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We had the opportunity to attend the European edition of SAP’s developer conference, TechEd, held in Barcelona from November 8th till 10th 2016. The event was well attended, with an estimate 4k attendees coming from clients, prospects, partners, SAP and exhibitors.
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The shock waves from Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in this year's historic presidential election won't fade for quite a while, and Trump's presidency has yet to even begin. In the meantime, many are taking time to look back over the campaign to try and unpack exactly how Trump pulled off his massive win.
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Adobe is beefing up its Marketing Cloud product family with the $540 million acquisition of TubeMogul, maker of a video advertising platform. Here are the key details from Adobe's announcement:
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HubSpot's annual Inbound conference—which it positions as a must-attend event for marketing and sales professionals in general, and not as a HubSpot user conference—is underway this week in Boston with a reported 19,000 in attendance. That's up 5,000 year-over-year, which is a dramatic uptick even considering how red-hot the inbound sales and marketing software startup has been of late.
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This week's unveiling of SAP HANA 2.0 is of particular symbolic and practical importance for both SAP and its customer base, as it underscores how much the in-memory computing platform has matured even as SAP races to add scores of new features.
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The likely background of the HANA2 move is a positive one: HANA has now been adopted by so many customers that run HANA based applications in production, that they want SAP to slow down and keep a working release stable and running. SAP has gone back to the old and proven trick of all enterprise software vendors of providing two releases – a stable one for production at the current state -and a rapid evolving one with HANA 2. And it looks like SAP got the priorities for HANA 2 right with Data and Database Management, Analytics and better developer support.
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Purpose, Growth & Customer Obsession | DisrupTV Ep. 37
In DisrupTV Episode 37, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar welcome:
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How a Technology Giant Goes Beyond Business to Improve the Lives of People Globally
CSR is a very broad topic, spanning areas from charitable donations to power consumption to advocating for human rights. In this report, Constellation reviews four areas where Cisco helps individuals, society and ultimately the planet through technology donations, education, innovation, and environmental sustainability.
Oracle has closed its $9.3 billion acquisition of cloud ERP vendor NetSuite, overcoming resistance from large NetSuite shareholders and gaining a prominent addition to its cloud product suite.
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SAP acquired procurement software vendor Ariba in 2011, but the company's history dates back two decades. This week, SAP Ariba executives briefed analysts in Boston, giving an overview of recent roadmap milestones as well as a look ahead at what's yet to come. Here's a rundown.
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We had the opportunity to attend the satellite location of the Microsoft Teams launch event in San Francisco on November 2nd 2016. The event was held at the Xbox Lounge on Bryant Street, always a grungy location for events like this.
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Today in NYC Microsoft announced the preview version of Microsoft Teams, their new Group Messaging application.
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IPaaS provides the foundational and mission-critical capabilities required to support disruptive business models. Today, we’re releasing the top IPaaS vendors in the Constellation ShortList...
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My Constellation ShortList™ for Social / Digital Media Listening / Monitoring/ Engagement Platforms was published today. Constellation ShortList documents offer buyers of technology a list of offerings to consider in their pursuit of digital transformation. Social, digital media listening, monitoring and engagement […]
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Pilot and small-scale IoT deployments are becoming commonplace, but are these incremental improvements to current Business and IT systems all that IoT has to offer? The IoT Visionaries Panel at Constellation Connected Enterprise, CCE, 2016 had plenty to say about current deployments, lessons learnt and what real large scale IoT is bringing in a step change of Business Transformation.
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The reason we at Constellation Research created the SuperNova Awards is because we know advancing the adoption of disruptive technology is not easy. Technology adoption faces resistance from budget constraints, hurdles to adoption, and myopia. All the finalists here today have successfully implemented technologies that will lead their organizations into the future. These people have […]
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Find out who won!Constellation announced the winners of the 2016 SuperNova Award winners last night at the SuperNova Awards Gala Dinner.
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Blockchain was a featured topic of discussion on the opening day of Constellation Research's Connected Enterprise 2016 event, with expert panelists exchanging perspectives on whether it has moved beyond the hype phase.
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Watson or bust – Not only does Watson get its own event, it also is the first-time CEO Ginni Rometty makes it to a Las Vegas event (that I am attending, ok) and the marketing spend in show floor, sponsors signage etc. seems to eclipse all the many events that started with an “I” in Las Vegas. It’s always good to see vendors ‘boldly go’ and IBM is certainly betting its future on Watson. We have written and talked about the immense potential of Watson not only for IBM and its customers, but the overall market and business in general. IBM has done probably the best job in the industry at applying Watson and related abilities to any possible use case that is there for AI technology. Bringing it all together at an event like World of Watson is an important step, and it is good to see that IBM is doing all it can to propagate technology and use cases.
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Today at IBM World of Watson, IBM announced the preview release (i.e. pre-beta) of Watson Workspace.
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Case Study: Zudy and Brooks BrothersBrooks Brothers was looking for an in-store software solution for alterations management, clienteling, and made-to-measure orders. Brooks Brothers selected Zudy Vinyl platform to build a custom Store Excellence solution which resulted in higher store associate productivity, elimination of paper-based processes and overall higher customer satisfaction.