Category: Business & MBA

Business related notes.

  • Animation: Visualizing Moore’s Law in Action (1971-2019)

    Moore’s Law in Action: You’ll probably remember the prediction back from your days in University. In essence, Mr. Moore, founder of Fairchild Semi and CEO of Intel, predicted the density of transistors in modern integrated systems will double about every 18 months. He was right for a long time, while many predicted the end of his law. Visual Capitalist today linked a illustration showing the law in Action up to 2019.

    Moore's Law
    Moore’s Law

    Can the predictions from Moore’s Law keep up with technological innovation spanning almost 50 years? Watch this stunning animation to find out.

    Source: Animation: Visualizing Moore’s Law in Action (1971-2019)

  • The possibility to understand: SaaS Product Metrics

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    Do you measure up?

    Part of the compelling nature of SaaS Products is the possibility to understand the user and improve on the go. Any Product Manager will literally have to understand what are the use-cases for customers and how to focus on the important areas. Just recently our team led the debate which metrics would be the right ones to focus on.

    Nancy Wang, Head of Product Management at Amazon Web Services, highlights six product metrics enterprise SaaS companies should track.

    In this Article, Nancy Wang, head of Product Management at the most successful cloud service providers, shares her insights on important metrics to keep an eye on. The possibility to understand often goes overboard and requires focus.

    The case under discussion in the article revolves around paid products. Derived metrics are a foundation that serves as a blueprint to other products in the SaaS space. Goals differ, but ultimately, to make a product successful, it requires an understanding of how successful customers were, using the product. Following the established funnel pattern, users are being segmented into funnel. Along that funnel, the metrics acquired need to reflect the stage of the journey the user is on.

    At the top of the funnel, most often the interaction is anonymous and requires profiling to understand the audience coming in. Further down in the funnel, metrics capture engagement and transaction. Towards the end of the funnel, the metric needs to relate to retention.

    Source: Do You Measure Up? Metrics for Enterprise SaaS Product Managers

  • Breaking Walls Between Business and Engineering

    All too often, two departments are burried in deep arguments for most of their days. While business, the outbound oriented Product Management department, leads customer conversations and verifies business requirements, engineering is pushing towards a better product.

    Their goals are not always aligned despite the necessity to build a product together. Overcoming controversial goals can be difficult, yet frustrating to Product Managers in their quest to build better products.

    Itamar Gilad shares a few thoughts how to overcome this gap.

    Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the…

    Source: Breaking The Walls Between Business and Agile Teams

  • Customer Relationship Management. Kundenbericht.

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    Salesforce, Anbieter von CRM Software

    Customer Relationship Management ist schon länger der am stärksten wachsende Software-Markt. Als Gewerbetreibender kommt man nicht umhin, sich mit dem Trend auseinanderzusetzen. Nur durch den Einsatz von Software kann man seinen Kunden besser verstehen und so sein Angebot verbessern. Heute möchte ich einmal kurz die andere Perspektive einnehmen, und eine kurze, aber mir sehr auffällige Erfahrung aufzuschreiben.

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  • Tesla announces electric Pick-Up

    Tesla announced an electric ‘Cybertruck‘, at a low price, that has a long range. Meanwhile, the 2017 announced Semi Truck, starts production with ‘limited volumes‘.

  • Celonis Series C

    Celonis, a Munich and NY based AI Startup in process mining, raised $290M in Series C financing. The company is now valued at $2.5 Billion.

  • Former Munich Mayor Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux

    Christian Ude, Oberbürgermeister von München zwischen 1993 und 2014.

    Christian Ude speaks in a new interview about what Microsoft did in Munich and elsewhere in Europe in order to undermine GNU/Linux and impose Microsoft Windows on everybody, together with all the spyware Microsoft provides for it (likely violation of privacy laws)

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    Source: Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux | Techrights

  • Klimaanalyse: „Oktoberfest“

    Was für die Münchner unter den Lesern.

    Oktoberfest

    Oktoberfest ‘produces 10 times as much methane as Boston’

    Via The Guardian.

  • Raketenbahnhof in Deutschland

    BDI und Wirtschaftsminister Altmaier fordern einen Raketenbahnhof in Deutschland. Michael Büker schaut sich das auf Twitter einmal genauer an.

    Spoiler: Die Idee ist gar nicht so gut.

  • AWS hit by major DDoS attack

    DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.

    DDoS, Distributed of Denial Service
    Distributed of Denial Service

    Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours

    Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.