A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
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A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
3y ago
Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021
Source: R Wang
This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events. Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies. As one of the largest industry networking events and conferences, it will be massively different as a virtual. While we can expect more attendees, past virtual events have shown how burn out and the lack of networking leads to less screen time and minimal impact.
Source: R Wang
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A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
3y ago
By The Constellation Research Team
The 2020 Awards Demonstrate The Power Of Humanity Amidst A Global Pandemic And Mass Digitization
What started out as an amazing beginning to a new decade ended with one of the worst economies and global health crises in history. Cultural, technological, and business model changes that would have taken a decade to play out became reality in less than 6 months. Almost every brand and enterprise had to rethink their business model AND their monetization model. Every senior executive could see their pre-pandemic business model shift to a r ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
3y ago
Eliminating System Complexity Is Celonis’ Number One Priority
On October 14th, 2020, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Rinke, kicked off its Ecosystem Summit and showcased its new Execution Management System (EMS). The goal is to improve an enterprise’s execution capacity by simplifying complex processes. Celonis defines execution capacity as the ability to get things done over the time + cost + effort (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Celonis Defines Execution CapacitySource: Celonis
Celonis uses its process mining core to deliver the Celonis EMS Platform. The Bavarian software star ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
3y ago
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow
On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the startup’s mission was to bring AI to non-tech companies in order to compete with tech based companies (see Figure 1). Key products include an AI-assisted insurance underwriting workflow software known as Underwriting P ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
3y ago
Why This Makes Sense On Three Counts
If the Wall Street Journal’s article is correct, Oracle has emerged as the winner over Microsoft and Walmart for the acquisition of ByteDance’s US operations as TikTok’s “trusted tech partner”. While many in the industry remain confused on why Oracle would acquire the social media giant’s 100 million monthly active users in the US, Constellation has publicly declared three reasons over the past few months:
Battle for key workloads in the cloud wars. As with the win for Zoom and 8X8’s Jitsi product, Oracle has shown how the Oracle Cloud Infras ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
3y ago
Modern Progressive Web Apps Much Needed
Vancouver, British Columbia, based Mobify was acquired by Salesforce.com for an estimated $60M on September 4th, 2020. Mobify, founded in 2017 by two Simon Fraser University students, Igor Faletski and John Boxall, began as an SMS text messaging app that sent bus times to mobile users. Their expertise in developing mobile apps and mastering the mobile web led them to creating progressive web apps for store fronts. The team raised $15 million in funding from Vistara Capital Partners, Impulse International, and Comerica Bank.
Progressive w ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
4y ago
Density Is Dead! (At least for now)
The Covid-19 acceleration to digital business models has ushered an era where before coronavirus (BC) business models built on human density will struggle to survive. Those models relied on high volumes and dense environments to scale and drive profitability. Unfortunately, concerns over public health have curtailed these businesses until a reduction in new cases or effective treatment and vaccines are readily available.
In the meantime, industries such as retail, restaurants, transportation, live events, and gyms face massive challenges.  ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
4y ago
Food Delivery App Consolidation Accelerates Among Digital Giants
On July 6th, Uber Eats announced the acquisition of food delivery app rival Postmates for $2.65 billion. In the age of duopolies, the food delivery app space is rapidly consolidating. The blockbuster acquisition follows rival JustEat’s international expansion into the United States with the purchase of the number 2 rival GrubHub earlier this June. JustEat is a dominant player in Europe. In August 2019, the US market leader Doordash acquired Caviar from Square for $410 million. Postmates had r ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
4y ago
K-12 Education Market Faces New Requirements
The latest CDC guidelines highlight the major challenges administrators and educators have for reopening schools. The general principle – the more interactions, the longer interactions, the higher the risk of #COVID-19 spread.
The CDC states that the risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows:
Lowest Risk: Students and teachers engage in virtual-only classes, activities, and events.
More Risk: Small, in-person classes, activities, and events. Groups of students stay together and with the same teacher throughout/acr ..read more
A Software Insider's Point of View – digital transformation
4y ago
Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response
Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated.
Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains in an increasingly complex world where buyers seek frictionless buying experiences. Friction in this new world originates from new regulatory requirements such as sustainability, taxation, a ..read more