Guru expands the reach of its AI-assisted, human-verified enterprise knowledge search app

AI has the potential to give a welcome boost to the value of enterprise search, but knowledge management vendor Guru believes humans need to be in the loop. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

Generative AI - authors and artists declare war on AI vendors worldwide

Creative professionals are fighting against copyright infringement from AI content scraping as risks, economics and ethics come under scrutiny. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

Confluent’s data streaming platform aims to make development easier for real-time AI applications

Data streaming vendor Confluent has also revealed its cloud-native Flink service, with the aim of making it easier to build applications with stream processing. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

Giving Dell the edge in edge - new platform capabilities offer easier data migration capabilities

With its existing track record in establishing large data centers, Dell now feels it is well-placed to offer help to those building out their edge capabilities, and has now come up with a platform to smooth the way | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

Scoring Salesforce's latest Customer Success initiatives - "be Netflix in a sea of Blockbusters"

The announcement of the Customer Success Score is the latest move by Salesforce to support customers move to AI. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

Ensuring fair use of AI techniques and outputs by actuaries - questions to be answered

Critiquing a new set of guidance around AI, aimed at actuaries | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

What the UK must do to win on AI, according to techUK and the trades unions

A team-up of industry and unions is urging government action on AI. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 11 months ago

Paying for under-utilized infrastructure? Wasn’t cloud supposed to solve that problem?

Space in the cloud? A new study from Infosys Cloud Rader shoes that companies need to change tactics to ensure infrastructure capacity doesn't go to waste. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

Monday Morning Moan - why is the UK Government at war with its own beliefs regarding tech regulation?

Do try to keep up now - a neo-liberal thinktank established by Margaret Thatcher is warning against deregulation! | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

'Who doesn't want to know what's happening in real time?' - Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay on democratizing analytics

An interview with Ryan Aytay, who became Tableau CEO in May, on the changing nature of the vendor's user base and the impact of AI on data analytics in the enterprise. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

CloudWorld 2023 - Move over Darling...to standardized global cloud HCM

How Darling Ingredients transformed its HCM function to a global operation with Oracle and Cognizant. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

My take - why the UK’s Net Zero delay is incompatible with ambitions for tech industry, AI leadership…and life on earth

Following this week's decision by the British Prime Minister to play politics over Net Zero goals, here's my (angry) take! | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

Britannia waives the rules? The UK is a ‘buccaneer’ when it comes to tech regulation, claims Brexit leader

Did the UK’s Brexit tsar really mean to suggest that Britain is a pirate when it comes to encouraging innovation? | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

Cisco spunks $28 billion on Splunk - CEO Chuck Robbins explains why

Coming together to create one of the biggest software companies in the market... | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

CloudWorld 23 - How Native American Tribe Twenty-Nine Palms migrated all its systems to Oracle to support future growth

Twenty-Nine Palms has standardized on its processes, adopted automation and helped employees improve in their careers as a result of moving to Oracle’s Fusion software. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

No, Prime Minister - your chaotic Net Zero political games are bad news for UK tech sector investment

The British Prime Minister has kicked up a storm with a Net Zero political gamble that could have a negative impact on his country's tech inward investment. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

CloudWorld 23 - Oracle ready to deploy national healthcare databases from next month

VP of Industries, Mike Sicilia, said that Oracle will build data centers if it has to, for countries that want to pursue the vendor’s vision of better healthcare via national databases. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 12 months ago

CloudWorld 23 -how Northwell Health is using Fusion Cloud HCM to move from the years of pandemic survival to "years of innovation"

The pandemic put healthcare organizations to the survival test. For Northwell Health, a major Cloud HCM project in the midst of it all raised the stakes. Elina Petrillo Northwell Health shares their mission to transform HR - and ultimately serve patients better. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

CloudWorld 23 - how US retailer Dollar General expanded into Mexico with vanilla-flavored Oracle

Dollar General wants to expand its retail presence in Mexico, but that's meant rethinking how its IT strategy with the help of Accenture and Oracle. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Chinese whispers - what are the enterprise ramifications of Biden's Executive Order to restrict investment in sensitive technologies in China?

President Biden has declared a national emergency, but what will the tech sector fall out be? | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

CloudWorld 23 - Larry Ellison’s Oracle AI vision extends well beyond the enterprise, it’s a vision for big world problems

Ellison has a reputation for delivering an interesting keynote, but the past two years have felt very different for the Oracle co-founder and CTO. Generative AI is pushing Ellison’s vision beyond the four walls of the enterprise. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

CloudWorld 23 - Oracle Celebrate brings employee recognition to Oracle ME

A strong focus on HCM at this week's Oracle CloudWorld, with a new employee recognition capability coming to the Oracle Me employee experience platform, while workforce scheduling gets tighter integration with demand management in healthcare and elsewhere. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Workplace culture - O.C. Tanner & new Management Thinking

It’s good to see how many firms are tackling the litany of HR-related woes impacting businesses today. A key finding is that engagement, respect, empathy and other factors are sorely needed but sadly missing for 80% of the workforce. These insights and more were front and center … | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Explainable AI – why humans must always be able to understand what AI is thinking

The ability to explain AI processes is essential for business decision making. Christian Pedersen of IFS sets out the benefits of transparency at the start of AI integration. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Unily CEO - ‘CX had the last decade, the next decade belongs to EX’

Recently appointed Unily CEO, Chris Ciauri, says that the employee experience (EX) market is currently untapped and that there is now momentum across organizations to finally make some substantive change. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

How Ricoh UK became a Disability Confident Employer - and why your enterprise should be too!

