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The notion of digital transformation still has plenty of gas left in the tank.Companies taking on digital transformation initiatives are making great improvements by using technology as a strategic lever to orient every aspect of their business to serving customer and constituent needs.
Soon enough though, the term will encompass everything businesses do – because companies that fail to change will cease to exist. At that point, digital transformation will start looking more like a clown car than a chariot through the clouds to a better tomorrow.
This inevitable crowding effect always leads me to think about what’s next in the queue of essential but vague technology initiatives.
Perhaps the self-driving business (or SDB) will be our ride to the next future state... | |
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Intellyx BrainBlog for Silver Peak by Jason English | | | |
When we gaze at the crowded eye-chart of technologies commonly associated with digital transformation, few of the markets we follow have been frothier over the last two years than SD-WAN and cybersecurity.
The rate of change is remarkable by any long-range indicator: revenue growth rates, investment, acquisition and consolidation activity, and innovation speed. Clearly the essential elements of an extended software-defined network deployment and its critical security posture are inexorably intertwined in the future fabric of a cloud-native, Hybrid IT application delivery world.
Unfortunately, many business technologists have a problem of mismatched optics when considering these two arenas. SD-WAN is still too often thought of as an extension of legacy router-based networks and... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx BrainBlog for Cherwell By Jason Bloomberg | | | |
We’ve been writing about low-code (and no-code) platforms and tools for several years now. Their appeal is obvious – instead of hand-coding apps, developers simply interact with a visual interface to assemble their applications.
Many such interfaces offer slick drag-and-drop functionality, while others use wizards or some such. Any instances where hand-coding is still necessary are relegated to isolated, minor situations, like custom widgets or bespoke integrations. Everything else, the story goes, is blissfully free from pecking out lines of code by hand.
Take a closer look, however, and it soon becomes clear that all low-code tools are not created equal. Some only tackle front-end, user interface-related tasks via low-code, leaving all the back-end tasks in the hands of... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx BrainBlog for Robin By Jason Bloomberg | | | |
For organizations with applications still residing on-premises, as well as those companies with applications in the cloud, the promise of Kubernetes beckons.
While scalability on traditional virtual machines (VMs) is a plodding affair, Kubernetes offers fast, seamless scale-out of running services – as well as the benefits that increasingly modular development brings to scaling up the teams that build them.
However, while ‘lifting and shifting’ applications to the cloud is relatively straightforward – VMs looking and working much like physical servers do, after all – Kubernetes is a different matter.
Kubernetes brings containers, pods, and... [Read more] | |
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SD Times Article by Charles Araujo | | | |
I think it’s about time that we addressed the elephant in the room: predictions are a bit of a parlor trick!
As analysts, we’re always focused on what’s coming next. That means that we’re... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx BrainBlog for Synchrony Systems by Charles Araujo | | | |
I remember the dreaded words ringing through the house, “Charlie, it’s time to clean your room.”
I pretended I didn’t hear, but inevitably and begrudgingly I stopped what I was doing and began the chore.
Once I was done, however, my mom explained that with my room clean we could now begin the process of transforming it from a child’s bedroom into the teenage haven I had been begging for incessantly.
Getting everything tidied up, it turned out, was the prerequisite to the transformation I so desperately wanted.
Much like “clean your room,” the term modernization has long been a dreaded word in the world of IT.
Uttering it causes involuntary shudders up the spines of IT leaders as they imagine all of the... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx White Paper for Conexiom By Jason Bloomberg | | | |
Sales order automation is an obvious target for automation in any business-to-business organization. Some companies are turning to robotic process automation (RPA) thinking software ‘robots’ can supposedly handle purchase order processing on their own. Just one problem: RPA is simply not up to the task... [Read more] | |
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ESmagazine article by Jason Bloomberg | | | |
Automation has been a reality since the Jacquard loom of the early nineteenth century. And just as its punch card technology inspired Charles Babbage and later Herman Hollerith, automation has itself evolved over the years as technology innovations hit the market.
We could even argue that the point of the first digital computers was to perform automations – albeit mostly of calculation tasks. Be that as it may, even in the early days, there was a distinct difference between the calculation, which the computers performed automatically, and the automation, which humans... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx BrainBlog for ServiceNow by Jason Bloomberg | | | |
Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege.
ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, incident management, problem management and many other aspects of running an IT shop so that its priorities align with the business’s. For many enterprises, ITIL is essential for governance and regulatory compliance–especially in heavily regulated industries.
The basic idea of DevOps is that by leveraging better automation technology across the software lifecycle, it’s possible to rework the culture and organization of all the teams involved in software production and deployment. By breaking down the numerous silos and fostering greater collaboration, it should be possible to dramatically accelerate the ability to... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx White Paper for Tricentis by Jason Bloomberg | | | |
Most RPA solutions on the market suffer from a common weakness: scripted bots are not only difficult to create/maintain, but also incredibly brittle Any change to the application interface, business processes, or data formats breaks the bots, requiring expensive maintenance. Can a “low-code” approach save us from these headaches?
Read this Intellyx report to get Jason Bloomberg’s perspective on:
·The automation limitations that contributed to the rise of RPA ·Why brittle scripted bots are the greatest challenge with RPA today ·How a “low-code” approach to RPA increases bot resiliency while empowering business users ·The value of Tricentis’ model-based automation approach to RPA—and the best use cases for it... [Read more] | |
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Intellyx in the Press & Blogosphere | |
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In our premier episode we talk about the state of Humanity in Tech in 2020 and some of what CES brought us followed by an interview with best selling author and internationally recognized expert on Digital Transformation Charles Araujo where we discuss the dawn of the Digital Era and the... [Read more] | |
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Episode 23 of SPOCcast is an interview with Charles Araujo, industry analyst, keynote speaker and best-selling author of The Quantum Age of IT. Charlie is the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation, and believes that “what’s coming next represents as fundamental a change in how the world works as did the rise of the industrial age hundreds of years ago.”... [Read more] | |
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As part of DEVOPSdigest’s 2020 predictions, industry experts offer predictions on how DevSecOps and related technologies will evolve and impact the business in 2020.
