“You can share files with your Slack colleagues, but keep the security and compliance levels that you have from your Box environment,” said Deep Analysis founder Alan Pelz-Sharpe. “It takes the power of the content cloud and brings it into the collaborative environment of Slack, which is super powerful.”
“Veritone’s launch of the intelligent distributed energy resource management system (iDERMS) addresses head-on the challenges of green energy,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of analyst firm Deep Analysis. “With green energy’s inherent unpredictability, there is a clear need for AI-powered predictive energy solutions to balance supply and demand, lower energy costs and ensure grid reliability and resilience in the face of our fragile grid infrastructure.”
“You can share files with your Slack colleagues, but keep the security and compliance levels that you have from your Box environment,” said Deep Analysis founder Alan Pelz-Sharpe. “It takes the power of the content cloud and brings it into the collaborative environment of Slack, which is super powerful.”
“It comes as no surprise at all as Watson Health was described long ago by IBM as a moonshot, but it failed to take off,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of Deep Analysis. “That it has been sold to an investment firm means that this is likely not its final resting place, but will likely be tidied up, restructured and then resold at a later date.” The sale of the Watson unit could foreshadow IBM selling off more of its divisions and technology assets, Pelz-Sharpe said.
In other words, what worked in the late 1990s and early 2000s does not work so well today. Now, we live in an agile world; we live in a world where we all have had to accept and deal with unexpected upheaval and change. There is a dawning realization that business process activities need to be equally agile and adaptable; few have any appetite to be locked in again to a fixed way of working. Business attitudes and approaches to automation are also evolving, embracing a philosophy of adaptable, beneficial, and affordable over the now-dated philosophy of faster, cheaper, and better. Although the organizations I talk to in both the public and private sectors understand that, albeit often unconsciously, it’s a more difficult shift for technology vendors to embrace.
Businesses can get carried away with the idea that they need an advanced deep learning system that can do it all, according to Alan Pelz-Sharpe. However, if they want to tackle a targeted use case, like automating an invoicing process, they don’t need an advanced system. These systems are expensive and use a lot of data, which means they have a high carbon footprint. A specialized system will have been trained on a much smaller amount of data while still being capable of fulfilling a specific use case just as well as a more general system. “Because it is highly specialized, this AI has been trained on the most precise data possible” while keeping a small set of data, says Alan Pelz-Sharpe. A deep learning model , on the other hand, has to stir up massive amounts of data to achieve anything.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder of analyst firm Deep Analysis, said all four companies are “in theory” capable of doing what the DOD is asking: provide cloud infrastructure to make accessing information from remote locations easier for the military. Pelz-Sharpe said for the companies involved, this contract may be worth billions.
“Knowledge management has a long history by IT standards, but the methodologies defined by Nonaka and others in the late ‘90s still hold strong,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and principal analyst of Deep Analysis. “But at its heart, knowledge management is the art of bringing order to chaos, to bring structure and efficiency to the sharing of organizational knowledge. Everyone needs access to organizational knowledge. We know it’s there, but often can’t find it.”
Pelz-Sharpe said the nationwide push toward cloud and mobile work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has further prompted interest in ensuring that all Americans have internet access. Still, the underlying internet infrastructure has not had the investment necessary to support and drive such a transformation, he said. While roughly 90% of Americans have access to the internet, the speed, quality and cost of that service varies widely, he added. “Many rural areas are underserved; some remain essentially off the grid,” he said. “Equally, the high cost has meant many are unable to afford it.”
“Knowledge management has a long history by IT standards, but the methodologies defined by Nonaka and others in the late ‘90s still hold strong,” said Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and principal analyst of Deep Analysis. “But at its heart, knowledge management is the art of bringing order to chaos, to bring structure and efficiency to the sharing of organizational knowledge. Everyone needs access to organizational knowledge. We know it’s there, but often can’t find it.”