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Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, Alan Lepofsky, shares his latest technology research on Assisted Productivity - How Artificial Intelligence Will Help People Get Work Done. Chris Kanaracus, Constellation's Managing Editor provides 2016 highlights on business and technology trend insights to watch for.
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My March issue of Bon Appetit magazine arrived just days ago, and it's not just any issue. It's the culture issue. Why does this matter? It matters because we've been dubbed as food obsessed. Notice the smartphone with the pizza photo. That artisan pizza looks good enough to eat.This scenario provides just one example among many of how consumers value food choices more and more these days. That cultural shift affects food supply chains. It's this new trend related to consumer preferences that makes this new report authored by Guy Courtin, Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, so relevant now. It validates the need for food supply chains to embrace technology that can deliver mass personalization to satisfy today's savvy consumers.
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Last Fall, McDonald’s announced it would be offering their breakfast menu all day. It was widely seen as a bold move, but one that had a certain level of risk. Especially when it came to how their supply chain would … Continue reading →
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How food supply chains can satisfy evolving consumer demands and drive profits by embracing disruptive technology
This report explains how grocers, food manufacturers, and restaurants should use technology to satisfy rapidly evolving consumer demand.
Facial recognition technology is being used in more and more ways these days, from urban surveillance cameras to payments processing. Where some of the most interesting advances lie, however, is in applications that go beyond mere ID verification and attempt to detect and analyze a person's emotions—in other words, sentiment analysis, but through human faces, not Tweets.
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What is Audience Studio? NBCUniversal wants to make it easier for advertisers to use data to target audiences more precisely across TV, digital and social media. The media company, owned by Comcast Corp. , is introducing a new division called Audience Studio, which is dedicated to helping marketers employ data for ad targeting purposes by tying […]
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If 2015 was the year when the hype cycle around the Internet of Things came to a crescendo, signs point to 2016 being a time when more businesses gain a better understanding of its facets and how IoT can transform business models.
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Unlocking the Future of Tech, Innovation, and Digital Strategy | DisrupTV Ep. 4
In DisrupTV Episode 4, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a dynamic conversation with four distinguished leaders in technology and innovation:
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The humble car park. It is difficult to believe that this is the frontline on the identification of digital failures and the need for Digital Devil’s Advocates – see – http://wp.me/p15cZf-ek . The humble piece of real estate that is the car … Continue reading →
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We had the opportunity to attend IBM’s Interconnect conference happening in Las Vegas this week. The conference is a combination of the former Interconnect, the developer conference Pulse and the former Rational user conference. With over 25k attendees the conference was high in demand, spanning across the Mandalay Bay and MGM properties.
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Microsoft has acquired mobile app-development platform provider Xamarin in a move that makes plenty of sense, and which has been a long time coming.
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Tweet Earlier his week I had the chance to attend the IBM InterConnect conference to learn about what IBM is doing in the sports and technology space and share some thoughts in that area via their blog and social media. The event itself has a large emphasis on technology infrastructure needed to support the volume of […]
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We had the opportunity to attend the Ceridian analyst summit held in Hollywood at the beautiful W Hotel.
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These are significant times when IT innovation will shape not only our business but the future of our world. Start-ups and new age companies are a leading source of innovation beyond many companies own internal initiatives. In early 2015, as part of Infosys Renew-New strategy they established a $500million Infosys Innovation fund. It was mentioned that the capital […]
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Salesforce posted Q4 and full-year results that met analyst expectations while continuing the cloud vendor's torrid run of growth.
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Old Marketing Funnel Days: In the days before social media, marketers would target key customers and go through an awareness, desire, interest and then action (buying) process; essentially the old marketing function. The marketer would start with a large number of customers at the top of this so called “funnel” and as the customers in […]
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Recently IT vendors seem to have been focused on delivering business benefits from better data analysis, rather than the ‘real-time’ Read and Respond capabilities of IoT. The acquisition of Jasper Technologies by Cisco for $1.4bn is a reminder that the functionality and role of IoT device connections is equally important. Its just as easy to over look that between the connection and the data analysis aspects there a further important group of functions controlling the extraction, collation and flow management of data.
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Tweet On February 23rd, I had the chance to paricipate on a sports and technology discussion panel with Robert Roble (SportsTechie.net) and John Short (IBM) at IBM’s InterConnect conference. We used Periscope to live-stream the panel, so I apologize for the iPhone-style vertical view, but here is the recording of our discussion. We talked about everything […]
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What’s Happening in the World of Shopping and Customer Experiences? At the National Retail Federation Annual Convention in New York City, Microsoft made announcements with GameStop, Hardee’s, TGI Fridays, Panasonic, HP and FreedomPay, and NCR on efforts to modernize shopping experiences. How Does IoT, The Cloud and Customer Experience Come Together? Microsoft believes this will be […]
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Proving false the notion that customer care is a cost center
This report proves false the “customer care as a cost center” paradigm, and demonstrates agile customer care solutions reduce costs and boost revenue.
What Does Mobility Mean? To Microsoft mobility means the mobility of the person, not of any single device. People now want their technology experience to move with them, from place to place and device to device, at home, at work, and on the move. And this is also true in the automotive industry and in today’s connected […]
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Case Study: TeradataTwo Companies Cut Costs, Gain Flexibility and Ease Administration by Adding Cloud Data Warehouse CapacityThis case study examines the implementation process and benefits of Teradata Cloud for two companies, Core Digital Media and a global mining company.
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Customer Care Becomes Ultra-Responsive and Boosts Productivity of Talent This report examines how digital disruption has shifted the consumer–brand-employee relationship involved in delivering quick, relevant and reliable customer care. This report is written for customer care professionals seeking to attract and retain the best talent for their agile, customer-centric organizations.