SECURE BY DESIGN In 2020, the principle of “secure by design” will attract greater attention, as it is a core cloud-native computing principle. DevSecOps will thus be less of a difficult combination of security and DevOps, and more of a business and architecture-driven approach that becomes an essential driver of appdev. Jason Bloomberg | |
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Here’s the Thinkers360 leaderboard for the top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Cloud Computing for January 2020. Congratulations to all our thought leaders and experts who participated!
More than just a list, Thinkers360 live leaderboards are based on our patent-pending holistic measure of thought leadership and authentic influence looking far beyond social media alone... [Read more] | |
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Media Coverage Quote Highlights:“At 12,000 attendees, this KubeCon ranks as perhaps the largest open-source conference in history. Yet, though enterprises today understand and value open-source technologies, they also depend on an ecosystem of commercial vendors to round out and support Kubernetes and its brethren. The maturation of the commercial offerings, in fact, is a primary harbinger as well as a contributor to the operationalization of cloud-native computing. The vendors leading this charge are not simply complementing open-source projects. They are also connecting such projects to the broader hybrid IT story.” – Jason Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE... [Read more] | |
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The tractors are loaded with shiny new tech. As Jason Bloomberg put it at Forbes, “John Deere is but one of thousands of enterprises undergoing digital transformation as it becomes a software company that runs its technology on tractors, rather than the other way around.”... [Read more] | |
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Brittle bots pose a serious threat to scalabilityJason Bloomberg (Forbes) and Kim Nash (Wall Street Journal) first raised the warning flag back in 2018—and the issue intensified in 2019 . Most RPA bots are brittle, requiring constant maintenance and management. And AI can’t help much in today’s dynamic digital environments. Perhaps that’s why Forrester found that in 2019, the majority of enterprise organizations with... [Read more] | |
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CAN BRITTLE RPA FIT INTO AGILE CLOUD IT?IT analyst Jason Bloomberg wrote in Forbes that AI doesn’t address RPA’s main weakness — brittleness. Strict, rules-based automation doesn’t like change. If the user interface, data, or almost any aspect of an app changes, a bot can’t adjust. Cognitive RPA, or CRPA, can automate some judgments with help from natural language processing, machine learning, etc. It may appear smarter within an... [Read more] | |
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In 2020, automation technologies will reach a maturity and price to become much more attractive to businesses that have so far resisted digital transformation.
Charles Araujo, founder of the Institute for Digital Transformation says that advances in automation technologies mark “a shift in power away from organizations and to their customers”.
“In the industrial age, it was all about optimizing the supply chain, optimizing the core,” Araujo explains. “You created business value by driving efficiency and optimization. Now we’re seeing that those organizations that are being disruptive, are transforming the customer experience, and that that’s how they are generating value.”
We recorded a conversation with Araujo and... [Read more] | |
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See Intellyx at these Upcoming Events | |
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ANY APPLICATION. ANY CLOUD. ANY KUBERNETES.Cloud-native computing begins with Kubernetes, but the benefits of cloud-native methodology extend to all of IT operations. However, IT organizations undertaking digital transformation initiatives face numerous challenges, including compliance, infrastructure compatibility, and technical expertise.
Join this informative webinar with Jason Bloomberg, President and Principal Analyst of Intellyx, and Simone Sassoli, Chief Customer Officer at Robin.io, who will discuss strategies for migrating all enterprise applications – both stateless and stateful – to the cloud. Attendees will learn what IT organizations need to consider if they want to deliver true IT transformation for: • Lower OPEX • Higher data availability • Improved hardware utilization Attendees will also hear examples of how Fortune 500 companies are creating a roadmap for automating the deployment, scaling and lifecycle management of enterprise applications to make their IT environments truly cloud-native. | |
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Lunch & Learn with Jason Bloomberg, president of Intellyx and author of Low-Code for Dummies and Greynier Fuentes, Vice President of Digital Solutions, VeriTran
Agenda:11:30AM – 12:00PM — Check-in/Networking12:00PM – 12:15PM — Opening (Omar Arab) 12:15PM – 1:00PM — Presentation: Digital Transformation using Low-Code (Jason Bloomberg) 1:00PM – 1:30PM — Live Demo: Changing The Way You Build Apps (Greynier Fuentes) 1:30PM – 1:45PM — Q&A 1:45PM – 2:30PM — Networking & Book Signing with Jason Bloomberg
If you would like to join us, please contact Greynier Fuentes at gfuentes@veritran.com. We have limited space available. | |
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What to expectA decade ago, business process management (BPM) focused on modeling and perhaps automating stable, repeatable back-office processes. Even with the bar set this low, many of the BPM tools on the market struggled to meet the needs of the business.
Today, business processes are more dynamic. Enterprises are more likely to focus on customer-facing, front-office processes. Low-code tools improve collaboration, increase quality, and lower technical debt. And we have yet to maximize the full power of the cloud to bring to bear. Welcome to the BPM renaissance.
On this live webinar, listen to Jason Bloomberg, president of analyst firm Intellyx, and Daniel Myer, CTO Camunda, as they discuss how today’s BPM addresses business problems the way first-generation BPM never could. They will cover the five core value propositions of next-generation BPM and explain how low-code technologies and cloud-native computing change the BPM game, allowing you to not just survive, but also thrive through these transformative times. | |
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