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While competition between software vendors for IT budget is fierce, this struggle is seldom a deadly cagematch among well-established heavyweights.
To me, these battles seem a little more like pro wrestling (or, ‘Lucha Libre’), where the game has certain rules and conventions in place to avoid serious injury to the combatants while preserving the spectacle.
The ticket-paying audience (buyers) can choose to root for the incumbent champion, or pick the wrestler with the coolest moves, or mask, or name they resonate with. The drama plays out in the ring. Winners are decided, and everyone can go home until the next budget battle match.
Duking it out over cost & capability Working on the software vendor side for most of my years (usually as a marketing or sales enabler, and sometimes as a buyer), I tended to see customer’s technology decisions as an evaluation of cost per capability.
Through peer discussions, web articles and vendor marketing, as well as insightful commentary from analysts like Intellyx, IT buyers become aware of new capabilities they want to add to their stack to remain competitive. These capabilities may be broad functional divisions like “hybrid IT orchestration” or “observability” or “data ops,” or they may be very specific, ala “Feature flagging” or “SAP migration.”
At this point, the prospective customer may invite one or more vendors of the same division into the arena. Sales and presales leads play tag team, attempting to drop the hammer on competitors as costs and capabilities are compared. Hopefully the customer is serious about making a purchase and these vendors aren’t just putting on a free exhibition match for the audience... [Read the rest of the article here.] | |
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Wide-area networks (WANs) have connected remote office locations to corporate headquarters for decades now. Put satellite offices on the corporate network, so the reasoning went, and now remote employees can connect to all internal applications and data available to any headquarters-based cube dweller.
Furthermore, WANs extended the corporate security perimeter, effectively drawing a line in the sand around all those remote locations that attackers would be loath to cross.
Ah, those were the days.
Today, enterprises are likely to turn to SD-WAN technology to leverage a mix of private networks and broadband. The goal: rearchitect the WAN to afford connectivity to an increasingly diverse collection of remote offices, pop-up locations, and individual employees working from coffee shops, client locations, and today, from home – what we can call the WAN edge... [Read more] | |
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Long before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the long-standing office work paradigm, a class of technology was developing behind the scenes. We refer to this category of management tools as User Experience Management platforms.
Organizations have historically used these platforms to collect data on the employee experience when using core, mission-critical applications, such as SAP. These platforms collect data on application usage to identify productivity and adoption issues, problems with the software that reduce efficiency, and similar experiential challenges.
This same data on how employees are interacting with their software can also serve as the foundation by which enterprise leaders choose which employees to bring back first — or at all... [Read more] | |
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It was an odd question. Surely, I thought to myself, there must be a relationship.
I was having a conversation with Jamey Heinze, Chief Marketing Officer of iGrafx, and he had just asked me if I thought there was a definitive relationship between what were often disparate efforts within enterprises: business process management and transformation efforts.
Like many of us in the enterprise world, I seem to have lived several lives. For the last six years, my world has revolved around digital transformation. It’s been the focus of my research, writing, and talks since I gave a speech at a conference on digital disruption in New Zealand.
But prior to that, I was a hard core process guy. When I ran IT operations for a large healthcare organization my entire being was process-centric. And I then proceeded to spend the better part of a decade helping organizations adopt process discipline within their organizations... [Read more] | |
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BMC’s Vision for 2025 Jason Bloomberg, President, Intellyx
What will the modern enterprise look like in 2025, long after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed? More importantly, what should a modern enterprise aspire to be in five years?
That’s the question that software vendor BMC has asked as they begin their own transformation into a modern enterprise. What tenets must such an organization follow, and what path must it take?
The answers to these questions form the Autonomous Digital Enterprise – BMC’s vision for itself and its customers in 2025... [Read more] | |
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Address the hand-coding bottleneck Simply put, the low-code/no-code platforms that have long populated the fringes of the application development market are a somewhat alien concept to those who code by hand for a living. “DevOps has mainly been focused on a hand-coding mentality,” says Jason Bloomberg, founder and president of industry analyst firm Intellyx. “It’s increasingly difficult to do DevOps without low-code because the hand-coding is the bottleneck.”... [Read more] | |
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Robin.io, the 5G and application automation platform company, today released a white paper developed by Charles Araujo, principal analyst at Intellyx Research. The white paper, titled Three Architectural Capabilities That Change the Game for Financial Services Leaders, predicts a seismic shift in the competitive landscape for financial services firms based on changing customer expectations and competitive pressures. The paper predicts that improved architectural capabilities are crucial for these companies to... [Read more] | |
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HONEYCODE BREAKS FROM LOW-CODE/NO-CODE TRADITION
The tool’s spreadsheet interface is somewhat unusual, as most low-code/no-code tools follow a workflow or mobile UX metaphor, said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx, in Suffolk, Va. “As such, AWS is targeting it at the Excel power user — not necessarily a professional developer, but someone who is adept at working with Excel formulas.”
Honeycode is “within the reach of the power user to be sure, but awfully code-like for the average business user,” he added.The tool enables users to... [Read more] | |
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We just released our latest direct research, with recommendations, regarding the connection between process management and digital transformation initiatives. The research was conducted by Intellyx, an analyst firm focused solely on digital transformation.
We began working with Intellyx in early 2020 to answer a key question – is there a relationship between process management and transformation (digital and business) and if so, what is the impact they have on one another when applied within an enterprise? Our latest report answers exactly that. Jason Bloomberg, President at Intelllyx explained it best by saying “Process management and digital transformation are crucial, yet complementary endeavors in companies today. Enterprises invest massive resources in both of these domains – usually in two distinct silos. Unfortunately, around 70% of both types of initiatives fail. This report... [Read more] | |
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