Weekly Recap - Weeks of November 28th and December 5th 2014

Here are my takeaways of the two weeks:

And here is the content:

• IBM Datapower - now embedded in the BlueMix PaaS
• Continuent (now VMware) - good integration process, now looking at adding BigData capabilities
• BetterWorks - New approach to Performance Management
• Paycor - SMB focused HCM, Talent Management and Payroll provider
• HR Acuity - Looks at when things go back in an enterprise - what does HR need to do track, record  monitor and ultimately avoid.
• Ralllyteam - Addressing the challenge to find the right talent, a mix of Learning, Performance Management and Career Planning / Succession Planning.
• HashiCorp - Then under NDA - just releases now - Project Atlas - DevOps using 4 open source projects, the founders have launched in the last 3 years 
• KeyNexus - Key Management Service when working with Amazon AWS
• Sphere3D - MicroVisory VDI vendor, closed the storage vendor acquisition with Overland
• BigPanda - Applying BigData and Analytics to IT Ticket Management in the age of IoT - interesting approach.
• Progress Software - A UI briefing, good progress and bridging the both the Admin UI and the ultimately created product.
• Message Systems - Moving their systems to the cloud, new email automation product with SparkPost, using cloud, BigData and analytics.
• Informatica - Caught up on the Cloud Analytics product, interesting value add on top of the transformation capabilities
• IBM STG - Quarterly update with Tom Rosamilia, 2015 will be key with a mainframe refresh cycle and the dynamics around Power8
• Raet - Originally Dutch HR vendor, going more global starting with Europe and Latin America. 
• IDG Roadmap in Washington D.C. - I spoke about cloud and next generation applications.
• Jibe - Delivered what they had on the roadmap for 2014 - nice visualization of recruiting performance. 
• Infor - Attended the CIO Summit, was on a panel on IT trends and presented about People Science (or HCM) trends.