What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #123
Big week in security as RSA was this past week - big themes centered around zero trust and privacy, speaking of privacy, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a manifesto on becoming privacy first while Sundar Pinchai releases TensorFlow Privacy project, on the markets side Shopify becomes fastest SaaS co to hit $1 billion of revenue and Mulesoft is crushing it for Salesforce on the revenue/earnings side
Enterprise Tech
Google is making it easier for AI developers to keep usersâ data private
The mechanics of differential privacy are somewhat complex, but it is essentially a mathematical approach that means AI models trained on user data canât encode personally identifiable information. Itâs a common way to safeguard the personal information needed to create AI models: Apple introduced it for its AI services with iOS 10, and Google uses it for a number of its own AI features like Gmailâs Smart Reply.
Facebookâs pivot to privacy has huge implications â if itâs real
đ¤ âI believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content wonât stick around forever,â Zuckerberg says. âThis is the future I hope we will help bring about.â
Security built in: At RSA Conference, cybersecurity intersects with DevOps
at this yearâs RSA there was much talk about âshifting leftâ or bringing security to developers, in addition âzero trustâ is rising in discussions - great to have portfolio co smallstep leading the charge on that front đ
Unleash the Bots: Firms Report Positive Returns With RPA
Data shows humans are more productive with bots âSoftware robots at State Auto Insurance Companies have automated 47 tasks in various divisions of the company including customer service, compliance and accounting -The bots are performing tasks such as automatically verifying data being transferred to different applications. RPA has saved more than 53,000 staffing hoursâ
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The Internet Just Took a Big Step Toward Killing Passwords. Here's What We'll Use Instead
finally, moving to a âpasswordlessâ world - Never click âchange passwordâ again. WebAuthn kills the password and lets people sign in with their fingerprint or a FIDO2 security key.
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New York, Beijing Chip Away at Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley will always be a go-to market, however NYC is rising - every Fortune 500 is a tech company + talent is on upswing - if youâre in enterprise this is an amazing place to start your company - As New York, Boston, Beijing and London evolve into tech powerhouses, more than half of executives surveyed by KPMG said Silicon Valley will cease to dominate global technology innovation within the next four years.
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Microsoft Excel will now let you snap a picture of a spreadsheet and import it
democratization of AI just beginning as Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to convert photos of data tables into a table in Excel. Users will be able to take photos of hardcopy data and import it straight into a fully editable table in Excel
Markets
Mulesoft crushing numbers for Salesforce
Mulesoft cranking, APIs and connectors for large enterprises speed up digital transformation and numbers show - The $6.5 billion acquisition that everyone hated a year ago was the only thing everyone loved about Salesforceâs latest quarter
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I usually don't highlight financial milestones here, but this one is worth mentioning: As Shopify passes the $1 billion-dollar revenue mark it does so with the highest growth rate of any SAAS company ever. đ
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Shopify reaches milestone, surpassing $1 billion in total revenue in 2018
who says going after SMBs does not pay? - Shopify has passed the $1 billion USD annual revenue mark, as announced in its fourth quarter and 2018 year-end financial report released Tuesday. Shopifyâs
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Okta to acquire workflow automation startup Azuqua for $52.5M
Okta getting into automation game as well, as these infrastructure SaaS companies keep growing, itâs a natural evolution - Box also getting into space
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Using the software pipeline to unlock engineering performance
Jeff Haynie from Pinpoint (a boldstart portfolio c0) shares some great insights on how data science can help with eng performance
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By Ed Sim
Ed Sim's weekly readings and notes on VC, software, and scaling startups - #enterprise #seed #DeveloperFirst #IntelligentAutomation #DataInfra #CloudNative #Cybersecurity
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