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U.S. President Donald Trump may be moving technology further up his list of priorities, signing an executive order creating the American Technology Council, which will include members of his administration along with input from leaders at top tech companies.
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We had the opportunity to attend Equifax Insight’s EFX Forum user conference in Scottsdale, held April 25th till 27th, at the beautiful Marriott Camelback resort in Scottsdale. The conference was well attended with about 200 attendees, good partner representation and influencer selection.
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Transforming Billing, Retail Strategy, and AI Marketing | DisrupTV Ep. 59
In Episode 59 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
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We had the opportunity to attend NetSuite’s SuiteWorld event held at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas and happening from April 24th till 27th 2017. SuiteWorld was well attended with a new record of over 7000+, good partner representation and influencer selection. It was also the first SuiteWorld in after the Oracle acquisition and in the post Zach Nelson era of NetSuite.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has unveiled how he intends to roll back so-called "net neutrality" regulations passed in 2015. While Pai has the benefit of a Republican-majority FCC board, he could still be in for a fight as advocates and the public push back.
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SAS Viya is now available as the cloud-friendly platform for SAS Visual apps and, soon, SAS 9. Next up should be more cloud-based services options.
SAS, like many well-established tech vendors, has to keep one eye on the future and one eye on the past. At the April 2-5 SAS Global Forum in Orlando, FL, the company did its best to reassure the 5,500-plus attendees that it can take them into the future without obsoleting past investments in SAS technologies and training.
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SAP has long had a substantial presence in manufacturing for its ERP software, but in recent years has brought newer technologies to bear on manufacturing operations. It made two more significant moves in that direction this week at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show in Germany, announcing partnerships with Mitsubishi Electric and robotics manufacturer Kuka.
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IBM is teaming up with power systems and robotics giant ABB in a bid to apply AI (artificial intelligence) to the shop floor, smart grids and other industrial scenarios. The partnership will incorporate ABB's Ability platform with IBM's Watson IoT (Internet of things) technology:
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Infor has spent billions in recent years in the course of creating a next-generation cloud ERP suite, with most of the results coming from organic development. To shore up its hand in analytics, however, it is going outside with plans to acquire Birst, a fairly small but mature player in cloud-based BI (business intelligence). Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
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Some 50 companies have joined a new open source project focused on IoT (Internet of Things) edge computing at the Linux Foundation. The effort could foster interoperability and faster maturing for enterprise and industrial IoT. Here are the key details from the Foundation's announcement:
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R "Ray" Wang shares what's hot for Q1 2017, such as Connected Enterprise and SuperNova Awards and introduces our newest analyst and digital strategist, Dion Hinchcliffe, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, who will focus on the New C-Suite in his research coverage.
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Business has constantly pushed for better ‘intelligence’ to support improved decision-making to support the continued drive towards increasing competitiveness. The impact of Cloud Services in reducing cost and improving availability of capacity together with the rise of Big Data from Web and Social activities has taken analytics and Business Intelligence to new highs.
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This week, payment card startup Plastc abruptly went belly-up, telling more than 80,000 customers who had preordered the devices that it is filing for bankruptcy and will not ship a single item.
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Decoding the Future: How Enterprise Tech and Marketing Are Evolving Together | DisrupTV Ep. 58
In Episode 58 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
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Oracle is continuing its acquisitive ways in 2017, with the latest purchase focusing on Moat, which makes a platform for measuring the effectiveness of digital advertising. It will become a key new feature of Oracle's Data Cloud service, which has expanded in functional scope and intent over the past couple of years.
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Information Portability across On-Premises and Cloud Storage Boosted with Oracle ZFS
Revolutionizing Sports Business with Data-Driven Strategies | DisrupTV Ep. 57
In Episode 57 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
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As interest in blockchain/distributed ledger technologies grew in recent years, a number of powerful industry consortia have emerged. Two of the most prominent are Hyperledger, which is hosted at the Apache Software Foundation, and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. (The latter was only formed in February, but Ethereum already had a strong developer community.)
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This morning SAP surprised us with the news of re-organizing its executive board, largely initiated by the departure of Steve Singh. As often with organizational press releases – you have to read it from the bottom up, but we will follow our customary process of dissecting the press release.
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In my last blog "IBM Blockchain as a Service and Hyperledger Fabric forge a new path", I mentioned how the language of blockchain technology is shifting. Even the labels themselves are still fluid. Debates rage over whether IBM and R3 should call their solutions “blockchains”. For a year or two now, many writers have preferred Distributed Ledger Technologies, yet the increasingly dominant private blockchains aren’t very distributed at all.
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