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DMN and The Hub have combined forces this year to present the Marketing&Tech Innovation Awards, which honor the most innovative strategies, platforms, and people in marketing today. I was thrilled to be a judge in this year’s selection. The winners will be announced on March 10th, but take a peek at the finalists below and […]
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We had the opportunity to attend the third Oracle Cloud analyst summit earlier in the week, held in New York at the iconic Walldorf Astoria. One could wonder if Oracle executives know that the very founder of the Walldorf, a certain Mr. Astor came from Walldorf Germany, which happens to be the headquarters location of one of Oracle’s key rivals, SAP SE, but that’s another story…
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As impressive as recent advancements in areas of artificial intelligence such as facial recognition and autonomous devices, there remains much work to be done in the realm of "emotional intelligence," as a panel of leading AI researchers conveyed this week at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. Here are some of key insights from the discussion.Context Is Everything
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Oracle is amassing an impressive collection of data and data-enrichment capabilities for marketing and more, but will analytics-as-a-service be the next battleground?… Continue reading →
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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? There's an app (well dozens) for that.
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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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