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On March 29th Microsoft shared that the head of it's Window team, Terry Myerson, was leaving and as a consequence the Windows team was going to be split up into two large development teams under Rajesh Jha and Scott Guthrie (see Nadella's memo here, kudos for transparency).
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Revolutionizing Retail | DisrupTV Ep. 101
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests to discuss the transformation of retail through technology:
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We had the opportunity to attend IBM's Think conference held in Las Vegas, all over the MGM and Mandalay Bay, from March 19th till 22nd 2018. Happening in the busiest week of Spring conference season, I could make it only for one day, invited by the IBM Partner conference, that was happening in parallel.
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We had the opportunity to attend Oracle's HCM World conference, held from March 20th till 22nd in Dallas. Held in the busiest week of the spring conference circuit, the conference had good analyst and influencer representation and was overall well attended (Oracle claimed 2200+).
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Nvidia’s GTC 2018 event spotlights a play book that goes far beyond chips and servers. Get set for next era of training, inferencing and accelerated analytics.
“We're not a chip company; we're a computing architecture and software company.”
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Strength of Platforms Massively Affects the Effectiveness of Next-Generation Applications
We had the opportunity to attend ADP's 25th Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) user conference, held in Orlando at the Walldorf / Hilton from March 18th till 23rd 2018.
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Navigating the Future of SaaS | DisrupTV Ep. 100
In this landmark 100th episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests to discuss the evolving landscape of Software as a Service (SaaS):
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Focus On Humanizing AI
As organizations begin their journey into artificial intelligence (AI), ethics often enter the design process. While achieving a uniform set of ethics may seem insurmountable, some design points will help facilitate the humanization of artificial intelligence and provide appropriate checks and balances. Constellation has identified design pillars for Level 1 AI. Level 1 AI is defined as machine learning proficiency (see Figure 1)
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Embracing the Humanized Internet — Identity, Trust & Tech Leadership | DisrupTV Ep. 99
Hosts: R “Ray” Wang & Vala Afshar
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Business and Technology Trends Enterprises Must Track through 2020
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ENGIE develops its businesses (power, natural gas and energy services) around a model based on responsible growth to take on the major challenges of the energy industry’s transition to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation, and the rational use of resources.
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Carrier Taps Looker and Denodo to Bring Flexibility and Reuse to a Changing IT Landscape
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Cloud Finance Solutions Evolve to Support the Postmodern CFO
Domo insists its platform is aimed at business people, not data analysts. Here’s the appeal to CXOs and line-of-business types.
The key message at Domopalooza 2018, March 13-15 in Salt Lake City, was that Domo is a platform for business, not a tool for techies. I’ve heard this platform messaging before, but it made sense for cloud-based analytics vendor Domo to emphasize its new “for the good of the company” slogan to try to set itself apart from competitors Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik.
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Ultimate Software had their yearly user conference, Ultimate Connections at the Wynn in Las Vegas, from March 11th till 14th 2018. The event was very well attending with over 4k+ customers and prospects, Ultimate had to find a new home for Ultimate Connections as the conference has outgrown the Bellagio. I wasn't able to attend, but Ultimate was so kind to rope me in remotely into keynote and analyst meeting sessions, very much appreciated.
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Tragically, we have seen the first fatal accident involving a self-driving car, with a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona dying after being hit by an Uber in autonomous mode. My thoughts are with the family, and the Uber operator. It would be a horrific experience.
I don’t know the facts of this case, but people are already opining that the victim was jay-walking.
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Innovating the Future of Work & Social Impact | DisrupTV Ep. 98
In this enlightening episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three visionary leaders:
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Analytics Platform Delivers Double-Digit Reductions in False Positives
Transforming Business Models through Innovation and Technology | DisrupTV Ep. 97
In this insightful episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
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We had the opportunity to attend SAP Ariba's user conference in Ariba Live, held in Las Vegas at Ceasar's Palace from March 5th till 8th 2018. The conference saw record attendance, it had to move from the Cosmopolitan.
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The Digital Power Values for The New C-Suite: The Modern Mindset of the CEO, CIO, CMO, CDO, CFO, CCO
As digital has become core to the very foundation of how the most organizations operate today, the nature of the leadership required at the top has fundamentally shifted along with it. Based on my observations and work with C-level leaders in digital transformation over the last several years, we've reached the point where a marked shift has begun to happen.
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During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, held from 26thof February till 1st of March at the Fira. I had the chance to meet with a number of SAP executives and get some important takeaways from the briefings, worth of a blog post of media collected:
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As an industry observer, I attend probably something like 40+ user conferences a year, and from a longitudinal perspective I have been attending them since 30+ years, working for software vendors. My first industry conference, as a German native was of course... CeBIT in Hannover back in 1986...
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