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Today Slack made 3 announcements that help advance their efforts to evolve from just being a product to being a platform. This is very important, as you've heard me say over and over again, one of the key's to the success of any vendor is the strength of its partner ecosystem. The announcements are:1. The Slack Fund, "a new $80 million dollar fund backed by Slack and six of our investors: Accel, Andreessen-Horowitz, Index Ventures, KPCB, Spark, and Social+Capital"
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The pace that Digital initiatives and IoT is forcing on the market makes it difficult to know when to act. ‘Fast follower’, the normal preferred stance for many Enterprises has huge risks in IoT as first movers have literally taken over and closed off market sectors to following competitors. A significant feature of IoT moves is the impact runs from small-scale innovative moves, such as Uber, to big market ecosystem disruptions by global giants such General Electric.
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“Should we use a group of products from a single vendor or purchase different features from multiple specialized vendors?”
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The report by Capgemini, “Organizing for Digital: Why Digital Dexterity Matters” — conducted in collaboration with MIT Center for Digital Business — reveals that digital organizations reported outperforming competitors on key performance indicators, such as customer satisfaction and innovation. The ‘digital masters’, just 7% per cent of companies, display “digital dexterity” – the ability to rapidly change […]
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What to Consider When Planning Your Organization’s Next Collaboration Infrastructure Organizations must determine if they should buy a suite of products from a single vendor or piece together tools from multiple vendors in a "best-of-breed" approach. Constellation believes that overall a suite approach remains the correct decision for most organizations. This report demonstrates how collaboration platforms provide a more seamless and secure user experience, while reducing costs and administrative complexities from piecing together multiple tools.
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The Leading Identity Management Alliance Puts Its Specifications into a Free, Open Standards Process This report is the latest update to Constellation’s continuous coverage of the FIDO Alliance. This update looks at the continuing expansion of the Alliance, especially into government and payments, the growing certification program, and the impact on the industry of standardizing IdM protocols through the W3C.
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Kronos Revamps User Interface and Taps Big Data for Workforce Apps Kronos gave its Workforce Ready Human Resources (HR) suite a visual overhaul and added a new tool called Workforce Auditor, which uses Big Data to spot behavioral anomalies among groups of employees. The announcement was made at the KronosWorks conference in Las Vegas on November 16, 2015. This report provides analysis and insights into the changes and additions.
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Case Study: Steel Dynamics and Castlight Health Manufacturer Shares Savings by Arming Employees with Data on Healthcare Provider Quality and Costs Tired of simply putting up with the increasing cost of healthcare benefits, manufacturer Steel Dynamics turned to Castlight Health, a cloud-based provider of healthcare management services, to arm employees with qualitative and quantitative data about healthcare choices.
Ideas advanced in an AI (artificial intelligence) program newly unveiled this week could have big implications over time for enterprise software. Here are the details from MIT's Technology Review:
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Updates on architecture, data center operations, and Presentation Services. Workday is continuously making progress on its platform in terms of extension for new use cases (e.g. Insights Apps), resilience (e.g. Availability Zones), core capabilities (e.g. Presentation Services) and overall TCO (e.g. Lifecyle Management plans). All good housekeeping a vendor should and needs to do, to stay on top of the game. On the concern side Workday has chosen to operate on a proprietary architecture, that only Workday knows, understands and operates. Read on!
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Google has plugged a key security feature hole in Gmail with the addition of DLP (data loss prevention) capabilities, in a move that should bolster its appeal among enterprise customers. An official Google blog post explains the move:
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Adobe and Accenture have expanded their partnership, in a move that speaks to the industry changes involved in large-scale digital transformation projects. Here are the key details from the announcement:
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Cisco is turning its Spark messaging application into a converged communication platform, highlighting an important ongoing trend in the enterprise collaboration space. Here are the details from an official Cisco blog:
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Who will win the battle for the CDO's office? The answer, we suggest, is to be found not so much in the title as in the role.Interviews conducted with 100 C-level executives over the last 12 months reveal that the "digital leader's" mission can differ widely from company to company. At retail clothing chain, for example, digital leadership means weaving technology seamlessly into the purchase process.
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Introducing Microsoft PowerApps – for the non-developer! We work on our phones, tablets and laptops and often on the go. That could mean being on manufacturing floors, in airplanes or at customer meetings or on the highway. With nearly limitless computer and data in the cloud and the mobile revolution, the work professional experience has been transformed. […]
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Improving ‘Service’ in the broadest definition of the term has historically been taken to mean optimization through centralization. The Business Disruption introduced by the Internet of Things, IoT, introduces new types of Smart Services and responsiveness achieved by decentralized autonomous interactions providing individually optimize responses. This may be counter-intuitive to some views of a Smart City as achieving new levels of centralization to optimize management.
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Often times, as a customer, you want to know a little bit more about what a company offers and when you find that information you want to be able to act on it. With the partnership between Verint and TimeTrade, customers will have more seamless omnichannel experiences for consumers. How Will This Partnership Work? The TimeTrade […]
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The Americas' SAP Users' Group has released its second member survey on SAP's HANA platform, providing a series of detailed insights on how customers are adopting it. (Disclosure: I am a former ASUG employee and helped design the survey prior to joining Constellation Research.) Here's a look at some of the key results, as summarized in an ASUGNews article:
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Qlik is not retiring its venerable QlikView product, but the company’s future lies with Qlik Sense and cloud services. Here’s what stands out… Continue reading →
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IBM has acquired video content management platform vendor Clearleap in a move that underscores the growing importance of video in not just the consumer world, but enterprises as well. Here are the key details from IBM's announcement:
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An unpublished letter to the editor of The Economist.Just as generalists mesmerized by quantum physics are prone to misapply it to broader but unrelated problems, some are making exorbitant claims for the potential of blockchain to change the world ("The trust machine", The Economist, October 31st). Yes, blockchain is extraordinarily clever but it was designed specifically to stop electronic cash from being double spent, without needing central oversight. As a general ledger, blockchain is unwieldy and expensive.
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