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Capgemini and onio: Capgemini announced the acquisition of oinio, one of Europe’s leading Salesforce partners. This acquisition will expand Capgemini’s Digital Strategy Group growth by augmenting Capgemini’s capabilities in providing digital transformation services around the Salesforce solutions and platform across Europe and Asia. Oinio, based in Munich, has become one of the major European players in […]
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CES: The Connected Internet of Things Dominates: Analysts predict by 2019 that only 49 percent of data in the cloud will be from PCs, and the biggest drivers of the shift will be smartphones and IoT. They also expect the Industrial Internet (another euphemism for the Internet of Things) to generate over 500 zettabytes in 2019 — […]
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Oracle wasted little time making its first acquisition of the new year, announcing it will purchase AddThis, maker of website tools for audience engagement, tracking and content recommendation. AddThis's platform is used by more than 15 million websites, as Oracle notes in its announcement:
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Why GM And the Lyft Partnership? Lyft added GM to its arsenal because according to Zimmer, “GM is the largest automaker in the U.S. We both see the future of transportation through a network versus ownership, and this is a step in that direction.” What’s most interesting is to note that GM is looking to the shift away from its main business until now — the sale of cars — to a more service-oriented one.
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After several years of minimal merger and acquisition activity in the 3PL (third-party logistics) market, last year was one of the deal-heaviest in quite a while, as DC Velocity reports:
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What’s the News?: The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a new collaborative effort to advance the popular blockchain technology. The project will develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and free developers to focus on building robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions. […]
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I finally got around to follow up on the invitation by IBM’s GM of Design, Phil Gilbert, to visit the campus in Austin, which hosts the nucleus of the IBM Design activities. Needless to say – it was an insightful visit. Here are some highlights...
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Editor's note: It was a busy 2015 in the enterprise applications world, marked by major trend shifts, product launches and potential mega-mergers. The following is the first installment of a series of Insights posts looking back on the year in enterprise apps.Cloud ERP Comes of Age
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MIT-Led Project Seeks Cure for 'Rotten' Code: What Project Helium Could Mean for Enterprise Software
A fascinating project driven by MIT researchers along with Adobe and Google is taking aim at a longstanding, vexing problem in software development: "Code rot," a term for the way a program's performance can suffer over time due to advancements in hardware and other factors.
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IoT, 3D printing and wearables will reduce retail friction during high volume periodsLearn how new disruptive technologies such as IoT, mobile and 3D printing can reduce retail friction throughout the retail supply chain during the holidays.
Apache Spark, real-time, cloud BI & analytics, IoT, and self-service where the trends to watch in 2015, and they’ll continue to make waves into 2016.… Continue reading →
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Defining and setting the primers for IoT, gaining business value, from real-time data events This report offers a comprehensive primer of the IoT market, providing a solid foundation for companies to fully understand the definition and foundational technology of IoT. This report explains the key characteristics and technologies required for a holistic IoT strategy. This document also highlights where the industry is headed and which vendors and consortiums will set the foundation for the next generation of IoT.
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Case Study: MarketShare and Altiscale MarketShare Switches to a Performance-Oriented Hadoop Service to Meet Client Demands and Cut Costs In 2013, MarketShare contracted Altiscale to provide dedicated, performance-oriented Hadoop-as-a-service to support its predictive aanalytics business.This case study documents MarketShare's experience engaging Altiscale for cloud-based Hadoop services.
Many marketers feel out of their depth with the vast array of skills and capabilities that are required. The disruption adds to the anxiety that ripples out across the organisation. This anxiety is reverberating far beyond the marketing department. In response, I have written an eBook that builds on a series of blog posts and articles, observations, projects and presentations that I have made throughout the year. It looks at the shifting landscape and suggests ways forward for individuals and teams.
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Oracle has reached an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle charges the agency brought over Java SE, which is installed on more than 850 million computers around the world, and the pending outcome is a win for both consumers and enterprise IT.
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