Tom Pringle
Head of Technology Research
UK
+16 years experience
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 22 Jan 2019
The critical role that data management technology plays in enabling enterprises' business priorities is still less than well understood.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 20 Nov 2018
The ethics of AI is an emerging area of growing importance as we automate an ever-expanding amount of work.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 15 Oct 2018
The infusion of artificial intelligence (AI) into an ever-growing range of enterprise applications is the “bottom-up” approach to building the data-driven enterprise, tackling persistent skills gaps, but the importance of a “top-down” approach, including enterprise-wide data governance, must not be forgotten.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 09 Oct 2018
Growing mounds of unstructured data contain hugely valuable insights yet are largely ignored by BI and analytics programs within enterprises. It’s time for this to change.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 29 Aug 2018
As analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities are baked into an ever-growing range of enterprise applications and the need to squeeze value from data investments grows, enterprises will be forced to be data driven.
IT, Enterprise Services, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 05 Jun 2018
The enterprise reality of AI is both less terrifying and more enriching for enterprises who adopt it: a labor-saving, outcome-improving technology that enables productivity gains.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 30 Jan 2018
Getting checks signed for data management work has never been easy. Even in situations where requests were driven by compliance requirements, the response has often been resigned acceptance instead of enthusiastic approval. However, the rationale for making these investments is growing ever stronger.
IT, Enterprise Services, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 26 Oct 2017
Enterprises must bring prior investments in IT along for the digital transformation ride, and there is an obvious catalyst and vehicle to help achieve this journey: the cloud.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 20 Sep 2017
Artificial intelligence, as the flavor du jour, is overly hyped and often discussed in impenetrable technical terms. This has created confusion around a technology that promises to be the next revolution in productivity.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 12 Apr 2017
At its European analyst day in London, Salesforce focused on its recent product announcements surrounding Einstein, its foray into artificial intelligence (AI). Two things make Einstein particularly interesting: the platform approach, which creates the possibility of infusing AI into each of the vendor's cloud solutions; and what Salesforce believes are its differentiating features – its customers' large data volumes, and application integration.
IT, Internet of Things, Service Provider Technology, Enterpr...
By Tom Pringle 27 Sep 2016
Enterprise applications are here to stay; how they work, look, and the means by which they are delivered is constantly evolving. Over the past couple of weeks, announcements from two major vendors, Oracle and Salesforce.com, suggest that the latest battle lines have been drawn, in the form of artificial intelligence.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 16 Sep 2016
As an ever-greater volume of B2C marketing and interaction moves online, the business value of understanding its impact, positive and negative, is growing rapidly. There is no shortage of software and services that promise the ability to monitor and manage these online voices, yet well-established metrics like ROI and even the testability of analyses have, in many cases, been an afterthought.
IT, Internet of Things, Service Provider Technology, Enterpr...
By Tom Pringle 17 Aug 2016
Distributed analytics is a new way of thinking about how to extend capabilities out into the data landscape by providing appropriate data management and analytics "in the moment" while only transporting the data and insights back to the core that are necessary.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 23 Jun 2016
At a hotel close to the statue of Columbus in New York, Oracle's general manager of its Data Cloud, Omar Tawakol, explained how he has set his sights on helping data-as-a-service (DaaS) users find a new world of data quality. But it is not the traditional, technical data quality you might expect; this was about the next step – ensuring that business consumers can derive actionable insight and build confidence from the use of DaaS assets.
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Tom Pringle 14 Jun 2016
At SAS Institute's annual European gathering, this year in Spain, three messages stood out among the presentations from SAS's executives: SAS has a unified market message; SAS Viya is the future platform for the company and its customers; and SAS solutions will bring the "business check" closer to getting signed.
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