When SAP snapped up experience measurement specialist Qualtrics for $8 billion, days ahead of its planned IPO in November 2018, the eye-popping price tag suddenly raised awareness of the product category and its potential value in the enterprise. Qualtrics itself was often compared to SurveyMonkey, a business many people knew only for its free online…
Tech spending is trending downward, with multiple studies showing IT is once again being asked to do more with less. A July report issued by research firm Gartner said worldwide IT spending in 2020 will drop 7.9 percent from last year’s figure. IDC in May predicted a 5.1 percent decline in worldwide IT spending. And…
As the coronavirus forced businesses to close in March, IHS Markit faced a difficult decision. The company, which provides data analytics services, had hoped to offload the bulk of its compute functions to the public cloud beginning in 2020, but the pandemic raised key questions. Would the tech team be able to execute its cloud…