The partnership between Atlassian Corp., the enterprise software giant best known for products such as Jira and Confluence, and Formula 1 team Williams Racing is far more than a simple sponsorship with a logo on a helmet. One of the aspects I like most about Formula 1 is that the value of all technical sponsorships counts towards the race teams operating cap.
I’ve seen many digital transformation efforts, but one recent example was unique: At the recent Cisco Systems Inc. Partner Summit event, I sat down with Grady Nichols, senior director of information technology operations at Mercy Ships, and Rob Kim, chief technology officer at Presidio Inc., and discussed how the two organizations are partnering with each other and Cisco to transform the way healthcare is delivered in underserved areas.
As Veeam Software Group GmbH recently held its annual industry analyst event in San Antonio, it had a new direction to talk about following its announcement of its intent to acquire Securiti Inc. for a little over $1.7 billion. Veeam is best known as a data protection company, but that changed when with the intent to acquire Securiti.
The cloud and artificial intelligence have the power to change the world of sports, and few technology providers have done a better job of executing on this than Amazon Web Services Inc. The company has partnerships with the NFL, Bundesliga, PGA TOUR, F1 and many more. With each organization, AWS works closely with them to deliver several fan, league and team facing innovations.
There is a growing duality of opposing forces that needs to be dealt with if customers are to have success with artificial intelligence. My research shows that more than 90% of organizations believe the network to be more important to business operations than it was two years ago. At the same time, almost the same number believe it to be more complex. These opposing forces of complexity and importance needs to get solved if companies are to attain the return on investment they seek with AI.