Major firms learning to adapt in fight against start-ups, says IBM Major corporations are learning to defend themselves against startups that threaten their business models, hitting back by adopting the disruptors’ playbook, according to a survey of top executives by computer services firm IBM. The proportion of executives who thought competitors were set to flood into their industry has halved from 54 percent to 26 percent from two years ago, the broad-based poll of business decision-makers showed. “There’s been a feeling historically that the elephants can’t dance, the incumbents will find it hard to respond and that everyone will be Uber-ed or Airbnb-ed out of existence,” Mark Foster, senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, told Reuters in an interview. “But what we are seeing is, actually, there is a limit as to how far that can go.” While some sectors had been hugely disrupted by new digital entrants and some intermediaries were pushed out, many of those changes were now being led by existing industry players, he said. Disruption is a catch-all term for the use of digital technology to upend existing business models, for example, Uber’s effect on the taxi industry by using smartphones to connect riders with drivers, and pricing according to demand. But just 27 percent of the executives surveyed said they were experiencing significant disruption, an unexpected finding, given the deluge many predicted, IBM said. Only 23 percent said the big drivers of change were from outside their industries. Digital giants, like Google, Apple and Facebook, continued to concentrate their power in some industries, but, according to the executives surveyed, they were not leading the disruption, and startups were increasingly quiescent, the survey found. Instead, 72 percent said it was the most innovative incumbents who were leading the disruption, including in industries aimed at by startups, such as financial services. IBM said the incumbents had become better at spotting and acquiring nascent disruptors. They had also realized the need to find partners, even sharing physical assets and people with them, to acquire new skills. They are investing in the technologies that facilitate the sharing of data across organizations – such as the Internet of Things, which bridges physical and digital assets, and blockchain. “Disruption hasn’t gone underground,” IBM said in its report, released before the start of the mobile industry’s biggest event, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “Instead, it’s emerging as a capability incumbents are ready to embrace.” IBM surveyed 12,854 top executives, such as chief executives and finance directors, from 112 countries for its report. “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance” was the title of the memoir of 1990s era IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, who is credited with bringing the company back from a near-death experience by shifting it into software and services and exiting most hardware businesses. Share this:The post IBM report, “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?” appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/ibm-report-who-says-elephants-cant-dance/
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Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has appointed transformational technology marketing leader Colleen Langevin as the Chief Marketing Officer reporting directly to Epicor CEO Steve Murphy. “We are thrilled to have a marketing executive of Colleen’s caliber join the leadership team,” said Murphy. “Colleen brings extensive marketing leadership experience coupled with a customer and growth-oriented mindset, and a recognised track record of raising brand profiles.” As CMO, Langevin is responsible for global marketing strategy and the global marketing organisation at Epicor, including corporate marketing, field marketing, and tele prospecting. She brings over 20 years of proven executive experience cultivating customer-driven marketing, building global brands, and launching into new lines of business and markets to drive impactful revenue growth. “I’m thrilled to join Epicor at such a pivotal time for the company, our customers and our industry,” said Langevin. “From artificial intelligence (AI), big data and blockchain, to Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT)—business leaders are striving to identify the digital transformations they can make that will have the biggest impact on enhancing employee and customer experiences and drive growth. And Epicor is leading the way for its customers to leverage the advantages innovative technologies bring.” Prior to joining Epicor, Langevin was the CMO for CLEAResult, the market leader in designing and implementing technology-enabled demand side management programs for utilities. While at CLEAResult, Langevin led the development and execution of the go-to-market strategy and the marketing organisation that drove significant revenue growth for the company. She has also previously held executive leadership positions with Dell and also Iron Mountain, where as senior vice president of marketing her leadership of market strategy, product marketing and branding as well as the field marketing teams resulted in growing the business into a global market leader with over $3B in revenue. Langevin holds an MBA from Babson College and a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University. The appointment