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We had the opportunity to attend Informatica’s Informatica World conference in San Francisco, held from May 23rd till 26th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 3000 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem.
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From Big Data to small data, the digital world measures and values every interaction. Digital technology enables every touch point, click, conversation, picture, and byte of digital exhaust to be used to improve decision-making. In fact, data provides the foundation for success in a real-time digital business. This is why organizations must carefully design a data strategy as the first step in digital transformation.
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News Analysis - Salesforce selects AWS as preferred Public Cloud Infrastructure Provider - Good move
Earlier this week we were surprised by a partnership announcement of Salesforce and Microsoft. The announcement has implications in both regards of best practices where SaaS based vendors may run their computing load, and market share potential in the highly competitive IaaS market. For Salesforce (and all SaaS) customers, this maybe a reflection point in regards of where and how SaaS workloads will be run in the future, so worth some analysis.
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IBM Watson team introduces new services, details evolved capabilities, forecasts market opportunities. But we’re still hungry for real-world success stories. IBM’s Watson unit keeps developing new offerings, growing its ecosystem … Continue reading →
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We had the opportunity to attend Sapphire 2016 in Orlando, the event was the usual large show, with similar attendance like last year, an amazing, probably the best in the industry, show floor and massive partner presence.
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I’m judging the 2016 Constellation SuperNova Awards! Every year the Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize individuals for their leadership in digital business. Nominate yourself or someone you know before August 8, 2016. To learn more, apply here: https://www.constellationr.com/events/supernova/2016
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Today, May 24th 2016, CSC and HP Enterprise (HPE) announced that the HPE Services unit would be spun out of HPE and merged with CSC which recently spun out its government business. This surprising deal is being positioned as a merger, but as indicated by the Press Release from CSC, with the headline address of Virginia, and Mike Lawrie as CEO, it is clear that this is fundamentally an acquisition, albeit by the smaller of the two providers.
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A number of mid-sized logistics providers are putting themselves up for sale in an indication that binary market dynamics—go big or go specialized—are rearing their head in this sector. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the trend:
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We all know that digital transformation is imminent, but getting there is far from easy. The digital journey is fraught with challenges, not least of which is customer access. "Online" is not what it used to be; the online world by many measures is bigger than the “real world” and it’s certainly not just a special corner of a network we occasionally log into. Many customers spend a substantial part of their lives online. The very word "online" is losing its meaning, withoffline becoming a very unusual state.
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Have you ever wondered what executives lose sleep over when it comes to thinking ahead about business, innovation, and staying ahead of the curve? What can executives, ranging from healthcare to financial services or consumer packaged goods possibly have in common? It's not supply chain logistics, blockchain considerations, or the Internet of Things, and they certainly are not all battling for #fintech dominance in this new world where millenials are anti-banks and not to mention big corporations.Find out what 9 executives have to say about what keeps them up at night in this quick 3-minute video. Some of the answers may surprise you.
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SAP is stepping up customer guidance on S/4HANA deployments, but it’s full speed ahead on app modernization, predictive analytics and data services. Here’s a look inside SAPPHIRE 2016. SAP CEO Bill … Continue reading →
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Marketing Tech, Customer Experience & Content Strategy | DisrupTV Ep.16
In Episode 16 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar host a compelling conversation with:
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Yesterday at the Google I/O 2016 conference they announced several new products. In the video below I share some thoughts about the new collaboration/communication tools Allo, Duo and Spaces. Some topics include:
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We had the opportunity to attend Google’s I/O conference, the vendor’s premiere developer conference that has moved out of San Francisco back to Mountain View, to Shoreline Theater, an unusual venue, but Google did a very good job transforming the event space into a conference space.
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Announcing my latest Constellation Research report: The Future of Work on Digitally Proficient Teams, The New Cultural and Technical Skills RequiredThis report contains information that can help all organizations plan for what type of people that want to hire, and for what type of training they want to provide employees.
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We had the opportunity to attend Sapphire in Orlando, held from May 17th to 19th in Orlando. The Day #2 keynote is traditionally about product, and so it was also in 2016.
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It’s a busy week in May and I missed being in person in Mountain View for the Day #1 keynote of Google I/O due to another conference, incoventiently located in Florida, but that gave me a chance to watch the livestream recording on the flight back.
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My top three takeaways from the conference are NetSuite grows upBest Practices InnovationNetSuite gets a PaaS with a little 'p'
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The New Cultural and Technical Skills Required for Working on Digital Teams This report examines the new era of digital work and highlights key areas where people should become proficient in order to help teams work together effectively.
The biggest potential implication is the SAP HANA / S4/HANA deployment on Azure. Microsoft needs load that fuels Azure post the Office365 migrations, so going after the most uniform, single vendor load in the enterprise – SAP – makes tremendous sense. The partnership does not solve the challenge that SAP has, that customers are more slowly than fast adopting the move to both HANA and S/4HANA, something SAP is trying to address this Sapphire.
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Around this time last year Aptos and their leadership team were still under the Epicor banner, after close to a year as an independent firm Aptos hosted their first user conference. Fortunately for me I was able to head back … Continue reading →
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Later this week we will see Google's key developer conference, Google I/O start in Mountain View, so it's time to bring thoughts in order around what to expect.
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A superior court in Australia will soon consider a case concerning metadata surveillance. With the potential to impact data privacy laws worldwide, the question at the heart of the matter is this: What is Personal Information?
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