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Oracle held an analyst summit in New York this week, where Oracle executives including CEO Mark Hurd and EVP of product development Thomas Kurian gave attendees a sweeping and in-depth overview of the vendor's road maps and strategies for 2016 and beyond. The following is some key takeways of the event from members of Constellation's analyst team, who were in the house.
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It seldom happens that an acquisition is being closed during an analyst event, but so it happened today – Atos completes the acquisition of Unify from Gores Group and Siemens.
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Will We Move Beyond Man Vs Machine In The Fourth Industrial Revolution?The World Economic Forum released it’s Future of Jobs report. As expected, the business model disruption across technology, societal, and economic forces have created urgency to understand the jobs and skills required for the next decade. The survey and research design relied on interviews with global CHROs and other senior talent and strategy executives that impacted over 13,549,000 employees.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?One of the big topics at Davos has been the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots. Discussions focus less on the technological advancements but more on the role humans and robots will play. At the Financial Times – Wipro Dinner, that topic was put to debate with six prominent guests including: ...
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Enterprise Architecture is pretty well understood as to what it means in respect of IT application integration, and even has some industry wide methodologies like TOGAF. Talk about Architecture and the Web and there are more variations, but there are some strong underlying principles that are respected. Now reflect on IoT, supposedly a ‘any to any’ Internet environment of event driven connections and insightful outcomes. So where is the commonly stood architecture to support this?
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While Amazon Web Services is known for its robust security, Unisys believes some customers may desire an additional layer of protection. To that end, it has put up its Stealth security technology up for sale and use on AWS. From the release:
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I’m here with my colleagues, Holger Mueller @holgermu and Doug Henschen @DHenschen, covering the #OracleCloud Summit 2016 in NYC at the Waldorf Astoria @WaldorfNYC. (BTW the Waldorf Astoria has great customer service!!!) MY POV: My overall take away is that Oracle has built / are building the most comprehensive cloud offering – Data as a […]
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One of the silliest things I've read yet about blockchain came out in Business Insider Australia recently. They said that the blockchain “in effect” lets the crowd police the monetary system.
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Retailers have been very good at dealing with uncertainty, but there is likely more uncertainty facing retailers than ever before. So what is a retailer supposed to do?
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The highest court in Germany has ruled that Facebook’s “Find Friends” function is unlawful there. The decision is the culmination of legal action started in 2010 by German consumer groups, and confirms the rulings of other lower courts in 2012 and 2014. The gist of the privacy breach is that Facebook is illegitimately using details of third parties obtained from members, to market to those third parties without their consent.
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It’s time to pack your bags ( at least virtually). The weather outside is 20F/ -7C and folks are starting roll into Zurich and the train ride into Davos. For those lucky ones, the private jets are starting to pile up as guests come in to mingle. It’s the weekend before Davos. Everyone’s starting to digest the theme around the 4th Industrial Revolution.
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Pitney Bowes has taken another step in a transition beyond its roots as a mailing and printing products provider with the acquisition of Seattle company Enroute, which makes a cloud-based transportation management system for retailers. Here are the key details from Pitney Bowes' announcement:
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On January 14, 2016 the Salesforce AppExchange turned 10 years old. That makes it more than 2 years older than the iPhone App Store, which opened on July 10, 2008! For those of you unfamiliar with the AppExchange, it's a catalog of applications built by Salesforce partners that enables customers to add functionality to their use of Salesforce. Do you want to add Human Resources (HR), Supply Chain (ERP), or financial features?
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IBM has made its first acquisition of the new year, buying German vendor IRIS Analytics for its anti-payment fraud technology. Despite the heightened awareness of payment fraud in recent years, it remains a serious problem, as IBM says in its annoucement"
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Oracle is planning to hire 1,400 new inside salespeople to push its cloud software portfolio in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before we get into what this means, here are the key details from Oracle's announcement:
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Every January for the past few years I have made the trek to the Big Apple and spent the better part of the week at the cavernous Javits Center for the National Retail Federations Big Show. The event feels like … Continue reading →
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It turns out "shadow IT" is a bigger phenomenon than many of us believed, at least according to Cisco. The company has determined that on average, large enterprises are using 1,220 individual public cloud services—up to 25 times as many as IT departments it surveyed believed. Cisco is targeting the shadow IT epidemic with a new SaaS product called Cloud Consumption as a Service:
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One of my favourite parts of my job is meeting with collaboration software vendors to discuss with them how they are going to improve, or in the rare case change, the way people work. I have hundreds of briefings each year, some with billion dollar software companies and others with brand new startups. To organize all their products, I've created three categories:
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Back in January it seemed as though 2015 would be the year of Hype for the Internet of Things, as industry pundits competed to claim how many billions of IoT devices there would be in the coming years. At the end of 2015 many people in IT can state that for them there was no sign of IoT happening, and if you work in the IT department that’s arguably true. IoT is happening, and just like the Internet after the 2002 bust, it’s changing some sectors slowly but surely.
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NICE Systems is expanding its portfolio of customer interaction analytics software with the purchase of Nexidia, in a move that expands its customer base and allows it to support more use cases.
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