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Wine on tap? From a keg? Yes indeed, and Free Flow Wines has developed a flourishing business packaging and distributing wine in this manner. It works with almost 250 wineries, has a presence in 49 of the 50 U.S. states and holds relationships with more than 300 wholesalers. Free Flow pivoted its business model to distribution in 2013, after initially selling its own wine in kegs.
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Kaiser Permanente subsidiary KP OnCall is a clinical contact center for telehealth programs, serving more than four million people in California, Hawaii and Georgia.
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Tumi, maker of high-end travel and lifestyle products, wanted to make its customer service experience even more special through enriched visuals for online shoppers.
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World-renowned business advisor and author Ram Charan spoke for an hour-plus in his opening keynote at Constellation's Connected Enterprise 2015, explaining how companies can go on offense in order to deal with uncertainty, spot upcoming disruptions and ultimately take advantage.
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Privacy is emerging as one of the most critical and strategic of our information assets. If we treat privacy as an asset, instead of a burden, businesses can start to cut through this tough topic.
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Weather and Location as Context Attributes That Drive Insight Economies, IoT Business Models, and the Future of IBM This news analysis Quark analyzes IBM's acquisition of The Weather Company, focusing on implications for big data and Internet of Things (IoT) business models.
We had the opportunity to attend the Randstad Sourceright analyst summit this week, it took place in Atlanta and was well attended by the analyst community. Watch my video analysis of the summit.
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Today Pivotal used its upcoming European Cloud Foundry user conference to release a round up press release on its overall progress… time to check in where Cloud Foundry stands today.
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Oracle Open World 2015 announcements included three data-related standouts: Oracle Cloud Platform For Big Data, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, and Oracle Data Cloud. Here’s a deeper dive on what … Continue reading →
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Castlight Health recently extended its healthcare management platform’s capabilities with a new module called Action. The SaaS solution uses predictive analytics to help benefits leaders determine what employee engagement campaigns to run, in the interest of helping workers make better health care choices while squeezing out unnecessary costs.
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The chip-to-click stack becomes more real, but will it all work? Video with more highlights from Oracle OpenWorld.
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Advanced analytics vendor Alteryx got a resounding vote of confidence from venture capital groups this week in the form of an $85 million investment round. The infusion of money is certainly good news for Alteryx, but may also require it to make thorny strategic decisions. Here are the details from the press release:
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SAP and Google have announced a patent cross-licensing agreement that is significant in scope and which could have implications beyond a desire to avoid
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The enthusiasm for crypto currency innovation has proven infectious, and many commentators have promoted the blockchain in particular as something special for identity management. Prominent financial services blogger Chris Skinner says "the blockchain will radically alter our futures" and envisages an Internet of Things where your appliances are "recorded [on the blockchain] as being yours using your digital identity token (probably a biometric or something similar)". While blockchain aficionados have been quick to make a leap to identity, the opposite is not the case.
The identerati haven't had much to say about blockchain at all.
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IBM has announced plans to buy the Weather Company's technology and B2B businesses and couple them with its Watson IoT Unit and cloud platform. From the release:
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IBM serves up data-analytic cloud services, an Apache Spark service on BlueMix, and new data-discovery capabilities within IBM Watson Analytics. As for that Cognos update? It’s a half step to … Continue reading →
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Oracle has unleashed the usual barrage of press releases at OpenWorld, happening right now in San Francisco.I compiled a short presentation with one slide for each press release and MyPOV in them - take a look...
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We really should replace "identity" with "attributes". In particular, we should realise there are no "Identity Providers" -- they're all just Attribute Providers. No third party ever actually "provides" a Subject with their identity; that was a naive industrial sort of metaphor that reduces identity to a commodity, able to be bought and sold. It is always the Relying Party that "identifies" a Subject for their (the RP's) purposes. And therefore it is the Relying Party that bestows identity.
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I have written before pages and pages defining the cloud (including my cloud purist e-book – check it out) in many ways. I have done charts and slides, entire presentations, reams for electronic paper, and more – but defining it in one page was proving nearly impossible.Until yesterday.I finally figured out what the problem has been. It is not a problem of definitions (there are plenty of those going around) but a problem of confusion.There is a general confusion as to what the cloud is because we use the same word to define three very different things.
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If a non-partner brand were to stand outside Citi Field before a World Series game giving away free products to fans, you better believe that their security staff would immediately escort them off the premises. This type of “guerrilla marketing” can often happen around major sporting events and always presents a challenge to the property to enforce.So what do you think of this tactic?
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Dell CEO Michael Dell has repeatedly cited his company's "world-class supply chain" as one major synergy in for its pending mega-merger with EMC.
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s OpenWorld keynote on Monday featured the expected heavy sales pitches and claims of Oracle’s leadership in the cloud, but also provided some bold predictions and interesting perspectives from large customers. Here’s a look at some of the highlights. The 2025 Vision
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