More than half a decade ago, my Battery Ventures partner Neeraj Agrawal penned a widely read blog post here offering advice for enterprise-software co…
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Insights about enterprise technology, including sectors such as big data, security, DevOps, cloud computing and open-source technology.
Stop Coding in the Dark – and Bring Data-Driven Insights to Engineering
Over the last decade, almost every function in the enterprise has seen an uplift in productivity thanks to transformations from data-driven, AI enable…
Github Likes and Downloads Are Great, But Do They Make You Money? Best Practices for Cloud-Native Companies to Migrate Users to Monetization
Selling software today is about maximizing the distribution potential of a product. MongoDB pioneered this strategy: When it went public in 2017, the …
Applying AI and Automation to a Surprisingly Unaddressed Security Function
In the cybersecurity market, we’ve seen fairly dramatic innovation over the past decade related to AI-based technologies–with much of that techn…
More Clouds And Snowflakes In The Forecast—Tech Trends To Watch In 2021 (Exit Edition)
When the coronavirus first hit the U.S. in force early last year, walloping the economy and stock market, I don’t think many tech investors could have…
Faster Application Release Cycles Drive the Need for Increased Test Automation
Since the pandemic began, the acceleration of digital transformation has become well understood as companies of all sizes move to modernize their work…
How the Pandemic is Changing Tech Spend: 3 Big Takeaways
Ever since the pandemic hit the U.S. in full-force last March, the B2B tech community keeps asking the same questions: Are businesses spending more on…
Accelerate Your Application Delivery – With Confidence and Compliance
A few months ago, we had the pleasure of meeting Idan Ninyo and Eyal Mamo, the founders of the founders of Israel-based Bionic*. Bionic had received i…
Why Customer Success Is More Critical Than Ever At Cloud-Native Companies
Most technology companies selling products on a subscription basis—instead of through perpetual software licenses, which are hard to rip and replace—r…
Consumers Need Real Control Over Their Data. Here’s How to Give it to Them.
After the many headline-grabbing data breaches we’ve seen in the past decade, it’s clear: It’s no longer a matter of if a company will put your data a…