Category: Digital Leadership & CIO

At Microsoft’s Inspire event the company highlighted its Return to Workplace offering, with investments intended to help clients and partners build and enable resilient organizations around the world as we collectively shift to a digital first mindset. Already a significant player in the enterprise workforce, the continued strengthening of its various offerings, all designed to seamlessly work together, serve the myriad needs across the enterprise, as well as in the partner ecosystem, means that organizations don’t have to look outside the Microsoft solution set to do what it is they need to do. I would guess this makes other SaaS providers nervous, and rightfully so.
IBM and Adobe have partnered to deliver customer experience and data management in the cloud for regulated industries. Diving into the partnership objectives.
Allscripts and Microsoft Corp. announces a five-year extension to their strategic alliance to enable the expanded development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions.
Performance improvements aside, I can’t help but sense that the android smartwatch ecosystem is being somewhat hamstrung by a lack of interest, perhaps from Google, to really focus on beating Apple at its own game.
On this episode of The Six Five – Insiders Edition podcast hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman talk to Chris Koopmans, the CMO of Marvell, about the company’s rebranding efforts, their transformation initiatives and the product lines and services that Marvell is focusing on for the future.
At this year's Microsoft partner event, Inspire, the company announced a series of important updates to dynamics 365 and the Power Platform
Oracle Cloud has partnered with the NIH to build a COVID-19 Volunteer Screening Registry in order to screen millions of volunteers eager to participate in hundreds of clinical trials by year’s end. This will no doubt put Oracle’s cloud capabilities to the test — we’re betting the company is up for the challenge.
ADI is heading into headwinds in attaining full value from the network infrastructure silicon portion of the Maxim portfolio and is dealing with significant supply chain assimilation challenges, thereby dampening the upside of the overall deal. ADI needs to prioritize touting new wins in the network infrastructure segment (i.e., data center, 5G communications) post-merger to allay addressable market concerns and likewise rapidly implement its supply chain optimization strategy.
Grow with Google is designed to help jumpstart the economy by helping workers learn skills that will make them more appealing to employers (college degrees not required), and also to help employers fill what is often a gigantic skills gap. As part of this initiative, Google is offering grants, offering apprenticeship positions at Google, expanding its IT Certificate Employer Consortium and more. The future of work continues to be about an always-learning mindset, individually and in the business world, and this is another way Big Tech is stepping up to make that possible.
What we see with Release 16, in addition to improvements to previous fundamental standards, is a shift towards the next market for 5G technologies: industrial networks and applications. That is why, MIMO and IAB improvements aside, private networks, unlicensed spectrum, multi-TRP architecture, high-precision device positioning, efficient new power-saving protocols, and even multicasting between vehicles, constitute the lion’s share of projects in this release.
Amazon recently announced that AWS IoT SiteWise will be available to all AWS customers in certain regions soon. SiteWise is a managed service that gathers and organizes data in a way that helps industrial customers make informed decisions when it comes to monitoring facility operations, making new applications, improving production, determining performance metrics, and more. We expect to be hearing much more about AWS IoT SiteWise in the months to come.
Oracle has announced its most recent updates to its Oracle Supply Chain Cloud Management tool including some important changes for users.

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