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What’s the news: Google wants to help recruiters be more successful. It wants them to use G-Suite to schedule appointments, Gmail to email with applicants and internal stakeholders, use Google Search to make job post more attractive. Google has also thought of reports and data migration to get started. Hire leverages assets from Bebop – the ‘acquihire’ that brought Diane Greene to Google. The link to the earlier shipped Google Jops API isn’t fully clear, but its more likely than not leveraged.
Artificial Intelligence is with us today. When you fire up your smart phone’s map application, it knows where you’re probably going based on the time of day, and without prompting, gives you a bit of advice about how to get there and what traffic jam to avoid. That’s pretty cool. And from there we easily slide into an optimistic outlook for self-driving cars.
Alan's Angle - The Social Business News Recap for the week ending July 28th, 2017
Slack raises $250M - Analytics, AI, business partners and their first customer conference
WalkMe raises $75M - Digital Adoption Platforms help guide people through enterprise applications and websites
This week Zoho launched Zoho One, an offering that provides customers with access to all of the Zoho business and productivity applications for a single price of $1/person/day. If you're unfamiliar with Zoho, you should really take a look at their extensive product portfolio which includes:
On July 25th IBM announced the availability of IBM Connections Engagement Center. This is the first release of this optional enhancement to IBM Connections since IBM acquired the software from TIMETOACT back in May.
Revolutionizing Collaboration with AI and Cognitive Technologies | DisrupTV Ep. 72
In Episode 72 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
Nothing is more feared by the colleagues of the writing press than summer, when nothing happens. But this summer is off to a different start – with substantial news coming out in the 2nd half of July...
We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s AI event held in London on July 12th 2017. The event was Microsoft R&D centric, with R&D Leader Harry Shum leading the presentation and more key R&D leaders at hand to share progress and plans that Microsoft has in AI space.
Rethinking Corporate Strategy and Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 71
In Episode 71 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
During this CEN Member Chat, Holger Mueller, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, covers what you need to know about the future of work in HCM.
Questions about Cloud Configure Price Quote (CPQ) solutions have popped up in most of my inquiries from B2B sales leaders this past year. My new report, the CRO’s Guide to Sales Acceleration with CPQ, was a labor of love inspired by these many conversations I had with sales executives, field sellers, and members of the Sales Enablement Society, on their sales effectiveness challenges. With B2B sales cycles lengthening and complexity growing, CPQ solutions deliver compelling ROI whether it be increasing the average deal size or accelerating the sales cycle.
July 10th at Microsoft Inspire, their Worldwide Business Partner conference, Microsoft introduced Microsoft 365, a new purchasing model that bundles Windows + Office 365 + Enterprise Mobility and Security.
They also introduced three new (SMB focused) business applications... plus made MileIQ available to select O365 plans.
From “Black Friday in July,” to conference after conference, and a not-so-small data breach, this week was jam-packed with news and chatter from some of the biggest companies across industries.
Navigating the Intersection of Technology, Innovation, and Business Strategy | DisrupTV Ep. 70
In Episode 70 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders: