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Walmart's story of reinvention has been unfolding over the past couple years, and recent financial results show that it's still a company to watch. In April, I mentioned that Walmart's CEO, Doug McMillon, had been revamping this established retailer in How To Become a Reinventor Like Walmart's CEO. He's been doubling down on Walmart's digital efforts among other key initiatives, and it looks like that choice is paying off, although he clearly has some ground to cover before Walmart shows that it's taking a serious run against Amazon, one of America's most popular digital darlings.CEO McMillon's hard-fought reinvention shows progress, according to the latest first quarter financial results where Walmart is up 16% this year. Find out what McMillon shared yesterday in his video interview with CNN Money, Walmart Investors Are Smiling Once Again, where he talked about what his team's doing to focus on learning, listening to the customer, and being inventive.
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We have the opportunity to attend Alteryx Inspire 2016 in San Diego, held from June 6th till 10th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 1200 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem, a significant growth over the same event a year ago in Boston.
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SAP has settled a long-running dispute with the California State Controller's office over a failed payroll system upgrade. Under the terms of the agreement, SAP will pay California $59 million and drop a $29 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, as the Sacramento Bee reports:
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Case Study: Oracle and Elaine Turner®Expanding the Brand While Delivering a High-Touch, Unique Identity with Curated Customer Experiences This case study details Elaine Turner’s experience implementing Oracle’s Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud.
In these times, announcement related to the Internet of Things are a dime a dozen. At first blush, one recently made by IBM and Cisco doesn't appear to be a huge standout, but it nonetheless points up how crucial analytics are to deriving business value from IoT. Here are the details of the new IBM-Cisco partnership, as reported by V3:
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Ping Identity is leapfrogging the blockchain hype with an investment in next generation consensus innovation, modelling responsible security design.
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Every year the Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize individuals for their leadership in digital business. Nominate yourself or someone you know before August 8, 2016. Learn more and apply here: https://www.constellationr.com/events/supernova/2016
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Salesforce Announces Intent To Acquire Demandware For $2.8BOn June 1st, 2016, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Burlington, Massachusetts based Demandware for $75.o0 per share or around $2.8 billion in cash. Constellation predicts a $10.01B market for matrix commerce solutions as new digital platforms and network economies emerge. Constellation’s quick merger analysis considers the impact on customer, market coverage, product road map, partnership programs, and the competition:
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Earlier this week, when day broke in Asia, Microsoft used the Comdex event happening in Taiwan to make a major announcement around its holographic product plans, making Windows Holographic available to partners.
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Digital Transformation, Innovation Culture & Loyalty Strategy | DisrupTV Ep. 18
In DisrupTV Episode 18, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by three guests pushing the frontier of digital transformation:
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In a busy week for enterprise software acquisitions, Salesforce's decision to plunk down $2.8 billion for e-commerce platform provider Demandware arguably made the biggest splash. The move adds yet another cloud to Salesforce's burgeoning portfolio, takes a sizable independent e-commerce vendor off the table, and could prompt additional consolidation in the space.
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As IT departments start to consider how to provide suitable quality support for their enterprises' IOT initiatives the adoption of a ‘Platform’ to reduce deployment times and costs is a logical move, but what exactly is an IoT Platform? Even more important than the technology definition is capabilities that a new generation of IoT business requirements will demand.
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Salesforce’s $2.8 billion acquisition of Demandware will serve as the company’s Commerce Cloud. Demandware and Salesforce have a series of joint customers. This acquisition will enable more e-commerce for Salesforce along with Salesforce’s customer relationship management tools. CEO’a are realizing the value of platforms vs. point solutions and the trend is going towards the vendors creating […]
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Acquisitions Continue as Marketing Automation Space Consolidates And Slows In GrowthThe consolidation of the Marketing Automation world continues with the latest news that one of the remaining independent enterprise marketing automation providers, Marketo, will be acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.8b. Trading on Marketo stock has haulted this am. News around Marketo engaging investment firm Morgan Stanley to prepare for a potential sale broke May 9th 2016, at the beginning of their annual conference, the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit. Multiple suitors including Microsoft and SAP were rumored to be part of the bid process with Vista sealing the final deal. Here's Constellation's analysis to current Marketo customers and prospects.
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We had the opportunity to attend Cloud Foundry’s Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, held from May 23rd till 25th 2016. The conference was well attended with over 2000 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem.
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Using the Internet of Things to Boost Revenue and Deliver a Brand’s Personalized PromiseThe Internet of Things (IoT) promises to revolutionize the way business is run and to create differentiated customer experiences.
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On May 25th I had the pleasure of participating in an all day Think Tank about the Future of Work. The event was hosted by Adobe and took place at One Kearny in San Francisco, in conjunction with the release of a new FoW study Adobe has just published.
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We had the opportunity to attend Greenhouse’s Green House Open conference in San Francisco, held from May 25th till 27th 2016. The conference was well attended with over 900 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem, roughly a doubling to last year’s event. The event was held at the Hilton Union Square, one of the most confusing labyrinth like event spaces, kudos goes to the Greenhouse event team for making directions easy to handle.
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If you are wondering what I have been up to lately, I thought I would put all the research I have published into one place. Here’s a list of Dr. Natalie’s completed and published research and soon to be published content! It ranges from IOT, Analytics, Big Data, Customer Experience, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Storytelling, Collaboration, Digital […]
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While most organizations face massive technical debt from legacy infrastructure and applications, market leaders and fast followers realize that the future requires making proactive and strategic use of digital technologies to support the future strategy of their organizations. They see the shift from analog to digital systems as a continued march to delivering business agility.
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The Future of Digital Business | DisrupTV Ep. 17
In DisrupTV Episode 17, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar welcome three pioneering voices in digital transformation:
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