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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.
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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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Hyperledger, one of the leading industry consortiums for distributed ledger (or more colloquially, blockchain) technologies, has received an interesting new project under its open-source roof: Indy, which is focused on developing next-generation digital identity services.
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Verizon is the latest company to get out of the enterprise cloud and hosting market, as it has announced plans to sell off that business to IBM.
However, Verizon is characterizing the IBM deal as something more than a simple sale. SVP George Fisher explained the move in a blog post:
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The Digital Economy will consist of ecosystems participating in interactions from which multiple participants benefit. On route to this new market, most established Enterprises look to add Digital Technology to enhance their current Business model. However, unrecognized competitors in the form of startups are already establishing new Business ecosystems around Smart Services.
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Cisco's penchant for acquisitions is continuing unabated with the $610 million purchase of Viptela, maker of a software-defined WAN (wide area network) system. In part, the move is meant to take a competitor off the table, as Cisco already has some SD-WAN capabilities of its own.
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Salesforce's steady growth over the years can be tied in part to its success in establishing a partner ecosystem of ISVs and systems integrators building extensions and full-blown applications on its development platform.
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Things were quiet around Saba for a while, as the vendor struggled with re-stating earnings… then the vendor surprised with the acquisition of Canada head quartered Halogen.
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Oracle demos Adaptive Intelligent Offers app for commerce, marketing. Next up are more CX capabilities as well as ERP, HR and supply chain apps.
The biggest reveal at the April 25-27 Oracle Modern Customer Experience (CX) Event in Las Vegas was the debut of Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps for CX. Adaptive Intelligent Offers (AI Offers) is the first app in a planned portfolio of artificial intelligence applications that will eventually span CX, ERP, human capital management and supply chain management.
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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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