The Early Adopter Research Podcast covers a wide array of topics from cybersecurity to big data governance. In a recent episode, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods focused on designing enterprise platforms with two professors from the ESSEC Business School, Thomas Huber and Thomas Kude. The conversation focused on the way that platform governance can influence and […]
In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with two ESSEC Business School professors, Thomas Kude and Thomas Huber, about platform governance. The conversation focused on the way that platform governance can influence and inform the design of product based platforms. Huber is an associate professor of information systems at ESSEC […]
Palisade’s Insight Into How To Survive An Oracle Audit At this point, Oracle’s reputation precedes it when it comes to aggressive auditing of its customers. As I’ve written about in several other pieces, a large part of Oracle’s current business model is to use the bargaining power that comes from finding compliance violations in the […]
Product Mission Numerify has broken new ground by creating a product that implements a “System of Intelligence” that delivers AI-powered analytics for IT performance management. In essence, Numerify has productized a sophisticated form of business intelligence for IT. While the mission of IT has been to promote the use of technology and data through applications […]
At Early Adopter Research, we believe that IT, the application of technology to solve business problems, is one of the most important areas of human endeavor, one that can create massive value and solve some of the world’s most vexing problems. This article is the first of several that Early Adopter Research, which we call […]
In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Palisade Compliance’s CEO Craig Guarente about Oracle’s increasing practice of auditing its customers for their use of Java. Recently, Oracle has focused its innovation as much or more on licensing and audit practices as it has on technology. It seems a lot […]
In this edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Palisade’s CEO Craig Guarente about Java audits. It is the first podcast in the “Escape Hatch from Oracle” series. Oracle has focused its innovation as much or more on licensing and audit practices as it has on technology. Oracle has created a lot […]
What is a startup? For a term that is used as frequently as it is, when you take a step back to consider it, and speak with those in the tech industry, you find the definition varies from person to person more than you might expect. Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods has written about this […]
In this edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Zoom’s CEO and founder Eric Yuan. In his research, Woods has focused on four characteristics that can define a startup: 1. Are you searching for a business model? 2. Are you accepting venture capital financing? 3. Are you focused on rapid growth? 4. […]
The database market has experienced a remarkable level of innovation over the past few decades. In a recent interview for the Early Adopter Research podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, about the history of the modern database market. The conversation covered the beginnings of databases, how they’ve evolved, […]
