On April 25th, enterprise application company Infor announced that it planned to acquire Birst, one of the leaders in the standalone Cloud BI world. Birst is expected to remain as a standalone solution and Infor will become Birst’s largest ISV …
AI Analyzes Infor’s Intent to Acquire Birst, A Cloud BI Trailblazer Read more »
tl;dr: in the world of 2017 where these practical BI issues still reign supreme, a practical Michael Saylor has shown up to preach on MicroStrategy’s capabilities. Both the stock market and MicroStrategy competitors should take notice. On April 19th, MicroStrategy …
Michael Saylor Focuses on the Platform at MicroStrategy World 2017 Read more »
Price is the ultimate test of value. Amalgam cannot emphasis this enough. No matter how valuable you think your product or service is, the ultimate business test of that value is whether someone is willing to buy it at the …
Why Cost-Based Pricing Doesn’t Work: Amalgam Insights’ primer on value-based pricing Read more »
When I attended Hub17 in San Francisco, representing Amalgam Insights (AI), I was looking forward to seeing how Anaplan’s go-to-market approach had changed, kept an eye out for key announcements, and looked for clues from the executive team on where …
Anaplan Hub17 Brings Connected Planning to the Enterprise Read more »
On April 4th, Oracle announced that Oracle Analytics Cloud was now generally available with a combination of capabilities designed to provide 4 key C’s for analytics: Collaborative, Connected, Complete, and Choice. In light of this announcement, Amalgam Insights (AI) sought …
Oracle Analytics Cloud: AI Investigates Pricing and Enterprise Ramifications Read more »
Recently, Amalgam Insights (AI) had the opportunity to attend Domopalooza in Salt Lake City. Without a doubt, it was one of the most star-studded and entertaining end user events AI has attended in recent memory. Between Kesha, Jason Derulo, Macklemore …
At Domopalooza 17, Amalgam Insights Looks Behind the Hype Read more »
Amalgam Insights (AI) recently attended IBM Interconnect under the Social Influencer program with the goal of understanding how IBM is planning to position itself in context of technology market changes, investor demands to increase revenue, and the challenges of embracing …
Cloud, Watson, & Blockchain: Amalgam Insights’ View of IBM Interconnect Read more »
Yesterday, at the Boston Cloud Services Meetup at the Cambridge IBM Innovation Center, Amalgam Insights (AI) attended a Cloudyn-based event on “Overcoming the Challenges of Multi-Cloud Financial Management.” This presentation was headed by Account Executive Marcus Benson and focused on …
AI Vendor Profile: Cloudyn, Cloud Cost Management Read more »
Accounting has often been called the language of business and it is invaluable in managing the day-to-day financial costs, inputs, outputs, and outcomes associated with business activity. However, as companies start to understand the impact that non-financial drivers ranging from …
Data is the Language of Business: Looker raises an $81M Series D Read more »
On Friday, March 31st, Cloudera filed its S-1 with intention to IPO. The timing looks good considering the recent successful IPOs of Alteryx, Mulesoft, and Snap. But how does Cloudera actually match up with other tech companies in terms of …
With Cloudera’s S-1, Hadoop and Big Data Finally Come of Age Read more »