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Author: Shelly Kramer

What is edge computing and how does it improve our lives? That’s what this on-demand webinar from SAS—called IoT Analytics at the Edge: Faster, Cheaper and Smarter—explores.
Defining the Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t easy which is why SAS defined 101 IoT terms in this helpful guide A Non-Geek’s A-to-Z Guide to the Internet of Things. Check it out.
SAS created an excellent resource on the IoT to help businesses better understand what it is, how it’s impacting our world, and why this technology matters for the future.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, fellow analyst Fred McClimans and I took a quick run through our recently published research report done in partnership with SAS, Experience 2030: The Future of Customer Experience is Now. We also talked about Russian hackers, China’s crackdown on deepfakes and fake news, employees who want to get Away from the trendy DTC luggage company, TikTok’s speedy settlement of the lawsuit on children’s data, and Toys ‘R Us and the brand’s new non-store store that may or not be kind of creepy. Join us for a listen, and if you’ve not yet hit the ‘subscribe’ button do, you won’t be sorry.
AI is taking over the world, or at the very least, our business budgets, but that doesn’t spell success. Learn how a service provider can be the difference maker.
Our newest research report, done in partnership with SAP, takes a deep dive into the trends, practices, challenges, and behaviors relating to the digital buying of enterprise software solutions. We surveyed 1,000 global decision-makers, enterprise software buyers, and IT leaders to see what matters most to them, as well as the challenges and frustrations they face. If you’re the in the business of selling software understanding customer preferences is, well, a pretty important part of your ability to be successful. Put 2019 Digital Buyers’ Journey: Trends, Challenges, and Predictions on your must-read list.
Service desk technology is great, except when it’s not. The problem with service desk automation isn’t the technology, it’s a lack of focus on what really matters: The service part of the equation. Here’s a look at the evolution of IT service management, what to look for in an ITSM solution, and why it’s critical to look beyond the technology itself. But only if you want your implementations to succeed.
What’s next for tech? Catch my upcoming webinar with the team at Pega on Dec. 17th and see what’s new (and what we expect in 2020) as it relates to digital transformation, customer experience, RPA, Intelligent Automation and more.
Much like data in and of itself, AI presents businesses with both challenges and opportunities. And that’s what we set out to explore in partnership with the team at Atos.
This week’s episode of Futurum Tech Podcast we shared insights from our research report The State of Automation 2019: RPA, AI, and Intelligent Automation, done partnership with Automation Anywhere. We discussed Amazon challenging the award of the DoD’s $10 billion cloud services contract to Microsoft, the new strategic alliance between Microsoft and Salesforce, and how knowing the information Knightscope’s security robots are collecting (and feeding into a massive facial recognition database) is enough to make them seem more creepy than cute.
Amazon is changing the returns game, largely without consumers even noticing. In fact, I predict the ecommerce giant is also working to change the ecommerce delivery game as well, and is already quietly going about the business of retraining customers and resetting expectations. Here’s how.