of Langevin as CMO completes the growth-oriented leadership team led by Murphy, which also includes: “The talented global management team assembled at Epicor will accelerate the execution of our strategy to drive a culture of growth, investment and customer-centricity—while raising the bar on innovation and transformation,” Murphy said. “I’m excited about the team and what we can accomplish together—bringing experience in cloud solutions and coming from industry leaders and high-growth companies. With cloud as our fastest growing deployment segment, we are poised to continue to increase speed, efficiency and scale delivering technology solutions that in turn enable our customers to achieve the kind of transformation that fuels growth.” The post Colleen Langevin becomes new Chief Marketing Officer for Epicor appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/colleen-langevin-becomes-new-chief-marketing-officer-for-epicor/ The outcome of the ever-increasing efforts to further advance the Internet of Things (IoT) will be revealed at Mobile World Congress 2018, as numerous oneM2M members demonstrate their latest innovations across multiple sectors. From smart cities and automated vehicles to e-health and industrial processes, the number of connected devices in all areas of life is only set to vastly increase. Gartner Analyst Group places IoT at the top of its emerging technologies and anticipates a five-to-ten-year period for the market to reach full maturity. But interoperability remains a key concern for the IoT industry and as market demands continue to accelerate, a multi-purpose and collaborative approach is required. As the global IoT standards initiative, oneM2M addresses this challenge by providing a universal framework for IoT deployments. These standards are being supported by leading industry players – including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), iconectiv, Intel, InterDigital and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., which will have oneM2M-based solutions showcased at MWC 2018. Experts from IBM will also speak at the event. “The IoT device and platforms market is continuing to grow at a rapid rate and interoperability is essential to ensuring that this momentum continues,” said Jim Nolan, Executive Vice President, Chordant at InterDigital. “Horizontal, standards-based approaches to further evolve IoT are pivotal, as they ensure IoT deployments are scalable and cost-effective. This year’s Mobile World Congress will highlight real-world deployments already demonstrating this and it is fantastic to see so many fellow oneM2M members shining a light on their developments.” Chordant™, an InterDigital business, will also host a number of IoT demonstrations at the InterDigital stand in Hall 7, Stand C761. These will demonstrate how the Chordant platform, a solution based on the oneM2M standard, is used to harmonise devices, data and services. Some of the featured use cases enabled by the Chordant platform will include smart city data marketplace, multi-connectivity and edge processing, SCEF interface to core networks, and monitoring over LPWA networks. Meanwhile, Qualcomm Technologies’ Seshu Madhavapeddy, Vice President of Product Management for IoT, will speak during Mobile World Congress’ IoT Security & the Blockchain conference on Monday, February 26 at 11am and discuss how the IoT can be protected end-to-end through strong ecosystem collaboration – from chip to cloud. HPE will host a number of IoT demonstrations at its stand in Hall 3, Stand 3E11. These will show how the HPE Universal IoT Platform utilises the oneM2M-based horizontal approach across verticals such as Smart Cities and Precision Agriculture, including integration with edge-based solutions from HPE’s Edgeline Converged Edge Systems. The HPE Universal IoT Platform has been designed from its inception to be aligned with oneM2M and, as a result, can support multiple industry-specific use cases on the same horizontal platform. 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Privacy & Cookies Policy Go to Source The post How and why police lights are used? Complete quick book of police vehicle lights appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/how-and-why-police-lights-are-used-complete-quick-book-of-police-vehicle-lights/ In the past, there was never much of a focus on toxic work environments. Nobody really cared what went on behind closed doors – it was all about results. Today things have changed. This means companies, like Visier, which use employee data and analytics to identify problems in the workplace, are gradually emerging. We speak to Visier’s chief strategy officer, Dave Weisbeck, to learn more about what this might mean in practice. What kinds of data does Visier need access to in order to determine workplace trends? Companies collect far more data than people probably realize. For example, when you’re interviewing, your resume is now online rather than on paper. When you start your job and begin training, your information is put into a system or database. What we’re trying to do at Visier is scan across all of that information to find answers to questions that shape business strategy, provide the impetus for taking action, and drive better business results. The information we use depends on what kinds of questions we’re trying to answer. For example, when we look at quality of hire we will want to understand if they stay, progress and perform. This generally requires performance management, promotion, and retention data which may be further augmented with hiring manager surveys or business measures of productivity. Visier’s approach is not to attempt to surgically collect narrow elements of data, but instead to take information from every system holding data on employees so no matter the question, you have one place to go to get an answer. Share this:The post How data analytics can identify toxic work environments appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/how-data-analytics-can-identify-toxic-work-environments/ Helping global corporations like Emirates Group undergo massive digital transformations even as it remakes itself for the digital world, SAP is confidently predicting that its cloud revenue will overtake its license revenue this year on the strength of having “the most complete cloud in the enterprise,” according to CEO Bill McDermott. “We believe this is not a time for measured ambitions–in a world filled with anxiety about automation, SAP will lead a new economy where intelligent machines enable augmented humanity,” McDermott said on SAP’s recent Q4 earnings call. If that type of aspirational vision seems hard to square with images of R3 workscreens, bear in mind that McDermott’s been in the CEO chair for 9 years and has pretty much completed his end-to-end transformation of the company: its move into databases, its move to the cloud, the many acquisitions that have accelerated that journey, an aggressive embrace of powerful new technologies, and a grand new sense of the role SAP can play—and should play—in a world rapidly moving to digital lifestyles and digital business. Like every tech megavendor competing in the Cloud Wars, SAP has its challenges:
So let’s dig into 10 strategic insights revealed during SAP’s recent earnings call with financial analysts and see where this extraordinary company—whose applications power huge portions of the global economy—is headed (hat tip to SeekingAlpha.com for the transcript).
With SAP’s cloud revenue for calendar 2017 coming in $4.71 billion, that means SAP expects to come very close to $10 billion in cloud revenue for 2020. Meanwhile, SAP’s traditional on-premises business continues to grow in single digits even as the cloud business surges—and for an excellent analysis on how and why companies are balancing their cloud and on-premises strategies, I heartily recommend this insightful analysis from the always-excellent Holger Mueller of Constellation Research. (Warning—don’t be scared by Holger’s headline—it’s a must-read overview!) Share this:The post Inside SAP: As Cloud Surpasses License Revenue In 2018, 10 Strategic Insights appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/inside-sap-as-cloud-surpasses-license-revenue-in-2018-10-strategic-insights/ The clearest and most-unequivocal proof that the enterprise-cloud business has grown up and is fully ready for industrial-strength deployments is the recent pledges from top executives at Microsoft, SAP and Oracle to make customer success—not customer satisfaction or loyalty, but customer success—their top priority in 2018. Those tech-industry giants have joined cloud-native SaaS providers Workday, Salesforce.com and ServiceNow in committing unconditionally to this new top-priority metric in the following ways: revamping salespeople’s compensation to be based on cloud-services consumption and business success, rather than on what Microsoft CFO Amy Hood called “the billing cycle”; creating new roles and positions within the organization specifically designed to bring all the cloud vendor’s resources to bear on ensuring successful deployments, go-lives and ongoing operations; and launching new programs specifically designed to enable and enhance customer-to-customer communications. These latest public pledges from three of the world’s biggest enterprise-tech companies--Microsoft, SAP and Oracle—underscore a prediction I made late last year that customer success would become the single most-important and defining issue for the entire industry in 2018. I laid out this new premise for cloud leadership in an article called Cloud Computing Outlook 2018: The Top 10 Predictions For Winning The Cloud and here’s a quick excerpt to offer some context on just how transformative and sweeping this new movement has become: Yes, brilliant cloud technology will remain essential—but I would argue that in as the cloud marketplace evolves at a stunning pace, that brilliant technology and resulting cloud services are becoming table stakes in the Cloud Wars. And as a consequence, the true measure of strategic differentiation in the cloud will be how well those cloud vendors can, as noted above, map their offerings to their customers: the business priorities of big, mid-size and small companies in every industry and across every region on the planet. Read More Here Share this:The post Microsoft, SAP And Oracle Join Cloud Industry Obsession Over New Performance Metric appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/microsoft-sap-and-oracle-join-cloud-industry-obsession-over-new-performance-metric/ Customer confusion and a lack of technical skills are still dogging migration to SAP HANA, but the days of deployment horror stories are fading, according to a report penned by an integrator. The ERP giant launched its in-memory data platform SAP HANA in late 2010, but the firm had problems conveying what it actually was, and organisations found it