This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
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 →
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
SAP has already outlined an IoT strategy, but it hit the accelerator hard on Wednesday with the announcement of a â¬2 billion investment in IoT over the next five years. Here are the key details from its announcement.
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.
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:
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:
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.
My latest research report is a case study of Dialpad, an enterprise cloud phone system. This report examines the ROI of Dialpad and Dialpad's effect on collaboration. Learn more about the report here: Next-Generation Cloud Communications and Collaboration Tools.
Case Studies: Dialpad with Vivint Solar and A Global Communication Solutions and Services Company
Gaining Value from Cloud-Based Technology and Enabling Collaboration Inside and Outside the Business
This case study details the clients' experience implementing Dialpad for communication and collaboration.
Online Web Based Business showed first retail, and then, many other sectors, that Internet ‘location’ was rapidly becoming more important than the physical location in attracting business. As Internet based business expands and transforms with IoT then understanding the concept of ‘interactions’, rather than the format of IT based ‘Transactions’, becomes necessary. The Enterprise orchestrates IoT event ‘Interactions’ from the market into an the fastest optimum response using its internal IoT assets is the new competitive winner.