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Intellectually brave and fact-based insights on transformative strategies, technology and processes
Intellectually brave and fact-based insights on transformative strategies, technology and processes
July 10, 2019
The supportive IT services that delighted businesses yesterday seldom spark the same delight today. Companies just expect IT to deliver quality technology components and services at an ever-decreasing cost per unit: That’s considered “hygiene.” Now they want IT to create new business value. But many CIOs and IT groups make three operational mistakes that build walls between the IT organization [...]
July 09, 2019
Buying services is no longer a matter of decisions that stand independently, like buying technology or products. In the past, many companies had the misconception that services are “one and done” or that they could be built and then be fine or at least fine for three or four years. But that’s not the case. Services are more of a [...]
July 04, 2019
Enterprises that operate in the BFSI industry are the biggest consumers of analytics services. They realized earlier than companies in other sectors how powerful analytics can be in offering targeted and customer-centric solutions, exploiting the massive amount of available data, meeting dynamic customer demands with their expectation for real-time solutions, and helping them adapt to changing business environments. There are [...]
July 01, 2019
by Yugal Joshi
Scaling in an application development environment can take many different shapes and forms. For the purposes of this blog, let’s agree that scaling implies: From one team to a project From one project to a program From a program to multiple programs From multiple programs to a portfolio From a portfolio to a business From a business to the entire [...]
July 01, 2019
In today’s digital world, a car isn’t just a car, a home isn’t just a home, and a factory isn’t just a factory. They’re all connected and intelligent and rely on both hardware and embedded software to deliver value to end-customers. But to make sure these connected and intelligent products operate safely and as intended, enterprises need to completely rethink [...]
June 26, 2019
Back in December 2017, Altran’s acquisition of Aricent for US$2 billion was one of the biggest inorganic growth initiatives in the engineering services space. The acquisition helped Altran draw synergies across key verticals and strengthen its leadership position in the global engineering services space. Fast forward just a short year and a half later to a much larger deal: Capgemini [...]
June 21, 2019
by Sarah Burnett, Amardeep Modi
As a reader of this blog, you likely know that we’ve been researching and analyzing the RPA market in-depth for more than five years and have conducted multiple RPA technology vendor PEAK MatrixTM evaluations in the same time frame. Starting in 2015, Blue Prism earned a Leader’s spot in in our assessment because of its extensive features and strong market [...]
June 18, 2019
Why do digital transformations experience more failure and face more peril than companies anticipate? Why do they take far longer than anticipated? With apologies to Einstein, I believe we can understand the answers to these questions by viewing them through the lens of “GUT” – (General Unified Theory) of digital transformation – and how many related factors intertwine to increase [...]
June 14, 2019
by Nitish Mittal, Pranav Kumar
When news first hit in late April 2019 of speculation around Medidata Solutions being acquired by Dassault Systèmes – a France-based software company that develops 3D design, 3D digital mock-up, and product lifecycle management software – Medidata’s stock value went soaring. The deal immediately made sense. The fact that Dassault Systèmes was looking to ramp up its offerings for life [...]
June 11, 2019
by Arpita Dwivedi, Arushi Pandey, Sarweshwer Gupta, Vishal Gupta
On June 10, 2019, Salesforce announced an agreement to acquire Tableau, a leading interactive data visualization company, for US$15.7 billion in an all-stock deal. Here’s our take on it. Strategic Intent behind the Deal The announcement is a masterful move to aid Salesforce’s hyper growth agenda to become a US$28 billion company in three years’ time. In the past 15 [...]
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