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In 2010, SAP debuted its in-memory database, SAP HANA, which offers a unique, differentiated strategy among enterprise application vendors.
By now you know the idea I had to square off the top news and developments of each quarter of 2016 in playoff / bracket format...
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There is always time to try something new - and instead of writing one more year review on what happened in my research areas, I thought I make this more entertaining, and provider a 'playoff' of the news in each quarter. I started with NextGen Apps for Q1 2016 - take a look here.
Analyst Blog
There is always time to try something new - and instead of writing one more year review on what happened in my research areas, I thought I make this more entertaining, and provider a 'playoff' of the news in each quarter.
Analyst Blog
It has been stated that IoT is the killer App for Cloud Computing, but given that the definition of Cloud Computing itself is often difficult, this seems to add to the difficulty of defining Cloud based IoT Services.
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Twitter has been making the news lately for not-so-happy reasons, such as its plummeting stock price and failure—so far—to find an acquirer. The company has also seen a series of top executives leave the company in recent months and the most significant is CTO Adam Messinger, a former Oracle development executive who logged five years at Twitter.
Insight Blog
Constellation Research hopes you all have a great holiday season this year with friends and family. In the spirit of recognizing memorable achievements in the tech industry, we also want to use this occasion to announce the winners of Constellation’s first annual Enterprise Awards.
Analyst Blog
2016 in Review & The Subscription Economy | DisrupTV Ep. 42
In DisrupTV Episode 42, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar welcome Tien Tzuo, Founder and CEO of Zuora, alongside Esteban Kolsky for a year-end technology recap.
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Red Hat OpenShift’s Availability on Google Cloud Platform Is a Big Win for Enterprises
Oracle may still have some ways to go in surpassing the likes of Salesforce for cloud software sales, but nonetheless remains a key bellwether for the state of enterprise software in general. This week, Oracle reported second-quarter results that slightly topped analyst expectations but also saw revenue growth slow.
Insight Blog
We had the opportunity to attend MapR’s first ever analyst event, held December 12th and 13th in San Jose.
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Cloud Success Prompts Leading HCM Vendor to Adopt Leading IaaS Vendor for Production Loads
During AWS reInvent 2016, Workday announced it selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud platform for customer workloads. This Quark analyzes the implications of the announcement for Workday customers and partners.
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A CMO’s Guide to Mobile Marketing Opportunities in 2017 and 2018
Advancements in the world of mobile technology continue to develop rapidly. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become an integral part of people’s daily life. Mobile has become an essential channel for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) to reach their customers.
This Quark describes five mobile marketing trends which CMOs should capitalize on over the next 12 to 24 months.
The five mobile marketing trends to watch:
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Lessons Learned from Digital Transformation Projects in 2016
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Smartphones have been declared a device that people “can’t live without”. With over two billion smartphones in use globally, mobile marketing presents an effective and personal way for companies to engage with their customers.
The growth of enterprise technology continues to fascinate us because of the sheer potential of its scalability and power to transform businesses. When we look at what’s on the horizon with both technology startups and big businesses, the possibilities seem limitless.
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MapR promises a more scaleable, reliable, real-time-capable and converged alternative to Hadoop, NoSQL databases and Kafka combined. Are companies buying it?
MapR is frequently mentioned in the same breath with Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks, but maybe it’s time to stop thinking of them as competitors. Indeed, over the last eighteen months, MapR has added ambitious NoSQL database and streaming capabilities to what the company now calls its MapR Converged Data Platform.
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It's no secret that IBM wants to be a dominant player in blockchain technology, and the company has committed serious resources in hopes of achieving that goal. But Big Blue recently announced an initiative aimed at creating an ecosystem of companies working with blockchain, with the idea being that such cohesion will benefit all parties. Here are the details from IBM's announcement:
Insight Blog
Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. describes rising customer expectations and the importance of offering good customer service to create optimal customer experiences.
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A substantial number of new Consumer Smart Services delivered by a Smart Phone, or in Car Systems, rely on the Position of the user relative to Positioning of a resource, such as a Restaurant, to work. It seems simple, and its translation into full blown IoT commercial systems seems straight forward, but is that really so? Is the representation of key features in an App ‘Map’, or from a Blueprint of a Building, the same as that of a Geospatial map?
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In 2013, The Muse, in association with Women in Tech, published a report reflecting the huge potential of female entrepreneurs and employees. For example, Fortune 500 companies with at least 3 female directors have on average 53% higher returns on equity, sales and invested capital. This special report gives tangible recommendations that companies can implement to create a positive working environment for women and men to thrive in.
Here’s a sample of the findings of the current report in 2016:
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This year has not been kind to operators of lesser-used public clouds as they struggle to compete with the sector's big four: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Bluemix and Google Cloud Platform. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Verizon both shut down their public cloud services this year, and now Cisco is set to do the same, as the Register reports:
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Salesforce has rolled out LiveMessage, which provides Service Cloud customers with messaging capabilities for SMS and Facebook Messenger, as well as support for both native and third-party chatbots.
The idea behind LiveMessage is to give service agents a way to communicate with customers the same way many do with friends and family—through various messaging apps on their mobile phones.
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