Louis Columbus
Marketing and Product Management Leader, Forbes Columnist, Software Expertise in Analytics, Cloud, CPQ & ERP Solutions. Principal at IQMS, formerly with iBASEt, Cincoom, AMR Research.
How FinancialForce Is Using AI To Fight Revenue Leakage
Bottom Line: Using AI to measure and predict revenue, costs, and margin across all Professional Services (PS) channels leads to greater accuracy in predicting payment risks, project overruns, and service forecasts, reducing revenue leakage in the process. Professional Services’ Revenue Challenges Are Complex Turning time into revenue and profits is one of the greatest challenges […]
How A Startup Uses AI To Help You Find The Market Research You Need
95% of the content essential for decision making in an organization is unstructured, residing in PDFs and various file formats that defy easy indexing and quick access, according to MIT Media Labs. 80% of typical organizations’ data is unstructured, slowing down work, often leading to less-than-optimal decision-making, according to an Accenture study published earlier this […]
10 Ways AI And Machine Learning Are Improving Marketing In 2021
AI and Machine Learning are on track to generate between $1.4 Trillion to $2.6 Trillion in value by solving Marketing and Sales problems over the next three years, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. Marketers’ use of AI soared between 2018 and 2020, jumping from 29% in 2018 to 84% in 2020, according to Salesforce […]
Securing Machine Identities Needs To Be A Top Cybersecurity Goal In 2021
Bottom Line: Bad actors quickly capitalize on the wide gaps in machine identity security, creating one of the most breachable threat surfaces today. Why Machines Are the Most Challenging Threat Surface To Protect Forrester’s recent webinar on the topic, How To Secure And Govern Non-Human Identities, estimates that machine identities (including bots, robots and IoT) are growing […]
10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Microsoft Azure’s Growth
Microsoft Azure revenue grew 50% year-over-year in fiscal Q2, 2021, contributing to a 26% increase in Server products and cloud services revenue. According to the latest earnings call, more than 1,000 Microsoft customers now use Azure Arc to simplify hybrid management and run Azure services across on-premises, multi-cloud and at the edge. Commercial cloud gross […]
76% Of Enterprises Prioritize AI & Machine Learning In 2021 IT Budgets
43% of enterprises say their AI and Machine Learning (ML) initiatives matter “more than we thought,” with one in four saying AI and ML should have been their top priority sooner. 50% of enterprises plan to spend more on AI and ML this year, with 20% saying they will be significantly increasing their budgets. 56% […]
Top 10 Tech Job Skills Predicted To Grow The Fastest In 2021
According to Burning Glass Technologies, the two tech job skills paying the highest salary premiums today and in 2021 are IT Automation ($24,969) and AI & Machine Learning ($14,175). The average salary premiums for the most in-demand tech skills range from $4,204 to nearly $25,000. Startups valued at $1 billion or more are 33% more […]
10 Ways AI Is Improving Cannabis Yields And Security
According to BDS Analytics, the Covid-19 pandemic drove retail sales up 35% above industry forecasts, accelerated by cannabis businesses being declared “essential” for medical purposes in virtually every U.S. legal market. Fueled by strong consumer demand, annual legal (medical and adult-use) sales are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%, […]
Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist
Bottom Line: Cyberattacks enter a new era of lethal impact when threat actors are sophisticated enough to compromise SolarWind’s software supply chain with infected binary code while mimicking legitimate protocol traffic to avoid detection. To gain greater insights into the SolarWinds breach, its implications on cybersecurity strategy in the future and what steps enterprises need […]
The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor
Glassdoor shows 3,937 companies in the middle of a hiring surge during Covid-19, 960 of which are in information technology. Leading software companies going through a hiring surge right now include Aha! Software, Appen, Clevertech, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Dataiku, Fastly, Hashicorp, Leidos, Liveops, Netskope, Proofpoint, Rackspace, Zapier and Zendesk. Modern Tribe, Dataiku, Zapier, PartnerCentric, Slack, […]
