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We have the opportunity to attend Microsoft's developer conference Build in San Francisco. Here's an initial analysis of the announcements by my colleague, Alan Lepofsky, and myself.
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Microsoft is making a slew of announcements at this week's Build conference, and one of the less sexy but more important ones is Desktop App Converter, which is the formal name for Project Centennial, which was first announced during Build 2015.
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Five or six years ago, the hype wasn’t IoT, it was Cloud, but the messages about its impact as an industry game change were similar. Again, as with IoT, few people could really claim to understand the true nature of the changes that the Cloud would bring. The usual trait when we encounter something we don’t really understand is to position it aligned to something we do understand, so Cloud came to be seen as a cost reduction alternative to the data center. Few realized the significance of browser driven Services in transforming business capabilities.
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Restoration Hardware is learning the hard way that in today's retail climate, consumers are gaining ever more influence along with rising expectations for getting what they want, when they want it, as the Wall Street Journal reports:
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The establishment of industry standards is frequently cited as a key challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT), and while some progress is being made, by any measure there's quite a long road ahead on this front. Still, it's impressive to see how quickly the LoRa Alliance has grown since its inception in March 2015.
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One of the key marketing challenges that we face in the customer journey is moving from awareness to trial. That is, we want potential customers to “try out” our products or services. This can be particularly challenging when your product or service has a substantial price tag attached. Think of travel. There are a whole […]
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Microsoft's Developer Conference Build is starting tomorrow in San Francisco, and will run through the rest of the week. Well worth a little event preview...So take a look on what I think are the Top 3 things to watch for the key communities attending: Developers, Managers and Executives:
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McDonald's efforts to reverse a downturn in business over the past several years has already met some success, but now the fast food giant is hoping for even better results with an upcoming loyalty program tied to its mobile app, as Nation's Restaurant News reports:
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SAP Financials 2016 event highlights a comprehensive cloud platform and real-time analysis. Here’s why SAP Cloud for Analytics and BPC Optimized for S/4 Hana Finance are getting attention. … Continue reading →
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Earlier this week Oracle unveiled the Oracle Cloud Machine, its offering to run on premises what is running in the Oracle Cloud. It’s a key milestone for Oracle and for the overall industry, showing that hybrid cloud is real, and enterprises plan, want and likely will move loads between public cloud and on premises.So let’s do our customary news analysis of the press release, that can be found here:
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I had the pleasure of being invited to Oracle's CloudWorld conference in Washington, D.C. this week, and came away with a solid understanding of where the company stands with its cloud strategy, as well as where it's headed.
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Advancing Human-Centered Digital Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 8
In DisrupTV Episode 8, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a dynamic conversation with three distinguished leaders in technology and innovation:
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We had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Google Cloud Platform conference in San Francisco March 23rd and 24th 2016. Google Cloud Platform Next. For an inaugural event the conference was well attended and situated at beautifully transformed Pier 48 on the San Francisco Waterfront. So take a look at my key takeaways, with with a focus on the Day #2 keynote don’t miss my Day #1 takeaways here, if you haven’t seen them, watch them first):
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A lot has been written over the US Department of Justice and Apple sparring over unlocking the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers.What can CxOs in charge of enterprises / enterprise functions learn from it - take a look:
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Sorry it is the crazy season of United States presidential primaries and I had to tap into the Donald Trump tag line. I think I am a little punchy after spending a few days at the Cosmopolitan casino in Las … Continue reading →
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Cloudera plans public cloud push as applications multiply in financial services, insurance, life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Hadoop may not be easy, but it is gaining mainstream adoption.
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We had the opportunity to attend Google's Google Cloud Platform event this week in San Francisco, a key event for Google in the on going 'battle for the public cloud'.
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Cloudera plans public cloud push as applications multiply in financial services, insurance, life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Hadoop may not be easy, but it is gaining mainstream adoption. … Continue reading →
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There is a distinct feeling that technology capabilities to monitor and capture ‘real time’ data using an ever increasing range of low cost sensors are getting out of ahead of the availability of Apps and Services that can provide ‘real time’ optimized responses. In the Industrial Technology and automation sector there is a long history of developing Machine to Machine responsive systems, but it would seem that for an IT sector based on historic transaction applications it’s a big paradigm (apologies) shift.
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I had the opportunity to attend Cloudera's Analyst Days in San Franscisco this week, held at the beautiful Ritz Carlton hotel. The third analyst meeting of the vendor saw record attendance with almost 60 analysts making the trip.
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Blockchain Surprised the Payments Industry, but Its Usefulness Beyond Digital Money Doesn’t Match the Hype This report highlights the weaknesses of Blockchain, the platform underlying Bitcoin digital currency. This report reviews blockchain’s special properties, provides practical advice for deploying digital ledgers, and soberly re-assesses their true disruptive potential.