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Oracle’s Continuous Innovation release model is a reinvention of Oracle’s support services intended to encourage companies to pay a maintenance stream for updates to existing installed on-premise software, along with the associated costs of hosting, administering, and applying those updates. But, if customers reject this model and decide to move to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model […]

April 14, 2020

On the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platform Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Steven Mih, the CEO of Alluxio, a data orchestration platform that came out of the AMPLab at Berkeley. It is Mih’s second appearance on the podcast; the first episode covered the core value proposition of […]

March 31, 2020

As pointed out in the previous articles in this series, with its continuous innovation model, Oracle is asking customers to commit to a road map of updates through 2030, rather than ever having to upgrade again. These updates will arrive, at a minimum, on an annual basis, with updates for some applications coming even more […]

March 31, 2020

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Stan Lowe, chief information security officer at a global level for Zscaler, while both were at RSA 2020. This continues a series of interviews Woods conducted that focus on four key questions about cybersecurity. These questions […]

March 23, 2020

As noted in the previous article in this series, Oracle’s continuous innovation support model has received scant coverage. In fact, many companies that now use this model may not even realize that it is one of the biggest changes to enterprise support since the advent of SaaS and third-party support. In our previous article we […]

March 17, 2020

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods continues his series of interviews from RSA 2020 by sitting down with Jeff Hussey and Bryan Skene from Tempered. Their conversation focused on Woods’ key cybersecurity questions for 2020, which include: Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to […]

March 16, 2020

Note: This is a long-form article by Dan Woods for Early Adopter Research, sponsored by Qlik. Introduction It is an amazing time to be involved in the world of data management and analytics. The world seems to be rapidly moving toward a new synthesis of existing capabilities. This synthesis combines past victories in the realms […]

March 11, 2020

On this new episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Eyal Hayardeny from Reblaze. Their conversation occurred at RSA 2020 and focused on cybersecurity platforms. They discussed Woods’ four questions for the conference, which include: Have platforms and cybersecurity been slower to develop than in […]

March 9, 2020

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast with Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research (EAR), Woods speaks with Brendan Hannigan, the CEO and cofounder of Sonrai Security. Sonrai Security is a company that helps govern and secure public cloud platforms. The conversation is part of a series of interviews that occurred at RSA […]

March 6, 2020

On this episode of Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Chris Braden from eSentire. Braden is the head of channels and alliances at the company. He spoke about Woods’ research questions at RSA 2020, which included: What’s blocking comprehensive platforms for cybersecurity? Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to […]

March 4, 2020