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November 04, 2016

SAP Ariba Turns 20: A Look at Today and Tomorrow

Matrix Commerce
SAP acquired procurement software vendor Ariba in 2011, but the company's history dates back two decades. This week, SAP Ariba executives briefed analysts in Boston, giving an over...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
October 26, 2016

CCE 2016 Day One: How Will Humanity Change In a World of AI?

Future of Work
One could argue that AI and machine learning narrowly outpaced IoT as this year's hottest topic in tech. On the opening day of Constellation Research's Connected Enterprise 2016 co...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
October 26, 2016

CCE 2016 Day One: Moving Beyond the Hype of Blockchain

Matrix Commerce
Blockchain was a featured topic of discussion on the opening day of Constellation Research's Connected Enterprise 2016 event, with expert panelists exchanging perspectives on wheth...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
October 17, 2016

Cisco Acquires Worklife for Better Virtual Meetings

Future of Work
Cisco has been on a software acquisition tear this year, and just added to the list with the purchase of Worklife, which offers technology for making meetings more productive. Work...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Insight News
October 12, 2016

Prominent IoT Standards Bodies Merge: What It Means

Tech Optimization
There's general agreement that when it comes to standards, IoT has some way to go. But the IoT standards effort took a significant step forward this week, with the merger of two pr...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Steve Wilson
Insight News
October 11, 2016

Oracle-Verizon Tie Up for Hybrid Cloud

Tech Optimization
Oracle and Verizon have inked a partnership that speaks to the continuing evolution of hybrid cloud deployments. Here are the key details from the companies' announcement:With Veri...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
October 06, 2016

Dreamforce 2016 Reflects Salesforce's Shift to Service-Enablement

Next-Generation Customer Experience
There was something different about this year's Dreamforce conference. Sure, it was massive, with 170,000 people in attendance and reportedly millions more online. And yes, Salesfo...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
October 05, 2016

IBM Touts Watson IoT Momentum

IBM says its Watson IoT business is growing fast and as a result, it's pumping $200 million into the division's global headquarters in Munich:The investment, one of the company’s l...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
October 04, 2016

Salesforce Acquires Krux for Marketing Cloud

Next-Generation Customer Experience
Salesforce has continued its string of acquisitions with the purchase of data management platform vendor Krux, in a deal worth about $700 million in cash and stock. The Krux acquis...
Chris Kanaracus
Cindy Zhou
Insight News
October 03, 2016

IBM Launches Watson-Powered, Interactive Ads

Marketing Transformation
IBM is betting that online advertisements can actually inform and engage with consumers, rather than irritate them, with the help of its Watson cognitive computing platform. This w...
Chris Kanaracus
Cindy Zhou
Insight News
October 03, 2016

Botnet Source Code Leak Should Sound the Alarm for IoT Security

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Source code that can be used to create massive, IoT-based distributed denial-of-service attacks is now in the wild, and every end-user and enterprise has cause for serious concern....
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
September 29, 2016

Workday Rising 2016: Event Notebook

Data to Decisions
I had the pleasure of attending Workday Rising 2016 in Chicago this week, where the HCM and financials vendor took the wraps off three major new product releases, provided detailed...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
September 29, 2016

SAP Places A €2 Billion Bet on IoT

Tech Optimization
SAP has already outlined an IoT strategy, but it hit the accelerator hard on Wednesday with the announcement of a €2 billion investment in IoT over the next five years. Here are th...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
September 27, 2016

Workday Takes Aim at Oracle, Ellucian with Workday Student

Future of Work
Workday is hoping to shake up the stodgy student information system market with the introduction of Workday Student, which it is delivering on time this week in conjunction with it...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
September 27, 2016

Workday Planning: A Work In Progress

Data to Decisions
After years of relying on partners for providing customers with financial and workforce planning capabilities, Workday has taken the wraps off its homegrown Workday Planning produc...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
September 21, 2016

Influential Industrial IoT Group Releases Security Framework

Tech Optimization
One of the most prominent industry groups involved with industrial IoT has unveiled what it calls a comprehensive and sorely needed security framework document. Here are the key de...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
September 20, 2016

Analysis: Larry Ellison Unloads Both Barrels Against AWS

Tech Optimization
Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison's OpenWorld keynotes are often made memorable through healthy portions of competitive bombast delivered in his witheringly sarcastic...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
September 16, 2016

IBM Syncs Up Watson IoT with Drones: What It Means

Future of Work
The IoT (Internet of Things) is all about creating new business models. IBM sees potential in pairing its Watson IoT platform with aerial drones, as IDG News Service reports:AI-pow...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
September 16, 2016

Oracle's Q1: The Key Takeaways

Data to Decisions
Oracle's first-quarter results are in, with figures that slightly disappointed Wall Street. But as usual, the accompanying earnings conference call provided a number of nuggets tha...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
September 14, 2016

Post-DAO Hack, Are Smart Contracts a Smart Idea?

When parties unknown managed to siphon more than $50 million in digital currency from the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) fund, it sent shock waves through the cryptocu...
Chris Kanaracus