WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

WHY IT MATTERS: I like the way RSG bundles solutions in categories that make sense and often are unique in the research landscape (as opposed say to gartner and forrester). Yet their analysis, and this post, highlight that the world of Customer Data Platforms - CDPs - remains confusing at best. 

WHY IT MATTERS: interesting to see that software solutions that reach maturity - such as ERPs - have a tendency to specialize. This quadrant highlights leaders in a specific market (product centric enterprises). I wonder when we will start to see the same with eCommerce... Not that specialized solutions don't exist but that the industry remains so immature that companies are in their first or second versions of eCommerce and thus gravitate to generalist solutions like shopify, magento, etc.

WHY IT MATTERS: the opportunity of cloud computing remains whole as per this analysis from McKinsey. One chart of the benefits should convince the most reluctant CIOs that cloud is a good thing.