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Snowflake Inc., whose software helps enterprises rapidly analyze business information, saw its shares more than double in value on its first day of trading last week.  What is behind the startup’s roaring IPO?  It all comes down to the company’s ability to unify business data—a critical pre-requisite to enable the build-out of Intelligent Software applications….

We believe that the commercial market for Intelligent Software—software applications and platforms that leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning—has reached an inflection point.  In this post we share some of the data points that demonstrate to us that real money is being made across this large and rapidly growing market. For starters, we note that…

The role of the knowledge worker has seen a rapid transformation in the past few months as companies look to prioritize the digital economy and structure their organizations to be more agile, effective, and prepared. While Covid-19 has accelerated and illuminated this shift, the digital workflows of late are part of a much larger and…

The pandemic has served to catalyze and accelerate seminal changes.  In this three-part article series, we will highlight some of the important themes and concepts that we believe will shape, and are shaping, the Future of Work in the post-COVID workplace. In Part I, we assessed the pandemic’s influence in redefining where and how work gets…

The pandemic has served to catalyze and accelerate seminal changes.  In this three-part article series, we will highlight some of the important themes and concepts that we believe will shape, and are shaping, the Future of Work in the post-COVID workplace. In Part I, we assessed the pandemic’s influence in redefining where and how work…

The pandemic has served to catalyze and accelerate seminal changes.  In this three-part article series, we will highlight some of the important themes and concepts that we believe will shape, and are shaping, the Future of Work in the post-COVID workplace. We’ve never seen anything like this COVID-19 pandemic in modern history, and we’re all…

Omega’s observations these past months from the front lines of the promise and potential of AI-and-ML-enabled Intelligent Software have been reinforced further during the COVID crisis, as to the vital role AI is playing in addressing the globally challenged virus outbreak since inception. An AI startup was amongst the first to flag COVID in December…

One of the most talked about trends in the enterprise software space recently is the notion of product-led growth. Numerous founders, investors, and F500 executives have appropriately claimed that the modern business user has catalyzed an era in which enterprise software companies now rely on their product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition,…

Three billion people, over a third of the world’s population, are currently in lockdown because of the coronavirus.  This is the gravest public health danger since the Spanish flu virus in 1918, which killed 50 million people.  Fortunately, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are catalyzing the convergence of technologies, including genetics, imaging, diagnostics, sensors and…

Voice assistants are becoming a central platform for gathering data and streamlining everyday life for consumers. For example, Amazon’s Alexa, which can now control more than 85,000 smart home products from TVs to doorbells to microwaves, along with the likes of Google Home and solutions from startups have become omnipresent companions in millions of homes….