Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, principal analyst Shelly Kramer is joined by Wendy Underhill, Field Chief of Maintenance at California Department of Water Resources and Rich Padula, Founder of Mirata Software for a conversation about everybody's favorite things: paperwork, manual forms, and how ditching manual forms can play an outsized role in improving business processes and reducing headaches for the folks who manage those processes.

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, part of the HPE Executive Insights Series, I am joined by Daniel Frye, Vice President, Enterprise CISO for HPE. In this conversation we dive into what exactly is an edge-to-cloud security strategy and why it's crucial in today's marketplace.

In our conversation, we discussed the following:

• The security implications of edge-to-cloud
• How cybersecurity pros can proactively address the challenges they are facing
• Why organizations need a Security Share Responsibility Model
• A look at Zero Trust security strategies
• HPE's priority for the future

Security has never been more important than it is today and this is one conversation you don't want to miss. If you want to learn more about HPE and edge-to-cloud, download a copy of our latest research brief Why Edge-to-Cloud Platform? Why HPE?.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, we're going to space! I'm thrilled have Jono Luk, VP of Product Management for Webex as my guest and we're going to talk about space exploration and how collaboration and voice technology are starting to play an increasingly important role in space exploration.

First, some background. Orion is the most advanced spacecraft ever developed to carry astronauts to the moon. What's exciting is that voice activation and collaboration technology can take it to the next level by enabling interactive computer systems to become ready for the next gen of explorers. Orion's uncrewed Artemis 1 mission is a tech demonstration developed through Lockheed Martin's reimbursable space act agreement with NASA, and Lockheed Martin has partnered with Cisco and Amazon to bring Webex video collaboration and Amazon's Alexa digital assistant on board during Orion's first flight test in deep space, called the Callisto project.

While Jono's official focus at Webex is on leading Contact Center and the Admin, Security Data, and Shared Experiences Project Management teams at Webex, when he had the chance to be a part of the Callisto project, he jumped at it, and who wouldn't? I would say that it's not a stretch at all that a project focused on how commercial tech can be a part of the future of deep space exploration and assist future astronauts on deep space missions fits nicely under "shared experiences" category.

Our conversation today covered the following:

• The goal of the Callisto Tech Demo project, which is to demonstrate how astronauts and flight controllers can use human-machine interface tech to make their jobs simpler, safer, and more efficient, and also advance human exploration in deep space.
• Jono took us on a walk through how the tech works, connecting through NASA's Deep Space Network, and a local database that's located on board the spacecraft to communicate with Webex and Alexa.
• How the hardware was hardened to protect it for the radiation environment on Orion's deep space journey.
• Jono shared some of the challenges the team working on this project had to overcome, as well as some things they learned along that way that were unexpected.
• Why Cisco is uniquely positioned to be the partner with Lockheed Martin and part of the Callisto Tech Demo project along with Amazon, and what this means for use cases beyond simply deep space.

This was incredibly exciting, and I'm thrilled to have been invited to be a part of Callisto Tech Demo and experience firsthand the realities of bringing video and voice collaboration tech — to deep space as well as to other remote places in the world, and the benefits that we can reap as a result.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer is joined by Richard Pascoe, VP of Consulting Services at Applexus Technologies. Our conversation focused on taking your vendor invoice management solution up a notch.

Accounts payable and vendor invoice management processes can be difficult to manage. With fragmented systems and multiple teams involved, the end-to-end invoice processing system can be full of headaches for the entire organization. So, what can organizations do to optimize their processes? That's exactly what Richard and Shelly talked about. Some of the conversation highlights include:

• How the unprecedented supply chain disruptions have impacted the invoice solution
• The challenges the hybrid work model presents when it comes to AP processes
• Some of the hidden costs within Accounts Payable
• The kind of savings organizations can typically achieve by leveraging a vendor invoice management solution like Applexus's InSITE
• What a value map calculator is and how Applexus helps customers with this

It was a great conversation on a timely topic, and if you're in accounts payable, this is an episode that we think you'll learn a lot from.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum principal analyst Daniel Newman is joined by Brian Richardson, Security Marketing Lead for Intel Data Center & AI (DCAI) Marketing Product Strategy. Their conversation takes a look at the security market and what enterprise IT leaders need to be aware of for the future.

In our conversation, we discussed the following:

• What role Intel is playing with security in today's business market
• How Intel's approach to security is influenced by their mindset, technology, and assurance policy
• How Intel is contributing to the global ecosystem
• Intel's latest innovations
• Recommendations for enterprise IT leaders for the future

It was a great conversation on a timely topic, and one you won't want to miss. To learn more about Intel, check out their website here.

This webcast is sponsored by Intel.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Shelly Kramer, principal analyst and founding partner of Futurum Research, is joined by Manu Vohra, Managing Director, Global Life Sciences for Box, for a conversation on collaboration in the life sciences industry.

