As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings and events I get invited to in my analyst role, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments, as part of my Analyst Cam series. I have since expanded the focus to included interesting analyst research surveys, new author briefings and other interesting conversations (with their permission)
Here are some so far:
Cognizant: State of Voice Interfaces
Suplari: Spend Intelligence Cloud
TealBook: Trusted source of supplier data
Sapient Insights Group: 2020-2021 HR Systems Survey
Workday Ventures: Portfolio overview
Rimini Street: Database Support Survey
Model N - Revenue Leakage Management
Workday - Talent Marketplace
Constellation Research - 2021 CIO Priorities survey
ASUG - Geoff Scott interview of SAP CEO Christian Klein
6 River Systems - Warehouse automation
Workday VIBE briefing - Value Inclusion, Belonging and Equity offering
Salesforce Industries - Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3
SAP SuccessFactors - Analyst session excerpts
Apple iPhone 12 - the virtual launch event
Zoom - new Zapps announced at recent Zoomtopia
Avasant Research - survey on COVID-19 impact on IT
Rimini Street - the "secret sauce" - details of their operations
Unit4 ERPx - design principles and components of the next gen product
Zoho Workplace - Collaboration suite and a vertical application for construction industry
Rimini Street - Survey of PeopleSoft customers
Neeley Business School, TCU - Board of Advisors meeting - acrobatics rapidly moving away from campus to online courses, diversity etc.
Plex - Customer dataset showing impact of COVID-19 on manufacturing and the bounce back in N. America since
Aternity Digital Experience Management
Workfront analyst briefing
Utmost Total Workforce Management
Sidetrade ML applied to customer invoices and collections
Rootstock low code briefing
Workfront Scenario Planning
20 from 20: Mega Trends affecting IT
This is part of a series of 20 highlights from the Acrobatics during the crisis, Analyst Cam, Burning Platform and other series I launched last year.
For most of 2020, CIOs and IT teams performed heroics moving millions to work from home, scaling up or down massive volumes, helping their companies pivot to new business models. In background, massive changes have been affecting the IT landscape. Here's what I heard from multiple conversations:
Leading off is Bob Evans who authors the Cloud Wars site. He talks about every company is becoming more of a software company and what that means to tech industry. The SaaS, IaaS etc definitions of the last few years look increasingly dated as we discuss in the extended session here
Next at 3.23 is Holger Mueller of Constellation Research. He points out that hyperscalers are pulling away with their platforms and why application vendors should refocus on next-gen business processes which take advantage of contemporary ML, IoT and other capabilities. The longer conversation is here.
At 7.01 it is Tamas Hevizi who talks about the growth of citizen programmers and why "shadow IT" is not unhealthy, it is inevitable, especially in small businesses. The longer conversation with him about Digital Acceleration is here
At 10.17, Brad Feld, co-founder of Foundry Group talks complex systems thinking he explores in his new book and looks at the recent crisis from that lens. The longer session is here
At 12.37, Brett Hurt, who is the CEO and co-founder of data.world says "data is one of the least networked resources" as we explore "single source of truth" in the explosion of data streams we saw around COVID-19, polling, the census. The longer conversation is here
At 18.30, it is Grant Halloran, CEO of Planful which describes its Continuous Planning platform as "marrying finance’s need for structured planning with the business’ need for dynamic planning," We discuss what it would take to make pandemic modeling less chaotic than what we saw in 2020.
January 13, 2021 in 20 from 20, Industry Commentary | Permalink | Comments (0)