Rob Enderle

Five Ways to Stay Productive While Working Remotely Last week, Microsoft released the details surrounding the new Surface Hub video collaboration/conferencing system I’d seen up in Redmond earlier in the year. I’ve covered videoconferencing since the late 80s, and this is really the first time I’ve seen a solution that rethinks the basics of what […]

This last week, I was at the Augmented World Expo, where they promised to give us all super powers. This kind of goes back to the beginning of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), and games where you suddenly can be super heroes. However, the game stuff still pretty much sucks, based on what […]

Five Tips to Ensure Apps Are Watch Worthy Apple has several problems with WWDC 2015 that it didn’t have when Steve Jobs ran the company. It has three development platforms now, iOS, Apple Watch and MacOS; it doesn’t have the excitement Jobs brought to the table; and it is now competing against both Google and […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network I’m at VCE’s analyst event this week and this organization is unique. What has always fascinated me is that this is the only company that can bring up customers who buy its products over the objections of their staff and prove itself smarter than the staff as a result. […]

The Impact of Mobility on the Enterprise One of the types of reports I used to love to write back when I was a competitive analyst was “what if” reports. This was when you started at a future point, five or 10 years out, and with a set result, you discussed the things that must […]

2015 Tech Trends: A Critical Crossroad for IT Engagement is critical to the success of a firm. Years ago, I did a competitive study between Sony and Dell. Sony had better looking, more reliable hardware; Dell’s stuff wasn’t as attractive and it broke a lot in comparison. Sony sucked at engaging with customers; Dell led […]

This week, I’m at Dell’s annual analyst conference and it is hard not to contrast the efforts with HP’s. The large conference room is packed with analysts and Dell’s CMO, Karen Quintos, is doing the opening introduction and the lead-in for Michael Dell. At Dell, marketing is strategic and, like most of its peers, this […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success This week I went to the U2 concert at the SAP Center. This used to be the HP Pavilion, one of the more brilliant moves by HP’s old CEO Carly Fiorina, because every plane that flew into San Jose (the heart of Silicon Valley) was treated to a massive […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success Of the companies I follow, one stands out with the singular mission of assuring that IT doesn’t again become obsolete in the face of ever more powerful direct to line management offerings like Amazon Web Services. Most firms tend to treat Amazon’s offering as a competitor or potential customer […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success This is the season for vendor events: IBM Edge, EMC World, Dell Annual Analyst Conference, and Lenovo World in Asia. And, of course, HP Discover. This show has actually been getting a lot of chatter of late, but for the wrong reasons. This is because apparently HP invited a […]

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 One of the lessons a number of companies learned over the last decade or so is that CEOs who don’t have passion for the firm’s products don’t run companies particularly well. The technology companies that define the industry were created by people with passion for product and that […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success It is hard not to draw a contrast between HP and most any other technology company this year. This is largely because we are entering an election period, and HP is led by a failed politician, Meg Whitman, and was formerly led by Carly Fiorina, who recently entered the […]