Paul Roehrig - January 11, 2016 - 164 views

What is the future of work? We attended a local soiree. Perhaps it will sound familiar. The scrum of children was playing happily (out of earshot). One table was laden with food and sweets, while another was groaning with wine and rum. Clutches of people would form to meet and talk, and then dissolve and […]

Matt Smith - December 31, 2015 - 404 views

Is Robotic Process Automation really in our future? One day this blog could be written by a robot—and the day may not be far away. Language makes us human. It’s the vehicle for conveying information, communicating perspectives, dictating policy and creating poetry. We consider it exclusively our own domain. Could our ability to communicate one […]

Raja Renganathan - December 31, 2015 - 195 views

The Cloud. Yep, we’ve been talking about it since 2011. But take a step back and see how fast things have really occurred: to those who have spent a career in IT administration, it still can sound almost unreal. A serverless environment within the enterprise! No in-house server farms! No internal deployments! No installed software or […]

Sean Middleton - December 15, 2015 - 125 views

“Doing” Digital Isn’t Enough You’d be hard-pressed to find an executive these days who doesn’t have a prepped response for, “What are you doing about digital?” But the term, “digital,” today means so many different things that it almost means nothing. Just about everyone is doing something: studying their user experience, launching a mobile application, building a […]

Irene Sandler - December 14, 2015 - 161 views

Right up there with owning a Panamera is flying first class on Etihad Airways. You know one of those posh cabins that’s larger than most micro-apartments in San Francisco. The ones with the personal living room couch that Nicole Kidman coyly lounges on. And the chauffeur who will pick you up to take you to the […]

Matt Smith - December 7, 2015 - 198 views

Google the term “process automation,” and you’ll quickly realize that it’s also called any number of other things: Service Delivery Automation Robotic Process Automation Intelligent Process Automation Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Computing Autonomics Simple as alphabet soup, right? This search result reflects a confusing market that is still up for grabs. The debate over how to define the […]

Sean Middleton - November 24, 2015 - 713 views

Digital tech not only shapes experience. It also reshapes business models. Big data. The cloud. Mobile capability. The Internet of Things. It’s impossible to ignore how much digital technologies change how we interact with each other and with businesses we patronize. Entire industries are facing upheaval. The balance of power between entrepreneurial challengers and the […]

Matt Smith - November 17, 2015 - 472 views

The business ecosystem of process-automation technologies and the terminology, acronyms, and jargon surrounding it are evolving so quickly that it’s as if technology is outpacing most organizations’ capabilities to make sense of everything. Let’s not forget the speed of newer products on the scene making the possibilities of automation technologies even harder to visualize. Let me give you […]

Manish Bahl - November 11, 2015 - 162 views

Asia is fast becoming the center of digital innovation for the world. The region accounts for half of the world’s total 2.8 billion Internet users, and it is already the largest regional e-commerce market. By 2025, today’s fast-changing technologies — including the mobile Internet, the Internet of Things, cloud technology, 3-D printing and advanced robotics […]

Sean Middleton - November 9, 2015 - 2508 views

Who benefits from digital technologies is a subject of heated debate. Some will say it’s the customers — choice is more abundant then ever before (Uber? Lyft? Taxi? Car service? Getaround? Zipcar?). Other will say it’s businesses, and point to the billion-dollar valuations unicorns are sporting. Digital technologies, like mobile, cloud, social, and analytics, have become part […]