This week - Oracle gets autonomous at OpenWorld; we review. Also: the future of HCM software is laid out. Retailers continue their Amazon skirmishes, with grocery delivery still up for grabs. Your whiffs include WeWork's gaffe-happy week.
This week - fall event season kicks into overdrive. But: the macro-economic picture leads us to where vendors don't want to go: buyer uncertainty. Hadoop dies and is reborn (kind of), I score a self-whiff, and apologize to Eddie Money.
The press conference is always a contender for the most forgettable aspect of an enterprise event. But with some help, we can make press conferences even more irrelevant. Here are my twelve satirical tips to botch this properly - or somehow salvage it.
This week - AI graduates eighth grade, as the automation debate heats up again. Algorithms get political, and cloud security gets a once-over. ContentOps meets SnarkOps, and your whiffs include a mystery article that (finally) popped up everywhere.
This week - retail gets its store love back thanks to Gen Z, but now we have Clothing as a Service (CaaS). VMware puts on a pivotal event, and buyers get a warning on PaaS appeal. Your whiffs include headlines we didn't need, and Walmart's charmless robot army.
This week - is enterprise messaging just a Band-Aid of busywork? Also: The IaaS market heats up in time for for VMWorld, with a Pivotal acquisition in play. Infor changes CFOs, Oracle gets legal drama, and I call a self-whiff.
This week - diginomica sparks an agile-versus-low-code debate, and gets a reader spanking in the process. Retail isn't dying, and cloud security is the tech topic of the summer, disrupting the vaca-relax vibe. Your whiffs include one of the worst business proposals of all time.
This week - AWS cloud security gets a closer look in the Capital One breach aftermath. IT bottlenecks gets put to the agile test, and Salesforce goes shopping again. Your whiffs include a faux sunset for big data, and the world of social selling gurus turns upside down.
Why do buyers value thought leadership content - and marketers fail to create it? Will LinkedIn's algorithm tweak favor your efforts? And can AI help with engaging B2B readers, without alienating them? Here's my rundown.
This week - the Capital One data breach fallout continues, and cloud providers get heat. Public cloud number look good, but multi-cloud headaches remain. Agile and ERP don't mix, or do they? Your whiffs include an all-time social media fail.
This week - Equifax and Facebook get a financial reckoning for data privacy - but did consumers get a fair shake? Also: why AI won't succeed without employee buy-in. Hertz and Avis do the transformation face off. And, as always, your whiffs.
This week - CIOs face the transformation challenge - but software vendors must do the same. Summer is an ideal time for a career think - with AI and startup lessons in mind. Your whiffs include stranger than fiction doozies, and a high-on-AI award.
Den surfs in to take the hot seat while Jon is away. This means LOTS of strikethroughs. You have been warned.