Category: Enterprise Applications

August 2, 2023

15Five Launches HR Outcomes Dashboard

New Solution Helps Leaders Better Understand Engagement, Performance, Turnover, and Manager Effectiveness

Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group chats with 15Five and gets insights into the company’s newly released HR Outcome Dashboard, designed to help leaders better understand employee engagement, performance, turnover and manager effectiveness

Business Information, Employee Experience, Enterprise Applications

August 2, 2023

tweiss@futurumresearch.com

Industry News

Talking Open Source With Intel’s Arun Gupta at Open Source Summit 2023

Open Source Success Means Tying Open Source to Your Core Business at Every Step

Todd R. Weiss, senior analyst with The Futurum Group, shares his insights after talking open source with Intel’s Arun Gupta at Open Source Summit 2023, including what enterprise IT leaders must analyze about how their developers should participate in contributing code to open source development projects.

Business Information, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, Open Source

August 2, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, and Others Announce Alliance for OpenUSD

New Consortium Will Promote Standardization, Development, Evolution, and Growth of 3D Content Industry

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers the announcement of the Alliance for OpenUSD, a consortium announced to support the development of a 3D content standard and innovation, and discusses the need for such a standard with technology that can be deployed across a plethora of use cases and industries.

AR/VR, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Applications, Workplace Collaboration

July 28, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

Microsoft’s Zero-Upcharge Copilot Strategy May Elevate GenAI Adoption

Dynamics 3Enterprise and Premium Customers Can Access Copilot Within Their Existing Licenses

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares his insights into Microsoft’s decision to provide Copilot GPT features within the license terms of its Enterprise and Premium versions of the Dynamics 365 family of products, and discusses the benefits and challenges for the company and its customers.

AI and Data Analytics, Cloud, Contact Center, Employee Experience, Enterprise Applications, Machine Learning

July 27, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

Fiserv Announces Nearly 100 Client Commitments to FedNow Real-Time Transaction Service

Mediapolis Savings Bank and Salem Five Bank Go Live at Launch of Instant Payment Rail via Fiserv

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, focuses on the recent announcement by Fiserv on the launch of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s instant payment service, and discusses the benefits of real-time payments for customers, businesses, and payment processors.

Business Information, Communications Networks, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications

July 24, 2023

Daniel Newman and tweiss@futurumresearch.com

Research Note

SAP Q2 Revenue Reaches €7.55 Billion, up 5%, as Cloud Climbs

Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss, analysts at The Futurum Group, share their insights as SAP Q2 revenue reaches €7.55 billion, up 5%, as cloud revenue climbs again. SAP’s Q2 revenue came in a bit lower than analyst consensus estimates of €7.6 billion for the quarter, but the company clearly sees progress as it raised its second half earnings guidance for cloud and software revenue and non-IFRS operating profit through the end of fiscal year 2023.

Cloud, Enterprise Applications, ERP

July 21, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

NetSuite Offers Guided Learning to Reduce Training Time and Accelerate Adoption

Contextual Learning Guides Include Role-Based and Task-Based Guides

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the launch of NetSuite Guided Learning, and discusses how the embedded features should help enterprises maximize their software ROI, increase productivity, and decrease training costs.

Business Information, Employee Experience, Enterprise Applications

July 21, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

Workday Announces Elastic Hypercube Technology for Workday Adaptive Planning

Latest Release Provides Support for Continuous Planning at Scale

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Workday’s announcement of Elastic Hypercube Technology (EHT), which provides enterprise workforce planners with dynamic and elastic compute power, enabling them to incorporate more dimensionality and complexity into planning models, while supporting a high number of concurrent users without impacting speed or performance.

AI, Business Information, Enterprise Applications

July 19, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

watsonx.ai Leverages Foundation Models to Accelerate AI Application Development

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the general availability of watsonx, including watsonx.ai, which should help enterprises developing AI applications deploy them more quickly and efficiently, improving time-to-value.

AI, AI and Data Analytics, Enterprise Applications

July 14, 2023

Randy Kerns

Research Note

IBM watsonx.data is Now Generally Available as Part of Major watsonx Announcement

Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist at The Futurum Group covers covers the release of IBM's new AI-focused solutions as it announces general availability of watsonx.data.

AI, AI and Data Analytics, Enterprise Applications

July 12, 2023

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Note

Microsoft’s Viva Sales, Copilot Driving Productivity Gains for Sales Professionals

Six-Month Check-in With Internal CRM Tool Users Yields Positive Responses for Efficiency, Value

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the internal usage of Microsoft Viva Sales, a generative AI-infused tool aimed at driving productivity gains among sales professionals, and discusses the curious lack of mobile support in an era of hybrid and remote work.