The basic idea of a product or a platform in enterprise software is to create a system that can meet many needs. The best products offer some sort of simplification or ease of use so it is possible to get a powerful result without having to master lots of complexity. The best platforms allow many […]
Given the state of the cybersecurity landscape here’s an interesting thesis: Managed Services firms will lead the creation of broader, integrated cybersecurity platforms. This idea came out of the podcast interviews I’ve done at RSA 2020 in San Francisco. After talking to Esentire, Reblaze, Tempered, and Sonrai Security, I have made a ton of progress […]
What’s Blocking Comprehensive Platforms for Cybersecurity? Here’s my research topic for RSA 2020 in San Francisco. Enterprise software goes through a predictable cycle in which point solutions are gathered into suites and then many suites are unified in platforms. For many domains, this offers customers the benefits of a broad set of integrated capabilities that […]
Every Oracle customer should pay close attention to the way that our friends in Redwood Shores have reorganized their support model to address a variety of forces that will reshape the enterprise software landscape in the next decade. There is a model that has been around for a few years, but has received little (if […]
On this episode of Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, Dan Woods, principal and founder of EAR, spoke with Rick Tracy, the chief security officer of Telos. Their conversation centered on the EAR research mission called “Creating a Balanced Cybersecurity Portfolio.” Tracy has significant hands-on experience as a chief information security officer executive, […]
On this edition of the earlyadopter.com podcast, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods dove into the topic of what cloud data warehouse best fits your needs. Joining him for the conversation were Raghu Chakravarthi, Actian’s chief product officer, and Bill Westfall, Actian’s VP of customer success and professional services. Early Adopter recently completed two papers with Actian, […]
On the latest edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Raj Dutt, CEO of Grafana, about observability. It’s a concept that Woods has been studying since learning of what Etsy did to make the development process faster. Etsy created huge amounts of observability so they […]
In recent years, software vendors increasingly have shifted the model for purchasing software from a perpetual license followed by a stream of maintenance to a subscription model in which software is sold as a subscription renewable on an intermittent basis. There are advantages for both vendors and customers with each model. With a subscription model, […]
As we’ve documented through the Escape Hatch from Oracle research mission, using and working with Oracle has both advantages and drawbacks. Oracle offers an array of high-quality products that are vital to many enterprises across industries. Companies have come to depend on using Oracle software to run mission-critical operations. But the way Oracle antagonizes its […]
In the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Laird Popkin, who most recently served as CTO of the Hearst Transportation Group, which is a group of B2B companies that provide data and data services related to cars, trucks, and airplanes. Popkin previously worked […]
