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Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First

Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First

By Louis Columbus on September 11, 2020

63% of organizations say delivering an excellent customer experience as measured by customer satisfaction scores defines success as a digital-first business, according to a recent IDG study. 67% of CEOs say acting with agility is “the new currency of business; if we’re too slow, we will be bankrupt,” according to KPMG. 33% of CEOs say […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BMC, BMC's Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE), BMC’s Autonomous Digital Enterprise Framework, Deloitte Insights’, Digital Maturity, Digtial transformation, IDG, KPMG, Louis Columbus' blog

Gartner, the lightning rod

Gartner, the lightning rod

By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 11, 2014

Once again Gartner is in the news. Its is being sued and a whole slew of blogs and articles have piled on. My summer project researching and writing about the SAP economy has allowed me a chance to go back and review 20+ years of market research, articles, blogs and presentations. Part of me wonders […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Forrester, gartner, IDG, Magic Quadrant, sap

IDG Cloud Computing Survey: Security, Integration Challenge Growth

IDG Cloud Computing Survey: Security, Integration Challenge Growth

By Louis Columbus on August 14, 2013

IDG Enterprise recently published Cloud Computing: Key Trends and Future Effects Report, showing how enterprises continue to struggle with security, integration and governance while finding immediate value in collaboration and customer relationship management (CRM) applications. IDG’s methodology is based on interviews with 1,358 respondents, stratified across CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, ITworld, and Network World websites, in addition […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged byline=Louis Columbus, Cloud Computing, CRM, customer relationship management, enterprise software, IDG, IDG Enterprise, Intelligent Tech, Louis Columbus' blog, SaaS, security, software as a service, Tech | 2 Responses

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Oracle Fusion and More Blue Ocean Strategy

By Denis Pombriant on February 15, 2013

Old pal, Chris Kanaracus (who covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service) has a story in InfoWorld yesterday which is very interesting in that it describes the current dynamics of the enterprise software business. Just to convolute things, the article is about a recent report from Forrester Research, which […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Blue Ocean Strategy, Forrester Research, IDG, InfoWorld, oracle, Oracle Fusion Applications, salesforce.com | 4 Responses

ORCL Launches CEM

ORCL Launches CEM

By Denis Pombriant on June 28, 2012

Oracle launched its customer experience push this week with an announcement by co-president Mark Hurd.  The new direction begins to pull together the results of Oracle’s latest buying spree in which it purchased ATG for e-commerce, RightNow Technologies for customer service and other technologies for analytics in cyberspace. While Oracle will always draw skeptics the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Anthony Lye, ATG, CEM, CRM, economics, IDG, Kanarkus, oracle, RightNow | 1 Response

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