hard to drum up compelling business cases. This confusion, combined with reports of delayed and over-budget migrations, meant SAP’s task to convince customers to commit to ditching their traditional relational databases was even more of a struggle. However, a report from SAP HANA managed service biz Centiq has indicated that – despite underlying confusion remaining – acceptance of the platform is on the up. Centiq surveyed 250 UK punters of varying sizes about their opinions and experiences with SAP HANA, finding 68 per cent of respondents claimed SAP HANA had delivered its return on investment, and 75 per cent said projects were finished on time, on budget or both. Paul Cooper, chairman of the UK SAP User Group – which wasn’t involved in producing the survey – said that the findings chimed with those of his own group, which has seen more people considering SAP HANA. There had been a “huge effort” from SAP and its partners to “try and overcome the horror stories of the past,” and convince customers that things have changed, he said. “It’s a good sign if people are seeing that, because it indicates that the rhetoric is coming true.” Direct access licensingBut there are still a number of issues SAP will have to overcome if it is to migrate its customers before 2025, when it has planned to cease support for some products. Among them, the long-standing fears about direct access and licensingloom large, with 86 per cent of customers saying they are still confused on these issues. But Centiq also outlined broader concerns around a lack of technical skills for migration and problems defining the migration strategy to SAP HANA. It noted customers are now faced with more choices, such as weighing up the various benefits of on-premise, public and private cloud. Share this:The post SAP HANA: Concerns remain over tech skills, complexity, licensing – survey appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/sap-hana-concerns-remain-over-tech-skills-complexity-licensing-survey/ If you don’t want to wait for the Samsung Galaxy S9, Pixel XLs are about $200 offLast week, Microsoft announced that it would take $200 off of Intel i5 versions of the Surface Pro for the laptop’s five-year anniversary. The deal was only supposed to last through Presidents’ Day, but we’re well past the holiday and you can still get one of the popular touchscreen laptops starting at just $799. We don’t know how long this deal will be around, and we’re pretty lucky we still have it right now, so act fast. Laptops aren’t the only hardware category being discounted this week. B&H is marking down Google Pixel XL phones for a limited time. For $579.99, you can get an unlocked Pixel XL with 128 GB of storage. If you’re in the market for a new phone and you don’t want to pay the $1,000 that gets you into the iPhone X or Samsung Galaxy S9+ game, this is a great deal. COMPUTINGShare this:The post Microsoft Surface Pro deals continue and Google Pixel XL phones get a huge markdown appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/microsoft-surface-pro-deals-continue-and-google-pixel-xl-phones-get-a-huge-markdown/ A major privacy rights fight between Microsoft and the Justice Department reaches the Supreme Court this week, with the justices considering whether U.S. law allows prosecutors to compel technology companies to hand over data stored overseas. The nine justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that pits the interests of tech companies and privacy advocates in safeguarding customer data against the demands of law enforcement in obtaining information crucial to criminal and counterterrorism investigations. The case began with a 2013 warrant obtained by prosecutors for emails of a suspect in a drug trafficking investigation that were stored in Microsoft computer servers in Dublin. The company challenged whether a domestic warrant covered data stored abroad. The Justice Department said because Microsoft is based in the United States, prosecutors were entitled to the data. The case is being closely watched by other countries wrestling with similar concerns, including members of the European Union. A ruling is due by the end of June. A 2016 decision by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals siding with Microsoft marked a victory for tech firms that increasingly offer cloud computing services in which data is stored remotely. President Donald Trump’s administration appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court. Globally dominant American tech companies have expressed concern that customers will go elsewhere if they think the U.S. government’s reach extends to data centers all around the world without changes being made to the law. Microsoft, which has 100 data centers in 40 countries, was the first American company to challenge a domestic search warrant seeking data held outside the United States. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, told reporters last week the U.S. government should not be able to act unilaterally to access such data without taking into account the laws and interests of other countries. “It’s more likely to be a recipe for international tension and chaos,” Smith said. Share this:The post US Supreme Court weighs Microsoft privacy fight over data stored overseas appeared first on Statii News. from http://news.statii.co.uk/us-supreme-court-weighs-microsoft-privacy-fight-over-data-stored-overseas/ |
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