On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Steve Sloan, CEO for Contentful, for a conversation around the key elements of digital transformation success.

Contentful was born out of necessity. The company’s co-founders realized that a lot of developers replicate content regularly when building apps. They created a way to create and launch content for any device, seamlessly. With Contentful, teams can build new applications, channels, and services quickly and efficiently to help their business grow. It was a fascinating conversation with Steve, and one you don’t want to miss.   

 The Key Elements of Digital Transformation:

 In our conversation we discussed the following:

• The future for Contentful in the market
• Where companies are in their digital transformations
• An exploration into the new digital experiences people are looking to have that companies need to provide
• Real-life customer use cases

Want to learn more about what Contentful and what they are doing in this space? Check out their website.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Jeanette Barlow, Vice President of Product Marketing for Pegasystems, for a conversation around the future of AI and intelligent automation.

In our conversation we discussed the following:

• The possible innovations we might see in 2022 in intelligent automation
• How the brands will also focus on their employees more in the coming year
• The role AI will play in the coming year
• What is driving the changes we are seeing in the workplace

It was a great conversation and if you’re interested in the intelligent automation space, one you don’t want to miss. Want to learn more about what Pega is doing to move intelligent automation forward? Check out their website.

Marvell Technologies OCTEON Fusion line is developed to deliver processing power combined with the enhanced security, packet processing, and traffic management functions needed to power O-RAN innovation across the 5G ecosystem. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Joel Brand examine why Marvell’s merchant silicon OCTEON Fusion offering provides the capabilities and silicon-level differentiation key to attaining breakthrough performance and deployment flexibility across O-RAN environments.

Leading global tech analysts Patrick Moorhead (Moor Insights & Strategy) and Daniel Newman (Futurum Research) are front and center on The Six Five analyzing the tech industry's biggest news each and every week and also conducting interviews with tech industry "insiders" on a regular basis. 

The Six Five represents six (6) handpicked topics that will be covered for five (5) minutes each. 

Welcome to this week’s edition of “The 6-5.” I’m Patrick Moorhead with Moor Insights & Strategy, co-host, joined by Daniel Newman with Futurum Research. On this week’s show we will be talking:

Intel Beats Expectations

• https://futurumresearch.com/research-notes/intel-delivers-record-full-year-revenue-and-beat-in-q4/ 
• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/technology-companies-are-outperforming-expectations-as-the-fed-lowers-the-boom-11643305577
• https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1486449977790545929?s=20&t=N8JDljyYDVovds8sMXJdHg
• https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1486741436548665350?s=20

Microsoft Does What Microsoft Does

• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/technology-companies-are-outperforming-expectations-as-the-fed-lowers-the-boom-11643305577
• https://futurumresearch.com/research-notes/no-tech-wreck-here-as-microsoft-delivers-big-in-q3/
• https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1486086820404285443?s=20&t=aw17fjM_iiYDCMWfOvUvrA
• https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1486086820404285443?s=20&t=N8JDljyYDVovds8sMXJdHg

IBM Surprises

• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/technology-companies-are-outperforming-expectations-as-the-fed-lowers-the-boom-11643305577
• https://futurumresearch.com/research-notes/leaner-and-more-focused-ibm-reports-q4-earnings-and-full-year-2021-results/
• https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-beats-revenue-expectations-cloud-consulting-strength-2022-01-24/
• https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1485722544724496387?s=20&t=N8JDljyYDVovds8sMXJdHg

ServiceNow Continues Hot Streak

• https://futurumresearch.com/research-notes/servicenow-q4-reiterates-strength-and-points-to-strong-year-ahead/  
• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/servicenow-stock-soars-after-earnings-beat-11643232796

SAP Shows Strength in Cloud

• https://www.sap.com/investors/en/investment-story/recent-results.html?pdf-asset=a29a2c2c-147e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b&page=5
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-27/sap-enters-fintech-with-deal-for-supply-chain-startup-taulia

NVIDIA Arm Deal All But Over?

• https://futurumresearch.com/research-notes/nvidia-is-reportedly-preparing-to-walk-away-from-arm-acquisition/
• https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-nvda-stock-arm-acquisition-51643109910

Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show. The contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice. 

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, broadcast originally on LinkedIn Live, Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer talks with Amplience’s VP of Product Marketing Adam Sturrock about how the headless commerce experience platform is driving digital transformation in a massive way for brands and retailers. Their conversation touched on the challenges today’s brands and retailers face, key industry trends driving a need for agility and rapid transformation, and what’s ahead in 2022.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, host and principal analyst Shelly Kramer sits down with Chris Carlstead and Kelley Lear from Thomson Reuters to talk about how automating procurement is a game-changer in myriad ways.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by HRIZONS President and CEO for a discussion about HR Tech and the role it plays in providing solutions to the challenges being faced by a tech-enabled workforce, and the adjustments they are having to make to survive and prosper in a working world defined by the realities of a hybrid workplace.

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series live from NRF 2022, I am joined by Art Miller, Senior Director Global Retail IoT Business Development at Qualcomm, for a conversation around NRF 2022, Qualcomm’s vision for IoT and the future of retail.

Using Technology to Improve Customer Experience and Vision for Retail IoT

 In our conversation we discussed the following:

• The expansion of IoT in the retail industry
• How the blending of online and offline experiences is going to impact the future of retail
• An overview of the partners Qualcomm is working with
• How big the opportunity is for the retail industry and Qualcomm as a whole
• Trends that we are seeing at NRF 2022

It was an excellent conversation with several insightful tidbits. If you are interested in learning more about Qualcomm’s IoT portfolio, be sure to check out their website.

In this episode of the AT&T BizTalks Roundtable, Futurum analyst Shelly Kramer is joined by Glen Gilmore, Helen Yu, and Kevin Jackson for a conversation about Tech Trends, Predictions and Inspiration for businesses in 2022. In this dynamic conversation this group of tech experts explore supply chain challenges and what to expect in 2022, skills and capabilities organizations need to be thinking about (and hiring for), trends, the technologies that are driving innovation, where to invest resources in 2022 and pitfalls to be on the lookout for.

For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the debut of the Marvell AtlasOne chipset, the company’s 50Gbps PAM4 chipset solution for 5G fronthaul, targeted at improving performance for integrated radio access networks (RAN), as well as Open (O-RAN) and virtualized (vRAN) architectures. To meet growing 5G capacity demands, mobile operators are prioritizing fronthaul solutions that scale beyond 25G. The Marvell AtlasOne chipset, optimized for performance improvement and up to 25% lower power consumption, is part of Marvell’s electro-optics portfolio aimed at easing vRAN and O-RAN adoption.