We were recently asked by the press to address the question: What’s the most effective method that can be used to gain control over cloud spend? Our take: Assessing Cloud Costs Requires Context and Perspective. Cloud spend must be managed within the context of the entire IT cost ecosystem. And the costs need to be…
What are the top 5 problems of the business of AI? What should AI vendors do? AI market research is overestimating AI growth. Executive surveys show slow uptake. Why is AI not gaining traction like the pundits predict?
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ERP use and spending is going to accelerate and expand well beyond most current estimates. One big factor driving this is the simultaneous occurrence of multiple business change events – any one of which traditionally pushes a firm to consider investing in ERP, or reconsider the ERP software it already uses.
Less than 12 months after Informatica announced that it was the sole investor in GreenBay Technologies Inc., Informatica has announced its acquisition of GreenBay, effective 17 August 2020. GreenBay’s tech will become embedded into Informatica’s CLAIRE engine, beginning with the Intelligent Data Platform Fall 2020 release. GreenBay develops and owns some cool data management IP,…
Broadband Internet access to rural and under-developed areas has been a “Holy Grail” for decades. Today, this market is primarily served with communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit using Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs), but those services are very limited and expensive. Compared to their geosynchronous satellite brethren, low earth orbit (LEO) satellite services promise Near-universal…
Within four years, possibly three, spending by all businesses on ERP software will exceed the levels and growth rates estimated by most industry analysts and vendors to be at least six years away. The primary growth engine will be mid-sized and small businesses that will need ERP to compete. Millions of new ERP customers with…
Facebook and Equifax Privacy Failures Put Businesses and Consumers On Notice In The Beginning In 2018, the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation GDPR laid the cornerstone for all other jurisdictions to build similar legal and regulatory data usage and privacy frameworks. GDPR’s global scope set a new level of usage obligations and privacy…
Carefully cutting technology costs is not how most companies react to a recession. Say “recession” and managers think layoffs, project cancellations, and across-the-board budget cuts. We at the Analyst Syndicate think differently. We share our favorite, proven ways to cut costs without falling behind the competition or being left unprepared when business picks up.
