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
Insight News
September 14, 2016

Microsoft Claims the Lead In Speech Recognition Arms Race

Future of Work
Researchers at Microsoft say they've made advances in speech recognition that gives the company's technology the lowest error percentage in the industry, at 6.3 percent, edging out...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Insight News
September 13, 2016

An Open Letter to the First U.S. Cybersecurity Chief

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
The Obama administration recently appointed the United States' first federal chief information security officer, in the latest of a series of moves aimed at shoring up cybersecurit...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
September 12, 2016

Why Google Bought Apigee

Tech Optimization
Google senior VP Diane Greene has made another strategic move in her leadership of the company's enterprise group with the $625 million purchase of API management vendor Apigee. Sh...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
September 07, 2016

When HR Analytics and Privacy Collide

Future of Work
One of the most important areas within HR analytics is employee retention, with a variety of products in the market that use predictive modeling to help companies determine which v...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
September 07, 2016

The Dell-EMC Deal Closes: Now What?

Tech Optimization
The long-awaited closure of Dell's $67 billion merger with EMC has arrived, and executives of the combined company, which will be called Dell Technologies, are taking pains to reas...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
September 01, 2016

Hyperledger Project Grows Like Gangbusters

Tech Optimization
If you had any doubt there is broad industry interest in blockchain, look no further than the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project. It has grown by 170 percent since its formal l...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
September 01, 2016

Salesforce's Q2 Results: The Key Takeaways

Matrix Commerce
Salesforce reported its second-quarter earnings this week and saw its stock plummet after the results missed analysts' expectations. But what's more important to most customers is ...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 31, 2016

SAP Launches BW/4HANA, a Next-Generation Data Warehouse

Data to Decisions
SAP has been dealing with questions over the future of its Business Warehouse product for years, and now has provided an answer with SAP BW/4HANA, a new data warehousing product th...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Holger Mueller
Insight News
August 29, 2016

Eyeing Oracle OpenWorld 2016: What's In Store

Data to Decisions
The world's largest enterprise technology event, Oracle OpenWorld, is just a few weeks away. Oracle is holding off on making its biggest announcements until the event, but a look t...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 29, 2016

VMWare Wants to Be Your Multi-Cloud Manager

Tech Optimization
VMware made a slew of cloud-related announcements at the start of its VMWorld conference this week, but perhaps the most notable one concerned a set of services that are still unde...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
August 25, 2016

Rimini Street's Latest Gambit: Even Faster SLAs

Tech Optimization
Rimini Street has made a value case for its third-party software support services in multiple ways, including the 50 percent savings they say SAP and Oracle customers will enjoy co...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 25, 2016

Workday's Q2 Results: The Key Takeaways

Data to Decisions
Workday announced its second-quarter earnings this week and while the numbers slipped Wall Street's expectations a bit, a conference call with executives revealed a number of inter...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 23, 2016

Tableau Shakes Up Its Leadership, But Questions Remain

Data to Decisions
Something was bound to change atop industry darling and data-visualization vendor Tableau following a stark earnings report and plummeting stock price this year. On Monday that som...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen