Earlier this year, Salesforce announced Headless 360, its way of providing back-end access to the data on the platform without requiring a front-end. The company reiterated this position at Dreamforce last month. I wrote about it here and here. But Salesforce is not alone in recognizing that the
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Those of you who follow me on LinkedIn know I report regularly about my tempestuous relationship with AI under the title 'My adventures in AI.' I have dabbled, struggled, experimented, raged and eventually found a somewhat peaceful way to coexist with these tools as I incorporate them into
With over 30 years of IT experience, Qualcomm CIO Atilla Tinic has seen a few shifts in his time. But like many executives and analysts I’ve spoken with recently, he says AI is changing how he manages IT more significantly than anything that came before it. By now, we
Hi everyone. I spent the first part of this week at the SailPoint Navigate conference in Austin where I learned loads about identity and agentic AI, and I made a sponsored video with the EVP of products and CTO Chandra Gnanasambandam. If you're interested in having me moderate
Disclosure: I was paid by SailPoint for moderation and video work at its Navigate conference. The company had no input into this commentary, which follows my editorial guidelines. I was in Austin this week at SailPoint Navigate learning a lot about the role of identity in agentic AI, and Austin
Imagine you're a manager who has a tough conversation with an employee coming up. You're not great at confrontation and you have to tell this person that they're not getting the promotion they've been angling for. How do you practice such a
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But something is happening here And you don’t know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones ~ Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man This week, OpenAI and Meta released competing versions of a new kind of persistent agent for business. To work well, each needs sweeping access to your
There is an expectation out there, due in large part to the hype around AI, that companies are rolling it out widely and seeing meaningful results. Yet research suggests that most organizations still struggle to scale AI projects beyond pockets of success. At a panel at HumanX in Amsterdam last
When Glasswing Ventures' co-founder and managing partner Rudina Seseri appeared at a TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston in 2024, she already recognized that AI was changing the way firms like hers invest, and what they looked for in a company. The old SaaS playbook was breaking down.
Harness isn't just a company creating tools to help developers ship code faster and safer, it's also creating software itself, and AI coding is changing the way it thinks about product roadmaps as a concept. Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of the company, appeared recently on