Just as you ensure a physical store is fully staffed and stocked for the holiday rush, you must also ensure your digital presence is ready to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Scrimmage for Control: On-Premises Vs. SaaS in the Observability Super Bowl of 2024
Using a SaaS solution where data is stored on the vendor’s infrastructure is like playing a football game at your opponent’s home field.
4 Things to Consider When Integrating Generative AI
SaaS companies are integrating generative AI capabilities into their products and services. However, in the race to join the hype, many companies are building first and strategizing later.
Preparing for Machine Learning Readiness to Unlock its Full Potential
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), companies need to understand and evaluate their readiness to adopt these technologies and drive material business outcomes. To assess a company’s machine learning readiness, we must consider several key factors, including: ● Vision/strategy ● Data availability ● Expertise, infrastructure and resources ● MLOps […]
Implementing DevOps? Start with a Strategy
Organizations today are focused on improving the IT delivery process and taking it to the next level. DevOps plays a key role in achieving this goal, if it’s done right. But while the concept of DevOps is not new—it’s more than a decade old—a significant percentage of organizations have not yet implemented or are facing […]
Don’t Let Cultural Debt Bring Down Your Business
Businesses today are faced with myriad challenges to innovate and optimize. In doing so, we often need to make decisions that borrow against the future. This can come in a tangible form, such as taking money from investors to fund growth, or in more inconspicuous forms, such as making tradeoffs in technical decisions. When we […]
Part 2: Meeting relentless mobile app demand
As we discussed in Meeting the Relentless Mobile App Demand of the Enterprise, the enterprise thirst for mobile apps will far outstretch what enterprise internal development teams will be in a position to produce. Developers will need every edge provided to them in order to help their enterprise success. And there’s no doubt that IT […]
Does DevOps spell death for Line-of-Business (LOB) Applications?
Perhaps wrongly, “DevOps” has been associated with “new” and “that thing for the cool kids” and the “hipster developers”. This is used both as an excuse and as a source of animosity against the movement. But more subtly, I sometimes observe IT departments that acknowledge DevOps as a thing, but claim it wont work for […]