Filter Results
Results
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.
Video
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'.
Analyst Blog
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 →
Analyst Blog
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.
Analyst Blog
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.
Analyst Blog
Premium Research
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.
While Apple's new iPhone SE garnered the most attention during its announcements this week, perhaps the most important one in the grand scheme was CareKit, an open-source software framework for developing personal health iPhone applications. From the announcement:
Insight Blog
Last week SAP used the largest Software and IT fair – CeBIT – to make news in a number of areas, the one of interest is around HANA Vora, announced last year in September (we attended the launch event, blog post here), and now GA in its first release.
Analyst Blog
Case Study
Case Study: Shaw Industries and NetSuite The Cloud and Two-Tier ERP Drove International Expansion by a Leading Manufacturer This case study documents the benefits and lessons learned from Shaw Industries' experience implementing Netsuite Cloud ERP.
We live in an age where our sense of humanity has taken a backseat on our roadtrip to the future, and we’ve packed off the difficult issues like climate change, asylum seekers and refugees to live with the relatives.So hearing a discussion of how governments, business and citizens can work together seems strangely foreign and wildly exciting.
Analyst Blog
It's tempting to think the march of technology always overtakes the stuffy old law, but technology neutral privacy laws are actually more powerful than technologists often realise. One highly influential technologist, none other than the creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for stronger privacy. That's most welcome, yet he has speculated needlessly about brand new legal principles to grant ownership of data. That would only spawn endless new conundrums.
Analyst Blog
Each week, Vala Afshar and R “Ray” Wang host a web series DisrupTV. It’s a 30 minute deep dive into the world of digital transformation featuring the people and organizations that are leading that change.This week’s episode featured GE’s Chief Digital Officer, Ganesh Bell, Constellation Research Principal Analyst, Guy Courtin and myself.
Analyst Blog
Adobe Summit 2016 is kicking off this week and as usual, stands to be one of the industry's more important conferences for marketers and digital strategists. Here's a look at some of the planned highlights and themes customers can expect out of the conference.CX In the Spotlight
Insight Blog
Navigating the Future of Digital Transformation | DisrupTV Episode 7
In DisrupTV Episode 7, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a dynamic conversation with three distinguished leaders in technology and innovation:
Video
We had the chance to attend SAP Ariba's user conference Ariba Live in Las Vegas, together with colleagues Chris Kanaracus, Guy Courtin and Ray Wang. The conference was well attended with over 2000 people in attendance.
Analyst Blog
Insight Blog
This weekend – at 5am Australian daylight time – I will be joining the hosts of DisrupTV, R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar to talk marketing-led innovation, and provide a snapshot of the Australian innovation landscape. This weekly web series is streamed live on Blab.im and is focused on leadership, innovation and disruption in the enterprise and brings together A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. And when I say “A-list guests”, I’m not talking about celebrities. I’m talking about business and technology leaders who are changing the way that we do, think about and create value in business.
Analyst Blog
Case Study
Case Study: Arcadia Data and MarketShare MarketShare Taps a Hadoop-Native Analysis Option to Drive Deeper Analysis and Big Data ROI MarketShare, a Neustar solution, helps marketers make better decisions faster and to increase sales and gain market share on a global scale. This case study documents the experience of MarketShare in its migration to Arcadia Data, a visual analytics and BI platform that runs natively on Hadoop.
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s yearly user conference ‘Meeting of the Minds’ in Fort Washington, at the beautiful Gaylord National. The conference was equally well attended as last year in Nashville with over 1000 attendees.
Analyst Blog
As part of the product keynote sessions Jive is unveiled the next generation of interactive intranet and customer communities. In addition, Jive unveiled how the WorkHub and new Jive Identity Service will unite all aspects of a person’s business ecosystem – from colleagues across a company to individual teams, to external stakeholders such as customers […]
Analyst Blog