Category: Cloud Computing
Lasse comes home to HFS!
Yes folks, HFS Nordics is up and running, and who better to lead this expansion for us than the digital Danish diva himself, Lasse Rindom.Read More
IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise
IBM unveiled its multi-model and multi-cloud Watsonx to drive AI-first enterprises - what we are calling "The Generative Enterprise" at HFS. IBM is describing the platform as a "full technology stack" for training, tuning, and deploying AI models, including foundation and large language models while ensuring tight data governance controls. In our view, Watsonx is the first enterprise-grade offering to address the Generative Enterprise holistically. Here’s our interpretation of WatsonxRead 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
2023 is the year of ‘The Autonomous Enterprise’ as economics trigger change
Inflation-driven pressures will likely culminate in a huge wave of job reductions, sparking the demand for autonomous technologies to fill the voidRead 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 OneOffice Data Cycle: Data is your strategy, automation your mindset, AI your autonomy
To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows need to execute in real-time between customers and employees - and engage partners in your ecosystem. OneOffice is about understanding and discovering the data you must have to win in your market - right now in real-time - as the market environment keeps changing.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
Automation doesn’t dictate why we do things; It must dictate how we do them
10 years since HFS introduced RPA to the industry, and we’re finally focusing on automation as a value-lever that drives business outcomes. The pandemic has shifted the automation focus from creating efficiencies in the back office to delivering immediate business impact, where talent shortages can be overcome, where digital workflows can operate despite broken supply chains, and where businesses can function effectively in their virtual and hyperconnected ecosystems.Read More
Is it Aiman Ezzat? It most certainly is!
As it approaches its $20bn revenue milestone, it's high time we caught up with Group CEO Aiman Ezzat to understand what's driving this growth since he took the helm over two years agoRead More
Welcome to new normalization… not necessarily ropy recession
We might be finally on a weird and rocky road to a much more normal future, compared to our highly-abnormal recent past.We may be experiencing unprecedented economic and societal challenges, but we should take solace in the fact that things are at their inflationary peak, and we are still moving forward as an economy. The fundamentals underneath it all are strong...Read More