In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
- Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence
- ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era
- Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud
- Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use
- IBM, Intel, Cisco Team Up for New Data Governance Standards
- Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agents?
- Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?
- Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?
- Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHouses
- Rex Woodbury Starts Daybreak Ventures
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For this video presentation of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech issues for the CIO office:
- Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence
- ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era
- Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud
- Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use
- IBM, Intel, Cisco Team Up for New Data Governance Standards
- Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agents?
- Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?
- Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?
- Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHouses
- Rex Woodbury Starts Daybreak Ventures
Lip-Bu Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence
Lip-Bu Tan takes over as the new CEO of Intel with turnaround expectations reminding us of when John Chen took over BlackBerry. But there are no illusions that Tan will have to cut costs and headcount to save the company.
Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-found-someone-brave-enough-000825480.html
The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/13/lip-bu-tan-intels-new-and-maybe-last-ceo/amp
ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era
ServiceNow releases its Yokohama platform edition. Despite some product launches such as its Development Studio and Service Observability, ServiceNow seemed uncertain on how to thematically describe its progress as an agentic company.
ServiceNow: https://www.servicenow.com/company/media/press-room/platform-yokohama-release.html
Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud
There is no bigger proof that hybrid data infrastructure is cool than when a shark comes into the tank: Robert Herjavec leans into his enterprise IT roots in joining Zetaris & speaking with the Wall Street Journal’s Isabelle Bousquette.
Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use
Snowflake Ventures puts its money into making data easier to use with investments in Anomalo and Omni. Anomalo’s Data Quality enterprise-grade capabilities are obvious at a time when “AI is all about the data” seems to be a favorite cliche for CIOs. And Omni is proving that a better mousetrap is still worth building for analytic products with a $69 million funding round.
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/omni-is-designing-tools-to-help-companies-make-data-driven-decisions
Anomalo: https://www.anomalo.com/blog/announcing-snowflake-ventures-strategic-investment-in-anomalo/
IBM, Intel, Cisco Team Up for New Data Governance Standards
This effort on data provenance by both the Data and Trust Alliance and OASIS Open is led by a Who’s Who of large enterprise tech: Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft. But it’s also interesting that SAP, Oracle, and Google are nowhere to be found here. Charles and Hyoun debate whether this is enough to set a real standard.
Oasis Open: https://www.oasis-open.org/2025/03/06/oasis-to-advance-data-provenance-standards/
Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agents?
Cisco stays busy with an open framework initiative, AGNTCY, for AI agents coming from Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo. This standard builds on Outshift by Cisco’s work in discussing an Internet of Agents. This effort seeks to enhance interoperability among AI agents, allowing them to work together more effectively. Hyoun and Charles discuss the value of this framework at a time when agentic silos are rapidly popping up.
Can AI Project Failure Be a Good Sign?
S&P Global Market Intelligence states 42% of companies are eliminating their AI initiatives. Hyoun thinks this is a good thing, because it means that the chaff is being tossed as 40% of IT projects usually fail anyways based on the Project Management Institute’s research. Charles is actually worried that this might mean companies are playing it too safe.
CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/AI-project-fail-data-SPGlobal/742590/
Is 80% Good Enough for AI in Production?
Companies developing generative AI applications are realizing that perfection isn’t necessary and 80% accuracy is often adequate. However, Hyoun and Charles discuss how people need to work with AI for this 80% accuracy to become acceptable.
Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/r/e5851e7a?m=aa74cd61-a873-4485-9028-fedb54b96b1e
Creatio Leads the Way for CRM LakeHouses
Creatio has launched an “AI native” CRM platform that takes advantage of generative AI by allowing users to type in requests instead of navigating complex menus. The Holy Grail of having sales people avoid awkwardly structured data entry and simply asking for answers has long been a CRM goal. Charles and Hyoun look forward to this next generation of CRM and how stalwarts such as Salesforce and HubSpot respond. This approach reminds us of how VC firm Slow Ventures adopted NotebookLM as a CRM and how the combination of data lake and generative AI as an insight engine is still relatively new.
VentureBeat coverage of Creatio: https://venturebeat.com/ai/crm-provider-creatio-launches-first-ai-native-platform-with-agentic-digital-talent-built-in/
VentureBeat Coverage of Notebook LM: https://venturebeat.com/ai/is-googles-notebooklm-a-secret-crm-killer/
Rex Woodbury Starts Daybreak Ventures
One of our favorites, Rex Woodbury, starts his own VC fund as he focuses on being known as an investor who writes, not a writer who invests. Charles and Hyoun note the synergies between attracting innovative companies and having the funds and audience to enhance startups.
Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rex-woodbury-daybreak-ventures-unveils-114039062.html