This week - CIOs know that AI adoption isn't optional, but how should they play it out? Salesforce makes headless noise at TDX - but the headless stakes have changed. Agentic substrate is a brutal catchphrase, but the stakes are high there too; I'll explain why. Your whiffs are, well, doozies.
Oracle recently launched 22 agentic apps. Meanwhile, the markets do their pinball thing, and software stocks rise (a bit) amidst the noise. But what does this mean for customers? At Oracle AI World New York City, I dug in. What follows is a best-of from those talks, along with my hot takes.
This week - Anthropic's marketing of Claude Mythos was extravagant, but what is the reality for enterprise CISOs? Neurodiverse workplaces are better workplaces, but we aren't there yet. Context is key to enterprise AI - what are we learning? Events are still in season, and so are podcasts.
We are in dire need of fresh approaches to enterprise AI - and details on how they work. Time to dig in with two Zoho executives, both of whom bring the issues of privacy, data sovereignty, and customer control over "intelligence" to a head.
This week - time for a diginomica research reveal: enterprise data health is the topic, and the wake-up call is now. Are context graphs a trillion dollar opportunity - and what we can take from this debate? A couple rants, a few whiffs - and it's another spunky week in the enterprise.
Oracle recently announced 22 new agentic apps. But what does this news mean for customers - and how should enterprises navigate the tech hype carnival to get to business value? Time to go behind the news with Oracle's Steve Miranda.
During this exclusive chat with CTO Aaron Harris, we talked about the advances Sage has made in its AI architecture. Does this result in better finance agents? And what has Harris learned from his own agent building experiments?
This week - agentic project success and failure gets defined. Meanwhile, diginomica research has your AI versus SaaS data findings. The dangers of CX disconnect, and the perils of AI workslop for open source - not to mention open source communities at a crossroads. Meta had a rough week, Anthropic fared better, and OpenAI whiffed.
The AI project lessons are boiling over - but so is the agentic AI keynote hyperbole. How will customers find their way? Grab your beverage of choice, and have a look at my spicy review of what's working on agentic AI projects, and what's not. I guarantee some surprises.
This week - NVIDIA makes big statements at HTC, but will they hold up? As event season kicks in, agentic commerce and robotics face market obstacles. In your whiffs, Meta backtracks on Horizon Worlds, but the new glasses are the creepshow.
This week - Oracle earnings punch back on the SaaS-is-dead narrative, but Adobe's CEO departure shows that market upheaval isn't to trifle with. Can Bayesian AI change industries like healthcare? Meta has a Meta kind of week, and enterprises don't care for token economics.
Customer sentiment at winter events was clear: give us results. Show us how to turn disruption into a positive organizational force. Help us avoid the pitfalls of the move fast/break things type of AI. The top of my event highlights? Manish Chandak of Tech Electronics, who shared an exceptional change initiative, with cloud ERP as the driver.
This week - the requirements of a CIO have never been so intense; the diginomica network reveals the top 12. Thanks to AI regulation drama, software supply chain risk is now a hot/thorny topic. Is the SaaSpocalypse narrative becoming (more) sober? Sovereign AI, stateful AI agents, and yeah - some big whiffs.
