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This Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 61In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charlie Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:RSA: North Korean Spies Hate This One QuestionRSA: NSA Conspicuously AbsentRSA…I? AI Takes Over Every Security OfferingMicrosoft Hopefully Tolls the Death Knell for PasswordsIs a $150 Billion Commit Enough to Be a US Tech Company?Swiss Researchers Experiment on Redditors with AI AI Is Not Taking Jobs Or Cutting Wages… YetWhen is an Agent Really an Agent?Australia Replaces DJ with AI. No One Notices. Sources:RSA: North Korean Spies Hate T...2025-05-0655 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 60In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM SuccessDataiku Supports Agent Create and ControlBanks Still Investing in Digital TransformationVerizon Releases 2025 Data Breach Incident ReportAmazon Cuts AI CapEx CommitmentsAre Government Contracts Still Blue Chip Revenue?Please, ChatGPT? Thanks a Million!51% of GenZ Thinks College Degree A WasteSources:ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM SuccessCXToday coverage by Charlie Mitchell: https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/servicenow-secures-9-crm-megadeals-reiterates-goal-to-lead-the-market/ Dataiku Supports Agent Create and C...2025-04-2948 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 59In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s FutureIntel Sells Altera as Lip Bu Tan Gets StartedAmazon Wants Windows Server BusinessNVIDIA Commits $500 Billion to US ManufacturingWill AI Enable a 24/7 Orchestration Economy?DoiT Launches CloudFlow to Automate FinOpsThe Dangers of Whistleblowing DOGECan You Outrun a Robot?Sources:Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s FutureSalesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/tableau-next-announcement/ Intel Sells Altera as Lip-Bu...2025-04-2245 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 58In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement Google Gets Another Chance at the EnterpriseGoogle Opens Up Its Global Network Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified SecurityGoogle Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow AutomationGoogle's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop AllianceElena Cross Puts the S in Model Context ProtocolAI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win ScenariosHow to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff UncertaintyCan You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend Sources:2025-04-1654 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 57In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:How US Tariffs Affect the CIO OfficeMeta Launches Llama 4’s Herd of ModelsIBM Introduces z17 Mainframe for AI DemandsZoom Tasks Take On AI-Based Task CompletionCloudBolt Buys StormForge, Combines K8s + FinOpsWPP Acquires Data Collaboration Firm InfosumPagerDuty Finds High ROI Expectations for Gen AI Sources:How US Tariffs Affect the CIO OfficeTechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/apple-loses-250b-market-value-as-tariffs-tank-tech-stocks/ Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/ Meta...2025-04-0944 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 56In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:Databricks + Anthropic Agentify Claude for the EnterpriseWorkato Buys DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic SupportN8n Raises $60M to Open Up AI AutomationSymphony AI + Microsoft Partner to Automate Industrial EnvironmentsRed Hat AI Boosts Model Testing, Governance CapabilitiesUS House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software CostsVirginia Vetoes an AI Bill: Repercussions for Your AI?OpenAI Adopts Anthropic’s Model Context ProtocolCIOs Cull Internal GenAI Projects OpenAI Goes Viral Mimicking Studio GhibliSources:Dat...2025-04-0251 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 55In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama NemotronNVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics SwitchesNVIDIA, Google, Disney Take on Reality with Physical AINVIDIA Open Sourcing cuOPTAdobe Summit (How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo)Stop It; Operational Efficiency Is Not InnovationResearch Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even BetterWe Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027Sources:NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic...2025-03-2549 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 54In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New CadenceServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic EraRobert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid CloudSnowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to UseIBM, Intel, Cisco Tran Up for New Data Governance StandardsCan Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agent Communications?Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHousesRex Woodbury Starts Daybreak...2025-03-1849 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 53In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:Salesforce Announces Agentforce 2dxIs Salesforce Going Into ITSM?ServiceNow Acquiring Moveworks for Agentic AIManus, a General Agent for the MassesIPO-Ready CoreWeave Acquires Weights & BiasesAnthropic Raises 3.5 Billion Anysphere Raises at $10 Billion Valuation to Push CursorLlamaIndex Llaunches LLamaCloud for Unstructured Data AgentsHPE Among First to Bear Trump Tariffs No Doubt, IT Unemployment is RisingRansomware’s New Target: IT VendorsAgentic Management is a Massive Emerging IT ChallengeSources:Salesforce Announces Agentforce 2dxSa...2025-03-1145 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 52In this podcast episode, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO:Salesforce Hypes AI Success But Agentic Demand Still LagsIDC Launches AI-Based TechMatch for Software SelectionIBM Plans to Acquire DataStax, Finishes Acquiring HashiCorp Take This Open Source Tech and Fork ItRIP Skype: August 29, 2003 - May 5, 2025Overcommit and Don’t Invest: Microsoft Cuts Data Center LeasesWasabi Reports Data Center Costs Out Of ControlPew: Only 12% of Workers are Trained on AISergey Brin Wants Googlers In the Office Five Days a WeekDOGE Shuts Down 18F, An Agency that Cut Software CostsSources:S...2025-03-0450 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 51In the audio recording of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:Microsoft Quantum Takes a Majorana Step ForwardAlibaba and Apple Both Commit $50B to AIAvaya Cuts Off Customers with 2025-02-2544 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 50In the audio recording of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:The Dissection of Intel Begins…AWS Marketplace Changes Affect SaaS FinOps StrategyGlean Releases Agents to Manage DataSnowflake Brings Cortex Agents to Public PreviewSAP & Databricks Team Up to Unlock SAP DataWorkday Releases Agent System of RecordOutshift by Cisco Discusses Internet of AgentsPegaSystems Points Out Employee Concerns for AgentsAnthropic Economic Index Measures Enterprise AI UsageMicrosoft Research Finds AI Atrophies Cognitive ConfidenceDOGE Struggles to COBOL Together a MainframeSources:The Dissection of Intel Be...2025-02-1952 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 49For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Good News: Ransomware Down 35%!AWS S3 Bucket Registrations: A Sneaky Backdoor ThreatZoho Day and the Race to Agentic AIFei-Fei Li: “It Takes $50 to Distill A Reasoning Model”Will Semiconductor Tariffs Force CIOs to Close the Deal?Is the CIO a Policy Strategist or a Rubber Stamp?Will the Windows 10 Sunset Force AI PCs into the Workplace?CIOs Bullish on AI, IT Employees Not So MuchWhere Salesforce AI’s Super Bowl Ad Missed the MarkSources:G...2025-02-1158 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 48For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Earnings: IBM, SAP, ServiceNowServiceNow’s AI Orchestrator Automates Complex WorkflowsIT Service Automator Atomicwork Secures $25MEU AI Act In Effect: Now What?Musk’s Government Actions Stoke CIO ConcernsDeepSeek’s Disruption: Lower AI Costs, More Efficient ModelsNew US CIO Barbachi’s Background Brings Up Big QuestionsSources:Earnings: IBM, SAP, ServiceNowCNBC on IBM: https://tinyurl.com/IBMQ424CNBCSAP: https://news.sap.com/2025/01/sap-announces-q4-and-fy-2024-results/ ServiceNow: https://t...2025-02-0545 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 47For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks OutProject Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes BackOpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your ComputerMicrosoft AutoGen and the New Event Driven ArchitectureGartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy?Sources:DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks OutWired Coverage by Zeyi Yang https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-model-ai/DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/Project Stargate...2025-01-2847 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 46For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:DOGE is Not a Department. It’s a Service. Can OpenAI Influence America’s AI Policy?Google Gemini Wants 500 Million UsersMicrosoft Restructures to Support AgentsServiceNow Acquires CueIn for Conversation AnalysisContextualAI Launches for Custom RAGSources:DOGE is Not a Department. It’s a Service. The White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ Can OpenAI Influence America’s AI Policy?New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology...2025-01-2242 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 45For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:NVIDIA Makes AI More Accessible with Project DigitsNVIDIA Nemotron: Advantage or Market Tension?NVIDIA, Google, and the Future of AI-Powered RoboticsKPMG: 2025 is the Year of AI DeploymentOpen AI’s Pro Pricing Dilemma: How We’d Fix ItHalf of CIOs Struggle to Own Enterprise AI Responsibilities Nékojita FuFu Revolutionizes Coffee EcosystemsSources:NVIDIA Makes AI More Accessible