Category: Digital Leadership & CIO

Many of Microsoft's business units had explosive growth in the three months through December, riding their momentum into 2021.
Accelerating cloud adoption for BSS is essential for communication service providers (CSPs) to attain and maintain profitable services. CSPs can ill-afford to lose their influence across digital value chains and their top priority investments in the 5G-IoT ecosystem. Through cloud, CSPs deliver the virtualized, on-demand service delivery platform to ensure the creation of new, profitable services and sustaining innovation through collaboration with ecosystem partners and developers. In order for CSPs to successfully execute their BSS journey to cloud, regardless of their progress to date, CSPs need to give top consideration to cloud and its role in adapting BSS to COVID-19 exigencies and the post pandemic reality as the world shifts to new business models enabled by 5G and IoT.
Could Microsoft Viva’s plan to humanize the workplace be the key to boosting employee productivity, creativity, and retention? Seeing technology now being used to re-humanize the workplace, humanize workflows, and give people rather than systems more agency and initiative, seems to Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard to be a very positive and welcome change in the enterprise. Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform certainly appears to be aiming to deliver on that vision.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall walks us through the Oracle Database 21c debut, which further differentiates the company’s converged database proposition, especially in key emerging technology areas such as Immutable Blockchain Tables and AutoML for In-Database ML. The new offering strengthens Oracle’s ability to bolster developer productivity in cultivating new applications and curating applications to fulfill top-priority business objectives. By including 200+ innovations across seven key technology areas in the new release, Ron is bullish on Oracle and sees this move as putting its major database rivals, such as IBM, SAP, Amazon, and Microsoft/Azure on the sales and marketing defensive in the near-term. He sees Oracle’s Database 21c sales and marketing zigging in marked contrast to the zagging of recent competitor marketing that continues to focus on requisite, somewhat bland feature sets such as cloud-based data management, putting Oracle in the driver’s seat to drive industry-wide converged database sales and marketing conversations at the onset of 2021.
In this interview as part of our Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Shelly Kramer sat down with Josh Teitelman, VP of Customer Experience at Allstacks and John Steinmetz, CTO of Convo Communications, for a conversation about building a high performing engineering team, and what the secret sauce is that makes that goal a reality.
Just as consumer marketing teams have found AI-driven martech to help them reach their buyers where they are, B2B marketing teams are starting to realize that AI can do similar things to enhance their business customers’ journeys.
Amazon broke $100 Billion in revenue in its 4th quarter, nearly doubling expectations for EPS, but Bezos' announced departure steals the day.
Microsoft Azure Quantum is now available for public preview allowing developers and researchers in all industries to experiment with the quantum computing platform. The preview is to help launch the quantum computing service as well as spur innovation in a variety of fields.
Cisco’s new Catalyst products, aimed at seeding 5G and SASE across the WAN edge, bolster its competitive prospects in the SD-WAN/SASE market segment and the WAN Edge realm against formidable foes such as VMware, Fortinet, Versa, HPE, and Juniper. The move also boosts industry awareness of the company’s pivotal role in accelerating 5G adoption across enterprise environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall covers why that’s a smart, strategic move.
Juniper closed out its 4th quarter beating top and bottom line expectations on strong demand for networking expected to carry over to 2021.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with Qualcomm’s Nakul Duggal about the latest announcements from the Automotive Showcase 2021 and what it means for the automotive space going forward.

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