This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.
Today: Salesforce continues its agentic AI push, Databricks secures one of the biggest funding rounds in tech history, and the rest of this week's enterprise funding.
Tom Eggemeier believes that a key product-strategy decision Zendesk made long before most of us had heard the term "generative AI" could spark a rebound in the company's fortunes.
Rowan Trollope started work as the new CEO of Redis earlier this year in February, arguably a low point for enterprise tech growth. Redis hasn't been immune to those trends, but it has also enjoyed the spoils of the generative AI hype cycle.
Cloud computing sparked an explosion of entrepreneurship in enterprise software, but 15 years later, the situation has gotten out of hand, according to Asana CIO Saket Srivastava.
The only thing that hasn't changed about data in the nearly two decades that Vikas Ranjan has been shaping T-Mobile's data strategy is its strategic importance to the company.
Smita Hashim's new job as Zoom's chief product officer is to help it become a broader player in enterprise software. In her view, this new era of hybrid work is opening up new product possibilities built for teams with a mixture of employees in the office and at remote locations.
F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou, now in his seventh year running the Seattle networking and security company, wants to be an "infrastructure agnostic" provider of software that helps companies manage and protect applications spread across the cloud and on-premises systems.
Deep down, most people knew it couldn't last. But the remarkable run enjoyed by enterprise software companies and their investors over more than a decade came to an abrupt end in 2022, and the new order is still sorting itself out.
Jyoti Bansal has no time for golf. The serial enterprise tech startup founder knows he works more hours than the average Silicon Valley executive, which is already a pretty high bar to clear. But that's the price you pay for running four companies simultaneously.
