In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM Success
2. Dataiku Supports Agent Create and Control
3. Banks Still Investing in Digital Transformation
4. Verizon Releases 2025 Data Breach Incident Report
5. Amazon Cuts AI CapEx Commitments
6. Are Government Contracts Still Blue Chip Revenue?
7. Please, ChatGPT? Thanks a Million!
8. 51% of GenZ Thinks College Degree A Waste

Sources:

ServiceNow Sees Initial CRM Success

CXToday coverage by Charlie Mitchell: https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/servicenow-secures-9-crm-megadeals-reiterates-goal-to-lead-the-market/

Dataiku Supports Agent Create and Control

Dataiku Press Release: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/24/3067473/0/en/Dataiku-Brings-AI-Agent-Creation-and-Control-to-The-Universal-AI-Platform.html

Banks Still Investing in Digital Transformation

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-tech-cloud-data-cyber-generative-ai-broadridge/745931/

Verizon Releases 2025 Data Breach Incident Report

Verizon: https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/#top-takeaways

Amazon Cuts AI CapEx Commitments

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/aws_datacenter_leases/

Are Government Contracts Still Blue Chip Revenue?

Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/ibm-posts-sales-topping-estimates-says-doge-hit-15-contracts

Please, ChatGPT? Thanks a Million!

Sam Altman on X: https://x.com/sama/status/1912646035979239430

Microsoft's Kurtis Beavers weighs in: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/why-using-a-polite-tone-with-ai-matters

51% of GenZ Thinks College Degree A Waste

Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/news/college-degree-value-generational-divide

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and guest Ken “kengon” Gonzalez critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s Future
2. Intel Sells Altera as Lip Bu Tan Gets Started
3. Amazon Wants Windows Server Business
4. NVIDIA Commits $500 Billion to US Manufacturing
5. Will AI Enable a 24/7 Orchestration Economy?
6. DoiT Launches CloudFlow to Automate FinOps
7. The Dangers of Whistleblowing DOGE
8. Can You Outrun a Robot?

Sources:

Tableau Next for the Data Analyst’s Future

Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/tableau-next-announcement/

Intel Sells Altera as Lip-Bu Tan Gets Started

Intel Press Release: https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025

Altera declared standalone business: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/03/intel-plans-to-ipo-programmable-chip-unit-within-three-years.html

Intel’s 2015 purchase of Altera https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/333/intel-to-acquire-altera

Amazon Wants Windows Server Business

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/aws_microsoft_license_harms/

NVIDIA Commits $500 Billion to US Manufacturing

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/nvidia-domestic-ai-infrastructure-chip-manufacturing-tariffs/745441/

Project Stargate: https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/

Will AI Enable a 24/7 Orchestration Economy?

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-is-enabling-an-always-on-economy-companies-need-to-pick-up-the-pace-15ba93da

DoiT Launches CloudFlow to Automate FinOps

DoiT: https://www.doit.com/news/doit-launches-cloudflow/

The Dangers of Whistleblowing DOGE

Whistleblower Aid: https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf

Can You Outrun a Robot?

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/man-versus-machine-as-china-shows-off-humanoid-robots-in-half-marathon-75d7e766

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights

In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement
2. Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise
3. Google Opens Up Its Global Network
4. Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security
5. Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation
6. Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance
7. Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol
8. AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios
9. How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty
10. Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?
11. DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend

Sources:

Hyoun Has a Very Special Announcement

Hyoun’s Announcement https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-change-hyoun-park-3ravc

Google Gets Another Chance at the Enterprise

Runtime News: https://www.runtime.news/google-clouds-second-chance-at-the-enterprise/

Google Opens Up Its Global Network

Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPCloudWAN

Google Takes on Microsoft with Unified Security

Google Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/GCPUnifiedSec

Google Supports Multi-Step AI Workflow Automation

9 to 5 Google: https://9to5google.com/2025/04/09/google-workspace-flows/

Google's Agent2Agent Forges Agent Interop Alliance

Google Developers: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Elena Cross Puts the S in Model Context Protocol

Elena Cross: https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b

AI Breaks Human Assumptions of Win-Win Scenarios

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/39358709

How to Budget IT in Ongoing Tariff Uncertainty

David Politis on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/PolitisITBudget

Can You Dodge Tariff Impacts on IT Hardware?

CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-price-increase-china-tariffs/\#

CIODive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-tariffs-uncertainty-cio-enterprise-it-spend/745074/

DOGE Cuts Accenture and Deloitte DoD Spend

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/defense_department_cancels_contracts/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights