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SAP is getting its app store act together, with the unveiling of a new App Center that brings together partner offerings for its entire catalog in the same place. The move gets what had become a growing problem with app store sprawl under control, as SAP's Steve Ache writes in a blog post:
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SAP is planning to make major additional investments in Business ByDesign, the cloud ERP suite it first launched in 2007, hoping to make the product finally reach the critical mass it originally expected.
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Title: Comment on a Medium Article
Source: Surfin’
Link: https://medium.com/@nafrondel/you-requested-someone-with-a-degree-in-this-holds-up-hand-d4bf18e96ff
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A New Breed of Software Helps Improve User Adoption of New Technologies
Navigating Brand Strategy, Crisis Management, and Tech Journalism | DisrupTV Ep. 61
In Episode 61 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry experts:
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We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s yearly developer conference – Microsoft Build, held in Seattle from May 10th till 13th 2017. The event was back in Seattle, like in early days, and is probably the most international event from an attendee perspective I know off. A sign of Microsoft’s global scale and importance in the developer community.
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A knowledge summary is a semi-long to a long post that synthesizes positions, concepts, and lessons learned around a topic. They consist of a mix of primary research with ideas and frameworks I built based on conversations and working sessions.
This knowledge summary will focus on concepts you have to know to succumb to embrace digital transformation in the next decade.
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Digital Trends Signal Manufacturing Renaissance Ahead
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Microsoft is beefing up its database options for Azure in a big way. During the first day of its Build developer conference, Redmond unveiled a new "planet-scale" database platform, new support for open-source databases, and a database migration service. Here's a look at each announcement and what they mean.
Azure Cosmos DB
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Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off with a keynote featuring CEO Satya Nadella, who set the tone for the event in clear terms: Microsoft views developers not as cogs in the machine, but creators.
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The promise of digital targeting has had marketers salivating for years. We would be able to identify, reach, engage and convert consumers one-to-one at scale thanks to technology. Better yet, with mobile devices, we could bring an offer to a consumer who was physically close to our retail outlet thanks to big data, mapping and location services.
Accordingly, substantial investments have been made in a wide variety of technologies from CRM and data mining, to automation, analysis and beyond.
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"The dawn of an Artificial Intelligence-driven world has arrived. From conversations as as service, to mixed reality, to new forms of engagement, Constellation Research predicts that AI will be the new user experience for voice, vision, hearing, sense and maybe even smell." - R “Ray” Wang | Chairman & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research
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Even if you are not a natural disruptive thinker or leader, thinking creatively about innovation and and the role that technology plays can be easily stimulated by seeing a quick tweet, quote, or hearing a joke. After a quick online search, I found inspiring innovation quotes from current leaders and spotted general technology quotes like these.
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A few weeks ago in San Francisco, I attended my first Anaplan Hub conference along with over 1500 other attendees. This year’s Hub marked a new milestone for Anaplan with the debut of new President and CEO Frank Calderoni. A noted tech veteran, Calderoni previously served as the CFO of Red Hat and Cisco. In the keynote, Calderoni emphasized his commitment to deliver the promised innovation to customers with the company’s “significant” investment in R&D. Calderoni also cited that the company’s momentum is strong, adding 250 new customers in the last year.
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Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, Doug Henschen, reveals truths and 3 imperatives on which new disruptive business models are gathering the greatest momentum for data analytics, Big Data, and AI. Join our Constellation Executive Network to exchange ideas and solve business problems in real time.
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Find out how artificial intelligence will help people get work done in the Future of Work with Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, Alan Lepofsky. Join our Constellation Executive Network to exchange ideas and solve business problems in real time.
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Facebook, the social media juggernaut, seems intent on swallowing up any social media network that poses a threat to its soon-to-be monopoly over the world’s mindshare.
Facebook is a precursor to The Borg: Assimilating competitive networks until all that’s left is one large, ubiquitous social network.
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Title: Understanding the Four Types of #AI
Source: Twitter, via Vala Afshar
Link: https://theconversation.com/understanding-the-four-types-of-ai-from-reactive-robots-to-self-aware-beings-67616
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Transforming Government IT, Cloud Strategy, and Customer Experience | DisrupTV Ep. 60
In Episode 60 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
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Earlier this week Unit4 released Wanda, a bot that enhances and enriches the vendor’s vision of self-driving ERP.
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When most organizations think of Microsoft, they still think first of PCs, Windows, and Microsoft Office.
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We had the opportunity to attend Red Hats yearly user conference Red Hat Summit in Boston, held May 2nd till 4th 2017, at the Boston Convention Center. The conference was well attended with over 6000 attendees, a new record for Red Hat. In its 13th edition, I took note of the international customer base, reflected also in the Red Hat innovation awards.
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