Emerging technology trends shaping the IT job market — from AI and cloud computing to edge computing, quantum readiness, and the evolving skills employers need to stay competitive in a rapidly changing tech landscape.
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Choosing an ERP for a mid-market business comes down to four checks: run your volume arithmetic against the licensed limits, price the platform question honestly, read the assumptions page, and name one person who can say no. The feature comparison is the part everyone spends five weeks on. It … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia The most expensive NetSuite implementation mistakes are organizational rather than technical, and they are scope nobody controlled, requirements nobody wrote down, a quote that was cheap because things were excluded, and a system nobody owned after go-live. The software is almost never the constraint. It has been fine for … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia You have outgrown QuickBooks when the number of people required to answer one business question keeps climbing. Not a revenue number. A headcount-per-answer number. The ledger stays accurate the whole time. It just stops being the place anybody looks first, and the spreadsheets quietly become the real system. A … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Automating a process in NetSuite means picking the cheapest of four native tools that will do the job, a saved search alert, a SuiteFlow workflow, automation already built into a module you license, or SuiteScript. Then you put one person’s name on it. Most companies reach for the fourth … Read more
BMW is cutting roughly 8,000 office and development jobs in Germany by the end of 2027. Here is what the German automotive retrenchment actually means for US engineering hiring.
By Mike Carter, Growth and Partnerships, KORE1 Roblox did not lay off engineers in 2026. Headcount went the other way. Up 24 percent last year, to 3,065 full-time staff, and more than 2,300 of those people build product. The pressure people are sensing is real, though. Full-year bookings guidance got cut from roughly 22 to … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Zendesk is not running a company-wide engineering layoff in 2026. Global headcount grew roughly 10 percent last year to about 6,821 people, and engineering is still the largest function at around 45 percent of the company. The cuts that did land were regional and support-side, led by … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia The NetSuite MCP connector, which Oracle actually calls the NetSuite AI Connector Service, is a server that lets outside AI clients like Claude and ChatGPT read and write your NetSuite data under your own role’s permissions. The pitch really is that simple. The interesting part is everything it refuses … Read more
Generative AI creates new output from a model someone else already trained, while traditional ML predicts a number or a label from data you already own. Two different problems, two different hires, two different interviews. The overlap on paper is enormous. Python. Some flavor of cloud. The word “model” used forty times in a resume. … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Pick one system to be right about each thing, run every sync through one integration layer instead of point-to-point wiring, and put a human on the error queue. The rest is detail. Important detail, and I’ll get to it, but that sentence covers most of what goes wrong. A … Read more
