#TBMC22’s keynote session starts with Rhonda Gass, #CIO of Stanley Black & Decker Gass points out that the technology business management journey is just beginning even after 10 years #tbmc22

In the #analytics world, @narrativesci just got purchased by @salesforce/@tableau. This is a huge deal for opening up Natural Language Generation to the data community and a fantastic outcome for a company I've followed closely over the past decade: narrativescience.com/resource/blog/… Narrative Science has over 70 current or pending patents associated with natural language in creating its user interface focused on letting people see analytic results as plain language stories in its Lexio product: narrativescience.com/lexio/

Rodgers 'a little misty' after...

No. Just no. Why are @ESPN & @RobDemovsky protecting an unapologetic public #COVID spreader? COVID is still killing over 1,000 people a day in the US and Aaron Rodgers' stance is "I got away with being pro-COVID"

espn.com/nfl/story/_/id… This is not a controversial or divisive topic. 80% of Americans have at least one #COVID vaccination shot.

The niche remainders are the ones keeping America from fully opening up again by being 8x more likely to catch, spread, and mutate the virus.

1 of 7) Congratulations to @DominoDataLab on raising a $100M F round led by PE firm #GreatHillPartners & joined by Boatue, Highland Capital, and Sequoia Capital: prnewswire.com/news-releases/… 2) It's amazing to see how quickly @DominoDataLab has grown over the past three years. We remember when they were *launching* a data science framework because DS was still so immature that team-based practices were still in infancy: amalgaminsights.com/2018/06/18/dom…

This is a long time coming, given both the long-standing partnership & Microsoft's interest in #AI & natural language.

The only real question is why $msft waited so long. This could have happened 18 months ago for 1/3 the price. Nuance has been around a long time

#NLP #NLG 1/6

https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/1381585926665605120

Although Nuance is best known for its Dragon software, the initial value here comes from the healthcare relationship that has blossomed since 2019 news.microsoft.com/2019/10/17/nua…

Apple fails to market the iPhone 12 Pro to the average consumer

My take: One of Apple's traditional strengths has been translating technical capabilities into household tasks. That seems to be receding with time. (Add'l analysis below)
cnbc.com/2020/10/14/app… by @jbursz 1/7 The odd part is that the technical capabilities of the iPhone 12 do translate to a more personal phone: take the outdoors home with you, augment your world, get a smarter phone. 5 nm chips are much smarter than any other iPhone ever. 2/7

Between @8x8 & @zoom_us, @OracleCloud is setting itself as the cloud for real-time networking challenges: daily, global multi-PB transport challenges

While other cloud vendors focus on data gravity, Oracle shines at cost-effective data velocity

prnewswire.com/news-releases/… I like this approach because, frankly, Oracle has to differentiate its Cloud offerings to stand out when Amazon, Microsoft, & Google obviously also have strong offerings. Moving past commodity storage & compute to also have a differentiated real-time cloud is smart.

Congratulations to @datarobot on acquiring @Paxata. This is an interesting acquisition for multiple reasons.

1) Data prep is a necessary aspect of machine learning and applied AI. Prep is currently the biggest part of the data scientist's job

techcrunch.com/2019/12/12/dat… 2) this acquisition shows @datarobot's perspective that data prep is more of a feature than a market. Just as every enterprise app platform needs BI, every standalone AI platform will require prep.

The Amazon Braket announcement is an interesting one for #quantumcomputing on multiple levels.

First, Amazon is not providing a hosted service, but is serving more as an aggregator of technology approaches while working on being an application developer layer. #reInvent

https://twitter.com/jpuppet/status/1201560543745597440

This approach of supporting @dwavesys @IonQ_Inc & @rigetti are three different approaches: quantum annealing, trapped ion, and full stack on a quantum coprocessor, respectively.

These are very different approaches to #quantumcomputing.

#reInvent

At the Barack Obama keynote seeing the future get the good seats. As it should be.

#dreamforce19 #df19 Just a side note that we're not supposed to take pictures for the actual Obama speech, so upcoming tweets will be text only

#DF19 #dreamforce19

There's definitely a remix theme to Workday's music to kick off the event as the Tuesday morning keynote starts #wdayrising CEO Aneel Bhusri takes the stage and starts with a cheeky wave to SAP and Oracle and a focus on change #wdayrising

Oracle SVP @JudithSimOracle kicks off Monday's keynote with her key tips on traversing #OOW2019 #oow19 Some highlights to note:

Safra Catz' Keynote tomorrow
An innovators' keynote with Vishal Sikka and Jerry Rice
And, of course, Paws and Relax at the Nutanix booth

#OOW19 #oow19ar

$AVGO makes a big bet on @CAinc to build integrated digital solutions that combine chip, connectivity, and software. At the very least, there should be more embedded APIs & services as well as joint solutions development coming out of this.

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1017138127666925569

@CAInc has traditionally been strong in #DevOps, #API Management, & #ITOps: the management layer focused on processor, network, & IT SLA performance. Now, Broadcom has a wide range of software tools to track the monitoring and usage of its hardware.