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How do you decide which IoT suite, Data Lake Management offering or Enterprise Group Messaging app to deploy? Choosing the right tools will determine the success or failure of your digital programs.I’m excited to announce our new Constellation ShortList™ offering we’ve created to guide businesses to the right technologies for their transformation initiatives – starting with the Internet of Things (IoT),
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New Program Aiding Early Adopters Focused on Digital Transformation
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Salesforce has continued its string of acquisitions with the purchase of data management platform vendor Krux, in a deal worth about $700 million in cash and stock. The Krux acquisition wasn't formally announced by the company, but comes at the start of Salesforce's massive Dreamforce event, where more details will surely be shared this week.
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I just published my first solo report as an analyst, Sales by Design, Not by Challenge. The report puts forth the concept of how to apply design thinking to the sales process. Any good sales person will say that sales is an art, it requires understanding the customer’s business objectives, organizational nuances, and being clear that the ultimate goal is to come to a mutually agreed upon outcome.
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A Look at Oracle’s “AI” Use Cases, Strengths and Challenges and When to Expect Which Apps The introduction of Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps was among the most significant of the many announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2016. Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps represent the company’s first foray into the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). This report provides a product review of Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps.
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Bitcoin Blockchain’s Simple Security Model Evolves Rapidly for More Complex Use Cases
This report identifies the rapidly evolving security measures (including permissions, encryption, hardware security processors, and application security) needed for common closed business applications of blockchain. It also examines what these measures mean for the core distributed ledger algorithms in both public and private blockchain systems.
Strata + Hadoop World announcements by Cloudera, IBM, Google and SAP anticipate cloud growth. Here’s why cloud will be so crucial even if data remains on premises. “Today, 92% of all … Continue reading →
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We had the opportunity to attend CloudFroundry’s CFSummit conference held in Frankfurt September 27th and 28th 2016. The conference was well attended with over 700+ participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem.
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Civic Tech, Enterprise Innovation & Digital Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 34
In DisrupTV Episode 34, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with:
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So the rumors are out, Twitter is up for sale – and I see it with a wary eye, my most used social network may change owners… time to muse about it.
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Salesforce has asked EU antitrust authorities to take a hard look at Microsoft's pending $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, arguing that it intends to shut off access to the highly valuable troves of user data collected by the site. Here's Salesforce's stance from its chief counsel, Blake Norton:
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My Constellation Research colleagues and I had the pleasure of attending OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual customer and developer conference last week. We all cover different aspects of Oracle’s solutions and this event summary is focused on Oracle Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud and the intersection with Data Cloud.
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Win through Empathy, Co-Innovation, and Co-Creation with Customers
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Early Blockchain Adopters Must Be Aware of the Pitfalls and Conduct R&D with Care This report explains how to ensure blockchain research and development (R&D) produces secure and effective Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). This report includes three case studies examining how the Linux Foundation Hyperledger Project, Ping Identity, and R3 conduct effective R&D in advanced blockchain-related technologies, each in their own way, solving real problems and investing in DLTs effectively.
I had the pleasure of attending Workday Rising 2016 in Chicago this week, where the HCM and financials vendor took the wraps off three major new product releases, provided detailed future road maps and showcased top customers.Along with the headline news, Workday provided me with some valuable one-on-one discussions with top executives and customers. What follows are the key highlights from those conversations.
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Today at Google Horizon the company announced they are rebranding Google Apps for Work to G Suite, "Google's intelligent apps designed for business."G Suite, contains the same applications that Google Apps for Work did; Gmail, Calendar, Hangouts, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites but now Google+ is included as a fully supported product. G Suite starts at $5/user/month and doubles to $10/user/month for unlimited storage and admin controls for areas like discovery and compliance.
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SAP has already outlined an IoT strategy, but it hit the accelerator hard on Wednesday with the announcement of a €2 billion investment in IoT over the next five years. Here are the key details from its announcement.
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Long rumored (see my colleague’s Doug Henschen pre-acquisition take here) and now it’s official, SAP has acquired Altiscale, a Big Data as a Service vendor.
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Workday is hoping to shake up the stodgy student information system market with the introduction of Workday Student, which it is delivering on time this week in conjunction with its Rising conference. Here are the details from Workday's announcement:
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After years of relying on partners for providing customers with financial and workforce planning capabilities, Workday has taken the wraps off its homegrown Workday Planning product. Here are the key details from its announcement at the Workday Rising conference this week:
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We could not make it to Microsoft’s IT management focused in Atlanta, but that did not hinder us to watch the event from the fences. The conference is well attended, Microsoft says over 22k attendees, a very good turnout considering this was only the 2nd edition of the Ignite conference.
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