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      {"@context":"http://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},"dateModified":"","datePublished":"2016-07-13T14:29:03.000+00:00","headline":"Infor Strategy Update @ Inforum 2016 NYC","image":{"@type":"ImageObject"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"http://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":254},"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/infor-strategy-update-inforum-2016-nyc-charles-phillips"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},"datePublished":"2026-03-13T16:18:34.014Z","headline":"","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"http://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":764},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_bloomberg-interview-on-ai-vs-saas-activity-7438257205939736576-jUB-","text":"BLOOMBERG Interview on AI vs SaaS","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_bloomberg-interview-on-ai-vs-saas-activity-7438257205939736576-jUB-"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},"datePublished":"2026-03-13T16:14:59.646Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"http://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":626},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_will-ai-kill-software-application-companies-activity-7438256306815299584-06xv","text":"Will AI kill software application companies? The risk is asymmetrical. Our \"AI's Impact on Software as a Service\" report and can be downloaded here: https://lnkd.in/ea_-gkdA\n\nIt's a pyramid. Simpler applications with small code bases e.g. front-end portals and dashboards, project management tools, and apps for niche verticals are at risk from AI or new competition. Applications that must be accurate, must scale, and must not fail — the M-3s — are protected by their complexity, critical data, high switching costs. The report describes the attributes to distinguish between the two. \n\nM-3 vendors will layer agents inside their walled gardens, leverage access to important, proprietary data, offer alternative natural language interfaces, and reduce friction in manual steps in long running processes.  In other words their applications will get better with AI.  They will offer conventiently deployable inference inside their walls.\n\nCEOs and CIOs are focused on exploiting AI and unstructured data to create value from new use cases only recently possible with AI.  There is less interest in replacing routine applications with internal code that will quickly turn to tech debt with a long support tail.  Not as easy as it sounds:  OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all running Workday for HR.  Specialization versus vertical integration.\n\nThe report also frames how software developers are evolving software engineers to assemble applications faster.  The development life cycle has been increasingly automated for years with continuous integration, code libraries, infrastructure as code, containers and other innovations. Coding agents are the next natural step.   Yet open jobs recs in tech companies for software engineers is up is up 72% from the low in 2023. ","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_will-ai-kill-software-application-companies-activity-7438256306815299584-06xv"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},"datePublished":"2026-02-16T20:45:00.335Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"http://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":218},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_my-old-friend-r-ray-wang-has-a-unique-talent-activity-7429264560806748160-Amzo","text":"My old friend R \"Ray\" Wang has a unique talent in seeing tech trends early.  He recently published a view on \"AI-exponential\" services firms - companies with unique skill sets and vision to transform AI into real world use cases.  Nothing happens until someone does the last mile.  Good to see Qubika (Rec portco) on this highly curated list.  We're at the nexus of another exciting new wave.. the thing that keeps us all fixated on this industry.  Always creates next generation winners that replace a few of the last.  Let the games begin.","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_my-old-friend-r-ray-wang-has-a-unique-talent-activity-7429264560806748160-Amzo"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},"datePublished":"2025-09-28T20:12:40.729Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"http://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":1100},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_the-us-air-force-academy-broke-ground-yesterday-activity-7378159736501719040--bye","text":"The U.S. Air Force Academy broke ground yesterday on a memorial to the Tuskegee Airmen with a replica of the P-51 Mustang they flew in 15,000 sorties and were awarded 850 Medals.  Lt. Col. James Harvey, a 100-year-old Tuskegee pilot won the inaugural Top Gun fighter pilot competition in 1949. He went on to win distinguished medals for combat in Korea. Happy to support this memorial along with the Boeing company.  The catalyst for a separate training site for Black pilots stemmed from a lawsuit againt the Dept of War brought by a Howard University student named Yancey Williams who simply wanted to fly and eventually he did.  But only one color on this day, Air Force Blue.. https://lnkd.in/eB-FBQ3w","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_the-us-air-force-academy-broke-ground-yesterday-activity-7378159736501719040--bye"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},"datePublished":"2025-05-11T16:32:38.159Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"http://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":156},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_apollo-spring-benefit-2025-activity-7327370059746603008-PzMd","text":"The Apollo Theater in NYC is hosting its annual gala on June 4th. This is always a fun night and the perfect team building event with colleagues or summer weekend break.