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The Death Of Microservices?

David Mooter May 22, 2023
A blog from Amazon has been buzzing in the IT industry: A monolithic architecture produced superior performance compared to a serverless microservices approach. It reduced infrastructure cost by over 90% and increased scaling capabilities. So are microservices dead? Is it time to go back to the monolith? To answer like an architect: It depends.
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Why Is Skills Management So Hard?

Betsy Summers May 19, 2023
Skills management might seem simple at first, but beneath the surface lies a ton of complexity.
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Paid Loyalty Programs Pique Premium Interest

Mary Pilecki May 19, 2023
Premium loyalty programs charge a fee for access to membership or a program tier. These can be one-time fees (REI — $30 once for a lifetime) or monthly/annual fees (Amazon Prime, Walmart +). In recent weeks, we’ve seen several new premium loyalty programs or tiers announced: Sweetgreen announced a two-tiered program in April with a […]
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What Makes A Future Fit Platform Strategy?

Manuel Geitz May 19, 2023
We identified the platform best practices found in the other submissions to the inaugural TSI Awards. We added the submitting companies’ real-world examples to help you understand the full future fit platform strategy and see how it could support your organization.
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Five Questions To Ask Before Committing To One-To-One Account-Based Marketing

Nicky Briggs May 19, 2023
With the convergence of demand and account-based marketing (ABM) accelerating and the two disciplines becoming increasingly indistinguishable, many ABM practitioners are wondering whether there will still be a home for “classic” one-to-one ABM. Despite years of success with one-to-one ABM as a practitioner and guiding clients to similar results, I will confess to frequently advising […]
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Search, The Next Big Category In Commerce Tech, Is Crucial To CX And Success

Emily Pfeiffer May 18, 2023
Our newly-published Vendor Landscape for Commerce Search and Product Discovery lists the 28 most notable vendors in the space and details the 10 most important use cases they’re focusing on for clients today.  
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response, Q2 2023

Jeff Pollard May 18, 2023
The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response (MDR), Q2 2023 is live! The MDR market continues to redefine what it means to offer a successful security service with high client satisfaction and retention rates and, as a result, extraordinary growth rates. For now, no single vendor dominates the MDR market, but providers bringing endpoint detection […]
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Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See

Rowan Curran May 18, 2023
AI was center stage at Google I/O 2023 and much of it was generative AI (GenAI). Get a detailed analysis of the event including why enterprises need to focus on the launch of PaLM 2 and Vertex AI.
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Google I/O 2023: If You Remove AI, What’s Left?

Andrew Cornwall May 18, 2023
Google I/O, Google’s annual product showcase, displayed a very strong AI focus this year. We saw little new hardware, and even with Google’s “add AI to all the things” strategy, most improvements were incremental, not groundbreaking. If you haven’t already, read Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See to get up to speed […]
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023: Bright Spots And Opportunities In A Year Of Accessibility Research

Gina Bhawalkar May 18, 2023
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day focused on digital accessibility and inclusion. Why do we need a day dedicated to this? 
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The Age Of Agents? How GenAI And Digital Agents Could Rewrite The Rules Of Digital Strategy

Manuel Geitz May 17, 2023
Today’s winning digital strategies could be rendered meaningless by digital agents such as AgentGPT. Read this blog to learn why.
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Make The Case For FinOps

Tracy Woo May 17, 2023
While the prevailing macroeconomic conditions reinforce the need to control cloud spend, CFOs still require a solid business case for any net-new spend. Building a business case for FinOps is relatively straightforward with a fairly quick ROI. First, most companies just purchase a relatively inexpensive cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) solution that adds efficiency, […]
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Growth Is Essential Yet Elusive — How Will Your Company Grow Revenue?

Dipanjan Chatterjee May 17, 2023
Growth, while essential, will remain elusive in 2023. How can you craft a strategy to grow revenue and create value for this year and beyond?
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Nike Faces Lawsuit Over Greenwashing Claims. It Won’t Be The Last.

Thomas Husson May 17, 2023
The majority of US marketers fear greenwashing blowback when communicating about their sustainability initiatives. Nike serves as the latest example why.
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Lessons Learned From Bud Light’s Marketing Blunder

Audrey Chee-Read May 17, 2023
In early April, Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light brand saw itself caught in a culture war fiasco. For its NCAA March Madness activation, the beer brand partnered with popular TikTok trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney for a one-time giveaway. This led to an uproar on social media — initially from conservative voices including musicians Kid Rock and Travis […]
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Autonomous Vehicles: A Citizen’s Perspective

Julie Ask May 16, 2023
The uptick in autonomous vehicles started during the pandemic; I list pros for driverless vehicles based on my observations.
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The Upfronts Spotlight The TV Advertising Industry’s Lag

Nikhil Lai May 16, 2023
April showers bring May flowers and the TV upfronts. The ritual began in 1962, when ABC first scheduled all of its primetime programming to premiere during a single week in September. Since then, the medium of TV has evolved rapidly, but the upfronts have not. Consumption continues to grow across smartphones and smart TVs, satisfying […]
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Adding A Product-Led Growth Strategy To A Traditional B2B Organization

Lisa Singer May 16, 2023
As the benefits of a product-led growth strategy become clear, many B2B organizations that have long leveraged traditional sales motions are seeking to integrate this strategy. While the traditional B2B approach relies on the sales team to move customers through their buying journey, product-led growth focuses on the product as the primary driver. Benefits Of […]
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Design Responsibly To Earn Trust

Gina Bhawalkar May 16, 2023
What does it mean to practice human-centered design? The answer to that question is evolving. If you’ve read my research, you know it’s critical for businesses to embed accessibility and inclusive design practices into how they design and develop experiences. Doing so helps increase revenue, reduce costs, increase resilience, and build trust with customers and […]
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The Economic Apocalypse Won’t Stop The Demand For Security Skills

Madelein van der Hout May 16, 2023
European CISOs are facing headwinds in geopolitics and workforce retention. Making wise decisions is crucial in such turbulent times, which puts additional pressures on security pros. In our analysis of Forrester’s Security Survey results, we found that:  While tech layoffs dominate the headlines, cybersecurity hiring remains strong. In 2022, Twitter, Meta, and Amazon were at […]