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On April 4, IBM announced an agreement to sell its portfolio of marketing and commerce software to private investment company Centerbridge Partners. The size of the deal, which is expected to close by mid-2019, was not disclosed.
Mark Simpson, vice president of offering management and strategy for the IBM marketing platform and commerce offerings, will lead the new entity as CEO. The new company’s name, as well as how many and which employees will transfer along with Simpson, are yet to be determined.
The scope of the agreement includes:
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Late on a Friday night in Germany SAP issues a press release that Robert Enslin is leaving the company. The organizational consequence was that of Jennifer Morgan taking over the Cloud Business Group, Enslin's previous responsibility. Her go to market activities are no completely with Adaire Fox-Martin – who now solely owns go to market for SAP.
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Mastering Collaboration and CX in the Digital Age | DisrupTV Ep. 143
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 143), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Erica Dhawan, Keynote Speaker on Collaboration and CEO at Cotential; Meagen Eisenberg, Chief Marketing Officer at TripActions; and Esteban Kolsky, Principal and Founder at ThinkJar.
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Reinventing Healthcare IT | DisrupTV Ep. 142
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 142), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Anna Turman, Division CIO at Catholic Health Initiatives; Tom Stafford, VP & CIO at Halifax Health; and David Chou, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research.
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We had the opportunity to attend the yearly SAP Cloud analyst meeting, held from March 6th till 7th in Salt Lake City. It was co-located with Qualtrics X4 Summit user conference, a good move to get the analysts up to speed on the newest 'sister' (as I call the SAP cloud businesses). Much of the summit was under NDA and we had to go through a reverse factual review – sharing with SAP before we published… then more work happened, and I am belated with this post… but better late … than never.
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Autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, value-chain disruption and podcasts. We had a phenomenally entertaining and mind-expanding episode of DisrupTV recently. Here’s the quick takeaways.
Technology Disruptions Taking Over Markets
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Big announcement by Apple with new subscriptions for news, tv, gaming, and a credit card offer that may impact the credit card industry. This can be a great play and set up for the healthcare industry as Apple looks to keep the 1.4B devices users in the ecosystem. The top three areas that healthcare vendors and providers can think about are:
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Oracle previews CX Unity, 'next-gen' sales UI, and DataFox upgrades. The investments are promising, but don't dismiss data lakes so easily.
“You have to empower whoever gets to the customer first.” This is the key message that Rob Tarkoff, executive VP and general manager of Oracle CX Cloud, shared at Oracle Modern Customer Experience (CX), March 19-21, in Las Vegas.
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Apple had its long anticipated services event in Cupertino on the 25th of March. Not surprisingly, Apple announced a news, TV service. The gaming service was expected somewhat. The real surprise was the card.
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Services Revenue Mix Could Reach 20% By 2020
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How AI, Empathy & Sustainability Are Shaping the Next Era of Business | DisrupTV Ep. 141
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 141), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Frederic Laluyaux, President and CEO at Aera Technology; Dickson Tang, Author & Speaker; and Heather Clancy, Editorial Director at GreenBiz Group.
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For Huawei, it's been a long journey from manufacturing back-office PBX switches back in the 1980s to besting Apple last year to become the second largest mobile phone producer in the world.
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Oracle Customers Move To Cloud ERP For Innovation And Industry Capabilities
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Decoding Digital Disruption: Consumer Behavior and Team Dynamics | DisrupTV Ep. 140
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 140), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Tasha Keeney (Analyst, ARK Invest), Thales Teixeira (Author & Associate Professor, Harvard Business School), and Dr. Janice Presser (Founder & CTO, Teamability.com).
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“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” - Theodore Roosevelt
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Constellation’s ninth annual innovation award program is open for nominations. Submit before the summer heats up!
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A Look at Tableau’s Intelligent Data-Prep, Discovery, Recommendation and Natural Language Query Capabilities
The discussion about digital experience in the industry to-date has largely focused on customer experience, which is the boundary where value is exchanged between a company and those that it serves and provides value.
Much less effort has been spent on what is actually just as vital: The digital experiences that workers themselves use to carry out their work on behalf of themselves and their customers.
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Building Unstoppable Teams | DisrupTV Ep. 139
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 139), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Alden Mills, a former Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, and author of Unstoppable Teams, and Ron Miller, Operating Partner and Head of Editorial at Boldstart Ventures.
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When it comes to building customer, employee and personal relationships, it’s about the process and the time you put in, not just the end goal.
DisrupTV recently caught up with Rhonda Vetere, author of the new book “Grit & Grind: 10 Principles for Living an Extraordinary Life,” to discuss secrets around becoming a stronger leader, team member and even finding success in your personal life.
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Any organization today is the sum of its ever-more digitized parts. Efforts to digitally transform these parts into a more tech-enabled whole is currently at the top of corporate objectives globally. Yet of these elements, it is our workers that are arguably the greatest asset and motive force that we possess in our organizations.
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