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IBM Spins off GTS. The future is 100% Hybrid and AI

Posted on October 9, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

On October 8th, 2020, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced that IBM was spinning off the Infrastructure Management group of Global Technology Services or GTS. This is no small spinoff; $19B in revenue, 90,000 employees, and nearly 5,000 clients and a … Continue reading →

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Xero acquires Waddle – AccountingTech meets FinTech meets SmallBizTech.

Posted on August 26, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

On August 25th, 2020, SMB Accounting SaaS heavyweight Xero announced the acquisition of Waddle for a reported A$80M (including long term incentives). Waddle is an Australian based invoice lending cloud platform. For most small businesses, access to capital is consistently … Continue reading →

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Will the CFO use the Corona Virus Black Swan Event to defund Customer Experience

Posted on March 9, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Analysts, consulting firms, SaaS providers and business innovators all agree on one thing: Customer Experience has to be the number one priority for enterprise strategy as we enter 2020 and beyond. Enterprise boards and leadership teams have firstly, learnt the … Continue reading →

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More evidence – Tough times for legacy tech vendors, and golden time for the Cloud

Posted on March 4, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Software Asset Management and Licensing app provider Flexera recently published a report on technology investments that makes fascinating, scary or reassuring reading depending upon your perspective. The Flexera™ State of Technology Spend Report was based on over 300 interviews with … Continue reading →

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Dreamforce 2019 – Still going its own way

Posted on December 15, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

A Barack Obama fireside chat, Alicia Keys and a piano out of nowhere to sign off on Marc Benioff’s keynote, members of Prince’s band on the concourse, Neil Finn’s latest backing band AKA Fleetwood Mac at an apparently un-named baseball … Continue reading →

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Salesforce – Acquires Tableau, accelerates analytics as it plays a Customer 360 game

Posted on June 12, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Salesforce announced on Monday, June 10th (US time) the acquisition of data visualisation leader Tableau for US$15.7B. Some jaws dropped at the purchased and the price and some at the purchaser. It was inevitable that Tableau would be acquired, Oracle, … Continue reading →

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DXC Acquires System Partners – Finally joins the Salesforce Ecosystem

Posted on September 27, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

At Dreamforce 2018 today, DXC announced the acquisition of Australian based Salesforce Platinum partner, System Partners. System Partners is one of the leading integrators in Australia, with a focus on Financial Services and the Public Sector. Firstly, congratulations to both … Continue reading →

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capioIT releases the 2018 Global Salesforce Solution Providers Capture Share Report – Accenture still leads the way, but competition is catching up.

Posted on August 27, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

The constant growth of Salesforce has proven to be on of the critical success stories for the SaaS market, if not the most outstanding success. In 2018 it passed US$10B in revenue and is on track to be the fastest … Continue reading →

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AlibabaCloud has the chance to own the ASEAN Cloud Market

Posted on August 24, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

The cloud in the Asia Pacific region has had considerable build up in the past two years. In the major markets, all of the hyper-scale providers are present or have announced intentions. As a result, Australia, India, Japan, Korea and … Continue reading →

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Strava and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on January 31, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

By now, most would be aware of the release of a “heat map” from sports performance app Strava that identified the up to 1 billion activity paths (Running, Cycling, etc) of every one of its users. At first view this … Continue reading →

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