2024 in review: What we learned from our BT150 CxOs
Here's a look at some of the key takeaways in 2024 from the CXOs in the BT150 based on our numerous interviews and monthly calls.
Innovation and Product-led Growth focuses on driving business expansion through continuous product innovation and user-centric development. This approach emphasizes creating products that solve real customer problems, deliver exceptional user experiences, and have the potential to grow organically through user adoption and word-of-mouth. By prioritizing product value and user satisfaction, companies can accelerate customer acquisition, increase retention, build a vibrant partner ecosystem, and achieve sustainable growth without relying heavily on traditional sales and marketing strategies.
Here's a look at some of the key takeaways in 2024 from the CXOs in the BT150 based on our numerous interviews and monthly calls.
With 2024 ending it’s worth checking in on everything we’ve learned from the CxOs, buyers and sellers of enterprise technology. Here's everything we learned in 2024.
Agentforce 2.0 includes Slack integration, more workflows across the enterprise and is generally available in February. Agentforce 2.0's debut also includes a new tagline dubbing the effort a "digital labor platform" that can move beyond Salesforce's core sales, service and CRM borders.
Matt Garman Has Positively Impacted AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted over 70,000 attendees at its 13th annual reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2nd to 6th, 2024. Since its humble beginnings in 2012 when there were 6,000 attendees, this event has been on the must-attend list developer and innovation focused business and technology leaders. After losing three years of momentum, AWS finally found the right replacement for Andy Jassy with Matt Garman as the new AWS CEO. This year’s announcements showcase significant product investments that will provide a stronger roadmap of how AWS will support AI startups and enterprises moving fast into AI. Overall, announcements from reinvent reflect a deep customer understanding.
Amazon Web Services has added new features to AWS Marketplace that will resonate with enterprise procurement teams, grow the cloud provider's reach and bring Amazon's commerce knowhow to partner websites.
It's unclear who will be the new CEO of Intel, but one thing is certain--there will be a lot of work ahead. Here's a look at some of the big questions the new Intel leader will have to resolve.
Expect Regulations For National Security, But Overall Lighter Regulatory Framework
For the most part, tech has done well regardless of presidential administrations due to the light regulation of the overall industry. This has allowed large digital giants to emerge and dominate global markets across a multitude of industries. Amidst a national security backdrop and increasing capital required in the tech arms race, government has been hesitant to over regulate.
AI agents are going to run into problems with standards, operating budgets are being squeezed by SaaS vendors and the war for talent is going to get interesting.
Nvidia reported a better-than-expected third quarter, raised its outlook and said that Blackwell shipments will begin in the fourth quarter. Data center revenue in the third quarter was up 112% from a year ago.
Walmart's ongoing bets in technology, AI, automation and omnichannel customer experiences are paying off as the retailer lands more share among higher-income shoppers.
Shopify is getting enough traction as an enterprise commerce platform that can deliver a real-time customer case study in two conference calls.
Enterprise software will be volatile in 2025 as customers increasingly question value, complain about upsells and added charges and assess whether agentic AI provides an abstraction layer to their existing applications.