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Digital Transformation Shifts Static Event Marketing to Live Engagement Marketing Live engagement marketing provides marketing teams the capability to quantify event marketing activities and identify success rates in right time. This real-time capability enables event marketing teams to make adjustments during the event that improve engagement and increase conversion rates.
It looks like the SAP “pre Sapphire leak announcement” tradition that broke 2 years ago is alive and well – today Apple announced a partnership with SAP. It’s not clear what may have motivated Apple to push on the gas pedal in regards of the timeline, apart from the known slowing of iPad Sales and more recently iPhone Sales. With 13 days to Sapphire, there are a number of selling days in the quarter left...
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Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 and the platform strategy dominates Qonnections 2016. Change lies ahead as analysis moves into the cloud.Qlik Sense 3.0 is coming in June, Qlik Sense Cloud is ramping up for wider use, and the Qlik DataMarket is gaining more powerful data-connection and data-enrichment capabilities. These were among the notable announcements at Qlik’s May 2-4 Qonnections event in Orlando, Fla.
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Digital Reinvention, Innovation Capital & Platform Strategy | DisrupTV Ep. 14
In DisrupTV Episode 14, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three leaders driving digital transformation from different vantage points:
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I just came back from JDA Focus 2016. JDA remains a major player in the field of supply chain. The leadership and culture have an aggressive level of expectations of themselves and the business – it is now up to the solutions and software to catch up.
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Teradata is making big changes following the release of disappointing first-quarter results, with the biggest being the removal of CEO Michael Koehler, who has been replaced with longtime company board member Victor Lund.
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Starting in the early 80s with Ethernet running through to todays’ sophisticated and ubiquitous Internet offerings; wired to wireless, fixed to mobile, with all the tools and methods a vast pool of experience in ‘networking’ has built up. Against this background it seems strange to focus on the networking challenge, but are IoT Devices the same as IT Devices from a networking perspective?
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Adobe's move to acquire social content platform startup LiveFyre is far from startling, given its ambitions in the marketing cloud space and the companies' already close relationship. But it nonetheless emphasizes the notion that customers' voices are the most powerful influences—both pro and con—on your marketing strategy.
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Vendor Profile: ReltioReltio Helps Partners and Customers Build Insight- Driven Applications and Data Services in the Cloud This report provides an overview and buyer's guide of Reltio and Reltio Cloud.
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Understanding Why Data, Analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) Drive Exponential Business Growth
This report examines the exponential nature of change in today’s growth models and how the prospect of exponential change is blindsiding many businesses and even putting IoT initiatives at risk.
A recent Wall Street Journal feature on how Johnson Controls solved a vexing logistics problem with the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags is of interest for a number of reasons. There's the story of the actual problem and how Johnson Controls found an answer, and then there's what its experience says about how enterprises can develop and evolve their IoT (Internet of Things) strategy.
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Consolidation in the IoT (Internet of Things) market is showing no sign of slowing down, with Microsoft purchasing Italian startup Solair. Here are the key details from an official Microsoft blog post:
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Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong. No new technology since the Internet itself has excited so many pundits, but blockchain just doesn’t do what most people seem to think it does. The blockchain only does one thing (and it doesn’t even do that very well). It provides a way to verify the order in which entries are made to a ledger, without any centralized authority. In so doing, blockchain solves what security experts thought was an unsolvable problem – preventing the double spend of electronic cash without a central monetary authority. It’s an extraordinary solution, and it comes at an extraordinary price.
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I have attended a wide range of events, from the likes of Infosys, JDA, Plex, Demandware, SAP, Oracle, Epicor etc etc. There has been one thread that is common – the rise of the consumer. Now this is nothing new to us here at Constellation Research. We have been been touting the rise of the consumer in the commercial ecosystem (B2B and B2C) as the biggest disruptor to date. It is good to hear that the solution providers are recognizing this shift as well.
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R "Ray" Wang discusses Dominating Digital Disruption at CloudExpo.
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We had the opportunity to attend Infosys’ Confluence event in San Francisco, held from April 27th to 29th at the Hilton Union Square. The conference was well attended with over 1500 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem, a surge by 50+% over last year.
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Reinventing Technology, Trust & Customer Strategy | DisrupTV Ep. 13
In Episode 13 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with:
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On April 13th I traveled to the headquarters of IBM Design in Austin Texas. My goal for the day was to learn how this new (well, two year old) division of the company is impacting product design and customer satisfaction. Below is an approximately 10 minute long video where I recap the key things I learned. If you don't have time to watch, here's the main thing you need to know:
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If you've spent any time in the Mid-Atlantic U.S., chances are you've filled up and grabbed a bite to eat at Sheetz, the near-ubiquitous gas station-restaurant chain. And if you frequent the same Sheetz more than a few times, you're likely to see familiar faces behind the counter.
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One of the biggest problems plaguing the IoT (Internet of Things) market today is fragmentation, and Samsung says its new ARTIK Cloud service is geared toward solving that problem, rather than creating a walled garden around its own products, as InformationWeek reports:
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We had the opportunity to attend OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, our first visit of an OpenStack Summit. Always good to see first hand and in person on how well community, vendors and ecosystem are doing. In short - OpenStack is doing well, growing up and maturing (there are pros and cons to it, more below).
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