Amalgam Insights

As we start our farewell tour of the analyst world, Amalgam Insights had the opportunity to attend Tableau Conference, which has consistently been one of the key events for data and analytics throughout my analyst career. The most influential Tableau Conference from a personal level was when I attended in 2013 and then-CEO Christian Chabot gave an inspiring speech on the role of discovery.

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office: Databricks + Anthropic Agentify Claude for the Enterprise Workato Buys DeepConverse to Strengthen Agentic Support N8n Raises $60M to Open Up AI Automation Symphony AI + Microsoft Partner to Automate Industrial Environments Red Hat AI Boosts Model Testing, Governance Capabilities US House Orders a SAMOSA to Take On Software Costs Virginia...

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office: Salesforce Announces Agentforce 2dx Is Salesforce Going Into ITSM?

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office: Lip Bu-Tan Takes Over Intel with a New Cadence ServiceNow Releases Yokohama for the Agentic Era Robert Herjavec Smells Blood in the Hybrid Cloud Snowflake Ventures Buys Into Making Data Easier to Use IBM, Intel, Cisco Team Up for New Data Governance Standards Can Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo Bring AGNTCY to Agents?

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office: NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches NVIDIA, Google, Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI NVIDIA Open Sourcing cuOPT Adobe Summit (How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo) Stop It; Operational Efficiency Is Not Innovation Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even...

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office: Salesforce Hypes AI Success But Agentic Demand Still Lags IDC Launches AI-Based TechMatch for Software Selection IBM Plans to Acquire DataStax, Finishes Acquiring HashiCorp Take This Open Source Tech and Fork It RIP Skype: August 29, 2003 – May 5, 2025 Overcommit and Don’t Invest: Microsoft Cuts Data Center Leases Wasabi Reports Data Center...

Though the promise of both generative and agentic AI have captured the imaginations of the vast majority of executive teams, businesses that have taken on substantial AI projects or proofs of concept have quickly found that AI is only as good as the data used to train models and agents as well as the data used to augment generative workloads and tools.

This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office: Microsoft Quantum Takes a Majorana Step Forward Alibaba and Apple Both Commit $50B to AI Avaya Cuts Off Customers with <200 Seats Gitlab Being Sued For Providing Believable AI Hype TMobile Wins NYC 911 Contract with Network Slicing Ready for a Personalized AI Agent?

Congratulations to us on 50 Episodes of This Week in Enterprise Tech! And appropriately, this week was a busy one with everything from Snowflake vs. Databricks to Workday and Cisco throwing in their versions of agent management to some surprising research coming from Microsoft Research on how too much AI can atrophy confidence.

This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week’s biggest tech news: NVIDIA Makes AI More Accessible with Project Digits NVIDIA Nemotron: Advantage or Market Tension?