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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 withoutâ€. 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:
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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.
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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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The fifth generation of the Bluetooth wireless communication standard has been ratified, and its advancements should help spur even more activity around IoT (Internet of Things).
Bluetooth 5.0 was first unveiled last year by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which counts more than 30,000 electronics, telecom and networking companies under its membership.
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Multi-Modal Approach Key to Successful Digital Transformation
Like fake news, the over hyped, bi-modal approach to IT and digital transformation is a flawed fallacy perpetuated by ivory tower, non-pragmatic legacy research firms. Lessons learned from successful digital transformation projects emphasize an organizational design comprised of six key virtual or physical teams (see Figure 1):
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Last week Amazon’s AWS division made official what was already word on the street at the AWS reinvent event the week before that: AWS’ expansion into Canada.
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A few weeks ago I blogged about how the behaviour on follower dynamics can be used to categorize users on Twitter, in Newbies, Spammers, Hoarders and Social Users...
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