This Week in Enterprise Tech
Welcome to "This Week in Enterprise Tech" where we discuss the latest enterprise technology announcements and how they will affect your business and your bosses' expectations. Join TWIET as we guide CIOs and technical managers through the strategic ramifications behind the vendor hype, product innovation, and the avalanches of money going in and out of enterprise tech.
This Week in Enterprise Tech
Week 5 - This Week In Enterprise Tech
In Week 5, we take on six engaging topics for the CIO's consideration:
1) Broadcom's Hock Tan comments on the first 100 Days of VMware and we respond: https://www.broadcom.com/blog/vmware-by-broadcom-the-first-100-days
2) The European Union adopts the first AI legal safeguards. Did they get it right? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law
3) CNBC looks at tech layoffs, which have reached the highest point since the dot-com bust. Have they gone too far? https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/03/15/laid-off-techies-struggle-to-find-jobs-with-cuts-at-highest-since-2001.html
4) Silicon Angle notes that Oracle surprised critics, including us, with almost 50% year-over-year growth in cloud infrastructure. How did it happen? We look at both Oracle's capabilities and review star analyst Rebecca Wettemann's perspective. https://siliconangle.com/2024/03/11/new-cloud-deals-demand-generative-ai-drive-strong-growth-oracle/
5) We explore the rapidly evolving workflow & intelligent automation space, based on three separate stories:
- Automated code developer Devin from CognitionAI,
- Automation Anywhere's growth, &
- the B round of funding for Nanonets
6) What is the future of the contact center? Accenture puts out its perspective and we temper it with our dose of reality: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/where-is-customer-care-in-2024
This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights