This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Few open source standard have won faster than Kubernetes, and that also means the ecosystem consolidation is moving faster than almost any market in enterprise software. So it came as no surprise that Red Hat announced it acquired CoreOS.
Today Microsoft released an update to Microsoft Teams that enhances the "seamless hub for personal productivity and team collaboration" experience.
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SAP hasn't been on the 1B+ acquisition path since 2014, and at the same time is building out its next generation ERP offering with S/4HANA. SAP seemed to be on an organic build out path of capabilities, so the more (or less) was the surprise that SAP stepped back into acquisition mode, acquiring Dublin, CA based CallidusCloud (Callidus going forward here) for 2.4B US$.
From Davos to Disruption: LifeSite's Story & Design Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 91
In Episode 91 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with Chris Wong (CEO of LifeSite), YoonJin Chang (Co-Founder / Business Development, LifeSite), Soon Yu (designer, author, and brand strategist), and Larry Dignan.
This week I attended Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's (ALE) partner and analyst conference, Connex18 in Riga, Latvia. ALE is currently known mainly for unified communications, contact centre, PBX and telephony type solutions, but they are evolving to a more cloud based Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider.
MicroStrategy promises quick-to-deploy data-discovery and departmental capabilities that sync with its venerable, enterprise-scale platform.
MicroStrategy is back. After a few years in which the business intelligence and analytics company made little noise, it’s back with new energy, new capabilities for ad hoc and departmental users and a new educational push around what it calls its “Map of the Intelligent Enterprise.”
Davos Day Three Unpacked: AI Hype, Global Growth & Trust in Disruption — DisrupTV Road Edition
On Day Three of DisrupTV’s Road Edition at Davos, hosts and panelists explored themes resonating across tech, trust, AI, regulatory shifts, and global economic tension. Here are the key ideas, lessons, and implications from the day’s discussions.
More and more software is moving to the cloud and it allows vendors to redefine the value proposition of their software during the process. A good example is Informatica with its integration product capabilities.
Driving Purpose-Driven Innovation: Insights from DisrupTV Road Edition – Davos Day Two
In Episode 2 of DisrupTV's Road to Davos, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with thought leaders Bernt Wahl, Nigel Cameron, Joanne Moretti, and Steven Waterhouse to explore how technology is shaping the future of society.
Featured Guests & Their Insights
Bernt Wahl – Executive Director at Brain Machine Consortium
Exploring the Future of Technology and Society: Insights from DisrupTV Road Edition – Davos Day One
DisrupTV went on the road to The World Economic Form - Davos. For day one, we caught up with Naveen Rajdev, CMO at Wipro, Annalie Killian, Catalyst and Amplifier & Engagement Director at sparks & honey, and Nagesh Rao, Eisenhower Fellow & AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador Advisor.
Future of Digital Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 90
In DisrupTV Episode 90, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling conversation with digital futurist Brian Fanzo and enterprise architect Dion Hinchcliffe. The episode delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence, the future of work, and strategies for navigating digital disruption.
Why is email so popular? Because it works. If you know someone's email address you can send them a message. It does not matter which email system they use, what client they use, what device they use, where they are in the world, etc. Anyone can email anyone else. However, that ease of use also enables the issue with email, its misuse for scenarios better suited to other tools. Contrast this to social networking, where the only people that can communicate with each other are people in the same network. Within a company social networking is great.
The monopoly race is on between all key cloud IaaS players, the most prominent ones being AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. There are always monthly press releases about new data centers being announced, opening etc.
One of the main battlegrounds in collaboration this year is going to be around improving the way people coordinate the work they need to get done. Constellation Research has historically referred to this category of products as Social Task Management, but will soon be updating the name to Work Coordination Platforms.
Data-Driven Decision Intelligence | DisrupTV Ep. 89
In DisrupTV Episode 89, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling conversation with Frederic Laluyaux, President & CEO at Aera Technology; Chris Bradley, Partner at McKinsey & Company and author; and Doug Henschen, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research.
It’s a new year and new product announcements are coming out – normally in the consumer space, given CES looming large. Looks like SAP did not want to stand back and had a major announcement in the HCM space: The announcement of a new, on premises (yes you read this right) HCM product, planned to be available in 2023, a record time range of 5 years out. Definitively worth a news analysis, the press release can be found here.