For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

1. Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI Adoption
2. Flexera Serves Up 2025 IT Priorities Report
3. IT Marketplace AppDirect to Acquire vCom
4. Cloudera to Acquire Octopai for Data Lineage & Discovery
5. ServiceNow Sets A Standard for GenAI Governance
6. Aera Bridges BI & Data Discovery with Workspaces
7. Does NVIDIA Deserve to Be the Biggest?
8. Criticism of Freshworks Layoffs: Justified Or Not?

Sources:

Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI Adoption

Axios: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/12/ai-adoption-slows-slack-study 

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-ai-adoption-surges-as-organizations-shift-from-experimentation-to-implementation/ 

Flexera Serves Up a 2025 IT Priorities Report

Flexera: https://info.flexera.com/ITV-REPORT-IT-Priorities  

IT Marketplace AppDirect to Acquire vCom

BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112277595/en/AppDirect-Announces-Upcoming-Acquisition-of-IT-Spend-Management-Leader-vCom-Solutions  

Cloudera to Acquire Octopai for Data Lineage & Discovery

Cloudera: https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-11-14-cloudera-to-acquire-octopais-platform.html  

ServiceNow Sets A Standard for GenAI Governance

BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241113489335/en/ServiceNow-Advances-Autonomous-Responsible-AI-on-the-Now-Platform-With-New-GenAI-and-Governance-Innovations 

Aera Bridges BI & Data Discovery with Workspaces

Aera: https://www.aeratechnology.com/news/aera-technology-introduces-agentic-ai-workspaces-and-control-room-to-enable-the-full-spectrum-of-enterprise-decisions 

Does NVIDIA Deserve to Be the Biggest?

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/nvidia-just-became-the-worlds-largest-company-amid-ai-boom/ 

Criticism of Freshworks Layoffs: Justified Or Not?

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saravanamv_i-saw-sridhar-vembus-post-about-freshworks-activity-7261963800612945921-k2EU 

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights