Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman is joined by Joe Burton, CEO for Telesign. Their conversation explores the security challenges brands are facing in the identity space and how Telesign can help organizations overcome these challenges.

In the conversation, they discussed the following:

• An overview of the identity space and what brands are struggling with
• Why identity threats are a major area of concern
• A look at international rate share fraud
• Telesign's secret sauce when it comes to security protection

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

In this Futurum Live! From the Show Floor at Tanium Converge 2022 Luis Cunha, Director, Security Architecture & Engineering for APTIV, joins Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer. Their conversation revolved around increased cloud adoption and the rise in remote work, and the challenges IT teams face in bridging the gap between Security and IT Ops. APTIV has been using Tanium now for seven years, and Cunha shared real world insights into how he and his team at APTIV were able to navigate the shift to remote work, as well as the bottom-line benefits APTIV has been able to realize from using Tanium. Not only are they able to considerably shorten the time it takes to get critical tasks done, Tanium is helping APTIV bring the Security organization closer to IT Ops, which is an important gap to bridge.

In this Futurum Live! From the Show Floor at Tanium Converge 2022 Ron Tinkler, Assistant Diector of IT at Informatics Merseyside with NHS, joins Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer. Managing IT operations at a large number of healthcare facilities throughout the UK is no easy task, especially given the attractiveness of the healthcare sector to nefarious threat actors. And legacy systems, change-resistant IT teams, and third-party software tools present considerable challenges, even to the most intrepid IT leaders. Tinkler shared his insights on how NHS Informatics Merseyside, a relatively new customer of Tanium, is quickly realizing some impressive wins by gaining patch visibility and significantly reducing the team time needed to patch mission critical systems.

In this Futurum Live! From the Show Floor at Tanium Converge 2022 Anil Nomula, Associate Vice President and Global Enterprise Architect for Genpact, joins Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer. Their conversation centered on how the professional services organization — which has experienced incredibly rapid growth over the last decade plus, growing from 19,000 employees in 2005 to over 100,000 in 2021 — managed to pivot quickly and securely support a global workforce with over 100,000 endpoints in 70 locations around the world in a short period of time using Tanium's cloud-based suite. The pivot wasn't without challenges, which Anil shared, but it did manage to drastically reduce the number of sleepless nights he and his team experienced, which is very good news. In addition, the cost savings Genpact has experienced, the ease of use of the Tanium offerings, and increased endpoint visibility are benefits they greatly enjoy.

For more on Genpact's story, and a deeper look at how Tanium has helped Genpact save 75% of network and hosting costs, check out this customer spotlight case study.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Shelly Kramer, principal analyst and founding partner of Futurum Research, is joined by Chris Haydon, former president of SAP Procurement Solutions, and more recently, a consultant and current board member of ConvergentIS, for a conversation about taking procurement processes to the next level and the benefits that organizations can realize along the way.

For starters, let's be real: procurement processes are by no means a sexy part of business, but they are an incredibly necessary one. And, based on what we're seeing the market, outdated methods for sourcing, purchasing, and managing processes are a reality — and one which can often lead to a number of challenges across the organization. So, that's why a conversation about taking procurement processes to the next level and exploring what organizations can do to optimize their procurement processes is a timely one.

Here are some of the things they covered in their conversation:

• Procurement can cover a wide area – we explored the differences between the midmarket and large enterprise market space.
• The challenges, especially those experienced by the midmarket, to procurement operations, and the areas of procurement that the midmarket sector needs to optimize.
• The kind of solution that's best suited for the midmarket: Ferrari or Ford?
• How can a solid procurement strategy help set up organizations for success in 2023 and beyond?
• An overview of ConvergentIS and insight into how the company helps midmarket organizations solve their procurement challenges.

If you're in procurement, this is an episode that we think you'll learn a lot from.

If you are thinking about your procurement strategies for the year ahead and want to explore how you can integrate technology into your procurement operations you can find more information on ConvergentIS, visit the SAP Store here. You can also find Chris Haydon on LinkedIn and he'll be glad to answer any questions you have.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist for Zoho for a conversation around the growth of Zoho's finance platform, Zoho Books.

In our conversation, we discussed the following:

• An overview of Zoho Books
• The exciting opportunities for Zoho Books
• An exploration into where Zoho Books operates
• The unification of Zoho Books and Zoho One

It was a great conversation on an incredibly important topic , and one you won't want to miss. To learn more about Zoho, Zoho One, and Zoho Books, check out their website here. To learn more about Zoho Book's exciting year-over-year growth, read the full press release from Zoho here.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Chris Jacobs, Vice President & General Manager of Embedded Market Segments for Micron's Embedded Business Unit. Our conversation takes a look at the cybersecurity market and what challenges lie ahead for the IoT and automation sectors.

In our conversation, we discussed the following:

• Micron's intelligent edge portfolio
• Cybersecurity challenges and how Micron's solutions make a difference
• New trends in automation, electrification, and more
• Memory and storage demands in our current environment
• Augmented reality and virtual reality opportunities for the future

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

In this episode of The 5G Factor, a production of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum Research principal analyst and founding partner Shelly Kramer is joined by fellow analyst Ron Westfall to talk all things 5G, IoT, and the news and happenings in that ecosystem. Their conversation covers:

Qualcomm and Vodafone build on previous commitments related to 5G Open RAN prospects. Qualcomm and Vodafone announced plans to develop, test, and integrate next gen 5G distributed units (DUs), and Radio Unit (RU) with Massive MIMO capabilities, intended to help deliver the commercial deployment of Open RAN in Europe.

General Dynamics forms 5G and Edge Accelerator Coalition. General Dynamics has formed a 5G and Edge Accelerator Coalition with AWS, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Splunk and T-Mobile aimed at accelerating the adoption of 5G, edge, and advanced wireless technologies across government agencies.

AWS takes an early lead in the telco 'cloud wars.' Although it's still early days, there are signs that AWS is making a pretty solid land grab in the teleco cloud space, capturing considerable market share among telecom network operators. While that's impressive, and it wasn't surprising to also see Microsoft's Azure making considerable inroads, what we find equally impressive is seeing Oracle and IBM taking some of that market share as well.

Smart buildings market is going nowhere but up. The Smart Buildings market is expected to hit $121.6 billion by 2026 and with many clients working in that space: Cisco, IBM, Dell, Honeywell, Siemens, and Intel to name just a few, this news, driven by a number of factors, was of interest. Why is the smart buildings sector on fire? Lots of reasons, and ones that we dive into, alongside a mention of some data points from our recently published Honeywell Environmental Sustainability Index, developed in partnership with Honeywell that is a comprehensive index designed to measure sentiment around the pace and adoption of climate technologies within organizations.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, part of the HPE Executive Insights Series, I am joined by Darren Perks, Global Hosting Infrastructure Operations Leader at PwC, and Vishal Lall, SVP & GM at HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions, for a conversation focusing on modernization and business model challenges in the industry.

In our conversation we discussed the following:

• Key objectives for the coming year for data centers and modernization
• Drivers for PwC's data center consolidation
• A look into PwC's modernization journey and how it reflects HPE's own journey
• Challenges of upgrading business models & expected outcomes
• Best practices from the modernization experience.

This was an interesting conversation and one you don't want to miss. To learn more about HPE, check out their website here, and to learn more about PwC, check their website, here.

Want to listen to the other HPE Executive Insights Series episodes? Tune in below.

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Capitalizing on Data to Drive Healthcare Insights – An HPE Executive Insights Series with Ashok Kurian, Texas Children's Hospital – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, principal analyst Shelly Kramer is joined by Allan Pym, Chief Operating Officer at APOS, for a conversation on the challenges making the most of business data presents for organizations, and how APOS Live Data Gateway is helping solve those challenges — and in real time.

We all know that data is crucial for today's organizations. From sales and marketing to manufacturing and maintenance, smart organizations need data to make decisions in real time. However, with so much data being gathered in so many different places, it can often feel impossible, overwhelming, or both to wrangle it intelligently. So, what can organizations do to make the most of their data? Are there other technology solutions that can help? Why does real-time matter when it comes to accessing and utilizing data? That's exactly what Allan and I covered today, and if you're wrestling with data challenges, it's a conversation you'll very much enjoy. We covered the following:

• We know that data is important, that's not a secret. In fact, some 94 percent of organizations report needing access to multiple data sources to support their decision-making — but not every organization knows what to do with their data.
• Allan shared some of the challenges he and the team at APOS are seeing as organizations wrestle with data connectivity. That's not at all difficult to understand, as research shows that on average companies are drawing from more than 400 different data sources. To compound that massive amount of data coming from myriad sources, one-third of companies report experiencing trouble simply connecting those sources together, let alone pulling accurate or meaningful insights from them.
• We discussed live connectivity: what it is and why it's so important for organizations today.
• Allan walked us through the APOS Live Data Gateway, its purpose and the key benefits organizations can experience using its three layers of functionality (Data Connection, Data Preparation, and Data Consumption) and three types of data views that can be utilized within the Data Preparation Layer.
• We explored APOS Live Data Gateway's Data Connection layer, where the solution makes the connection to data, and we talked about some of the data sources that APOS Live Data Gateway provides connectivity with.
• We explored both the Data Preparation layer and the Data Consumption layer, including how APOS Live Data Gateway works with SAP Solutions and how live connectivity versus import connectivity works with SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Allan shared that APOS Live Gateway works with analytics solutions beyond just SAP Analytics Cloud, including live connectivity from Power BI to SAP Analytics Cloud, as well as the expanded consumption options that include Odata, ODBC, and JDBC, in the unified semantic layer.
• Lastly, Allan shared some stories from customers who are currently using APOS Live Data Gateway which, as always, was one of my favorite parts of the conversation.

If you're thinking about getting arms around your data and know that live, real-time data is what you need, this is a conversation you should make time for.

Find more information about APOS Live Data Gateway on SAP Store.