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SAP has been dealing with questions over the future of its Business Warehouse product for years, and now has provided an answer with SAP BW/4HANA, a new data warehousing product that takes some significant technical leaps forward.
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Genesys is acquiring Interactive Intelligence Group in a $1.4 billion deal that continues a run of consolidation in the contact-center software industry. The goal now is growth through additional size, the companies said in a statement:
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For the last two years, Disruptor’s Handbook have been working with Qantas to create an innovation program that brings the power, agility and speed of the startups into their customer journeys. With a focus on customer experience, these weekend intensives, known as the Codeshare Hackathons, expose Qantas business challenges to the scrutiny – and creativity – of the hackers, hipsters and hustlers of the startup world.
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Twitter rolled out its video ad platform Amplify two years ago, but until now it has focused on cutting deals with publishers such as Sports Illustrated, MTV and BuzzFeed.
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Case Study: Zudy and Tri-State-Based Pharmaceutical Company How Zudy Reset Expectations and Boosted Productivity with a Powerful No-Code Rapid Application Development Platform This report examines how a pharmaceutical company used Zudy to create custom applications for human resources, procurement and sales management, allowing the company to innovate and improve business performance while improving user adoption.
Event report: I had the opportunity to attend O.C. Tanner’s first analyst summit held in Salt Lake City on August 26th 2016. Executives at O.C. Tanner demonstrated a realization that the technology R&R products are likely not to come from the traditional organization, and have setup O.C. Tanner labs, both as an innovation incubator as well as a potential source for future growth in the technology enabled segments of the R&R market.
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VMware made a slew of cloud-related announcements at the start of its VMWorld conference this week, but perhaps the most notable one concerned a set of services that are still under development.
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Human-Centered HR, AI Trends & Workday’s Future | DisrupTV Ep. 30
In DisrupTV Episode 30, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar speak with:
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SAP needs to address big data, streaming and IoT apps. Altiscale would accelerate efforts to deliver high-scale and high-performance cloud data services. … Continue reading →
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Rimini Street has made a value case for its third-party software support services in multiple ways, including the 50 percent savings they say SAP and Oracle customers will enjoy compared to vendor maintenance, as well as a pledge that services will be rendered by engineers with at least 15 years of experience.
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I attended the yearly IBM Alliance Insights event, held August 23rd and 24th in New York. The focus was on three major partnerships of IBM, respectively with SAP, Oracle and Microsoft. IBM has substantial business with all three partners, so not surprisingly the plans with each are elaborate, carefully crafted and validated multiple times. The common leitmotiv for all three of them is that IBM is trying to push its two strong assets with Watson and IBM Cloud in all partnerships, while maintaining and expanding its substantial professional services business with all three vendors.
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The Rush To Artificial Intelligence Will Enable Augmented HumanityWhile market leaders and fast followers have not yet achieved mass personalization, the next rush is focused on investments in artificial intelligence (see Figure 1). Searching for a competitive advantage and fearful of disruption, board rooms and CXO’s have rushed to artificial intelligence as the next big thing. The investment in pilots for AI’s subsets of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing have moved from science projects to new digital business models powered by smart services.
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Big news in the tech world back in June with Microsoft announcing they were acquiring LinkedIn for $26.2b. Now that a few months have passed and the dust settled, my esteemed colleagues, Steve Wilson, privacy and security expert, Alan Lepofsky, Guru in social collaboration, and I had a chance to examine the deal in more detail. We co-authored a new report, Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn, Shaping the Future of Work, that explores the opportunities — and possibilities, that lie ahead as the companies come together.
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Microsoft turned heads in June when it announced its most expensive acquisition to date, the US$26 billion purchase of LinkedIn. Executives from both companies explained that the deal will lead to richer user experiences in Microsoft’s Office 365 and Dynamics products. Commentators framed the takeover interms of integrating LinkedIn's social graphs into the Microsoft product UX – for example, helping users better prepare for meetings by having Outlook display details of the people you're going to be meeting with.
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On June 13, 2016 Microsoft announced their intention to acquire LinkedIn for $26B, Microsoft's most expensive takeover to date. Why is Microsoft willing to spend that money? What's in it for them, for customers and for partners? My Constellation Research colleagues Steve Wilson, Cindy Zhou and I examine what this combination means and how it impacts the future of work... from personal productivity and team collaboration, to changing the way career paths and hiring are managed, to the impact of marketing experiences.
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How Microsoft’s Most Expensive Acquisition Can Improve the Way People Work Constellation Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn as a broad strike by Microsoft to solidify its position as a preferred workplace tool for the Future of Work. This report examines the potential enhancements to Microsoft’s workplace tools resulting from the LinkedIn acquisition.
Visual Storytelling, Innovation & Business Reinvention | DisrupTV Ep. 29
This week on DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar speak with:
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A sudden flurry of news in the autonomous car market drew major headlines this week, with one of the most prominent being Ford Motor Company's pledge to have a fully autonomous vehicle by 2021, as the Detroit Free Press reports:
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Atlassian, best know for Jira (project management for software development teams) and Confluence (enterprise team collaboration), has released an update to HipChat, their group chat and video conferencing product. Prior to this release, HipChat could be used for group text conversations and 1:1 video chat, but now you can have group videos chats with up to 10 people. HipChat can be used as a standalone communication tool, but excels when combined with Jira and Confluence, enabling people that have conversations right within the context of the work they are doing.
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Atlassian is about to release group video chat and screen-sharing capabilities for HipChat that could help it edge out rival Slack in more deals. But it's still an open question as to how much appeal video chat has today within enterprises, and whether it will become a pervasive way for business users to communicate, or merely another item on the collaboration menu.
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