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AI, Blockchain, and the Future of Finance | DisrupTV Ep. 74
In Episode 74 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
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Oracle shakes up database release naming convention: The Oracle database has long been and remains the market-share leader. Now the company is making a major change to its database release numbering structure, one that could have mixed results from a marketing and customer-satisfaction perspective.
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This week Constellation released the latest versions of our Constellation ShortLists. These lists help organizations decide on which vendors they should be evaluating across various markets. They are not rankings, but rather guides to help the decision making process. The current lists for my coverage in the area of the Future of Work are:
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Inaugurating the New AstroChart™ of Tech Trends for The New C-Suite
Designed for strategic planning and roadmap development by executives, leadership, and key digital decision makers, Constellation’s AstroChart™ of Tech Trends for The New C-Suite is designed to be a highly usable visual guide to the top-level technology trends. The position of a given technology on the Astrochart maps its strategic urgency and impact to today's digital enterprise. The vertical axis rates adoption from mainstream and early adopters, all the way to the bleeding edge of experimentation.
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Our cycle for refreshing the Constellation ShortLists completed in July and in addition to my B2B and B2C Marketing Automation reports, I’m pleased to release a new ShortList specific to Marketing Analytics. Today’s CMOs face an increasingly challenging landscape of marketing channels and technology to manage while needing to prove their efforts are impacting sales.
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What’s up in data cataloging, data lake management, hybrid- and cloud-ready databases, and business intelligence and analytics? Here’s my biannual take via Constellation ShortLists.
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IBM lawsuit reveals plans to take fight to AWS: Former IBM CIO Jeff Smith is trying to take a job with rival Amazon Web Services, but a lawsuit filed by Big Blue this week is tryiing to put the kibosh on his move.
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It’s that time again! Today, we are releasing an update of the Constellation ShortList™ portfolio. We offer 46 lists across our coverage areas, including 13 new lists launched today:
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No new technology since the Internet itself has excited so many pundits as blockchain, but the mania has largely settled down, and I have warmed to the third generation ledger technologies carefully researched and developed from the ground up, by R3, Hyperledger and Microsoft, to name a few of the main players in this field.
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Smart Cities, Digital Infrastructure, and Sustainability | DisrupTV Ep. 73
In Episode 73 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
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Facebook goes neural for translations: Machine translation has come a long way over the years, but the rise of neural networks as the favored method for processing translations stands to up the ante significantly. To that end, Facebook recently completed the shift of its translation services from phrase-based models to neural networks.
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Wipro showcases “the art of the possible” in Mountain View, CA. Here’s a peek inside the collaborative R&D and incubation hub. Systems integrator, consulting and business process services firm Wipro … Continue reading →
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What’s the news: Buried in the Q4 and all FY announcement of Oracle was the CAPEX figure for Q4 of the last Fiscal year. And it was for the first time in the last eight quarters – more than 2B. YoY it was a close to 1B bump from 1.1B Q4 last year to a little more than 2B this Q4. CEO Saffra Catz seems to like 1.6B CAPEX spend, which was the number in in 5 of the last 8 quarters. But two quarters were just 1B, now Q4 2B+.
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Increasing customer loyalty is a very important aspect of business today. There are too many choices for customers to go elsewhere on a whim. This is not to say that a company shouldn’t continue to acquire new customers, but the loyal customers are the ones that will name drop you in conversations. They will recommend you to their friends and family. They will broadcast your message on social channels and in emails.
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New deadline August 11, 2017
You now have a few more days to complete your SuperNova Award application! The new deadline to apply for the SuperNova Awards is August 11, 2017.
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The importance of ‘Services’ as a means to both grow revenue and create a reoccurring business revenue stream is well accepted, but increasingly Enterprises find they are competing on the quality of their Services. Traditional measures focus on customer responsiveness and satisfaction, balanced with competitive cost/price reduction, achieved by using recognized multi-point action plans.
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The AI arms race continues: AI and machine learning startups have been popping up like mad in recent times, and are being acquired just as quickly. This week, Facebook and SaaS application vendor LogMeIn continued the trend, buying Ozlo and Nanorep, respectively.
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What’s the news: Azure Stack – announced a little more than two years ago is Microsoft’s on premise version of Azure (with some reduced / missing capabilities to the cloud version). Originally slated to run on Microsoft hardware and available last summer, the product suite is now available for partners to certify.
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