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This month, the venerable ICQ chat client turns 20 years old, and does so in a market where chat is more popular and embedded in both consumer and enterprise applications than ever before. (Go here for an excellent rundown of ICQ's history and development).
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This week marks Amazon Web Services' annual re:Invent conference, which has grown by leaps and bounds in accordance with the cloud vendor's majority share of the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) market. Last year's event was notable for many reasons, which I'll recap here along with a preview of what to expect this week.
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Vendor Profile: Castlight HealthCastlight Health's mission is to enable people to make the smartest choices for their medical coverage and to help companies distribute healthcare benefits efficiently. This vendor profile provides an overview of Castlight Health and identifies key differentiators and product offerings.
GE is probably the global business most strongly associated with demonstrating not just a strategic commitment to IoT, but also for leading business driven implementations. The GE annual Minds and Machines event in San Francisco has become an Industrial Internet showcase for Business IoT. Packed with case studies demonstrating millions of dollars of business benefits, together with GE announcing its own next plans to derive business value from IoT adoption.
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If you're an enterprise business leader, not a day goes by where you don't see content everywhere. The real issue rests on which content is mission-critical to helping you run your business better? Take a look at these 3 quick posts of premium Constellation Insights content recommended by our managing editor, Chris Kanaracus, that unpack what is valuable to know, given today's political, economic, and societal environment now that we've initiated the unexpected installation of our latest POTUS, Donald Trump.
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Vendor Profile and Buyer's GuideCapriza enables a non-technical user to create appealing, easy-to-use mobile applications. With Capriza users build mobile applications by dragging and dropping user interface (UI) elements from browser-based applications into the mobile application, thereby eliminiating the need to code the applicaiton.
The mounting number of high-profile hacks related to IoT (Internet of Things) devices should give anyone cause for concern. A big reason the hacks are occurring has to do with a lack of proper security standards for IoT devices—which a number of prominent experts recently told Congress should be enacted by the government and not the tech industry.
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IBM has been more quietly and less loudly build out its BlueMix PaaS platform, the press release from earlier in the week is a good reminder on the progress that IBM has made.
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As Distributed Ledgers Evolve beyond Bitcoin, Security Becomes More Complex and More Subtle
Join R "Ray" Wang for an in-depth fire side chat with market makers. This no-holds barred interview brings out insights and the personal point of view from industry leaders.
Moderator: R "Ray" Wang
Director, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Content Division at Dell EMC: Patrick McGrath
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Blockchain's journey to world domination has just begun. At the moment, several security models, permission models, and private/public approaches are competing for dominance. Hear from senior executives about how they see blockchain transforming the future of business and technology and why certain approaches will win.
Moderator: Steve Wilson
Global Head of Blockchain at IBM: Aron Dutta
Recovering Product Executive: Chirag Mehta
CEO at Maxssure: Shawn Wiora
Chief Digital Officer at IMS Health: Richie Etwaru
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Blockchain technologies were popularized in 2016 due to their role as the ledger technology underlying Bitcoin. However, distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain have many applications aside from Bitcoin, and have the potential to underpin technology platforms in the future. Learn about emerging applications for blockchain tech.
Moderator: Steve Wilson
Chief Digital Officer at IMS Health: Richie Etwaru
Chief Innovation Officer at Cybric: Mike Kail
Independent Blogger: Chirag Mehta
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Digital leaders face a number of challenges including defining new roles for themselves, evangelizing digital business models, and delivering value. Learn how these seasoned digital leaders have navigated the challenges of the digital economy and succeeded in driving transformation in their organizations.
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Oracle has spent the past few years building out a global data center network for its cloud services operations, and is hoping to improve performance and customer experience across it with the acquisition of Dyn. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but here are some key details from a letter attributed to Oracle president Thomas Kurian:
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Hidden in an overall update on its vast Machine Learning portfolio of last week (see the blog here) was an unusual use case for a vendor like Google - a Jobs API. Clearly a foray into the enterprise application space, HCM in general and Recruiting in detail.
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A blog I have meant to write since a long time, being a heavy user of Twitter... related to how reputation and follower dynamic on Twitter are working out - from my vantage point... so let's muse about this...
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Digital Influence, Social Video & Experience-Driven Leadership | DisrupTV Ep. 39
In DisrupTV Episode 39, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with:
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Terrific NYT infographic -- the colored counties are those whose presidential votes were "landslides" i.e. the winner 20% or more above the loser. The maps look like Hot Zone or any of the virus outbreak movies -- polarization engulfs the entire population over time. More data on the site about the characteristics of the red and blue counties’ populations.
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Verint Systems is moving deeper into customer engagement with the purchase of OpinionLab, which offers a system for collecting customer feedback in real time. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Here are the key details from Verint's announcement this week:
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This report examines developments in the FIDO Alliance through the third quarter of 2016. These developments include new board members, expansion in Asia, and growth of its certification program.
We’ve been talking about living in a digital world for decades, but most of us are still surrounded by paper, business cards, stick notes, todo lists, whiteboards, photos, magazines and other physical forms of content. To help reduce that clutter by transforming content into secure, searchable and signable PDF documents, Adobe has updated their Acrobat Reader mobile application to now include scanning functionality.
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A lot of progress with Microsoft, but often product and event cycles don’t align. It is good to see that developer productivity remains top priority for Microsoft and with that the vendor helps enterprises to build next generation applications. It is good to see Microsoft also embraces the reality of Linux, becoming a Linux Foundation member. Will be curious what Microsoft may contribute in the future. Moreover, Microsoft makes good on the premise to protect code investments – both from an UWP and a .Net perspective. Good news for enterprises to get another IaaS to run .Net applications with Google Cloud.
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Data Lake Store, a pair of cloud services aimed at making big data analytics an easier proposition for customers who are willing to make certain tradeoffs.
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