with Project DIGITSNVIDIA Project DIGITS Press Release: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/ NVI...2025-01-1448 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 44For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:How Does Florida’s Pornhub Ban Affect Content Access?6th Circuit Kills Net Neutrality: IT Investment ConcernsHas Google Figured Out GenAI's Killer App?Agentforce 2.0 Evolves Enterprise Agentic AIWhat Is the Future of AI Pricing?Aaron Levie Clarifies the Value of AI Access to PCsBench's Rough Winter Break: Enterprise SaaS ConsiderationsFelicis & The Promise of Lights Out OpsIs AI Your New Organizational Strategist?Are AI Hallucinations About Being Wrong or Being Creative?Sources:How Does Fl...2025-01-0756 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 43For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:AWS Enhances Amazon Connect with Generative AI ToolsAWS Takes on AI Hallucination ChallengesAWS Bedrock Adds Multi-Agent Orchestration and Model RoutingAWS Centralizes AI Efforts with SageMakerCasey Newton Examines AI Skepticism’s ComfortsEmergence AI Coordinates Multi-Vendor AgentsExa Redefines Generative Search ExperiencesMLCommons Benchmarks LLM Output RisksSouth Korea’s Unrest Threatens Global Memory SupplyWerner Vogels on Managing “Simplexity”Broadcom Adjusts to Minimize VMware Migration RisksSources:AWS Upgrades Amazon Connect with New Generative AI FeaturesSilicon...2024-12-1051 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 42For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Pat Gelsinger Steps Down from IntelWorkday Hires Rob Enslin as PresidentEmergence of the Zero-Click Internet?Altera Creates A Testing Ground for AI InteractionPat Gelsinger Steps Down from IntelTech executive legend Pat Gelsinger steps down from Intel amid a cratering stock price and logistical issues. Was Gelsinger’s vision too big? Is Intel able to come back? Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-ceo-news-dec-2024.html 2024-12-0347 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 41For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Microsoft Ignites a New Version of Enterprise AINVIDIA Makes Massive Profits, Disappoints Irrational InvestorsAmazon Throws Another 4 Billion at AnthropicSnowflake Rides a Wild AI AvalancheNTT Data and CIOs Reinforce GenAI TrendsMenlo Ventures Rises Above in Researching Gen AIData is the New Yellowcake UraniumTrue or False? Google Answers: “Please Die”Sources:Microsoft Ignites a New Version of Enterprise AIThe Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/19/24300001/microsoft-ignite-2024-news-ai-announcements-copilot-windows-azure-officeVentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/m...2024-11-2649 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 40For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI AdoptionFlexera Serves Up 2025 IT Priorities ReportIT Marketplace AppDirect to Acquire vComCloudera to Acquire Octopai for Data Lineage & DiscoveryServiceNow Sets A Standard for GenAI GovernanceAera Bridges BI & Data Discovery with WorkspacesDoes NVIDIA Deserve to Be the Biggest?Criticism of Freshworks Layoffs: Justified Or Not?Sources:Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI AdoptionAxios: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/12/ai-adoption-slows-slack-study VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-ai-adoption-surges-as-organizations-shift-from-experimentation-to-implementation/ ...2024-11-1944 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 39For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:What the US Election Means for TechBased on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 Presidential Election, Charles and Hyoun preview the key issues that CIOs and tech vendors will face over the next four years and analyze the effect that Trump’s second term will have.2024 US Election: Biden’s AI Executive OrderThe clearest action that the Biden Administration took towards tech was the AI Executive Order, a far...2024-11-1248 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 38For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Microsoft Grows on AI Inference WorkloadsAccenture Wins $1.6 Billion Cloud Services ContractAI Demands More Power! More Energy!Where AI Copilots and Assistants Fall ShortDelta Sues Crowdstrike for $500 MillionGoogle Fined (Almost a) Googol Rubles?!Sources:Microsoft Grows on AI Inference workloadsData Center Dynamics: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-on-track-for-10bn-in-annual-revenue-from-ai-inference/ Accenture Wins $1.6 Billion Cloud Services ContractAccenture: https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2024/accenture-federal-services-wins-1-6-billion-u-s-air-force-cloud-one-task-order AI...2024-11-0936 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 37For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Gartner Shares IT Spend Trends & the AI TaxNVIDIA Argues for AI-First CompaniesZoho Partners with NVIDIA for Midmarket AIAsana Launches No-Code AI TeammatesCelonis Brings Process Mining Logic to AIUIPath Advocates