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What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020

By Louis Columbus on October 25, 2020

47% of artificial intelligence (AI) investments were unchanged since the start of the pandemic and 30% of organizations plan to increase their AI investments, according to a recent Gartner poll. 30% of CEOs own AI initiatives in their organizations and regularly redefine resources, reporting structures and systems to ensure success. AI projects continue to accelerate this year […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, gartner, Gartner's Hype Cycle For AI 2020, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning

Why Cybersecurity Needs To Focus More On Customer Endpoints

Why Cybersecurity Needs To Focus More On Customer Endpoints

By Louis Columbus on December 10, 2019

Cloud-based endpoint protection platforms (EPP) are proliferating across enterprises today as CIOs and CISOs prioritize greater resiliency in their endpoint security strategies going into 2020. Gartner predicts that Global Information Security and Risk Management end-user spending is forecast to grow at a five-year CAGR of 9.2% to reach $174.5 billion in 2022, with approximately $50B […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Absolute Persistence, Absolute Resilience, absolute software, Absolute Software (TSE: ABT), asset management, Christy Wyatt CEO of Absolute Software, Cloud-based endpoint protection platforms (EPP), cybersecurity, endpoint security, gartner, IT Asset Management, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Morgan Stanley Research, Palo Alto Networks

Source: Gartner, "2019 CIO Agenda: Heavy Manufacturing, Industry Insights," Dr. Marc Halpern. October, 15 2018 (Gartner subscription required)

5 Proven Ways Manufacturers Can Get Started With Analytics

By Louis Columbus on November 14, 2019

46% of manufacturers agree that implementing and using data analytics is necessary to stay competitive and grow their businesses. 69% of manufacturing decision-makers believe analytics will be crucial for business success in 2020, with 15% considering it crucial today. 32% of manufacturers see the potential for analytics to improve supply chain performance and increase revenue. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2019 Analytics Spending Manufacturing, 2019 CIO Agenda Heavy Manufacturing Insights, analytics, business intelligence, CRM, gartner, Louis Columbus’ blog Manufacturing Cycle Time, Manufacturing, PLM, Production Yields by Product, Return Material Authorization (RMA) Rate as a % of Manufacturing

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

CIO's Guide To Stopping Privileged Access Abuse - Part I

CIO’s Guide To Stopping Privileged Access Abuse – Part I

By Louis Columbus on April 21, 2019

CIOs face the paradox of having to protect their businesses while at the same time streamlining access to the information and systems their companies need to grow. The threatscape they’re facing requires an approach to security that is adaptive to the risk context of each access attempt across any threat surface, anytime. Using risk scores […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, cybersecurity, gartner, Louis Columbus' blog, Privileged Access Management, Privileged Access Management in the Modern Threatscape, Privileged Credential Abuse, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security

2018 Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates

2018 Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates

By Louis Columbus on October 14, 2018

Cloud computing platforms and applications are proliferating across enterprises today, serving as the IT infrastructure driving new digital businesses. The following roundup of cloud computing forecasts and market estimates reflect a maturing global market for cloud services, with proven scale, speed and security to support new business models. CIOs who are creating compelling business cases […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, bessemer venture partners, Cloud Computing, cloud computing landscape, gartner, idc, Louis Columbus, Microsoft Azure, Public Cloud Computing, SaaS

Stop Talking About Digital Transformation

Stop Talking About Digital Transformation

By Esteban Kolsky on February 3, 2015

What? I mean, what???? Seriously?  Just last year two of my seven posts (yeah, didn’t do that well writing in my blog last year – but been working to remedy that by posting links to my other writings around the world – but I digress) were about digital transformation. I have been talking about digital […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Big Data, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technologies, gartner, Hype Cycle

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2015

Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2015

By Louis Columbus on October 22, 2014

Gartner presented their top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015 at their annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014 held in Orlando earlier this month.  Computing Everywhere, the Internet of Things (IoT) and 3D Printing are projected to be the three most important strategic technology trends in 2015. 3D Printing Will Continue To Revolutionize Prototyping And Manufacturing   3D […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analytics, Cloud Computing, gartner, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Louis Columbus' blog, SaaS, strategic technology trends, technology trends

Oracle’s Approach Makes Sense (But It Sucks)

Oracle’s Approach Makes Sense (But It Sucks)

By Esteban Kolsky on October 3, 2014

If you follow the conference circuit you’d know that Oracle held its user group conference this past week – Oracle Openworld 2014 was held at the Moscone Center between Sunday afternoon and — well, today officially. First off, I did not attend in person.  I watched the keynotes from the comfort of my home office […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #oow14, Cloud Computing, Fear Mongering, gartner, Moscone Center, oracle, PeopleSoft, Uncategorized | 1 Response

Have most analysts completely given up doing research?

Have most analysts completely given up doing research?

By Phil Fersht on September 24, 2014

Authors: Phil Fersht and Ray Wang:  Industry Analysts who still give a shit (This is a collaboration and represents our individual points of view and not necessarily our employers. Oh wait, that’s us…. moving on…) We called it three years’ ago and we can now officially proclaim that the industry once known as “research” is […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Confusing Outsourcing Information, Enterprise Irregulars, gartner, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Industry analyst, Outsourcing Heros

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