A few new surveys of executives and business leaders provide some insight into shifting plans as industry weathers the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Many workers are furloughed while others work from home. Streets and grocery shelves are empty. In the c-suite, organizations are shifting budgets and priorities in the wake of […]
Archives for 2020
Indian government warms up to e-commerce firms
Image Credit: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Three days after India imposed a nationwide lockdown, Devender Singh revved up his motorcycle to deliver meat and eggs to customers – but his heart was in his mouth as he closed in on a police barricade on a deserted New Delhi road. Beatings of delivery workers by overzealous police after […]
Zoom hires ex-Facebook security chief as Google bans desktop app
Zoom has tapped former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser as safety and privacy concerns about its fast-growing video-conferencing app drive a global backlash against the company. That backlash includes a move on Wednesday by Alphabet’s Google to ban the desktop version of Zoom from corporate laptops. In a stark illustration of Zoom’s […]
Microsoft Receives 2020 SAP® Pinnacle Award: Public and Private Cloud Provider Partner of the Year
I’m pleased to share that SAP recently named Microsoft its Partner of the Year for the 2020 SAP® Pinnacle Award category of Public and Private Cloud Provider. SAP presents these awards annually to the top partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and helping customers run better. Winners and finalists […]
We Will Need All the Automation We Can Get
Enterprise automation is not a cause for alarm but a societal imperative. Here’s why. It’s a prediction that has been made for decades, even centuries. Technology-driven automation is about to trigger mass unemployment. In today’s rendition this means that there will soon be no need for truck drivers, fast food workers, retail store staff, middle […]
Next Generation SAP HANA Large Instances with Intel® Optane™ drive lower TCO
At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announced general availability of the new SAP HANA Large Instances powered by the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, formally Cascade Lake, supporting Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem). Microsoft’s largest SAP customers are continuing to consolidate their business functions and growing their footprint. S/4 HANA workloads demand increasingly larger nodes […]
5 steps for advising clients during COVID-19 crisis
A global pandemic. Unstable financial markets. Social isolation. Product shortages in some areas while others are no longer deemed essential. Opportunities for emergency funding. If there was ever a time when clients needed your guidance, expertise, and care, it is now. The time to shine as an adviser is right this minute. And, even though […]
Accelerating digital transformation in manufacturing
Digital transformation in manufacturing has the potential to increase annual global economic value by $4.5 trillion according to the IDC MarketScape.iWith so much upside, manufacturers are looking at how technologies like IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to optimize supply chains, improve factory performance, accelerate product innovation, and enhance service offerings. […]
ETtech Top 5: Online firms foray into grocery delivery, Oyo furloughs US staff & more
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Online firms foray into grocery delivery Social commerce startup Meesho, e-tailers like Snapdeal, Paytm Mall, Perpule and Shopclues as well as food delivery app Zomato, and real estate platform NoBroker have all launched delivery of essential grocery products on their platforms. What gives?Cracking the grocery delivery business has always been deemed tough […]
Safeguarding the Industrial IoT: adopting a next-generation approach
The digitalisation of industrial assets is driving a growing awareness of the importance of protecting connected OT environments from cyberattacks that damage production, plant and assets – and expose sensitive data, says Trevor Daughney, vice president of product marketing at Exabeam As we discovered in the previous article, cyber threats are increasingly being directed at […]