This week: retailers face the AI challenge, but market headwinds are fierce. Enterprise LLMs are a thing - could they hedge against AI bubble fallout? Cloudflare went down - and so did we... A mini-postmortem. As always, your whiffs are served piping hot.
This week - our AI project success results are in. It's about change management, but with a data (and process) twist. The future of work heats up, with sixty hour workweeks as the hot topic. Plus: chasing human purpose amidst AI, and a digital workers vs tools reframe. As always, your whiffs.
Constellation Connected Enterprise 2025 featured a different kind of AI panel: finding human purpose amidst the machines. The manifesto didn't materialize, but the hot topics sure did. Here's my non-manifesto: a call to action, a provocation.
This week - AI bubble talk gets (very) serious, but what to make of it? Can enterprise adoption mitigate it? CIOs respond to Microsoft's price increases (and AI), and event season just won't stop... At least the stories on the ground are compelling. As always, your whiffs.
ASUG Tech Connect brought AI adoption to a head. What do customers need to build with SAP AI? Is the Gen AI Hub for BTP message getting out there? Why or why not? I talked with SAP's Walter Sun about all this and more - starting with SAP's RPT-1 foundational model news.
SAP TechEd Berlin is well underway - and so is ASUG Tech Connect. What have we learned from this event mashup so far? What SAP AI news stands out? And do customers have the tools (and skills) to move forward? Time for a mid-event gut check.
This week - the AI jobs debate rolls on, but the only consensus is to avoid complacency. Vibe coding is trending, but does it pass enterprise muster? Your whiffs include AI hiring leverage, and 'creepy' Meta glasses.
Vendors made their agentic ambitions clear this fall - but the role of partners? Not so much. Oracle AI World was an exception. Let's boil down AI agent lessons from a demo with Auditoria.AI, and a talk with Oracle AI Agent Marketplace launch partner Apex IT.
This week - events cast light on the agentic gap between vendors and customers. Audio deep fakes are conversational, and facial recognition is problematic. The Amazon outage fallout news continues, as the unfortunate impact on smart mattresses is revealed.
CCE 2025 brought the enterprise AI conversation to a head. Sometimes it was jugular; sometimes it was visionary. But was it a more "intelligent" AI discussion? If so, why? And, for the first time, I break out the components of earning AI trust.
This week - AWS takes down the Internet without breaking a sweat (DNS anyone?). Event reason is a blur, but we've got you covered. LLMs are potent but flawed - how much can context help? And yeah, we've got whiffs.
Oracle AI World combined a vigorous agentic message with a provocative Larry Ellison keynote. But how does this stack up with customer realities? What does AI adoption look like in the field? Here's my customer roundup - with the Choctaw Nation and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
We're knee deep into Oracle AI World - and the newsfeeds are surging. But on the ground, I was able to dig into some AI stories beyond the headlines. Here are the high points, from pricing to agentic evaluation.
