Dave Sobel

Microsoft & Google’s Play: Solution Provider Insights on the new platforms

I was asked by a Patreon about my thinking on Google’s recent re-branding of G Suite to “Google Workspace”. The Patreon was focused on the positioning – was google betting on a younger workforce preferring google products over Microsoft 365? Was a…

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Fri Nov 6 2020: Ingram’s financial insights, data trust, and Apple search

Three things to know today   Ingram Micro ONE with financial insights We don’t trust the data AND Apple is more aggressively indexing the web  

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Thu Nov 5 2020: No to Robots, Yes to Automation, and online events are working

Four things to know today Customers to be more demanding on less money   Walmart says no to robots Expedia loses a ton of money and that’s ok with them AND Online events.. maybe not as bad as you think

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Wed Nov 4 2020: What do CEO’s want? Customer experience; and two election results to focus on

Three things to know today What do CEOs want?   Customer Experience from the other side of the globe AND Two results in from the elections we care about

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Tue Nov 3 2020: Things we know even before election results, and cloud infrastructure trends

Two things to know today   Things we know even before election results   AND Cloud infrastructure trends

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Episode 84 – AI Bias, Digital Collaboration, and the Failure of Contract Tracing

Topic 1: AI Correcting Bias . . . Previously, we talked about how biases of the humans who build artificial intelligence are working their way into the AI. Now we find that AI is being used to remove biases from scientific research. And there’s even…

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Mon Nov 2 2020: Big Ransomware’s finanials, plus right to repair and IoT

Four things to know today  IoT data from Gartner Not just big tech doing financial reporting AND Smartphone growth PLUS iPhone 12 and right to repair  

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What a K Shaped Recovery Means for Tech Services Companies

Let’s talk about the recovery. Here’s the question I was asked. “What does a K shaped recovery looks like? Our industry, and a few others, while not unaffected, have many of us prospering while our neighbors may be unemployed (though I still…

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Fri Oct 30 2020: Politics, Distribution users outperform, and the No-Code Generation

Three things to know today  Politics or not in tech businesses Those who leveraged distribution outperform AND The No-Code generation is coming  

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Thu Oct 29 2020: Data Privacy predictions, hospitals under siege, and Teams + Platform

Three things to know today Forrester’s 2021 global data privacy predictions   Hospitals under siege AND Teams growth, and the platform play

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