The four-step process shown in this picture was used throughout Splunk’s recent .conf23 user conference. It was used with different titles, different messages before the arrow swooshing upwards, and with different elements within the product suite linked to the segments. …

Every product announcement in 2023 is required to include AI. It’s the law. However most of them are vague, fluffy and just to keep the investors happy. Only a few offer meaningful benefits. Splunk’s new offerings are in this latter category, eschewing wild claims and big noise, but respecting the…

What technologies and capabilities, especially new ones, are behind Splunk’s anchor message Building Digital Resilience at their recent user conference, .conf23? The good news for Splunk and its customers is that there was plenty to back up the message. Even better, the new capabilities were wrapped in a message on…

Digital resilience is a critical topic about which I’ve already written and spoken. Digital resilience should be a concern for every business as everything in every business now depends on digital technology. Unfortunately most business management are ignorant of their total dependency on something they fundamentally don’t understand. It’s just…

I clearly remember the two times that I have used actual cash in the last three years. Once was to feed quarters into the laundry equipment at the hotel where I was lodging while being an expert witness in Virginia. The second time was when a local bakery refunded me…

I have been a fan of new ways of capturing intent and converting it to code for a long time. Much of programming work is repetitive and tedious, building the same scaffolding over and over, with only snippets of original coding required. Especially for business apps. Most businesses are fundamentally…

It is quite natural that apps built on a poorly-defined platform will suffer from the same issues as the platform, however some app vendors are clearly just aiming for a check box implementation. The first part reviewed the hardware, the second part looks at the Meta software experience, and this…

Second part of my experience trying to use Meta’s “metaverse” software and their Quest Pro headset. The first part reviewed the hardware, this part looks at the Meta software experience, the third part will be about some third-party apps. My overall view of the hype can be read here. Summary…

Since I think it’s important to actually try something if you are going to disparage it, I splashed out on Meta’s new Quest Pro headset to see what the state-of-Meta metaverse and content was like. This first piece is dedicated to unboxing and the hardware. …