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There is no shortage of City Authorities sponsorship, nor engagement support from the big technology vendors, plus a mass of ‘new’ Smart technology products from startups, but there is a missing ingredient; the vision to create a Business Service architecture to transform the parts into a commercially, technically and deliverable viable Smart City.
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Next week I’ll be discussing the possibilities and positive developments in the educational webinar, “Democratizing the Data Lake: The State of Big Data Management in the Enterprise.” Set for Tuesday, April 26 at 1pm ET/10am PT, this webinar will delve into data access, data cataloging and metadata management options for Hadoop as well as big data integration and data-prep options. We’ll also discuss Apache Spark and its role in data processing, stream processing and data analysis in the context of Hadoop.
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Bestselling author of Disrupting Digital Business and founder of Constellation Research, R "Ray" Wang, shares the 10 components of a framework for assessing an enterprise's digital transformation maturity.
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SAS has been and remains the industry's largest independent player in analytics, but has lagged the market in a key area: Making its software a true cloud offering, with the elasticity and scalability that term entails. The company's newly unveiled Viya architecture is aimed at bringing SAS up to full cloud speed, with early-adopter access scheduled for May and general availability in the third quarter.
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Opinions may vary on just how much personalization consumers want in their marketing messages from companies, but delivering it has been the goal of many software vendors. SAS has extended its Customer Intelligence product line with a new SaaS offering, Customer Intelligence 360. Here are the key details from its announcement this week:
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New business development will make or break your business. And agency owners often find themselves suffering a famine or a feast of new business. But there are some common mistakes that can be relatively easily overcome. The Agency Management Institute has a great presentation on this topic, with FIVE clear tips that will help you […]
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We had the opportunity to attend the Equifax EFX Forum user conference – held at the beautiful Lone Pine Resort East of Austin. The event is well attended, with more 15% more attendees joining than last year’s edition, showing the traction of the Equifax workforce services division.
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Through Vibewire I have been working with young people for over seven years. It’s a not for profit association whose aim is to be a launchpad for young change makers. In the time that I have been involved, I have been astounded by the way that, given an opportunity and some nurturing, young people can […]
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Bottom line: Enterprises are impatient to translate their investments in cloud apps and the insight they provide into business outcomes and solid results today.The following insights are based on a series of discussions with C-level executives and revenue team leaders across several industries regarding their need for an Intelligent Cloud
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Leadership, Learning & Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 11
In DisrupTV Episode 11, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with three thought leaders who explore leadership, learning, and change in modern organizations:
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Earlier this week NetSuite releases a SuiteWorld like barrage of press releases – to the point I checked if I missed a SuiteWorld conference – but it was ‘just’ all about opening the vendor’s beachhead on the European continent – with opening operations in The Netherlands and expanding the NetSuite product serving the Benelux markets.
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We live in a business world where keeping ahead of the competition matters. If you’re not a first mover, you at least want to be the best mover, the fastest to market, or the best in your class. Incremental change is applauded, but the true rewards go to those who seek to transform organizations and execute.It’s been a rocky ride, but Wal-Mart has pulled out of a heavy stock slide. Looking back to June 2015, Fortune splashed the news with a provocative article on Wal-Mart’s new CEO titled “The Man Who’s Reinventing Walmart.” It kicked off by stating, “CEO Doug McMillon may be the best-prepared executive to lead Wal-Mart since Sam Walton. Here’s how he’s guiding the retail giant in the Age of Disruption.”Related articlesWal-Mart Profit, Revenue Beat Expectations; US. Sales Up More Than Expected. Yahoo FinanceBig Box Throwdown: Target Vs. Walmart. Forbes
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I had the opportunity to give a Competitive Advantage talk at this year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and they recently posted a recording of the session on YouTube, so I’m excited to share it with you all here. In the presentation I try to remind everyone that while CRM might not be as “sexy” […]
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The answer is, of course, because that’s what a Technology Vendor wants to sell! Before the products are deployed business outcomes and solution architecture is required. For a Smart City its complex as there are conflicting requirements for de-centralization of Citizen targeted Smart Services; versus centralization requirements using ‘big data’ for more efficient City Management.
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Two weeks ago Microsoft CEO Nadella was on stage in San Franscisco, keynoting the developer conference Build, and introducing 'Conversations as a Plaform'. This week Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, launched a bot offering for the Messenger platform at the F8 developer conference.
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Few if any technologies have been covered as breathlessly by the media in recent years as blockchain, the underlying platform for the Bitcoin digital currency.
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Marketers Face Massive Challenges In Making The Digital ShiftIn interviews with over 100 digitally focused, modern CMO’s, shared common challenges in the transformation of their roles and with the support of new digital business models. The top 20 modern marketing challenges (not in order of importance) include:...
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