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Google is the canonical example of a company that found commercial success through the use of open-source software. It's undertaken more than 2,000 open source projects over its 18-year history, and in turn has released millions of lines of code to the public.
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We had the opportunity to attend SAP Ariba’s Live user conference in Las Vegas, held from March 21st till 23rd 2017, at the Cosmopolitan. The event was well attended with over 3200 attendees, good partner representation and influencer selection.
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Domo has graduated from analytics startup to enterprise contender, breaking new ground in cloud-scale deployments. Here’s a look inside the fast-growing company. … Continue reading →
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We continue our series of IaaS downtimes – and other availability issues, see our Down Report on the recent AWS downtime here.
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Last week's UK terror attacks at in London left more than 50 people injured and four dead. The attack shocked the world, not least because it was committed not with a sophisticated weapon but by a single man with a car and a knife. The attacker, Khalid Masood, was shot dead by police but his methods won't soon be forgotten.
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It’s been a big month for blockchain.
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Cloudera executives can’t talk about IPO or cloud-services rumors. Here what’s on the record from the Cloudera Analyst Conference.
There were a few elephants in the room at the March 21-22 Cloudera Analyst Conference in San Francisco. But between a blanket “no comment” about IPO rumors and non-disclosure demands around cloud plans -- even whether such plans exist, or not -- Cloudera execs managed to dance around two of those elephants.
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We had the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s yearly user conference, Connection in Las Vegas, held March 20th till 24th 2017, at the Bellagio hotel. The conference was well attended with almost 2900 attendees, limited by fire marshal restrictions.
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Scaling SaaS, Network Intelligence & the Future of Work | DisrupTV Ep. 54
In DisrupTV Episode 54, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by:
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Sears continues to fall, and may soon be out of business.
If I were their CEO and someone asked me how to turn the store around with one last Hail Mary pass, my answer would be one word…”auctions”.
Yes, make every item available in every Sears store available for auction.
Bear with me.
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LinkedIn is betting large organizations will be willing to pay up to $1,600 per seat per year for a new Enterprise edition of Sales Navigator, which it says will generate higher productivity and results for social selling efforts. Here are the key details from LinkedIn's announcement:
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The 2017 World Economic Forum focused on dynamic leadership as its theme, which sparked plenty of healthy dialogues and discussions. R "Ray" Wang, Constellation Research Chairman and Principal Analyst, spent time with global leaders in Davos, Switzerland discussing the essential characteristics that embody dynamic leaders and is now sharing with our ecosystem of global leaders who drive digital transformation across diverse, multi-faceted industries.
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If you want to sound remotely informed on the latest disruptive technology trends as a business leader, you can start by mentioning blockchain. People's eyes either glaze over or light up. You have probably noticed that there is a lot of speculation by self-appointed thought leaders. Blockchain hype has been rampant when you consider the widespread implications of removing "middlemen" from transactions.
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The Digital Business model with its dynamic adaptive capabilities to react to events with intelligently orchestrated responses forms from Services requires a very different enabling infrastructure to that of current Enterprise IT systems. As the Enterprise itself decentralizes into fast moving agile operating entities operating under an OpEx (costs allocated to actual use) management model so must the Infrastructure support with similar functional structure.
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IBM has claimed it has the lead in the increasingly competitive blockchain and distributed ledger technology market, saying the new release of its IBM Blockchain service is the first "enterprise-ready" one of its kind.
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We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s Meeting of the Mind (MOTM) conference in San Diego, held March 19th till 22nd 2017, and the Manchester Grand Hyatt. The conference was well attended with over 1000 attendees, good partner representation and influencer selection.
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The Flow State, Growth Marketing & Disruption in Tech Media | DisrupTV Ep. 53
In DisrupTV Episode 53, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by:
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I am always interested to see how different lenses on the same subject reveal insights. For example, B2B marketers have a particular skew when it comes to digital and social media – it is hard edged, data driven and technology enabled. This is particularly true for large scale tech companies – but is an approach […]
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Microsoft first introduced their new collaboration tool Microsoft Teams (they call it a chat-based workspace) back in Nov 2016 as a preview release. Four months and over 100 product enhancements later, this week they made the first official version available to Office 365 business subscribers.
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Come out on May 4th and network with other sports business professionals that work or live in the New York area. All backgrounds are welcome, from those just starting out to industry veterans.
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Oracle has quietly added what appears to be a very powerful big data tool to its arsenal. The company is acquiring the technology assets of Infinity, a big-data platform developed by web analytics pioneer Webtrends, and plans to add it to its Marketing Cloud suite.
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We had the opportunity to attend the Workforce Software Vision 2017 user conference held in New Orleans from March 13th till 15th 2017. The even was well attended with over 260 attendees, managing a collective 500k workers.
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