Barely ten months after its birth changed the world of technology, OpenAI unleashes ChatGPT Enterprise, where enterprises now have “Enterprise-grade...Read More
IBM’s acquisition of Apptio can shine if IBM Software and IBM Consulting work together to deliver cost-managed innovation at speed
HFS believes this is a good deal for both IBM and Apptio. IBM didn’t have much spend data; therefore, there is little overlap in terms of products. The ambition is bold. But the Holy Grail of operations is having an operational single pane of glass that includes automation and AI. If IBM can integrate all those acquisitions and get all that telemetry data out of its often highly specific domains, it can achieve strong differentiation in the market. Conversely, Apptio had hit a sales plateau as it struggled to scale its sales reach. Getting $4.6bn for hitting a plateau is too good an opportunity to turn down.Read More
The pandemic-induced tech binge is over and the cloud champagne has gone flat
Brand new data from over 500 IT leaders across the global 2000 tells an ugly story of how quickly the cloud bingeing is grinding to a halt, with only a third of enterprises currently staying the course with their current IT sourcing investments.Read More
re:Invent or re:Position? AWS tries to ‘out Google’ Google on the importance of your data strategy
AWS could lose steam as the migration to the cloud, as a technology platform, gives way to the cloud’s role in making data a business asset. While AWS's growth numbers are still holding up, there could be significant changes on the horizon as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) makes up lost ground with its approach to a data-centric cloud environment.Read More
The HFS Horizons revolution kicks off with Cloud Native Transformation
At HFS, we have redefined how we evaluate service providers and tech suppliers to reflect the value ambitious enterprises demand in today’s business environment with our new HFS Horizons. Now we're excited to share the first-ever Horizons Report — on Cloud Native Transformation.Cloud Native Horizons aligns the performance of today’s service providers with driving the functional building blocks of technology transformation (Horizon 1), creating the business transformation experiences their clients enjoy (Horizon 2), and the Cloud Native synergies their clients are developing across their ecosystem partners to create new sources of value (Horizon 3).Read More
Service providers must buy Atos’ crown jewels now and learn from dithering over Kyndryl
With its proposed contentious Kyndryl-style split and rapid CEO departure, Atos is teetering on the brink. As if its decline in stock price, recent accounting scandals, and lackluster financial performance were not enough, the firm now is more primed than ever for being acquired with these latest developments. HFS believes competitors should move to acquire Atos’ jewels now and not wait for the bleeding to start.So what are the lessons learned from IBM’s Kyndryl spin-off and what is HFS’s take on the current predicament in which Atos finds itself?Read More
Celonis separates the wheat from the PAF to open up the Microsoft ecosystem
With SAP squarely in its rearview mirror, Celonis’s PAFNow acquisition allows it to tap an even bigger enterprise technology ecosystem... Microsoft Read More
For Kryon out loud – what is Nintex thinking?
So what does this new Kryon / Nintex cocktail look like?Read More
Who’s going to buy cut-price Kyndryl?
Kyndryl: A $19bn business in a critical market, with a remarkably puny market cap of $3.5bnRead More