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Salesforce this week detailed progress on Einstein artificial intelligence. Less clear was how a new IBM partnership will change Salesforce AI plans. Here’s what's behind the headlines.
What’s the state of Salesforce Einstein, the portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities announced last fall? Salesforce generated plenty of media coverage this week with two big announcements. Here’s my take on the realities of a partnership with IBM and what we have yet to understand about the packaging and pricing of Einstein.
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It appears that Facebook has finally settled on how to make money with its massively popular WhatsApp messaging system, for which it paid an eye-popping $19 billion three years ago. It's an idea that takes a cue from what Facebook is doing with its similar Messenger app, as Reuters reports:
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Google Cloud Takes Key Steps To Enterprise Class
Over 10,000 customers, prospects, partners, Google developers, and employees gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone West Conference Center for Google’s flagship enterprise event.
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We had the opportunity to attend Google’s Google Next conference, happening in San Francisco from March 7th till 11th at Moscone West. San Francisco ‘dressed’ up in Google Next colors already way ahead of the event, it was clear that this would be a much bigger event than last year’s Google Cloud Platform event. And a difference it was, also aided by the combination of Google Cloud and GSuite, the number of analysts jumped from 20 or so to estimated 80+.
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Insights into Day 1 at #GoogleNext17 from Constellation Research Analyst R "Ray" Wang.
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Insights from Constellation Analyst R "Ray" Wang from the Oracle Cloud ERP Analyst Day held at the Ritz Carlton San Francisco on March 8th, 2017
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Any definition of a Digital Business emphasizes the requirement to be marketplace responsive with Enterprise wide dynamic agility to optimize reactions to events, and opportunities. As business buyers and consumers both become adept at finding exactly what they want mass volume product and distribution becomes configurable software Products and Services. To increase revenues Enterprise have to become equally adept in the finding, and aligning the people, knowledge and operating assets to match.
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Why We Are Offering Another Free Resource for Business Leaders
Whenever R "Ray" Wang travels for business, he is often engaged in one of these three activities, which typically involves connecting with business professionals or leaders.
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Back in October, we announced the new Constellation ShortList™ program. It offers guidance across our different coverage areas and helps buyers of technology identify the services and products they need to achieve digital transformation.
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IBM is doubling down on its stake in the nascent quantum computing market, announcing plans to build commercially available universal quantum systems. It's a bold but not unexpected move following Big Blue's unveiling last year of Quantum Experience, which allowed the public to interact with an IBM quantum computer through its cloud.
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Innovating Content, Customer Trust & the Future of Enterprise Tech | DisrupTV Ep. 51
In DisrupTV Episode 51, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by three leaders each bringing a distinct lens on technology, media, and customer experience:
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Last year, the United States and European Union came to terms on the Privacy Shield Framework, which provides a means for companies in both regions to ensure compliance with EU data protection laws when sending personal data from the EU to the US as part of commercial transactions. It's a critical underpinning of transatlantic commerce.
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When Cisco bought IoT device management platform vendor Jasper roughly one year ago for $1.4 billion, Constellation viewed it as a wise move.
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Docker has taken a major step toward broader and deeper corporate adoption with the release of an enterprise ediition of its open-source application container platform. Here are the key details from an official blog post:
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We had the opportunity to attend Pitney Bowes Tech Analyst meeting held at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, February 28th and March 1st 2017. The event was well attended with close to 30 analysts, many from oversees, in attendance.
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As you've probably heard, Amazon Web Services' had a bit of an outage this week. Problems with its Simple Storage Service in the US-EAST-1 region caused a large number of prominent websites to either be inaccesible or perform very slowly. While Amazon characterized the issue as "increased error rates," rather than an outage, for many users it came to the same.
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We had the opportunity to attend the partner kickoff meeting of CenturyLink, Ascend, held in San Diego from February 22nd to 24th. The event was well attended with a large number of partners present, both from traditional CenturyLink partners and newer kind of partners (see below).
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Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, Steve Wilson, clarifies the myths and truths about blockchain and highlights key industries that can benefit. If you are not a Constellation Executive Network member yet, join our analysts in this private community to talk shop and solve business problems in real time.
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