April 9, 2021
Author: Adam Pease
April 7, 2021
Crownpeak Buys e-Spirit—The Consolidation Era of Content Experience Platforms Begins
by Jim Lundy Crownpeak announced it was buying its competitor e-Spirit in a deal that was announced on March 19th. This blog discusses the implications of the new content experience category and the reason it will force
April 6, 2021
Verizon Business Launches BlueJeans Telehealth—Will Compete With MDLIVE
by Jim Lundy Verizon announced that it was making a shift into the growing telehealth market opportunity with its announcement of BlueJeans Telehealth. Telehealth exploded with demand during the pandemic, and now it is
April 1, 2021
LeanIX and Wipro Leaders: Discuss The Future of the CIO
by Betsy Burton I had the pleasure of hosting a panel today with Christian Richter, SVP of Customer Success with LeanIX, and David Kenner, Senior Partner with Wipro. The discussion was focused on how leading CIOs Increa
March 26, 2021
PactSafe Sells to Ironclad as Clickwrap Transaction Market Is Just Getting Started
by Jim Lundy This week PactSafe announced that it was being acquired by San Francisco based Ironclad, which was fresh off of its $100 Million funding round and had money to burn. Terms of the deal were not announced, bu
Understanding the NFT Craze: An Enterprise Perspective
by Adam Pease Last week an auction at Christie's closed for a staggering $69M sum. What was being sold? A digital image. The piece, a montage of a 5,000 smaller digital artworks by a seller named Beeple, is called "Ever
The Digital Transformation of Cities: Houston, We Have a Problem!
by Craig Kennedy We’ve been talking to governments and observing behaviors in cities of all sizes across the US. While there is a clamor and almost a universal desire to have a smart city, the issue we’re seeing r
March 25, 2021
Bigtincan Acquires ClearSlide and VoiceVibes as Sales Enablement Market Begins Consolidation Phase
by Jim Lundy View a PDF of this First Cut. Summary: Bigtincan announced that it was buying ClearSlide from Corel for an undisclosed price. Separately it announced it acquired VoiceVibes to add Conversational Intellig
March 19, 2021
A Timely Hack: The Story of CD Projekt RED’s Fall From Grace
by Adam Pease They promised to release one of the most innovative games of all time, but ended up disappointing their customers and being forced to negotiate with hackers for their own source code. Poland-based CD Proje
March 18, 2021
Time To Rethink Your Strategy and Operations: Are You Ready For the Return of Customers?
by Betsy Burton I went to a large retailer the other day. If you want to know the truth, our old dog just loves a specific toy, and frankly at his age he gets what he wants. I have not been shopping in stores for many ma
Genesys Gets Smarter with Acquisition of Bold360
by Craig Kennedy On Tuesday March 16th Genesys, a leader in intelligent contact center (ICC), announced its intent to acquire Bold360, a leading player in the rapidly growing conversational AI market, from LogMeIn for a
March 12, 2021
Microsoft Mesh—Will Virtual Reality Take Off in 2022?
by Jim Lundy At Microsoft Ignite, a new virtual reality platform called Microsoft Mesh was unveiled. Powered by Azure and leveraging features such as HoloLens, Microsoft Mesh is the newest virtual reality environment th
March 10, 2021
I Got The COVID Vaccine
by Betsy Burton As I left my appointment after getting my second vaccine, the attending nurse happily said, "make sure to tell people you got vaccinated." So here I am. In recent weeks I have heard several people voi
March 4, 2021
Microsoft Includes Power Automate in Windows: RPA Market Becomes Subsumed
by Betsy Burton At the end of 2020, we made a prediction that: “By YE 2023, robotic process automation (RPA) will become a standard feature in 75% of infrastructure platforms (iPaaS and on-prem) (75% probability).”
February 24, 2021
Box Buys SignRequest, Puts DocuSign and DropBox on Notice
by Adam Pease and Craig Kennedy In early February, Box announced that it would be acquiring e-signature company SignRequest for a price tag of $55 million. Box offers content management solutions, and with this purchase
Microsoft Viva Will Disrupt the HR Tech Market in 2022
by Jim Lundy This month Microsoft made a clever move and announced new employee experience platform called Viva. Viva leverages both SharePoint and Microsoft teams to offer a new, curated way to engage employees and to
February 18, 2021
The SolarWinds Hack and the need to Architect your Ecosystem
by Betsy Burton The SolarWinds hack was bad and it is having a growing impact on the IT ecosystem at large. As an enterprise architecture (EA) practitioner, I have long questioned EA practitioners and CIOs about how muc
February 9, 2021
Adobe Flash End of Life: Shift to HTML5
by Adam Pease The Adobe Flash Player platform, which has managed the loading and streaming of multimedia content on websites for decades, received its last update on December 8th. The writing on the wall for the end of
February 5, 2021
Privacy Wars II: Facebook Wants Your WhatsApp Data
by Adam PeaseThe privacy wars continue. Popular messaging solution WhatsApp has declared that its terms of service update, scheduled for February, will now be pushed back to May. This update would have required users to