for A More Robotic AIAnthropic Wants to Automate Your Personal ComputingOpenAI Hires a Chief EconomistIs Gen AI About to Crash?Perplexed by the Terms of PerplexitySources:Gartner Shares IT Spend Trends & the AI Tax Gartner: https://tinyurl.com/GartnerITSpend24A...2024-10-2951 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 36For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:OpenAI and Microsoft Quarrel on the Future of AIIBM Finds AI Divide Between Firms, ConsumersAmazon, Databricks Partner to Bridge Hardware & AI ModelsThe Era of Nuclear Powered AI Has Begun!WiPro Takes a Hybrid Work StanceCIOs Really Need More Focus on Value CreationData Center F*cked Around, The SEC (Finally) Found OutSources:OpenAI and Microsoft Quarrel on the Future of AINYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-openai-partnership-deal.html I...2024-10-2342 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 35For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:The IBM Mainframe Is Locked Into the EnterpriseCan SAP Joule Actually Support 80% of Business Tasks?AI Gets the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics!When to Call It Quits With AIAI Ain’t Always The AnswerEveryday AI for Everyday PeopleWriter Beats Megavendors in AI Workflow AutomationApple Researchers Refute Claims of LLM Formal ReasoningLinkedIn Says It’s Your Fault for Trusting ThemSources:The IBM Mainframe Is Locked Into the EnterpriseCIODive: http...2024-10-1539 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 34For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:OpenAI Raises a Record $6.6 BillionMicrosoft Digs Deep on AI CapEx BlingWho Are The “True” AI Leaders in the S&P 500?Augmented Intelligence Raises $44M to Access Symbolic AIAI, You Don’t Know Tiger Woods!Two Weird Tips for Making AI WorkGartner IDs AI Challenges, Skimps on SolutionsIs This the End of Enterprise SaaS?Goodnight, Sweet HololensSources:OpenAI Raises a Record $6.6 BillionReuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-closes-66-billion-funding-haul-valuation-157-billi...2024-10-0849 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 33For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Newsom Vetoes AI Compliance BillUS DoJ Changes Governance Guidance for AICA Requires Data Transparency for LLMsNIST Acknowledges G!8B#r|5h is a Lousy PasswordWhatFix raises $125M to Guide Digital AdoptionSmartsheet Taken Private By Blackstone, Vista EquityRabbit Loses Momentum in its AI LeapWill AI Be a Bust? Goldman Sachs Says Maybe?Has Notion Made the New Clippy or Is It Better?Sources:Newsom Vetoes AI Compliance BillThe Verge: https://www...2024-10-0144 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 32For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Agentforce: The Next BYO?Microsoft Doubles Down on Copilot with AgentsIt’s Dangerous to Build Alone: On In-House AI AgentsAlation and Workday Affirm Salesforce’s Data and AI OfferingsZoho Analytics 6.0: Bridging Data Science + AnalyticsKubeCost: Another Piece of the IBM FinOps Puzzle?Tidelift Says Pay Your Open-Source MaintainersAWS Admits Data Repatriation is On the RiseAmazon: Get Back to the Office, EveryoneSources:Agentforce: The Next BYO?Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stor...2024-09-2653 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 31For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and special guest host Shane Carlson critically assess last week's biggest tech news:o1, the Next Big Thing in AI ... Kinda?Agentic AI Takes Center Stage for ITWhy Amazon Struggles with Non-Technical UsersOracle Embraces Cloud-First for the DatabaseNuclear Power for Data Centers? Hell, Why Not?You Get an AI! And YOU Get an AI! Oprah Goes All InSources:o1, the Next Big Thing in AI … Kinda?OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/Agentic AI Takes Center Stage Fo...2024-09-1932 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 30For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:One… Billion… Dollars for SSI, a New AI StartupClaude for Enterprise: Anthropic Appeals to ITOpenAI Claims Over 1 Million Paid UsersSalesforce Purchases Own CompanyAT&T Sues Broadcom For Changing VMware RatesSAP CTO Fired; What’s Next for SAP?NVIDIA Stock Selloff Signals AI Bubble?Virtual Reality Gets To WorkIT Unemployment Is Up To 6%Sources:One… Billion… Dollars for SSI, a New AI StartupVentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-openai-co-founders-new-safe-superintelligence-startup-raises-1b-in-three-months/ Claude for...2024-09-1041 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 29For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:The Fortune 500 Faces AI Regulation ConcernsNATO Appendix C: Restricted Data in the Public CloudSalesforce Hypes Agentforce, Benioff Calls Out Microsoft Procreate’s Tough Stance Against Generative AILAION Cleanses Data of CSAM-Related LinksAnthropic Opens Up System PromptsGoogle AI Assistant Struggles with HindiReputation Management Through AI OptimizationSources:The Fortune 500 Faces AI Regulation