Brian Sommer's Month in Brief - July
The COVID crisis continues, but life goes on in the enterprise tech sector. Here are July's highlights...
Collaboration sharing and digital productivity
Atlassian bulks up its ITSM play, buys Mindville as it releases Q4 results
Atlassian staked its claim to the ITSM market with the acquisition of Mindville today as it released Q4 numbers and a $5 billion ambition
Big Tech goes to Washington; Big Tech goes home untroubled - but what did anyone expect?
The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google grilled by US legislators - a long-awaited reckoning for the digital 'Robber Barons'? Er..not so much.
Why APIs are a crucial ingredient in return-to-work strategies
A safe return to the workplace means pulling data in from multiple systems via APIs, says Mulesoft's Ian Fairclough.
Brewing resilience - how early digital vision is paying off for Starbucks
Starbucks made savvy early digital investments that paid off when the pandemic ground up long term planning.
PwC shares change management tips after migrating 275,000 users to G Suite
It has been a seven year change journey, but PwC is finding collaboration in the cloud with Google’s G Suite is delivering greater value.
Does Slack really think it can win its anti-trust case against Microsoft?
Slack's complaint to the European Commission against Microsoft Teams is about more than anti-trust - we all have a stake in this battle to dominate digital teamwork
Why education today is failing tomorrow's workforce
For stable, lasting education reform we need to think globally and act locally, writes Zoho's Raju Vagesna
The 'biggest cash cow there is' - the potential (or threat) of DNA profiling as part of organizational HCM
While employee monitoring is nothing new, advances in DNA profiling raise the stakes immeasurably without care being taken.
Software AG hits its Q2 mark as customers respond to accelerated change. We speak with CEO Sanjay Brahmawar
Software AG or 'SAG' as it is affectionately known among the analyst community is in a period of transition and resurgence. It's Q2 FY 2020 results speak to its progress. What's fueling that? We caught up with CEO Sanjay Brahmawar.
Now Microsoft Teams is an app platform with its own built-in database
Microsoft 365 news at the vendor's Inspire partner event today includes Dataflex, a low-code database for building Teams apps that helps level the playing field with Slack
Taking positive steps towards a remote working future - a third sector exemplar
Charity Positive Steps was just starting to move some staff to remote working when the pandemic lockdown accelerate its plans.
The desire to excessively control your virtual event will kill any real value
Virtual events are now mainstream thanks to COVID-19. However, one of the key lessons to be learned is letting go of trying to control the experience.
