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November 16, 2016

Koch to Invest $2 Billion in Infor: What It Means

Matrix Commerce
Koch Industries' investment arm has just placed a massive bet on Infor, striking a deal that will provide the privately held ERP vendor with more than $2 billion in investment. Inf...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 15, 2016

Does a Trump Administration Make Encrypted E-Mail a Must?

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
With Donald Trump poised to take over the U.S. presidency, does it make sense for all of us to move to encrypted e-mail if we want to preserve our privacy? Encrypted e-mail provide...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 15, 2016

Hortonworks Brings Its Hadoop Distribution to Amazon Web Services

Data to Decisions
Hortonworks is taking a significant step forward into the cloud with its Hadoop distribution, announcing the availability of a new managed service on Amazon Web Services dubbed Hor...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
November 15, 2016

IDG Reportedly In Sale Talks with Chinese-Led Buying Group

Future of Work
The long-anticipated sale of tech publishing giant IDG may be near, with a Chinese investment group in talks to purchase the company for more than $1 billion, according to Reuters....
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 14, 2016

MIT Researchers Develop 'Web-Surfing' Machine Learning System

Data to Decisions
What do you do when you're reading an article or paper, one that it's very important you understand, and get stumped by a particular passage? More often than not, you'll head over ...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 14, 2016

GE Buys ServiceMax for $915 Million: What It Means

Data to Decisions
General Electric is plunking down $915 million to acquire field service software vendor ServiceMax, in a move that should strengthen its already robust IoT (Internet of Things) str...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 10, 2016

Inbound 2016: How Marketing Savvy Decided the Presidential Election

Marketing Transformation
The shock waves from Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in this year's historic presidential election won't fade for quite a while, and Trump's presidency has yet to even ...
Chris Kanaracus
Cindy Zhou
Insight News
November 10, 2016

Adobe Buys TubeMogul for Video Ads: What It Means

Marketing Transformation
Adobe is beefing up its Marketing Cloud product family with the $540 million acquisition of TubeMogul, maker of a video advertising platform. Here are the key details from Adobe's ...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 08, 2016

HANA 2.0 Represents An Inflection Point for SAP, Customers

Tech Optimization
This week's unveiling of SAP HANA 2.0 is of particular symbolic and practical importance for both SAP and its customer base, as it underscores how much the in-memory computing plat...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
November 07, 2016

Oracle Closes Its $9.3 Billion NetSuite Accquisition: Now What?

Tech Optimization
Oracle has closed its $9.3 billion acquisition of cloud ERP vendor NetSuite, overcoming resistance from large NetSuite shareholders and gaining a prominent addition to its cloud pr...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
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