ConcernsWall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-regulation-is-coming-fortune-500-companies-are-bracing-for-impact-94bba201?mod=djemCIO NATO Appendix C: Restricted Data...2024-09-0439 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 28For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Salesforce’s Open-Source Framework for LMM’sGrafana Raises $270M to Enhance ObservabilityOpkey: $47 Million to Test All ERPsStephen Wolfram and the Philosophy of Gen AIIT Spending Trends: Growth Ahoy!Total Monetization And the Role of PricingThe Societal Impact of Thirsty AISources:Salesforce’s Open-Source Framework for LMMsxGen-MM \(BLIP-3\): A Family of Open Large Multimodal Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08872 VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/salesforce-releases-xgen-mm-open-source-multimodal-ai-models-to-advance-visual-language-understanding/ Technology Review...2024-08-2752 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 27For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:California Takes on AI with SB 1047AMD Acquires ZT SystemsJuniper Makes Networking More InterestingNice Systems Picks a CEO from SAPCockroach Pursues Pricing ExperimentsPalo Alto, What Were You Thinking?Sources:California Takes on AI with SB 1047TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/california-weakens-bill-to-prevent-ai-disasters-before-final-vote-taking-advice-from-anthropic/ Letter: https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-08-15%20to%20Gov%20Newsom_SB1047.pdf Compromises made on SB 1047 https://www.platformer.news/california-ai-bill-sb-1047-wiener-controversy-changes-lofgren/ AMD...2024-08-2147 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 26For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:It’s Official: Google’s A MonopolyOracle Launches Ampere A2 for OCIOpenAI’s Leadership Turbulence: The Reality of AIIs the Battle to Detect AI-Generated Content Worth It?Groq Raises $640M to Improve AI InferenceKNIME Raises $30M for Open Source MLHow Many CEOs Does It Take to Tank a Company?Sources:It’s Official: Google’s A MonopolyTechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/05/google-loses-massive-antitrust-case-over-search/ TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/breaking-up-google-would-offer-a-chance-to-remodel-the-web/ Ars Technica...2024-08-1545 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 25For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:Gartner Thinks 30% of Gen AI Projects Will Be AbandonedWhy Are CIOs Doubting the ROI of AI?Emergence Capital Champions Enterprise DataApple Takes On Responsible and Trusted AISRG: Cloud Market Grew 22% YoY driven by AISAP Says Goodbye to Revenue and Marketing HeadsIntel Lays Off 15,000 EmployeesNVIDIA Announces Chip Design Flaws, Tanks Stock MarketGoogle Brings Too Much AI to the Olympics--Gartner Thinks 30% of Gen AI Projects Will Be Abandoned - Source: https://www.gartner.com...2024-08-0656 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 24For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park + Charles Araujo tackle the following:Salesforce-Workday AI Agent: Next-Gen ERPServiceNow + Boomi Partner in API AutomationServiceNow President CJ Desai ResignsOpenAI Pours Money into Search with SearchGPTAI’s Mixed Effects on Employee Work BurdensCIOs Must Embrace the Strategic Importance of Their RoleSalesforce-Workday AI Agent: Next-Gen ERPWhy should CIOs look at this partnership of Tech Titans?CIO.com: https://www.cio.com/article/3478064/why-are-salesforce-and-workday-building-an-ai-employee-service-agent-together.html ServiceNow + Boomi Partner in API AutomationWill this partnership help enterprises deliver on the...2024-07-3146 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 23This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo tackle the following:Crowdstrike Takes Down The WorldMid-Size Models Take Center Stage for Gen AILattice AI Bots Are People?Crowdstrike Takes Down The WorldJust as Charles and Hyoun thought we had made it to Friday and we were going to finish off a lazy summer week, Crowdstrike added a little excitement to everyone’s workplace. Flights were canceled, government agencies of all shapes and sizes were shut down, and it became much harder to buy things if only for a few hours. What is th...2024-07-2338 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 22Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo of The DX Report tackle the following topics for This Week in Enterprise Tech:[01:05] Will AWS App Studio Disrupt Enterprise App Development?TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/10/aws-app-studio-promises-to-generate-enterprise-apps-from-a-written-prompt/[08:49] Celonis + Emporix = End-to-End Process Automation?Diginomica: https://diginomica.com/celonis-and-emporix-aim-end-end-process-automation-launch-new-orchestration-engine[16:43] AMD Acquires Silo AI to Pressure NVIDIAComputerWorld: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2517498/ai-chip-battleground-shifts-as-software-takes-centerstage.html[22:35] Why CEOs Fail to Replace Employees with AICangrade CEO Gershon Goren for VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/can-we-please-stop-talking-about-replacing-employees-with-ai/[29:06] What if...2024-07-1646 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 21 - This Week in Enterprise TechIn a holiday-shortened week, Charles Araujo of the DX Report and Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights take on the following topics:1. Anthropic Funds the Development of New AI Benchmarks2. CIOs Are Recklessly Underestimating AI Governance Needs3. AI Power Costs Become Materially Important for Upcoming CIO Budget Forecasts[01:20] Anthropic to Fund New AI BenchmarksAnthropic recently announced its intentions to both develop and fund new benchmarks that more accurately describe the behavior and performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). Charles and Hyoun discuss why this is a good move from...2024-07-0929 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 20 - This Week in Enterprise TechThis week on TWIET, Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo of the DX Institute discuss the following topics:[00:59] Emergence Seeks to Bridge All the Agentshttps://techcrunch.com/2024/06/24/emergence-thinks-it-can-crack-the-ai-agent-code/[05:00] Can Creatio Bridge CRM and Workflow Automation?https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/26/creatio-raises-200m-at-a-1-2b-valuation-for-its-no-code-crm-and-workflow-platform/[08:20] Zoho Blueprint Bridges Automation Gapshttps://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-announces-strategic-updates-across-collaboration-solutions.html?zwcDate=june%205,%202024 [09:56] Hebbia Bridges Documents for Searchhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/hebbia-raises-nearly-100m-seriesb-for-ai-powered-document-search-led-by-andreessen-horowitz/[14:40] Perplexity and Anthropic Face Legal Challengeshttps://fortune.com/2024/06/29/amazon-web-services-perplexity-ai-scraping-online-news-content-without-approval/ ...2024-07-0243 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 19 - This Week in Enterprise TechHyoun Park of Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo of the DC Institute take on the CIO office ramifications of recent announcements including the FinOps Foundation’s launch of FOCUS 1.0 for Cloud Billing Unification, Oracle Autonomous Database on Microsoft Azure, the United States’ Federal Trade Commission Accusing Adobe of Hiding early termination fees, the Biden administration banning US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties, whether Poolside’s new $400 million raise makes Paris another Silicon Valley, and enterprise considerations for AI as Apple focuses on more personalized AI.FinOps FOCUSes on Cloud Billing UnificationFinOps Foundation: https...2024-06-2646 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 18 - This Week in Enterprise TechDatabricks and Shutterstock Take on AI ImagesAt Data and AI Summit, Databricks announced an partnership with Shutterstock to develop image models based on Shutterstock’s copyrighted images. But these models still leave questions around IP use for AI in the enterprise, and the risks and potential indemnification issues that enterprises face in using AI.Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/introducing-shutterstock-imageai-powered-databricks-imageHow NICE is Your AI?NICE came out with an enthusiastic press release regarding their new AI capabilities. But as long-time techies who cover AI, Hyoun and Ch...2024-06-2039 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 17So many tech trade shows - Snowflake Summit, Cisco Live, SAP Sapphire, Zoholics, Qlik World - and corresponding announcements. Plus, Cloudera acquires Verta, MultiOn raises $20M, and how power constraints will affect your AI - all on This Week in Enterprise Tech, brought to you by Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights (Charlie Araujo is off this week).Is Snowflake Truly an AI Platform Now?Among 200+ announcements at Snowflake Summit, several of them pointed towards Snowflake’s evolution into being an AI platform.Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/press-and-news/news-releases/Cloudera Acquires Ve...2024-06-1231 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 16 - This Week in Enterprise TechAI interfaces, vendor dependencies, C-suite changeups, addressing common security breaches even at cutting-edge AI companies, and CIO strategies for business growth - all on this week’s This Week in Enterprise Tech, brought to you by Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo of The DX Report.The “Egg Theory” of AICan AI be too simple? Hyoun and Charles discuss Rex Woodbury’s assertion that “just add water” agentic AI may be dissatisfactory to its users. Particularly with the concept of AI agents as “co-pilots,” what is the correct balance of AI assistance and human agency...2024-06-0630 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 15130 CoPilots, AI infrastructure concerns, smaller task-specific AI models, LLMs as more than mere “autocompletion engines,” IBM Concert’s potential, and the challenges of optimizing work management environments across your IT ecosystem. Amalgam Insights’ Hyoun Park and The DX Report’s Charles Araujo dig into This Week in Enterprise Tech.Microsoft’s AI-Driven TransformationCharles Araujo and Hyoun Park take a closer look at how Microsoft's vision both aligns and conflicts with enterprise IT standards.Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2024/windows-returns/The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24158030/microsoft-copilot-ai-automation-agentsCIO Infrastructure Concerns for AI2024-05-3147 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 14 - This Week in Enterprise TechOpenAI and Google go head-to-head, OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team is dissolved, Matt Garman is the new CEO at AWS, what’s the current state of IT budgeting and planning, and how far should you trust the concept of autonomy when it comes to your IT environment? Amalgam Insights’ Hyoun Park and The DX Report’s Charles Araujo are here again to discuss This Week in Enterprise Tech.OpenAI vs. GoogleGoogle I/O was last week, where they announced Google Astra, an AI assistant based on Google Gemini models. But OpenAI may have stolen their thunder by r...2024-05-2136 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 13 - This Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 13Spring means trade show season in tech, and both Amalgam Insights’ Hyoun Park and the DX Institute’s Charles Araujo have been on the road in recent weeks. In Week 13 of This Week in Enterprise Tech, Hyoun and Charles break down the key announcements from ServiceNow Knowledge, Boomi World, and Red Hat Summit, along with taking a look at ServiceNow Knowledge 2024ServiceNow made a number of announcements at its Knowledge 2024 conference last week, including new generative AI capabilities in Now Assist and a partnership with Genesys. Charles and H...2024-05-1444 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 12 - This Week in Enterprise TechThis week, Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park and the DX Institute's Charles Araujo weigh in on five relevant trends for CIOs and strategic techies. Of note: Tableau’s plans to expand beyond their core data analyst users, IT service management becoming perceived as increasingly irrelevant with the rise of AI-driven configuration and deployment assistants, and the perpetual speculation around the next AI Winter.Cloud spend is rising again. Synergy Research reported Q1 numbers stating the cloud infrastructure market grew 21% YOY last quarter, the fastest this market has grown since Q3 2022. A combination of open wallets and AI-related work ar...2024-05-0839 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 11After a long hibernation, the tech market is waking up. IBM and Thoma Bravo make key acquisitions, and Rubrik goes public. Snowflake debuts its new LLM, the DHS reveals the members of its new AI Safety and Security board, and companies continue to overcommit to AI hype. Amalgam Insights’ Hyoun Park and The DX Report’s Charles Araujo sift through This Week in Enterprise Tech.IBM acquired HashiCorp last week for $6.5B. Given IBM’s history of buying companies providing products and services similar to what they already have on hand, whether developed in house or picked up in...2024-05-0233 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 10 - This Week in Enterprise TechFor the 10th week of This Week in Enterprise Tech, Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park and the DX Institute's Charles Araujo weigh in on 8 trends for the CIO office and the strategic techie ranging from product launches to reorgs. We run the gamut in exploring Meta, Slack, Humane AI, Android, the Linux Foundation, Zendesk, Workday, and why CIOs distrust the value of Copilots (hint, it’s about the Future of Work). But who won this week in a crowded list of announcements, achievements, and launches?Meta goes all-in on AI, just as they once went all-in on the Me...2024-04-231h 00This Week in Enterprise TechWeek 9 - This Week in Enterprise TechWelcome to This Week in Enterprise Tech! Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park and the DX Institute's Charles Araujo explore seven big trends for the CIO office’s consideration. Open AI goes enterprise, Andy Jassy continues a venerable tradition, Google Next struggles to find its footing, FloQast shows the value of automation and workflows, Salesforce considers purchasing Informatica, CIOs need to get real about supporting AI, and we explore the ongoing power of the floppy disk in 2024.Open AI is ambitiously pursuing enterprise business based on its foundation in ChatGPT-based business. We explore what this means for Microsoft and wh...2024-04-1758 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 8 - This Week in Enterprise TechWelcome to This Week in Enterprise Tech! Five big topics for the CIO Office to consider this week by Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park and the DX Institute's Charles Araujo. Oracle and Palantir team up in the cloud, Cybersecurity issues, EU Regulations for AI, Google is interested in Hubspot, and we wonder if every cloud must