\n\nThe Apollo is a global icon known for launching the careers of James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, H.E.R. , Fat Joe, Aretha Frankin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Lauryn Hill .  rake, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Cold Play performed recently on the legendary stage.  Collectively, Apollo artists have over 200 Grammys.\n \nThe 2025 benefit will honor music producer Clive Davis and Teyana Taylor. The star-studded line up includes Busta Rhymes, Babyface, Deborah Cox, LA Reid, Monica, and other surprises. The evening will be curated by Grammy and Emmy award winning music director Adam Blackstone who has collaborated with Jay-Z, Maroon5, and the Super Bowl halftime show. https://shorturl.at/cRhiq\n\nThe infamous Apollo after-party in a tent nearby will feature the infamous  D-NICE on the mixer with surprise freestyle performances.  Hope to see you there for this 91st year of The Apollo Theater celebration.  June 4th, Harlem NYC. \n","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlesphillips1_apollo-spring-benefit-2025-activity-7327370059746603008-PzMd"},{"@type":"WebPage","reviewedBy":{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Phillips"},"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1"},{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Person","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressCountry":"US","addressLocality":"New York, New York, United States"},"alumniOf":[{"@type":"EducationalOrganization","name":"United States Air Force Academy","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/school/us-air-force-academy/","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole","startDate":1977,"endDate":1981}},{"@type":"EducationalOrganization","name":"*** **** *** ******","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole","startDate":1990,"endDate":1993}},{"@type":"EducationalOrganization","name":"******* **********","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole","startDate":1983,"endDate":1986}}],"awards":[],"disambiguatingDescription":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","contentUrl":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E03AQG3fcm3e60qVw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/B4EZXUZR8TGYAY-/0/1743025152218?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=-v3R6VcHvqiseoEycLV55pNg7i43r7xt8-eGJtCYiJA"},"jobTitle":["***** ******","******** ******* *** **********","***** ******","********","***** ******","***** ** *********","***** ******","*** *** ******** ** *** ***** ** *********","********* *** ****** ** ***** ** *********","******** ********","****** **** *********","***","**** ********* ********","*******"],"knowsLanguage":[],"memberOf":[],"name":"Charles Phillips","sameAs":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesphillips1","worksFor":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomberg","location":"New York, New York, United States","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole","description":"***** ** ********** ********* ***"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"*********","location":"New York, New York, United States","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole","description":"********* ****** ********** ********* ** ********** **** ******** ********** ***** *** ********* ******** ******** *********** ********* *** ********* ******* ** **** ********************** ** * **** ** *********** ********** *** ********** ************* * ***** ** ***** ******* *** ** *********** ******* ******** ******* ********* ** ******* *** ** ***** * *** ***** ********* ******* ******* ******* ******** *** ***** * ********* ** ********* ** ******** *** **** ********** ** ********** ******* *** ****** ********** ****** ** *** *********** ** ***** ** *********"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"******** *******","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"*** ****** *******","location":"Harlem, New York","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"******* ** ******* *********","location":"New York, New York, United States","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"**********","location":"New York, New York","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"******* ******* **** ** *** ****","location":"New York, United States","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"*****","location":"Greater New York City Area","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"****** ***********","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"****** *******","location":"New York","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"****** *******","location":"New York","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"********* ********** *****","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"*** ******","location":"New York, NY","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole"}},{"@type":"Organization","name":"****** ****** ****** ****** *** ********** **** *******","location":"Camp Lejeune","member":{"@type":"OrganizationRole","description":"********* ********** *** ****** ********"}}],"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/FollowAction","name":"Follows","userInteractionCount":26740},"description":"Phillips is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Recognize, a $3.5B technology growth…"}]}