This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Today Workday announced the availability of its French Payroll capability, available at March 12th 2016. This brings to an end the long ago announced roadmap for payroll support beyond the USA and Canada, with the delivery of UK payroll last summer and French payroll right now.
New Call Tracking For Digital Marketing – Well if you thought the only people who cared about phone calls to brand were people in the contact center, then you may be surprised by DialogTech’s new solution. Actually its not that surprising me – considering a good 30-50% of calls to a contact center are marketing […]
Direct Marketing News is honored to announce the 2016 Honorees to the Marketing Hall of Femme! These incredible women have storied careers, take risks, and push the industry and their companies forward with their edgy marketing strategies. On April 8, 2016, we’re celebrating all of their outstanding achievements and more. New this year, the event […]
Microsoft has delivered on its promise to launch its Dynamics AX ERP suite on the Azure cloud platformâ, with general availability in 137 markets and in 40 languages.
We are attending Ultimate’s user conference UltiConnect at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The conference kicked off with a welcome reception at Drais, a great location to get attendees to enjoy Las Vegas. And with over 2000 attendees and over 60% first time attendees the conference sees record attendance.
Security starts with the identification of risks that in turn defines actions that are required. IoT devices range from simple sensors to embedded intelligence in sophisticated machines, and their deployment covers the whole spectrum of industries, and applications, as such there is not a single standard answer. It would seem unnecessary to consider imposing IT security practices to pilot a handful of simple monitoring sensors in a building, but a pilot should be the opportunity to learn about the technology and security aspects as well as the business benefits.
Microsoft has joined the Eclipse Foundation, taking another important step in changing its identity from a company fixated on proprietary software to one that embraces open source and wants to be seen as a polygot development tools provider open to developers of all stripes.
The ongoing disharmony within Bitcoin's core development team and other stakeholders stands in harsh contrast to the exuberance over blockchain's potential to reshape the economy with some kind of mathematically perfect, trust-free new infrastructure.
TweetCustomers are More Difficult to Serve Than Ever. Is Your Brand Ready? Avaya, a Contact Center Infrastructure for 15 consecutive years unveiled customer engagement innovations that meet customer expectations where the rules of the game have changed:90% of people move between different devices[i]52% of customers are less likely to engage with a company because of a bad mobile experience[ii]89% of companies will compete primarily based on customer experience – up significantly from the previous two years[iii]
Raymond Tomlinson is noted for establishing person-to-person email as we know it. He was the one that allowed people to send emails to users on other computers by choosing the @ symbol. He considered an obscure keyboard character — the @ symbol — to separate usernames from email hosts. Tomlinson came up with the idea while […]
The tech world has lost a seminal figure with the death at 74 of Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing e-mail. Tomlinson described the creation on his personal webpage, which remains up and running:
The Privacy Shield is good news for commerce of course. But I hope that in the excitement, American businesses don't lose sight of the broader sweeper of privacy law. Even better would be to look beyond compliance, and take the opportunity to rethink privacy, because there is more to it than security and regulatory short cuts.The Privacy Shield and the earlier Safe Harbor arrangement are really only about satisfying one corner of European data protection laws, namely transborder flows.
Employees would most recommend Zerto, FusionOps, Google, OutSystems, AppDirect, Sumo Logic, Cloudera, HyTrust, Tableau Software and Domo to their friends looking for a cloud computing company to work for in 2016. These and other insights are from an analysis completed today to determine the best cloud computing firms and CEOs to work for this year.
What is the mission of Adobe? To change the world through digital experiences. The pace of change in how consumers engage with content is accelerating. So their mission is more relevant than it has ever been before. Consumers expect to connect with content immediately no matter where they are or what they are doing. In the […]
Case Study: SAP and Prescient How SAP HANA Enabled Next-Generation Traveler Safety Applications Prescient Traveler selected SAP HANA to underlie its Hadoop-based solution for HANA's ability to store risk information and its enablement of manual and automatic risk curation. This case study documents the benefits and lessons learned from Prescient Traveler's implementation of SAP HANA, SAP's in-memory database.
What’s the Partnership Between Capgemini And Celaton Mean to Your Company? Capgemini, consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has announced a new global collaboration with Celaton, a specialist Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, to license and use its inSTREAM, cognitive learning technology. The 3 year contract, signed between Capgemini and Celaton, will extend Capgemini’s already strong automation […]
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced new hybrid capabilities in its storage and database offerings, which are remarkable in the way the products and offerings are set up and offer the existing Microsoft install base a path to the cloud.So let’s take apart Mark Jewett’s blog post in our customary style (it can be found here).
Tweet It’s time for another edition of Infographic Friday. Today’s content comes to us from Statista (with data from Nielsen) who put together this simple yet powerful chart to demonstrate the dominant position that sports now holds when it comes to live television consumption. Click here to see the original post on statista.com. You will find more statistics at Statista
Innovating Business Models and Digital Commerce | DisrupTV Ep. 5
In DisrupTV Episode 5, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a dynamic conversation with three distinguished leaders in technology and innovation:
Industrial conglomerate Honeywell is hoping to sell off its Building Solutions Group in a deal that could net between $3 billion and $4 billion, and has hired Goldman Sachs to shop it around, according to the Wall Street Journal.
How the Internet of Things Connects Supply Chains to Customer ServiceThis report examines how the Internet of Things (IoT) improves the retail cusotmer experience by providing the devices and infrastructure to improve the transmission of data throughout throughout the retail supply chain.