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• How enterprises can improve ROI on AI investments 

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 12 Nov 2024

In this guest post, Sarju Raja, country manager at AvePoint UK, sets out the steps enterprises can take to ensure their investments in artificial intelligence technologies pay off. We're at the ...

• Knowledge Management 2.0: have we found a way to make KM work?

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 23 Jan 2024

This is a blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo4j, on how tech has finally caught up with ideas. To a computer, classifying things in the real world can be a bit of a puzzle. We’ve taught ...

• Unit4 predictions for 2024: pervasive ERP, conversational UX breakthroughs

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Jan 2024

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Unit4 2024 is going to be an important year for the enterprise technology sector as various factors influence ...

• Predicted tech trends driving the world of work in 2024

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 20 Dec 2023

This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, UKI CTO and SVP Solution Engineering, Salesforce. The only constant in technology is change and the next revolution is upon us - Artificial ...

• Embracing AI: understand the end user first

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 07 Dec 2023

This is a guest blog post by Sara Portell, VP of User Experience and Rafael Artacho, Product Director, Unit4 How we interact with enterprise software, particularly enterprise resource planning ...

• Teaching AI common sense an old problem ChatGPT foregrounds

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 08 Nov 2023

This is a guest blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist, Neo4j Is the best way to end the LLM hallucination problem to teach it some basic logic? Great as they are, we’re starting to have to deal ...

• We need to give AI more time (series)

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 07 Nov 2023

This is a guest blogpost by, Evan Kaplan, CEO, InfluxData. Two contrasting forces are driving the AI revolution: generative AI (GenAI), known for its creative prowess, and real-world applications ...

• Generative AI, one year later: moving beyond the hype

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 16 Oct 2023

This is guest blog post by, James Fisher, Chief Strategy Officer, Qlik Almost one year ago, ChatGPT exploded on the scene and quickly took AI mainstream. Since then, an endless number of articles ...

• Transforming industries with an AI-enabled data supply chain

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Oct 2023

This is a guest blogpost by Vaibhav Vohra, Chief Product and Technology Officer at ERP provider Epicor Essential industries are going through a period of radical transformation, as businesses that ...

• How should your SAP strategy evolve in line with SAP’s evolution?

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Oct 2023

This is a guest blogpost by Luiz Mariotto, group vice president, SAP Product Management, Rimini Street. In it he suggests three questions IT leaders should ask about their SAP roadmaps to help ...

• GenAI: Boffins in clover

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 27 Sep 2023

When Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech at Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas last week, it would not have been shocking if he had expressed some scepticism about the hype generated by Generative ...

• The companies set to win using LLMs are the responsible ones

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 01 Sep 2023

This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Responsible AI Lead, Dataiku Large Language Models (LLMs) including ChatGPT have seemingly moved from hype, to hot seat, to hazard. In the midst of the ...

• Is the data guardian hinting that Palantir should be ousted from NHS IT?

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 29 Aug 2023

Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian, published a blogpost on the Gov.uk site on 24 August that seems to suggest Palantir should be excluded from the technology involved in the NHS Federated ...

• Resisting AI

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 28 Jul 2023

Technology is not neutral. It is always embedded in social, economic, and political relations built on systematic, structural imbalances of power. Welcome to capitalism. Including the Xi Jinping ...

• How the high street gains from advanced data analytics

  Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 26 Jul 2023

This is a guest blog post by Phillip Sewell, CEO at Predyktable. The high street is finally back in business, with customers flocking back to stores, restaurants and pubs. To fuel and sustain this ...