Enterprise hits and misses - Domo baffles and Microsoft Tay implodes

It also means the recipients of such tales of fantasy are often thrown off the scent of the story they should be following. Those stories were followed up by one of the most breathtaking pieces of myopic'journalism' I've seen from TechCrunch in quite a while." It would be equally knee jerk to make excuses for one of the true darlings of the enterprise startup crowd, a BI vendor that is positioning itself as "the world's first business cloud." That's the Domo rabbit hole a naive tech journalist can get bamboozled in. You can call Den Howlett a lot of things, but naive tech journalist ain't one of'em. Here he resists the temptation to roast in order to weigh out the pros and cons in detail. But the key is not whether Domo screwed up their PR, but whether they are ready to backup their enterprise ambitions. Den likes the micro-service hub potential, but for now, he's got one eyebrow raised: "I challenge Domo to explain how any service can credibly be called a'business cloud' that manages everything you need without access to the financial information." Scott Cummings, one of our commenters who says he is heavily involved in enterprise sales, adds: "I have yet to meet a paying Domo customer, and those who have tried it have stated it is at best "frosting on the cake" The plot is already thick, my friends….