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We had the opportunity to attend SAP's developer conference TechED in Las Vegas, held from October 8th till 12th 2018 at the Venetian Conference center. Attendance was not officially disclosed, but from other events held at the same location I'd peg it at 3k+.
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System Offers Complete Deployment Freedom for CxOs Regarding Any Aspect of the Oracle IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Portfolio
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that email was dead. Yet, Microsoft Outlook, Google GMail, and IBM Verse remain critical applications for business people around the world. Likewise, acquisitions in the email market are accelerating. In just the last few months we've seen:
Facebook acquire RedKix
Slack acquire Astro
Salesforce acquire Rebel
Twilio acquire SendGrid
Why? Because email remains one of the primary channels for communicating with employees, partners, customers and prospects.
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The majority of enterprises today are currently striving with concerted effort to move their organizations into the digital future. Their overarching objective is to drive revenue growth, avoid disruption, and to access all-new business opportunities. Next-generation C-Suite leaders are increasingly focused on ensuring they have the right innovation and delivery capabilities in place at a strategic level to achieve this.
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Behind Apple & Impact Leadership: Lessons in Creativity & Purpose | DisrupTV Epi. 125
On DisrupTV Episode 125, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Ken Kocienda, former Principal Engineer at Apple and author of Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, and Avery M. Blank, speaker, impact strategist, women’s leadership expert, policy attorney, and Forbes contributor.
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Mastering Venture Mindset, Business Chemistry & the Art of Risk | DisrupTV Ep. 124
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 124), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Dr.
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Connected Enterprise is an immersive three-day innovation summit and executive retreat that features 1:1 interviews with visionary market makers, executive exchanges, fireside chats and disruptive technology demos.
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Book your hotel by October 5 to take advantage of discounted lodging.
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Salesforce streamlined Dreamforce 18 and put the emphasis on making the most of its extensive platform. Here’s how customers stand to benefit.
Salesforce has grown from a cloud CRM service into a massive platform with multiple sub-clouds and hundreds of discrete services. That’s one reason I found this year’s streamlined, less-is-more approach at Dreamforce 2018 to be a refreshing change.
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We had the opportunity to attend Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, held from September 25th till 28th in San Francisco. It was the usual 'zoo' of marketing spend and attendees all over San Francisco. Salesforce claimed over 170k in person attendees, at least on Tuesday it did not feel like that. But certainly, this is the yearly come together of the Salesforce ecosystem.
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Rethinking Delivery, Operations, Governance, Organization and Talent
This report examines the representative state of three key pillars of modern IT at five of the world’s leading IT organizations:
Microsoft unveils big-data-capable SQL Server 2019 and extended AI capabilities to power data-driven innovation. Here’s my analysis.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set the tone at the September 24-27 Ignite events in Orlando by sharing at least half a dozen stories of leading companies innovating and pioneering new business models with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). It was a crisp, one-hour presentation long on vision and surprisingly short on promotion or even mentions of the significant technology announcements that followed.
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We had the opportunity to attend ADP's yearly analyst summit, held on September 20th 2018 at its innovation lab in Chelsea / New York City. With over 20 analysts, the event was well attended.
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Today at Microsoft's Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was joined by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan and SAP CEO Bill McDermott to announce the Open Data Initiative across the three vendors. Important enough to merit a traditional commented press release – you can find the original here.
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Leading with Purpose, People, and Policy in the Age of Disruption | DisrupTV Ep.
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Just over two years ago, I kicked off my analyst career with a blog post on Vista Equity’s acquisition of Marketo. It is befitting to share my thoughts now on the Adobe-Marketo union as I recently exited the analyst world for a CMO role.
First let’s talk the deal, $4.75 billion - this is the largest transaction in the MarTech space and Vista Equity made a healthy flip from the $1.79b purchase just over two years ago.
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For many organizations, it has become clear that they're falling behind in the digital race and the data has long shown this. There is simply too much to digitize, too many points of integration, too many apps, too many channels, too much data and not enough time or resources.
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Automating, Augmenting and Accelerating the Employee Experience
The Future of Automation and Blockchain with Industry Leaders | DisrupTV Ep. 122
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 122), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Anoop Nannra, Director and Head of Blockchain/DLT Initiative at Cisco; David Moss, CTO & Co-Founder at Blue Prism; and Doug Henschen, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research.
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This week in San Antonio Texas, Digital Workplace vendor Igloo Software held their annual user conference Igloo Customer Experience (ICE, Igloo... get it!) In addition to attending, I had the honour of keynoting the second day. I highlighted some of the challenges employees are struggling with today, and how bringing together content, colleagues and conversations can help employees not only get work done but be creative and feel like they have a voice in the company.
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Macro Trends That Will Influence Buyers of Workforce Management Systems
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The Future Is No Longer Cloud-Only—the Reality Is Workload Portability