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
By R "Ray" Wang on April 11, 2021
Event Report: Google Cloud Industries Analyst Day Google Cloud Has Hired A Brain Trust Of Industry Vertical Leaders On March 31st, 2021, Google Cloud hosted an industry vertical analyst roundtable. Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, opened up the day with a warm introduction on the role industries will play in the growth of Google Cloud. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 14, 2020
Eliminating System Complexity Is Celonis’ Number One Priority On October 14th, 2020, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Rinke, kicked off its Ecosystem Summit and showcased its new Execution Management System (EMS). The goal is to improve an enterprise’s execution capacity by simplifying complex processes. Celonis defines execution capacity as the ability to get things done over […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2020
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 3, 2020
K-12 Education Market Faces New Requirements The latest CDC guidelines highlight the major challenges administrators and educators have for reopening schools. The general principle – the more interactions, the longer interactions, the higher the risk of #COVID-19 spread. The CDC states that the risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows: Lowest Risk: […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 25, 2020
Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated. Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains […]
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By Louis Columbus on May 17, 2020
Bottom Line: Every organization needs to digitally reinvent their business, starting at the system level to safely sell and serve customers with minimal physical interaction. The hard reset every business is going through creates a strong sense of urgency to increase the agility, speed, and scale of selling, as well as customer service […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Centrify Identity Access Management, centrify privileged access management, Cloud, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity in a COVID-19 World, Cybersecurity strategy, dev/ops, Identity Acess Management, Louis Columbus' blog, microservices, Privivleged Access Management, Protecting Privileged Access Credentials, Securing infrastructure, Zero Trust Security, ZTS
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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By R "Ray" Wang on January 19, 2019
Retail Innovation Continues To Improve As Budgets And Margin Grow Over 40,000 attendees gathered at Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City for the annual big show (see Figure 1.) The show kicked off with a keynote from BJ’s Wholesale Club Chairman, President, and CEO Chris Baldwin. Chris conveyed the impact of retail on […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 23, 2018
Cloud BI adoption is soaring in 2018, nearly doubling 2016 adoption levels. Over 90% of Sales & Marketing teams say that Cloud BI is essential for getting their work done in 2018, leading all categories in the survey. 66% of organizations that consider themselves completely successful with Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives currently use the cloud. […]
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