become an enterprise app platform.1. Oracle and Palantir Team Up in the Cloud: Oracle and Palantir partner up to bring AI to every cloud. How should CIOs think about Oracle as a cloud provider based on this new announcement?Oracle...2024-04-0947 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 7 - This Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech? More like This Week in Enterprise AI, as your intrepid heroes Hyoun Park from Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo from the DX Report analyze AI products from multiple startups, AI value mapping challenges, a new alliance taking on NVIDIA, and the United States' Government's new policies on AI and what they mean for enterprise CIOs.1. Databricks DBRX Gen AI Model. Databricks unleashed a 132 billion parameter open source model developed in 3 months on a $10 million budget based on a Mixture-of-Experts approach that exceeds other open source models in performance while providing greater speed...2024-04-0648 min
This Week in Enterprise TechWeek 6 - This Week in Enterprise TechWelcome to Week 6 of This Week in Enterprise Tech! The DX Report’s Charles Araujo and Amalgam Insights’ Hyoun Park bring up 6 big topics from a week that was jam-packed with enterprise tech relevance. 1. NVIDIA, The Prom King of Tech. In a week where everyone who is anyone in enterprise tech put out a press release talking about their AI, what did NVIDIA actually announce that will affect enterprise IT departments this year? Here’s our take based onJensen Huang’s keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F8yisiS6ENVIDIA’s NIM Annou...2024-03-2646 minThis Week in Enterprise TechWeek 5 - This Week In Enterprise TechIn Week 5, we take on six engaging topics for the CIO's consideration: 1) Broadcom's Hock Tan comments on the first 100 Days of VMware and we respond: https://www.broadcom.com/blog/vmware-by-broadcom-the-first-100-days2) The European Union adopts the first AI legal safeguards. Did they get it right? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law3) CNBC looks at tech layoffs, which have reached the highest point since the dot-com bust. Have they gone too far? https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/03/15/laid-off-techies-struggle-to-find-jobs-with-cuts-at-highest-since-2001.html4) Silicon Angle notes that Oracle surprised critics, including us...2024-03-1951 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 4This week, enterprise gurus Charles Araujo of The DX Report and Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights take on six of the most important topics that should be considered by the CIO Office. 1. The Wall Street Journal explored how multiple companies have 10x'ed their SaaS vendor portfolios over the last decade. We discuss IT-LOB responsibility splits, key SaaS categories to watch, and adoption trends as well as some representative vendors such as Zylo, Productiv, Vendr, Bettercloud, and Torii. 2. CNBC pointed out how Sale...2024-03-1250 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 3This Week in Enterprise Tech, brought to you by the DX Report's Charles Araujo and Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park, explores six big topics for CIOs across innovation, the value of data, strategic budget management, succession planning, and enterprise AI.1) We start with the City of Birmingham, which is struggling with its SAP to Oracle migration. We discuss how this IT project has shifted from the promise of digital transformation to the reality of being in survival mode and the cautions of mistaking core services for innovation. Article link: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/02/28/birmingham_city_council_to...2024-03-0542 minThis Week in Enterprise TechThis Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 2This Week in Enterprise Tech, brought to you by the DX Report's Charles Araujo and Amalgam Insights' Hyoun Park, explores four key topics for the CIO's consideration.First, we discuss the emergence of the AI app layer and what this means for enterprise IT organizations. It is not enough to simply think of AI in terms of what models are being used, but also the augmentation, tuning, app interface, maintenanace, and governance of AI in the enterpriseSecond, we dig into KKR's $3.8 billion acquisition of VMware's End User Computing business and what this means both...2024-02-2745 minThis Week in Enterprise TechZoho's Transnational Localism, the Apple Vision Pro, and Why Cloud Costs and Layoffs are LinkedIn this episode, we dig into the philosophy of fast-rising Zoho, an enterprise application company that has grown over 10x over the past decade to become a leading CRM and analytic software provider on a global basis based on our recent visit to Zoho's Analyst Event in McAllen, Texas. Find out how "transnational localism" has supported Zoho's global rocket-ship growth.We then TWIET about the Apple Vision Pro and how Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Google have been pushing the boundaries of extended reality over the past decade as well as what this means for enterprise IT organizations...2024-02-2046 min