Disability tends to be a rather neglected element of the diversity, equity and inclusion mix. Ricoh UK is attempting to grasp the nettle though by becoming a Disability Confident Employer – and its insights span well beyond national borders. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dun & Bradstreet - accurate data must be the basis for any serious enterprise use of generative AI

Extensive data cleansing, strong security, and full compliance training must happen before any move to generative AI, says Dun and Bradstreet | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

AI regulation - Stability AI and Ada Lovelace Institute speak out

In the third and final report of our mini-series on AI regulation this week, we look at the gaps between what vendors and government are saying, and what they are doing. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

How AI impacts the publishing sector, and what needs to be done to protect that industry

Publishing has spent over 30 years grappling with technology upheavals, and now AI is here – for both good and ill. What are the key issues? | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - the wrap

Another year, another Dreamforce - here's the skinny to wind up a very busy week... | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Why Oracle is putting OCI database services into Microsoft Azure data centers

Barriers are breaking down in an AI-enabled world hungry for database services. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - regulating AI begins at home, says Salesforce Government Affairs EVP Eric Loeb

Government-led legislation would be great, but in the meantime AI tech firms should make voluntary commitments around risk and safety. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - back-to-basics marketing thinking from Salesforce CMO Ariel Kelman

Kelman has returned to Salesforce at an interesting time as the company pivots towards being an AI firm - or does it? | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

AI is ‘letting lawyers lawyer’ at Clyde & Co

AI tool Luminance is the basis of highly efficient and accurate document data gathering at Clyde & Co | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

How US tech multinationals are courting the UK’s AI policymakers – yet again

In our first report from the Westminster eForum on UK AI policy, we hear a dispiriting keynote from a think tank/law firm/vendor alliance (delete where applicable) | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Enterprise AI in practice - addressing the top CIO questions

Enterprise AI is the surging topic, or, in some cases, the hot potato. A recent CIO forum raised critical issues - here are my responses. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - Why the AI boom is an opportunity for everyone, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

There are new companies to be built and money to be made, not least for San Francisco. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - Salesforce CIO Juan Perez on the importance of being 'Customer Zero'

Making sure that Salesforce tech is up to scratch before it gets into customers hands is part of the CIO mandate. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - A lot of generative AI value actually comes from hallucinations, says OpenAI founder Sam Altman

Some visions of a future shaped by generative AI, from Sam Altman. Enthused or scared? Take your pick! | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - Salesforce COO Brian Millham on IT budgets, AI investment and loving his job

Brian Millham is the man who stayed. Coming up for a quarter of a century with Salesforce, he's now COO and running a huge amount of the show. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Celonis’ new EMEA chief focused on time to value in tough economic times

Philippe Mathieu has been appointed Celonis’ Go-to-Market Leader for EMEA, having previously worked at Palantir and Oracle. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Yes, ethical debt is a problem for AI software development

The problem of technical debt is well known, but it's time to put ethical debt on the list of the top software development risk factors. AI projects bring the issue of ethical debt to a head, where the temptation to move fast comes at a potentially high cost. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - Salesforce gives $2 million to education non-profits to ensure underserved communities don’t miss out on gen AI benefits

Organizations will develop AI coaches for students and teachers. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - Williams Sonoma CEO Laura Alber warns there can be nothing artificial about AI when used to enhance customer experience

AI can be used to help retailers enhance customer experience, but there needs to be truth and trust in what you do, says Alber. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 - “We call them hallucinations; I call them lies!” Benioff’s call to arms around the generative AI trust gap

The Dreamforce keynote was a heady mix of AI evangelism and cautionary pragmatism as Benioff set out to frame how the generative revolution needs to happen. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Kroger puts Ocado e-commerce expansion on hold in search of "a clear path" from its investment so far

Ocado hasn't had its problems to look for of late. Kroger just delivered it another one. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Dreamforce 2023 – Lamborghini streamlines multiple apps and disparate data as Salesforce tech stacks up

Luxury car maker connects to its customers, and customers connect to their cars with Heroku-based mobile app | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago

Rethinking retail - Picnic delivers on a data-driven approach

Dutch retailer Picnic - which has an ‘app-only’ approach to food delivery - runs its entire operations in-house, with a keen data-centric approach. | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 1 year ago