Insight News
March 28, 2016

McDonald's Big Customer Loyalty Plans: The Table Stakes

McDonald's efforts to reverse a downturn in business over the past several years has already met some success, but now the fast food giant is hoping for even better results with an...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 25, 2016

Oracle CloudWorld D.C. Report: Evolving the One-Stop Shop

Future of Work
I had the pleasure of being invited to Oracle's CloudWorld conference in Washington, D.C. this week, and came away with a solid understanding of where the company stands with its c...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 22, 2016

Apple CareKit Raises the Stakes for Healthcare Privacy

Data to Decisions
While Apple's new iPhone SE garnered the most attention during its announcements this week, perhaps the most important one in the grand scheme was CareKit, an open-source software ...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
March 22, 2016

Google Aims At Developer Productivity with Cloud Launcher

Tech Optimization
In an ideal world, developers will spend the vast majority of their time writing code, not configuration and administration of underlying resources. Fostering the first goal is the...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 18, 2016

Adobe Summit 2016: What to Expect

Marketing Transformation
Adobe Summit 2016 is kicking off this week and as usual, stands to be one of the industry's more important conferences for marketers and digital strategists. Here's a look at some ...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 16, 2016

Oracle's Q3 Results: The Key Takeaways

Tech Optimization
Oracle's third-quarter results are in, and once again it's time to dig into the numbers a bit as well as extract key takeways from the vendor's often entertaining and eye-opening e...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 09, 2016

Microsoft Dynamics AX Hits the Azure Cloud Globally

New C-Suite
Microsoft has delivered on its promise to launch its Dynamics AX ERP suite on the Azure cloud platform​, with general availability in 137 markets and in 40 languages.While expected...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 08, 2016

Microsoft Joins Eclipse Foundation in A Pragmatic, Logical Move

New C-Suite
Microsoft has joined the Eclipse Foundation, taking another important step in changing its identity from a company fixated on proprietary software to one that embraces open source ...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 07, 2016

The Blockchain Brou-ha-ha: Is There Any End In Sight?

Matrix Commerce
The ongoing disharmony within Bitcoin's core development team and other stakeholders stands in harsh contrast to the exuberance over blockchain's potential to reshape the economy w...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
March 01, 2016

Taking the Temperature of Salesforce's Health Cloud

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
One of the most crucial components of Salesforce's vertical strategy is healthcare, and with the general availability of Health Cloud this week, it's worth taking a look under the ...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 01, 2016

Cisco Acquires CliQr In Another Validation Point for Hybrid Cloud

Tech Optimization
Cisco is buying a startup called CliQr Technologies for $260 million in a move that underscores the fact that for most enterprises, hybrid cloud computing is the path forward. Here...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 29, 2016

Deloitte Agency Acquisition Highlights Rising Prominence of the CMO

Marketing Transformation
Deloitte has scooped up the 110-employee creative agency Heat, in a move that underscores how chief marketing officers are becoming a bigger part of the IT spending conversation gi...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 26, 2016

It's 2016: Time to Get An IoT Education

Data to Decisions
If 2015 was the year when the hype cycle around the Internet of Things came to a crescendo, signs point to 2016 being a time when more businesses gain a better understanding of its...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
February 24, 2016

Salesforce's Q4 Results: The Key Takeaways for Customers

Future of Work
Salesforce posted Q4 and full-year results that met analyst expectations while continuing the cloud vendor's torrid run of growth.While still small revenue-wise compared to the lik...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller