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This morning Unit4, a rising ERP player with European origins, announced its partnership with the 'hot' collaboration startup Slack. As such its the first partnership of Slack, which has covered more than mindshare in SiliconValley, becoming the 'de-facto' collaboration tool for many local enterprises, and an enterprise software vendor.
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Red-hot Apache Spark startup Databricks is starting off the new year with a series of top leadership changes that it says will help the company manage rapid growth and hit key targets for 2016. Here are the details from Databricks, which was founded by Spark's creators:
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Vendor Profile: Facebook at Work Outlining the challenges and opportunitites Facebook faces in the collaboration market.
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Market Overview: Social Business The Software Vendors Changing How Employees Create, Connect, Communicate and CollaborateThis report highlights some of the social business software vendors who are delivering innovative solutions that improve the way people get work done. The software vendors in this report are each challenging the status quo in the way people work.
Salesforce Analyst Summit 2016 highlights Wave Analytics Cloud makeover and work in progress on the Internet of Things strategy and Salesforce Thunder. Salesforce has successfully rebooted its Wave Analytics Cloud. … Continue reading →
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The complexity of marketing has increased exponentially. The question on many CMO’s mind’s range from: Do I have the right technology? Am I using what I have well? What else do I need? Are my processes efficient and effective to take advantage of the technology? Do my people have the right skills, mindsets and […]
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Organizations In Search Of Growth Must Consider Macro ForcesBurgeoning money supplies in both the US and China have fueled an indefensible growth post Global Financial Crisis. Since 2000, the money supply has tripled from $6000 USD billion to 12288.10 USD billion in November of 2015 (see Figure 1). Since 2005, china’s money supply has grown 7X from 20000 CNY Billion to 137400 CNY Billion in November of 2015 (see Figure 2). While this level of money supply growth would normally cause inflation, income inequality has played a key role in keeping inflation in check because the richest 1% of people in the world now own more than 50% of global wealth...
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I think most brands, when they started in social and digital media didn’t realize the commitment they were heading into to be content creators or essentially publishers. But what the recent past has shown is that engaging customers in digital and social is that great content is key – for engagement, interaction, thought leadership, social selling and being on customer’s radar as relevant and authentically genuine in this new digital era. And interesting chart by SmartInsights, shows what happens every 60 seconds:...
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Earlier this week Salesforce held their 2016 Analyst Summit. At this event, they shared information about their product and marketing plans, we heard customer stories, and we were able to ask questions to several top executives. In the video below I provide an overview of the Salesforce product portfolio, explain some of the terminology they use (ex: Lightning, Thunder, Wave, Salesforce1), and highlight some of their strengths in the collaboration market.
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Happy New Year to all, I hope that your 2016 is already off to a great start. Looking forward to this year there are some exiting changes as well and continued progress in other areas. Here are some trends we are focusing on for 2016: Continue reading →
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The fallout from Chipotle's recent norovirus outbreak at some of its stores continues to mount, with sales plummeting and a federal criminal investigation underway, as NPR reports:
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A first post for 2016 aiming to start the year with a mix of fun and a serious point concerning a $29.99 virtual reality ‘toy’ that will have been Christmas present for a lot of kids. The View-Master is a toy only because it is being marketed that way, it is actually a quality product based on Google Cardboard. This is mass consumer market Virtual Reality ideal for Smart City Services!
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Large systems integrators are going on a bit of a shopping spree in recent days, with the objects of desire being specialized services firms focused on prominent SaaS applications such as Salesforce and Workday.
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Capgemini and onio: Capgemini announced the acquisition of oinio, one of Europe’s leading Salesforce partners. This acquisition will expand Capgemini’s Digital Strategy Group growth by augmenting Capgemini’s capabilities in providing digital transformation services around the Salesforce solutions and platform across Europe and Asia. Oinio, based in Munich, has become one of the major European players in […]
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CES: The Connected Internet of Things Dominates: Analysts predict by 2019 that only 49 percent of data in the cloud will be from PCs, and the biggest drivers of the shift will be smartphones and IoT. They also expect the Industrial Internet (another euphemism for the Internet of Things) to generate over 500 zettabytes in 2019 — […]
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Oracle wasted little time making its first acquisition of the new year, announcing it will purchase AddThis, maker of website tools for audience engagement, tracking and content recommendation. AddThis's platform is used by more than 15 million websites, as Oracle notes in its announcement:
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Why GM And the Lyft Partnership? Lyft added GM to its arsenal because according to Zimmer, “GM is the largest automaker in the U.S. We both see the future of transportation through a network versus ownership, and this is a step in that direction.” What’s most interesting is to note that GM is looking to the shift away from its main business until now — the sale of cars — to a more service-oriented one.
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After several years of minimal merger and acquisition activity in the 3PL (third-party logistics) market, last year was one of the deal-heaviest in quite a while, as DC Velocity reports:
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