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12/19/2023

Warmest Wishes from Amalgam Insights -

06/27/2023

Instant Mediocrity: a Business Guide to ChatGPT in the Enterprise -

At Amalgam Insights, we strive to provide our clients with the most comprehensive market intelligence and analysis available. Our latest reporting: Instant Mediocrity: a Business Guide to ChatGPT in the Enterprise, Founder and Chief Research Officer Hyoun Park explains that despite the current hype...

04/05/2023

Amalgam Insights: Two Months Ahead of the Curve -

At Amalgam Insights, we strive to provide our clients with the most comprehensive market intelligence and analysis available. We recently provided guidance on ChatGPT two months ahead of the hypecycle, and I wanted to share with you how we are thinking about cutting edge issues ahead of the pack. ...

03/15/2023

Amalgam Insights Report: Control Your Cloud: Selecting Cloud Cost Management in the Face of Recession -

 I hope your week is going well!   In case you missed it, Amalgam Insights released our report: Control Your Cloud: Selecting Cloud Cost Management in the Face of Recession.   This research report analyzes software solutions that identify, track, and optimize Infrastructure-as-a-Service ...

03/14/2023

In light of this increasingly complex and nuanced set of categories that now make up the responsibilities associated with financial performance management, companies face a technology-related challenge in managing business plans.

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by Hyoun Park Evaluating the Selection of Platform-Based and Best-in-Breed Apps for Financial Planning “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs In 2023, we face a series of global planning challenges across accounting, fina...

03/14/2023

"Hyoun Park offered this perspective... 'Larger banks won't cut the same slack because they don't need to or want to. This is a loss for entrepreneurship, especially as it has happened before VC tech funding has opened up to minorities.'"

Managed service providers use vendors funded by VC and PE firms that banked at SVB. Here are the short term and long term impacts.

03/14/2023

Behind the cliche of doing more with less is the need to actually become more efficient with tech usage. This means adopting a FinOps strategy to cloud to go with your existing Telecom FinOps and SaaS FinOps strategies.

Posted on January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 by Hyoun Park 14 Key Trends for Surviving 2023 as an IT Executive 2023 is going to be a tough year for anybody managing technology. As we face the repercussions of inflation and high interest rates and the bubble of tech starts to be burst, we are seeing a....

03/14/2023

"'Although SVB will survive in some form, it's hard to imagine the successor being as founder-friendly as SVB for venture debt,' industry analyst Hyoun Park wrote on LinkedIn."

Europe's largest bank, HSBC, agreed on Monday to buy the United Kingdom subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank, and Canada's government took control of SVB's Canadian

03/14/2023

The decision to choose a planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution is a complex one in 2023 as we have had to adjust to the challenges of more agile planning cycles.

Posted on February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 by Media Amalgam Insights Analyst Insight: The Decision to Replace Legacy Planning Solutions with Workday Adaptive Planning Today, Amalgam Insights has published the following Analyst Insight: The Decision to Replace Legacy Planning Solutions with Workday...

03/13/2023

"Like everything in accounting, there is a lot of interpretation. Hyoun Park, the CEO and principal analyst for Amalgram Insights, agrees that accounting techniques could obscure the costs of the cloud."

As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly fades — and the rush to cloud solutions it hastened now seems less critical to business success — a question arises: Has anyone on your team recently run an ROI analysis to see whether the cloud truly saves your company money?

03/13/2023

"2023 is going to be a tough year for anybody managing technology. We are seeing a combination of hiring freezes, increased focus on core business activities and the hoary request to 'do more with less.'"

Posted on January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 by Hyoun Park 14 Key Trends for Surviving 2023 as an IT Executive 2023 is going to be a tough year for anybody managing technology. As we face the repercussions of inflation and high interest rates and the bubble of tech starts to be burst, we are seeing a....

03/13/2023

Hyoun Park: "Avaya serves as a stern reminder on the challenges that even strong market leaders can quickly have when saddled with debt and forced to pursue short-term goals by highly activist investors."

One-time networking and unified communications industry stalwart Avaya has again fallen on tough times and filed for bankruptcy.