Playful insights about how to make technology work in business.

On a CTO Club list that I’m on, a question came up. “What are you using for BI?” About ten or fifteen people said, “I’m using Looker with Redshift” or “I’m using Looker with Snowflake.” Looker has become popular in the cloud data warehouse space. I’ve been following Looker for a long time now, and […]

December 11, 2018

In today’s Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Rob Bernshteyn of Coupa about all things AI and machine learning. Coupa is a company focused on helping companies learn how to better manage their spending and the Coupa platform utilizes AI and ML to make that happen. You can read a Q&A of the conversation […]

December 10, 2018

AI and machine learning adoption continue to be hot topics in the world of technology. Recently, Dan Woods had the chance to speak with IPSoft’s Chetan Dube about AI adoption and productization and IPSoft’s unique approach to these topics. IPSoft’s portfolio represents an interesting way to productize AI with different frameworks that all work together. […]

December 7, 2018

At both Early Adopter Research and in his Forbes column, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods has covered the need for enterprises to create cybersecurity portfolios extensively. As with a financial portfolio, a well managed cybersecurity portfolio diversifies risk across a number of assets that align to an individual or company’s goals. But whether in finance or […]

December 6, 2018

In today’s episode of Early Adopter Research, Dan Woods speaks with Chetan Dube, CEO of IPSoft. The conversation covers AI adoption and productization and IPSoft’s unique approach to these topics. 2:20 – What is the current landscape with productized and non-productized adoption of AI 4:45 – Why AI needs to become sentient 7:30 – The […]

December 4, 2018

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