 451 Research, Cloud Computing, Cloud computing spending in 2021, iaas, Louis Columbus' blog, PaaS, public cloud, SaaS

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Gartner Predicts Public Cloud Services Market Will Reach $397.4B by 2022

By Louis Columbus on May 10, 2021

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 23.1% in 2021 to total $332.3 billion, up from $270 billion in 2020. Garter predicts worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will jump from $242.6B in 2019 to $692.1B in 2025, attaining a 16.1% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). Spending on SaaS cloud […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CIO, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing ERP, cloud computing forecast, Containerization, CRM, Edge computing, Enterprise Resource Planning Software, enterprise software, erp, Gartner Public Cloud Services Market Forecast, Louis Columbus’ blog, virtualization

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