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When SAP and Microsoft announced the plans to move more of SAP load to Microsoft Azure in Spring of 2016 (here is the news analysis blog post), it was clear this was a partnership that was bound and needed to happen.
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Building at the Edge — How Product Innovation, APIs & Modular Platforms Shape the User Experience | DisrupTV Ep. 84
In DisrupTV Episode 84, hosts Cindy Zhou (guest host) and Vala Afshar speak with:
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We had the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s Dreamforce event – held at the usual location, Moscone Center in San Francisco, from November 5th till 9th 2017. As usual, it was mega event, distributed across downtown, with Salesforce claiming 170k+ attendees. Salesforce shared some interesting ecosystem statistics, for instance it will generate / power 850B+ US$ in business in the next 10 years and have a net positive employment effect of 3.3M+ FTEs. Impressive statistics.
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The theme for this year’s Dreamforce was centered on Salesforce's passionate group of customer Trailblazers.
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Investing in Innovation — From Startups to Historical Tech Lessons | DisrupTV Ep. 85
In DisrupTV Episode 85, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar welcome three distinguished guests:
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Barcelona in November means SAP TechEd, the technology focused event that is complementary to the more Business focused SAP Sapphire event every May in Orlando.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About AI but Were Afraid to Ask
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ADP Has Turned the Innovation Corner and Is Becoming a Next-Gen HCM Vendor
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The State of the Boardroom and CXO Leadership in an Era of Digital Business
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How a Cloud Vendor Evolves its Platform Toward PaaS and Ecosystems to Benefit Customers
Twitter eyes more enterprise business with premium APIs: While Twitter has long provided APIs (application programming interfaces) for its data at no charge, it also offers enterprise-focused tools based on its acquisition of Gnip back in 2014.
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This offering overview provides an overview of Oracle’s current database product, 12c R2.
Monday Nov 6 - Thu Nov 9, Salesforce held their annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. This massive gathering of customers and developers covers the full range of Salesforce offerings, from Sales to Marketing to Customer Service and much more. Constellation Research had a team of analysts in attendance, with my focus being on the collaboration components of the event. Below I will discuss 3 key areas: Quip, Community Cloud, and Salesforce and Google partnership announcement.
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Databases Remain the Key to Enterprise Software–The Next-Gen Database is Materializing but Getting More Capable
Salesforce Einstein Prediction Builder, Bots, Data Insights and a new data-explorer feature stand out as the big AI and analytics announcements. Here’s what they’ll do for your business.
To Salesforce customer Bill Hoffman, Chief Analytics Officer at Minneapolis-based US Bank, the “A” in “AI” is about “augmented” intelligence because, as he said in a keynote at this week’s Dreamforce event in San Francisco, “there’s nothing artificial about it.”
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