In the last decade, the life sciences industry has undergone significant digital transformation. The industry is also facing increased market pressures, is collectively navigating new (and sometimes ever-changing) regulations, and, of course, has been fueled by the need to navigate a global pandemic. As a result, it's become paramount for all players in the life sciences industry, from pharmaceutical companies and researchers to manufacturers and the supply chain, to share research, data, and resources with their partner ecosystem to facilitate innovation, ensure compliance and security, and also deliver more efficiently and rapidly on patient outcomes. Speaking of patient outcomes, life sciences organizations are looking at solutions to help improve patient outcomes, but that's not always an easy process, especially when it comes to applications and document storage. So, what can these organizations do to address these challenges?

In our conversation, Manu and Shelly covered the following:

• Digitization is no longer optional. Breaking down siloed collaboration channels and facilitating real-time sharing is table stakes for today's Life Sciences organizations.
• Life Sciences is a heavily regulated industry, and there are some security and compliance considerations that organizations need to heed. There are some very real reasons that "the way we've always done it" thinking not work anymore.
• Sharing patient data brings its own set of challenges with security and compliance, something made even more complicated when various members of a team are in different locations around the world.
• Collaboration needs in life sciences organizations have changed and Manu shared insights on those shifts.
• Technology is playing a big role in helping Life Sciences organizations address the challenges they face. Manu shared a little about Content Cloud for Life Sciences from Box and why this solution warrants consideration.
• Sharing patient data brings its own set of challenges with security and compliance, something made even more complicated when various members of a team adhere to different compliance standards based on region.
• The key benefits of Content Cloud for Life Sciences and why integrations and a robust set of APIs is a game-changer.

This was a great conversation and one that you'll definitely want to make time to watch, listen, or read about if you're working in the Life Sciences sector and trying to get arms around the collaboration, content, regulation, and compliance demands of your organization. Futurum developed a research brief in partnership with Box that you'll find here: The Content Cloud for Life Sciences Securely Streamlines Seamless Collaboration.

You will also find more information from Box about their solutions for the Life Sciences industry on their website, and I encourage you to check that out. And feel free to find and connect with Manu Vorha on LinkedIn, I'm sure he'll be glad to hear from you and answer any questions you might have.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, I'm joined by Martin Bitzinger, Senior Vice President, Product Management for Mitel, who oversees Mitel's product portfolio and product marketing, including UC platforms, applications, and devices for a conversation about trends in Unified Communications (UC), the many challenges customers face in leveling up their business comms, and a look at what's ahead for Mitel.

Mitel is an industry stalwart, with a long history, a reputation for a laser focus on innovation, and its deep penetration in enterprise telephony. Our conversation today covered the following:

• Industry trends that we've seen emerging over the course of the last couple of years, and specifically some of the trends that Martin and his team at Mitel are leaning into.
• We explored business problems and communication challenges that customers face today in a world of hybrid work and what is often a distributed workforce, and some of the business problems Mitel helps customers solve.
• What the 'different flavors' of Unified Communications are and what businesses should be thinking about when they are trying to level up their business comms capabilities.
• Mitel is a well-established company, having been in the market for almost 50 years, serving many customers. We chatted a little about that big customer base and some of the innovative things that Mitel is doing to serve them.
• We also explored verticals and some of the focus that Mitel is doing in the vertical markets and why that's significant.
• We also discussed the fact that the majority of Mitel's sales comes through its partner ecosystem and the role that customer lifecycle management plays here, as well as how partners benefit from that partner value prop.

Lastly, I asked Martin to walk me through what's ahead for 2023 and beyond, and what the roadmap for Mitel's current and future customers looks like, and why that's something for our listeners, customers, partners, and the industry as whole to be excited about.

On this episode of The Main Scoop, co-hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman are joined by Meral Temel, Mainframe Platform Leader at JFORCE, to discuss the opportunities and risks when pursuing an operational excellence strategy to achieve the highest levels of service to customers.

They also provide insights into how operational excellence is a mindset permeating an organization's technology, people, and culture.

Has your organization determined what it means to be operationally excellent? Learn more about how this will improve the customer experience.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Christian Floerkemeier, CTO, VP Product and Co-founder of Scandit for a conversation about data, the employee experience, customer experience, and how smart data capture can make a difference in the enterprise.

In our conversation, we discussed the following:

• An overview of smart data capture
• How shifts in consumer behaviors and expectations have driven the need to give improved access to data to employees
• How smart data capture shifts tedious work to technology to empower frontline workers to add value elsewhere
• The difference between 'dumb' and 'smart' data capture
• Which industries can use smart data capture
• A look into the future of smart data capture

It was a great conversation on an incredibly important topic, and one you won't want to miss. Interested in learning more about smart data capture? Be sure to visit this page.

Marvell Technologies continues to power innovation across its custom ASIC portfolio using 3nm, customization, and chiplet IP advances to provide optimized performance, power & area breakthroughs, and maximized returns on investments. Futurum's Ron Westfall and Marvell's Hugh Durden explore why Marvell's custom ASIC offerings fulfill the intricate, high-speed, high-performance silicon requirements of next generation 5G operators, cloud data centers, enterprises, and automotive applications as well as how Marvell's custom capabilities provide the foundation for driving portfolio-wide innovation.