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Microsoft is currently having its European Convergence conference in Barcelona - and has unleashed three major announcements, my colleague Alan Lepovsky and me take a first stab analyzing them.
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Microsoft has unveiled PowerApps, a new template-driven application development platform targeted toward business users that leverages the familiarity of Office. Here are the key details from an official blog post on the launch:
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Often HIPAA is used as an excuse for not being able to move to the cloud, but Wiora has read the law a few times, and there is nothing in the law that prevents healthcare companies from going to the cloud. As of today Creative Solution in Healthcare is the first healthcare company to have made the leap to the public cloud. The IT team is now spending more time with the business, effectively being more engaged with the business as the need to take care of technology has gone down from 80% to 50% of the overall work time.
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One of the great discussion points that arose today from the Sydney Morning Herald was the possibility that drivers could be fined for not having their mobile charged. https://t.co/6gjZsRdy6Q – whilst Service NSW informed the SMH that drivers would not be charged for failure to produce a driver license with a flat mobile, it is clear that if the digital license is the default then a flat or lost phone will be a critical potential issue. Driving without a mobile could well be an offence in some jurisdictions let alone make any transaction virtually impossible as physical money dies a slow death. It is also worth noting the issue of digital equity at this point. There can be no mandate to go digital to reflect that whilst the majority of Australian residents are able to enjoy premium personal technology, not everyone is. For government the digital solution cannot be the only solution.
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We are not just distracted but alerted. Buzzed and connected. We hurry between places, spaces and events not because we fear missing out but because our presence is marked on a hidden scale of check-ins, appointments and leaderboards. We have given over to the machine and it keeps its own counsel.So what are we to do?I like these simple suggestions from Deepak Chopra.
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IoT Devices broadly require a network transport to match the physical network characteristics and a data protocol able to communicate specialized data descriptions such as vibration, or pressure. Sometimes the two may be combined for simple types of sensor deployments, or specific data extensions can be made to an existing recognized protocol, either from the IT Industry, or the Industrial Sector. An accelerating number of protocols has seen a huge growth in the requirements for API integration or translation capabilities often offering reusable API libraries.
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Black Friday, the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, will soon arrive and some shoppers will get started even earlier thanks to the likes of Walmart opening on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday one day prior.
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A report this week in the Register no doubt raised some eyebrows among Oracle customers. More than 1,000 Oracle support workers will reportedly be let go as part of a consolidation effort, with the UK support center closing entirely, according to the report.
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As with other trends in the past, Constellation sees massive and growing vendor hype in not only capabilities, but also in repackaging offerings as “digital”. Given the demand, and the need to move fast, many organizations must pay back technical debt in the transition to digital transformation requirements. Despite the fact that 18% of the respondents see SAP as an innovator, 53% have begun efforts with SAP with the goal of paying back technical debt and aligning longer term strategies with existing infrastructure. Conversations with user group members show that they seek assistance in shoring up and leveraging existing SAP investments. However, most organizations are evaluating whether SAP has a role in broader business model innovation.
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Market Overview: Corporate Performance Management (CPM)Cloud-Based Performance Management Is a Difference Maker in Disruptive Times Cloud-based CPM market overview reviews three of the fastest-growing CPM products: Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, and Host Analytics. This report explores the features and functions of each system and their suitability for needs including budgeting, planning, forecasting, modeling, analysis, reporting, financial consolidation and regulatory reporting.
Cisco is placing a big bet on webconferencing—yes, even though it already has WebEx—with the $700 million purchase of London-based Acano. Here are the key details from Cisco's announcement, followed by Constellation's analysis of why it's making this move.
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The FIDO Alliance, the world's leading identity management industry association, has delivered on its core promise, by starting the transition of its intellectual property into the public domain, with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Salesforce held its third-quarter earnings announcement on Wednesday, reporting a revenue rise of 24 percent to $1.7 billion, putting the company on pace to generate $6.6 billion this year.
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Vendor Profile: Oracle Storage Cloud Head to Head with Amazon, Oracle Shows Its Intent to Compete on All Fronts, Including Pricing This report explores the features and functions of Oracle Storage Cloud system and its suitability for supporting key business objectives such as hardening of infrastructure, next generation application projects, storage services, and global compliance and operation.
Cloudera is continuing to refine its Hadoop-based big data analytics platform with Cloudera Enterprise 5.5, including a beta version of a tool that analyzes and optimizes Hadoop workloads. Here are the details from the announcement:
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Last month, SAP hybris hosted a number of analysts, clients and prospects in Forth Worth Texas for their North American Customer Days event. The major discussion point for the event was the impact digital has had on the relationship with … Continue reading →
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IBM displayed two sides of the company at its annual analyst forum last week: the mighty tech titan and the agile new design-driven Big Blue. Here’s my take on a … Continue reading →
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Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Dynamics AX, which will be generally available on its Azure cloud platform early next year. That's right—on Azure first, and not immediately on-premises. I spoke with Mike Ehrenberg, Microsoft technical fellow for Dynamics, prior to the launch and our discussion was eye-opening.
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It’s not enough to know the Air Conditioning unit has failed, you need to know where it is, what model it is, when it was installed, if it is under Service Contract, etc. even when manually deciding on the appropriate action. Automating the event process response makes it even more necessary to ensure the completeness of data about the Device itself in context with its situation. Gathering and successfully digitizing an Asset for use by Event Hubs and Engines is a critical success factor in scaling up and developing any IoT project.
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We had the opportunity to attend Kronos' yearly user conference KronosWorks at the beautiful Aria resort in Las Vegas.
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This morning Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella gave a global speech about enterprise security. He announced a new Cyber Defense Operations Center, a should-not-be-new Microsoft Enterprise Cybersecurity Group and a not-at-all-new-sounding Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS). The webcast can be replayed here but don't expect to be blown away. It's all just tablestakes for a global cloud provider.Security is being standardised all over the place now. Ordinary people are getting savier about security best practice; they know for example that biometrics templates need to be handled carefully in client devices, and that secure storage is critical for assets like identities and Bitcoin. "Secure Element" is almost a lay-person's term now (Apple tried to give the iPhone security chip the fancy name "Enclave" but seem to now regard it as so standard it doesn't need branding).All this awareness is great, but it's fast becoming hygeine. Like airplane safety. It's a bit strange for corporations to seek to compete on security, or to have the CEO announce what are really textbook security services. At the end of the speech, I couldn't tell if anything sets Microsoft apart from its arch competitors Google or Amazon.Most of today's CISOs operate at a higher, more strategic level than malware screening, anti-virus and encryption. Nadella's subject matter was really deep in the plumbing. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But it just didn't seem to me like the subject matter for a CEO's global webcast.The Microsoft "operational security posture" is very orthodox, resting on "Platform, Intelligence and Partners". I didn't see anything new here, just a big strong cloud provider doing exactly what they should: leveraging the hell out of a massive operation, with massive resources, and massive influence.
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