ADP has been referred to as one of the original cloud companies, as it has long run other companies' payroll off-premises as a service. Now, the $12 billion human capital management company has become colossus in the industry. It does not lack for competition, however, both among traditional players like Paychex, and among digital native companies like Workday and Zenefits. ADP still enjoys the advantages of scale, producing one in ever six paychecks for all non-governmental employees in the Uni…

Databricks Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi speaks at the Spark Summit in June 2017. Just months after announcing a $60 million fundraise, the creators of popular open-source big project Apache Spark and their startup have dwarfed that amount with a massive new fundraise — and added a new buzzword to the mix. The new funding for Databricks clocks in at $140 million, and the opportunity that CEO Ali Ghodsi is targeting with it is one on the lips of marketing teams across S…

By Brian Dickinson, Solution Management Global Lead, SAP Mill Products In 1984, James Cameron’s The Terminator blasted its way onto movie screens and created a renewed interest around sci-fi action movies and the impact of robots on society. Sure, the topic of robots has been around for many years but lately there seems to be a Terminator-like emphasis on their use and impact on society, such as how robots affect manufacturing jobs. This very topic was recently discussed in this Chicago Tribune …

According to Sinclair, “IoT isn’t a new business trend. It’s the new way of business.” Sensors and devices are everywhere – in vehicles, home appliances, smartphones, and clothes – producing continuous streams of data. To drive outcomes, we need to understand what data we need and its value. Data science, therefore, is critical to the Internet of Things. How is the IoT being used in public sector to drive outcomes? The second speaker, Landon C. Van …

Do you use AWS Marketplace? If you do, you know that with over 6,000 product listings, it can be tough to find what you’re looking for. That’s why CloudEndure created an AWS Marketplace map featuring the top-rated software and services in a range of categories, including network infrastructure, app development, and monitoring. Using a custom tool developed in-house, CloudEndure scanned the entire AWS Marketplace and filtered the 76 top products out of 6,000. All of the products included in the m…

The enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) is poised for strong growth. But are enterprises ready for IoTification? That's the gist of recent surveys, which suggest that executives understand the potential of IoT, but recognize that it's going to take a lot of work to embed it into their businesses. Photo: Joe McKendrick IoTification will reshape the enterprise. A recent survey out of McKinsey & Company, for one, suggests that just about everyone has gotten IoT rel…

Tweet This ThinkStockPhoto These and other insights are from Canonical’s latest study, Defining IoT Business Models (PDF, 20 pp., free, opt-in). Canonical commissioned independent industry publication IoT Now to complete a quantitative survey of 361 IoT professionals. For purposes of the study, Canonical is defining IoT professionals as those actively working within the IoT industry in a broad spectrum of roles including product developers, manufacturers, vendors or engineers…

Microsoft Microsoft's Xbox One X "Project Scorpio" edition console "Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week, Microsoft Monday includes details about Xbox One X pre-orders, a Minecraft themed Xbox One S, 7 games being added to Game Pass, the delay of Crackdown 3, the acquisition of Cycle Computing, new LinkedIn features, Paul Allen’s discovery of the USS Indianapolis, a large donation by Bill Gates and much more! Xbox O…

Julie Fields Randy Fields, Chairman and CEO, Park City Group A  Series of Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Randy Fields, Founder and CEO, Park City Group. “I’ve never had a job. I’ve only worked in companies that I have founded. I believe entrepreneurship is simply a socially acceptable form of OCD.” So says Randy Fields founder, Chairman and CEO of Park City Group, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based, publicly traded firm that provides supply-…

The Low-Code/No-Code movement will disrupt all application development from the largest enterprise applications to small, throwaway apps, but this disruption is so dramatic that it is experiencing pushback from several camps – that is the conclusion of my recent article, The Low-Code/No-Code Movement: More Disruptive Than You Realize. To add more color to this story, I recently spoke with Martin Dowdall, Vice President and General Manager of ExpertSOLUTIONS at Stericycle . Stericycle is bes…