This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
New Management Team and Focus Bode Well for FinancialForce
Constellation attended the FinancialForce Community Live event in Las Vegas in June 2017. More than 1,000 attendees gathered to see the new management team and product roadmap. The market for cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software remains hot as regulatory requirements and modernization efforts drive upgrades and vendor selection. Renewed focus on services based ERP and cloud entry
There are few better ways to take the measure of enterprise software buyers' moods than by examining Oracle's fourth-quarter results, which were released this week. Q4 is always Oracle's biggest quarter of the year, and all eyes were on what numbers it would post for cloud revenue.
Back in the day when the Web was transforming business channels to market the concept of White Space was often quoted. In a 2010 article, (see link in following paragraph), on the subject Harvard Business Review stated; As a metaphor, white space is at once ubiquitous and frustratingly ambiguous. There may be as many definitions circulating, as there are business thinkers.
Dropbox turned heads when it announced last year it had migrated 90 percent of its storage off of Amazon Web Services and onto a homegrown, global network.
In a stunner of a move, Amazon will pay $13.7 billion to acquire upscale supermarket chain Whole Foods Market. It's a move that will significantly change Amazon as a company and has implications for the future of retail, omnichannel commerce and supply chain practices.
Are you interested in working with influencers to promote your telecommunications business? Wondering how to search and connect with the right influencers?
Influencers can help promote your brand to a broader, yet tailored, audience.
Watch this video learn the five steps to creating an effective influencer marketing strategy for the telecommunications industry.
Customer Experience (CX) software suites from technology providers aim to provide businesses with a seamless experience across marketing, sales and service, offering a single view of the customer.
We had the opportunity to attend Unit4 bi yearly analyst conference in Boston, held on June 15th, 2017, at the Boston Seaport Hotel. The meeting was (very – see the #MRS rule on Twitter) well attended, similar to two years ago – with about 20+ analysts attending.
We had the opportunity to attend Cloud Foundry’s yearly user conference, Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, held from June 13th till June 15th, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The conference was well attended, similar to last year, though with a wider variety of partners and sponsors.
While the technology isn't entirely new, Salesforce's just-launched Einstein Analytics marks the next path forward in its AI and advanced analytics strategy.
Did Jeff Bezos wake up this morning and say: "Alexa, acquire Slack?"
Rumours are circulating that Amazon may be interested in acquiring Slack. Below are my thoughts on a) what market is this really in? b) how would it fit in with Amazon's portfolio?
We had the opportunity to attend HireVue’s yearly user conference Digital Disruption in Deer Valley, held from June 12th till 14th, at the panoramic Stein Ericson lodge. The conference was similarily attended as last year with attendees from customers, prospects, partners and the influencer community (the letter was “very well” attended – insider joke, check Twitter).
Microsoft is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member, in the latest instance of the company embracing open source under the leadership of CEO Sayta Nadella. The move also further cements Cloud Foundry's market position as a leading multi-cloud PaaS (platform as a service).
Today Box introduced the public beta of Box Drive, their new desktop integration that allows people to browse and access all the enterprise content they have access to, without having to synchronize the folders and files down to their local computer.
In the video below I discuss the trend of on-demand file-streaming and look at what the major players are doing in this space.
We had the opportunity to attend Hortonworks analyst day in San Jose, held June 12th 2017, at the Marriott San Jose, in advance to the Dataworks Summit, held at the McEnery Convention center next door. The analyst meeting was well attended with over 20 influencers present.