What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 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 […]
Why Cybersecurity Needs To Focus More On Customer Endpoints
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 […]
5 Proven Ways Manufacturers Can Get Started With Analytics
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. […]
What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 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, […]
CIO’s Guide To Stopping Privileged Access Abuse – Part I
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 […]
2018 Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates
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 […]
Stop Talking About Digital Transformation
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 […]
Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2015
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 […]
Oracle’s Approach Makes Sense (But It Sucks)
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 […]
Have most analysts completely given up doing research?
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 […]
