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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

The proposed Atos-DXC takeover is papering over some very deep cracks from a bygone era

The proposed Atos-DXC takeover is papering over some very deep cracks from a bygone era

By Phil Fersht on January 12, 2021

    The IT services market has arrived at its most critical infection point in 20 years, where the role of service providers that survive the Covid era will be those that have made the shift from support firm (Phase 1) to a business partner (Phase 2).  We’ve talked about this services shift ever since Tom Reuner […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services

The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace

The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace

By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 17, 2020

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Zoho launched Workplace last month – it is a suite of 9 applications to…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Analyst Cam, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software (IBM, microsoft, oracle, SaaS, sap

Workday continues its innovations in Analyst Summits

Workday continues its innovations in Analyst Summits

By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 10, 2020

A decade ago, Workday pioneered with its Technology Day format. I wrote back then “Few vendors have the guts to be open to such a smart and opinionated bunch as Workday was during its Technology Day yesterday. Like a marathon…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #wday, Cloud Computing, SaaS, workday

Monday’s Musings: Inside The Five Levels Of Autonomous Enterprises

Monday’s Musings: Inside The Five Levels Of Autonomous Enterprises

By R "Ray" Wang on March 22, 2020

Cognitive Apps Power The Future Of Autonomous Enterprises Cognitive applications run mission-critical business systems in a continuous, self-driving, self-learning, auto-compliant, self-securing, and self-healing approach.  These AI driven systems intelligently automate transactional systems and processes such as campaign to lead, order to cash, procure to pay, incident to resolution, concept to market, and hire to retire.  […]

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SAP's Integration Urgency

SAP’s Integration Urgency

By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 3, 2020

Talking about the heady days in the late 90s, one of SAP’s best salespeople had reminisced: “It was a truly transformational time for the technology industry. We replaced thousands of departmental and mainframe systems. We put MSA, M&D, and many…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software (IBM, microsoft, oracle, SaaS, sap

Scaling Cloud Services Is Key To Growing A Digital Business

Scaling Cloud Services Is Key To Growing A Digital Business

By Louis Columbus on October 16, 2019

93% of enterprises are securing remote locations with a centralized approach that rarely scales to secure every endpoint and identity of remote branch locations, leaving an enterprise more vulnerable to a breach. Enabling network security is the greatest challenge enterprises face when managing a highly distributed network with numerous remote locations. In an era of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud services, infoblox, Louis Columbus' blog, SDWAN, software based approach to wide area networking sdwan

What's New In Gartner's Hype Cycle For AI, 2019

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2019

By Louis Columbus on October 7, 2019

Between 2018 and 2019, organizations that have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) grew from 4% to 14%, according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Agenda survey. Conversational AI remains at the top of corporate agendas spurred by the worldwide success of Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and others. Enterprises are making progress with AI as it grows more widespread, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Cloud Computing, gartner, gartner hype cycle for artificial intelligence 2019, Hype Cycle, Louis Columbus' blog

Customer Experiences Define Success In A Digital-First World

Customer Experiences Define Success In A Digital-First World

By Louis Columbus on July 7, 2019

91% of enterprises have adopted or have plans to adopt a digital-first strategy. Of these enterprises, 48% already have a digital-first approach in place. Creating better customer experiences (67%), improving process efficiency through automation (53%), and driving new revenue (48%) are the top three digital business strategies enterprises are investing in today. 35% of enterprises […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 5G, AI, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, IoT, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning

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