WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The 2022 edition of the Marketplace 100 ranks the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and analyzes the trends behind the next generation of marketplace giants.

The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to artificial intelligence. Its mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI. The report aims to be the world’s most credible and authoritative source for data and insights about AI.

Hello, 2022! Following my wrap-up of martech from 2021 — tl;dr a year in digital marketing that was experienced like a Twitch stream at 1.5X speed — let's jump in to the martech topics I expect will shape 2022.

To succeed with data and analytics initiatives, enterprises need a comprehensive view of critical technology capabilities. We believe these Hype Cycles draw a holistic view of technologies — including the new addition of lakehouse architecture as a trigger, which can make data and analytics programs modern, broadly applied, richer in functionality and successful.

Get the report and gain insight into:
-Changes in this Hype Cycle — including the addition of Lakehouse
-The current state of data management maturity
-The Priority Matrix

Successful companies are meeting this challenge by taking a “customer-back” perspective. Based on a clear understanding of the skills, behaviors, and mindsets the organization requires, these companies identify capability gaps and improvement opportunities across their workforce. Then, instead of offering “one size fits all” training, they design their capability programs based on detailed analysis of the needs of individual learners—while instilling a culture that fosters learning throughout the organization. That involves the application of a few powerful principles.

“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.

While CDP vendors may claim to do everything, the fact is they can’t.

Emerging Technology Roadmap benchmark adoption plan, risk factors, and value drivers. Use this roadmap to help you make technology investment decisions for the coming 12- to 24-month time period.

This year's State of the API report covers the largest and most comprehensive survey on APIs, ever. More than 28,000 developers and API professionals shared their thoughts on a range of topics, including their organizations' development priorities, how they get their work done, and where they see the industry going. We combined this data with data we've observed on the Postman API Platform to build a robust picture of the current state—and the future—of APIs.

The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to technology frontiers.

The 23rd edition of World Energy Markets Observatory (WEMO) research report reveals a world struggling to balance the critical need to accelerate energy transition while maintaining energy affordability.

Explore how advances in enabling technologies, new investments, and industry transformation have the potential to help mitigate the effects of climate change – and the steps that must be taken to turn possibility into impact.

The CPaaS segment has progressed beyond the provision of a few voice and messaging APIs. Developers and enterprises demand a high level of reliability for phone numbers and messaging delivery, as well as vertical use case templates and tools for rapid onboarding and deployment.

Key attributes enterprises should consider when seeking a CPaaS provider:

• Carrier-grade network infrastructure
• Demonstrable use cases
• Software integrations
• Ancillary services

Investments in digital commerce continue to grow as companies adapt to new business models and sales processes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research evaluates the viability of 17 digital commerce platform vendors to help application leaders make informed decisions.

The ERP for product-centric enterprises market is accelerating its transition to cloud deployment models. ERP application leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to evaluate cloud ERP application suites as part of a composable ERP strategy.

Dans ce profil, vous trouverez :

1. Une revue historique de la position du Québec en matière d’intelligence artificielle;
2. Une définition de la main-d’œuvre du secteur;
3. Un portrait global de l’emploi ;
4. Une taxonomie des métiers de l’intelligence numérique – que nous définissons comme étant la main-d’œuvre spécialisée en intelligence artificielle ainsi que les métiers périphériques essentiels reliés ;
5. Des fiches métiers traitant de l’estimation du bassin de talents et incluant de multiples informations spécifiques salaires, tâches principales, référentiel de compétences techniques et transversales);
6. Une répartition industrielle des métiers de l’intelligence numérique
7. Un portrait de la demande de compétences et de la formation, incluant les forces et défis concernant ce profil  de talents qui change à une vitesse déstabilisante.
8. L’ensemble de nos données sur l’utilisation des outils numériques, sous la forme de matrices Emploi/Outils numériques et technologies, en annexe du document.

Discover the trends and tech, from “waterless” beauty products to virtual try-on, that will continue to transform the beauty sector in 2021 and beyond.

Dynamic pricing isn’t just for travel companies or e-commerce giants, and it doesn’t necessarily require ultrasophisticated software that changes every product’s price multiple times a day.

Companies should explore seven specific drivers to assess where the value lies in cloud. As companies assess the opportunities enabled by cloud, a detailed review of the sources of value can pinpoint where they need to focus their attention, people, and resources. Across the three dimensions, seven drivers of value can collectively generate more than $1 trillion in value.

A comprehensive survey designed to surface consumer comfort levels with new and emerging technologies.

A ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. From food delivery to outdoor travel, the Marketplace 100 reflects the imprint of a year like no other. The Marketplace 100 is based on data from Bloomberg Second Measure, a consumer data analytics company that analyzes billions of purchases to track real-time consumer behavior and relative sales across over 5,200 merchants. The startups and private companies on the Marketplace 100 are then ranked using a common industry metric, Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), which is extrapolated from the total dollars consumers are spending against each company.

As remote work increases access management tool adoption, and security controls shift to identity, the ability to secure access with AM strategies aligned with continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment is paramount. Cost optimization for IT spending (e.g., AM) will also increase during 2021.

The mind-bending bigness of Neuralink’s mission, combined with the labyrinth of impossible complexity that is the human brain, made this the hardest set of concepts yet to fully wrap my head around—but it also made it the most exhilarating when, with enough time spent zoomed on both ends, it all finally clicked. I feel like I took a time machine to the future, and I’m here to tell you that it’s even weirder than we expect.

Complimentary copy of the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center (CEC) and find out why Freshworks is the only company recognized as a Visionary.

Integration, Speed To Insights, And Real-Time Decisioning Matter Most For Orchestration

Vendors that take a technology-agnostic approach to integration can deliver insights at speed across all permutations of journeys. They also have a proven track record in real-time decisioning across a wide variety of systems and can help companies drive business results and CX differentiation.

Which technology trends are most likely to impact your business in the coming years? Trends are waypoints to help anticipate future states in a world where uncertainty looms. The Future Today Institute's annual Tech Trends Report asks you to examine your assumptions, cherished beliefs and expectations for the future using a bolder, more holistic perspective. In the 13th edition of our Tech Trends Report, we forecast the key technology trends that will redefine businesses in the coming years. More importantly, we offer strategic analysis and guidance on those trends and further explore them in future scenarios to help you understand their implications on your organization and industry.