“This is a slap in the face to Silicon Valley,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and analyst at Deep Analysis. “But I don’t think it will have a long-term effect, to be honest. There’s a short-term effect in that people can’t get their money overnight.”
“The perceived threat from China is almost certainly a driver here, but I am not sure it is the primary driver,” Pelz-Sharpe said. “It’s more that technology — AI particularly — is moving at such a pace and having such an impact that the government feels compelled to address its many problems.”
Many organizations feel caught in a bind—they want to migrate to something more effective but migrating a legacy system to the cloud fills them with fear. They’ve heard that it may all go wrong or be expensive, complicated and risky. Ten years ago, those were valid concerns, but today, a migration to the cloud is …
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Over the past few months, my colleague Matt Mullen and I have been taking briefings, researching academic and industry sources, and brainstorming a new area we call “work intelligence.” It’s not something we have invented: It’s a movement we have watched emerge during the past couple of years.
Yet some experts believe the fine and Google’s commitments aren’t enough to change location tracking practices at Google or other companies. “$400 million is around 0.1% of Google’s annual revenue,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of market analysis firm Deep Analysis. “More importantly, it’s actually incredibly costly and complex to eliminate tracking of users once it’s …
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Similar technologies have become available for other markets to fill in labor gaps and move people out of repetitive tasks, said Matt Mullen, an analyst at Deep Analysis. “Textract Analyze Lending looks especially interesting in that it recognizes the need for specifically verticalized industry solutions,” Mullen said.
Whistleblowers can impact not just a company’s profitability but future employees and partners, said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of market analyst firm Deep Analysis. Whistleblowers have an impact “by informing others of the true nature of the business,” he said. He added that the tech sector is “rife with issues” that many employees are many employees are …
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The release isn’t only important, it’s potentially a game changer according to Alan Pelz-Sharpe, the founder of Deep Analysis. He explained in a newsletter update that the analyst firm had “stuck our neck out this week” and described it as “the biggest [news] since SharePoint in our industry.” He offers a more detailed analysis of the release elsewhere, …
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“Building on the massive market that they have, Microsoft comes along and adds — pretty much in one fell swoop — all the tools you actually need to automate document processes. That’s huge,” Pelz-Sharpe said. “Even things that seemed simple — time and expense claims forms, accounts payable, contract management — today you need to …
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Content Insights may also be a boon for Box admins who need to analyze what’s going on in their increasingly expanding content repositories, said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of Deep Analysis. “Box deployments are now pretty big; they used to be just departmental, and who cared, right?” he said. “But now you’ve got a lot of …
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On this episode, Chris and I chat with Ian Story (Principal GPM for Syntex) and Alan Pelz-Sharpe (Founder of analyst firm, Deep Analysis) to go behind the scenes of this exciting new “Content AI” category and solution. You’ll hear more about what’s new for Syntex, insights into what’s most valuable for customers, and a breakdown of the direction and …
“Building on the massive market that they have, Microsoft comes along and adds — pretty much in one fell swoop — all the tools you actually need to automate document processes. That’s huge,” Pelz-Sharpe said. “Even things that seemed simple — time and expense claims forms, accounts payable, contract management — today you need to …
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In the last few years, Microsoft, Google, and others have steadily advanced AI technology with new systems that show the power of AI. However, they have largely failed to show business users how those tools can apply in their day-to-day jobs, Pelz-Sharpe said. “There’s a recognition now with the big cloud companies that if it …
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“Automation Anywhere seems to be just on the same path as it was five or six years ago,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, an analyst and founder of Deep Analysis. “It’s the last of the RPA companies that are focused on RPA.” Unlike five or six years ago when it was more stable, the RPA market is …
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OpenText was mum about the planned acquisition because the company is in a regulatory quiet period. While acquiring Micro Focus may look like a financial stretch on paper, the deal will pay for itself in just a few years through services renewals, according to Deep Analysis research. Cross-selling OpenText security, content management and ERP to Micro …
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The main problem with the AI Bill of Rights is it has no teeth, said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of market analysis firm Deep Analysis. Pelz-Sharpe said that at best, government departments might over time adopt some of the blueprint’s recommendations and provide some transparency to their use of AI systems. But he said it’s a stretch …
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iRobot is a natural extension to Amazon’s existing home products, including Ring, Alexa and its general smart home ambitions, said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of consulting firm Deep Analysis. Bringing in iRobot also adds a customer base of 30 million users, he said. “In theory, at least, it will make Amazon the most extensive and preferred …
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“The challenge is that few AI systems are designed to operate unethically, rather they can be trained or used to break ethical boundaries, oftentimes unknowingly,” Pelz-Sharpe said. “Until it’s doing something in operation it’s hard to know if it’s doing the right or wrong thing.”
“I believe IG should be sold as something that reduces your IT costs and increases efficiency………….”
Microsoft cooperating with competitors on Teams document-sharing is good for business, despite its own competitive interests with OneDrive and SharePoint secure file sharing tools, said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of Deep Analysis. The document cloud market is so enormous, companies such as Box and OpenText — which respectively work medium-to-large and the largest of companies — …
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