In this episode of TBR Talks, Senior Analyst Catie Merrill shares her takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld 2024. Catie discusses the recent announcement of Oracle’s partnership with Amazon Web Services and how these announcements are reinforcing the vendor’s strategic goals. She also looks at what this strategy means for the future of Oracle and its ecosystem partners.
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In this episode of TBR Talks, TBR’s Bozhidar Hristov, Principal Analyst, and Kelly Lesiczka, Senior Analyst, discuss with Patrick the trio’s recent attendance at PwC’s Boston Analyst Summit. Risk and governance — long a strong suite of PwC’s — were extensively covered during the two-day event, and the TBR team shares their thoughts on what that means for the firm, their strategy and their partners. Additionally, Patrick, Boz and Kelly highlight key takeaways and overall thoughts from the event.
TBR Talks is produced by Technology Business Research, Inc.
Edited by Haley Demers
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Art by Amanda Hamilton Sy
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In this episode of TBR Talks, TBR’s Principal Analyst Angela Lambert and Senior Analyst Ben Carbonneau recap Lenovo Tech World 2024. The pair share their perspective on strategy announcements made during the event and discuss the launch of Lenovo’s auto initiative and AI PC. Additionally, Patrick inquiries about Lenovo’s partnerships, within the context of recent ecosystem announcements, including those with NVIDIA, Microsoft and more.
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Edited by Haley Demers
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Art by Amanda Hamilton Sy
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In this episode of TBR Talks, TBR Principal Analysts Bozhidar Hristov and Patrick Heffernan recap Fujitsu’s Executive Analyst Day, where the pair engaged with Fujitsu leaders such as the company’s chief strategy officer, CEO of Fujitsu Americas and SVP and head of Technology. Boz and Patrick examine Fujitsu’s North America strategy in comparison to its APJ strategy and give their candid analysis of earlier announcements and events.
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Learn more about Fujitsu’s organizational evolution, how it is adapting its business model to address emerging client demands, and details of its go-to-market strategy around Uvance in this recent TBR special report: https://bit.ly/3UzwEL7
With nearly 30 years of experience delivering competitive and market intelligence to the globe’s top 400 technology companies, TBR is now merging data and analysis across multiple areas of MI to produce ecosystem intelligence research. Our experts are looking at how much top GSIs are partnering with cloud and software vendors to drive enterprise solutions, the headcount and credentialing details of the alliance practices within those GSIs, and more.
In this episode of TBR Talks, TBR Principal Analyst Allan Krans joins Patrick to expand on their recent TBR Insights Live session, which explored this exploding use case for TBR’s digital platform, Insight Center™. Additionally, Allan and Patrick detail how the world’s top tech firms and their Tier 2 partners are using validated data to guide training budgets, marketing spend, resourcing strategies and management of quarter-by-quarter performance in ways never before possible.
With an ever-increasing array of ecosystems and IT firms benchmarked against one another, alliance teams are becoming more efficient and more effective at planning and executing within their strategic partners.
TBR Talks is produced by Technology Business Research, Inc.
Edited by Haley Demers
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Art by Amanda Hamilton Sy
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In this episode of TBR Talks, TBR Analyst Alex Demeule shares key insights from TBR’s Adobe & Salesforce Ecosystem Report, including the evolving role of leading front-office solutions providers Adobe and Salesforce in the era of AI-first use cases. Alex also details the emerging coopetition between the two firms and how they are taking advantage of each firm’s strengths and portfolios.
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The Adobe & Salesforce Ecosystem Report looks at multipartner networks, ecosystem best practices, GenAI use cases in sales & marketing and ecosystem strategy. Services vendor ecosystem strategy analysis in the report features Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, IBM, Infosys, Ogilvy, Publicis Sapient, PwC and Tata Consultancy Services. Access the latest data with a free trial of TBR Insight CenterTM: https://bit.ly/3Ub3vFP
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How well are Amazon Web Services, SAP and Dell partnering in their strategic alliances? In this episode of TBR Talks, TBR Principal Analyst Boz Hristov shares top insights on the relationships between global systems integrators, cloud service providers and enterprise software providers, and infrastructure OEMs, including key takeaways on partnerships’ strengths and weaknesses. Boz also discusses TBR’s latest Voice of the Partner Ecosystem Report, research that was designed to inform, guide and support leadership among the top enterprise solution providers and systems integrators as well as Tier 2 vendors aspiring to join these ecosystem alliances.
TBR Talks is produced by Technology Business Research, Inc.
Edited by Haley Demers
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Curious what it’s like to work in market & competitive intelligence and how to get started? In this episode of TBR Talks, Patrick introduces listeners to TBR’s three newest research analysts. From recent graduates to new career starts, Snehal Khaire, Jill Cookinham and Max Bombardieri talk about the classes, internships and prior work experience that have set them up to dive deep into the hundreds of top global technology, professional services and telecom companies covered by TBR.
TBR Talks is produced by Technology Business Research, Inc.
Edited by Haley Demers
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From the CUDA platform to its global reach through partners, NVIDIA has a commanding and growing lead in the vital GPU market.
In this episode of “TBR Talks,” TBR IT Infrastructure Senior Analyst Ben Carbonneau sits with host Patrick Heffernan to discuss the core elements of NVIDIA’s strategy that have led to such dramatic growth. Ben and Patrick detail the types of partnerships and the quality of NVIDIA’s ecosystem, from their supply chain to how they work with systems integrators, OEMs, cloud service providers and colocation providers. Additionally, Ben and Patrick discuss how NVIDIA has been able to manage the geopolitics of export restrictions to support its global partners.
TBR Talks is produced by Technology Business Research, Inc.
Edited by Haley Demers
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Art by Amanda Hamilton Sy
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In this episode of “TBR Talks,” Kevin Bolen, KPMG Principal and Head of Strategy and Investments, dives
into how KPMG Advisory is addressing the growing complexity of GenAI ecosystems to dynamically partner with hyperscalers, infrastructure OEMs, independent
software vendors and ultimately enterprise stakeholders, with the goal to deliver digital transformations at scale. Host Patrick Heffernan and TBR Principal Analyst Boz Hristov join the conversation to give their takes on the increasing speed and complexity of change in the vendor ecosystem KPMG and other advisory-lead firms are managing as they solve enterprise challenges.
TBR Talks is produced by Technology Business Research, Inc.
Edited by Haley Demers
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Art by Amanda Hamilton Sy
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