Twilio just released its State of Customer Engagement Report for 2021. Here are the trends that CMOs need to pay attention to.
$100 Billion High-Speed Broadband Bill Reintroduced by Rep James Clyburn Aimed at Closing the Digital Divide
The $100 billion high speed broadband bill reintroduced by Rep James Clyburn is aimed at closing the digital divide. This is both timely and significant, as the FCC estimates at least 21 million Americans currently may not have access to high speed internet, including as many as 1 in 4 rural households and 1 in 3 households on tribal lands. This puts students and workers in those areas at a severe disadvantage through no fault of their own. That is the digital divide that H.R.1783 aims to correct over the next five years.
SAP Capgemini Deal Boosts SAP’s Contingent Workforce Management Proposition
The SAP Capgemini deal boosts SAP’s contingent workforce management proposition, expanding awareness of SAP Fieldglass. Futurum’s Ron Westfall covers the contingent workforce management market segment, what’s ahead, and how this move improves SAP’s competitive position to directly challenge its major workforce rivals by meeting the burgeoning demands of major clients, such as Capgemini. With this win, SAP fortifies its competitive standing in fulfilling the burgeoning distributed workforce demands of workforce, especially including unique contingent workforce requirements.
Oracle Meets Expectations, Raises Dividend as Momentum Grows
Oracle delivered at expectations this quarter while seeing strong growth in its Cloud and SaaS offerings driving 3% revenue growth.
Microsoft’s Move to Make Power Automate Desktop Free is a Major Power Play
Microsoft’s move to make Power Automate Desktop free is a major power play, giving enterprise customers every reason to turn to a familiar partner for their RPA and intelligent automation needs. And that is probably making a whole lot of other vendors pretty nervous.
Supply Chain Management is an Essential Business Priority in an Uncertain World
The coming year will be a challenging one for supply chain management decision makers as they grapple with the lessons learned from the supply chain disruptions linked to the global pandemic, geopolitical trade disputes, and unanticipated outcomes from natural disasters. Futurum’s Ron Westfall takes a look at how improving supply chain reliability and mitigating disruptions to supply chain networks is attainable by adopting best practices such as holistic mapping of the supply chain network and putting increased focus on revenue assurance priorities, transparency enforcement, and upscaling of the partner selection process.
Honeywell Recognized for Quantum and Pandemic Leadership
Fast Company awarded Honeywell for its leadership in innovation for the work it is doing on Quantum Computing and helping in the pandemic.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insiders Program Launch Puts Snapdragon Brand Front-and-Center
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insiders Program puts the Snapdragon brand front and center in a clever initiative that might well make the Snapdragon brand a household name among the hundreds of millions of technology enthusiasts whose devices are already powered by the Snapdragon platform.
HPE’s Formation of HPE CTG Validates Organization-wide Commitment to Open 5G Mission
HPE CTG sharpens HPE’s overall Open 5G proposition aimed at the CSP and enterprise realms. HPE CTG offers the broad 5G portfolio, professional services, and telco portfolio pedigree and expertise needed to power ecosystem-wide adoption of open, cloud-native 5G implementations on a secure, confident basis across cloud environments. In combination with in-house resources such as HPE GreenLake/Ezmeral, HPE CTG now has the competitive foundation to consistently differentiate its solutions against both 5G infrastructure suppliers and public cloud providers. I anticipate and look forward to HPE CTG and Open 5G prospects gaining momentum and advancing during the course of 2021.
Marvell Octeon DPU Family Boards the Burgeoning Evenstar Initiative
Marvell enlarges its OpenRAN ecosystem credentials by providing a 4G/5G OpenRAN design for Evenstar. The move boosts its OpenRAN support credibility with both OEMs and operators, which is critical for Marvell to win both mind and market share in the already hotly contested OpenRAN segment.