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Black Friday, the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, will soon arrive and some shoppers will get started even earlier thanks to the likes of Walmart opening on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday one day prior.
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A report this week in the Register no doubt raised some eyebrows among Oracle customers. More than 1,000 Oracle support workers will reportedly be let go as part of a consolidation effort, with the UK support center closing entirely, according to the report.
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As with other trends in the past, Constellation sees massive and growing vendor hype in not only capabilities, but also in repackaging offerings as “digital”. Given the demand, and the need to move fast, many organizations must pay back technical debt in the transition to digital transformation requirements. Despite the fact that 18% of the respondents see SAP as an innovator, 53% have begun efforts with SAP with the goal of paying back technical debt and aligning longer term strategies with existing infrastructure. Conversations with user group members show that they seek assistance in shoring up and leveraging existing SAP investments. However, most organizations are evaluating whether SAP has a role in broader business model innovation.
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Market Overview: Corporate Performance Management (CPM)Cloud-Based Performance Management Is a Difference Maker in Disruptive Times Cloud-based CPM market overview reviews three of the fastest-growing CPM products: Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, and Host Analytics. This report explores the features and functions of each system and their suitability for needs including budgeting, planning, forecasting, modeling, analysis, reporting, financial consolidation and regulatory reporting.
Cisco is placing a big bet on webconferencing—yes, even though it already has WebEx—with the $700 million purchase of London-based Acano. Here are the key details from Cisco's announcement, followed by Constellation's analysis of why it's making this move.
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The FIDO Alliance, the world's leading identity management industry association, has delivered on its core promise, by starting the transition of its intellectual property into the public domain, with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Salesforce held its third-quarter earnings announcement on Wednesday, reporting a revenue rise of 24 percent to $1.7 billion, putting the company on pace to generate $6.6 billion this year.
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Vendor Profile: Oracle Storage Cloud Head to Head with Amazon, Oracle Shows Its Intent to Compete on All Fronts, Including Pricing This report explores the features and functions of Oracle Storage Cloud system and its suitability for supporting key business objectives such as hardening of infrastructure, next generation application projects, storage services, and global compliance and operation.
Cloudera is continuing to refine its Hadoop-based big data analytics platform with Cloudera Enterprise 5.5, including a beta version of a tool that analyzes and optimizes Hadoop workloads. Here are the details from the announcement:
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Last month, SAP hybris hosted a number of analysts, clients and prospects in Forth Worth Texas for their North American Customer Days event. The major discussion point for the event was the impact digital has had on the relationship with … Continue reading →
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IBM displayed two sides of the company at its annual analyst forum last week: the mighty tech titan and the agile new design-driven Big Blue. Here’s my take on a … Continue reading →
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Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Dynamics AX, which will be generally available on its Azure cloud platform early next year. That's right—on Azure first, and not immediately on-premises. I spoke with Mike Ehrenberg, Microsoft technical fellow for Dynamics, prior to the launch and our discussion was eye-opening.
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It’s not enough to know the Air Conditioning unit has failed, you need to know where it is, what model it is, when it was installed, if it is under Service Contract, etc. even when manually deciding on the appropriate action. Automating the event process response makes it even more necessary to ensure the completeness of data about the Device itself in context with its situation. Gathering and successfully digitizing an Asset for use by Event Hubs and Engines is a critical success factor in scaling up and developing any IoT project.
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We had the opportunity to attend Kronos' yearly user conference KronosWorks at the beautiful Aria resort in Las Vegas.
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This morning Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella gave a global speech about enterprise security. He announced a new Cyber Defense Operations Center, a should-not-be-new Microsoft Enterprise Cybersecurity Group and a not-at-all-new-sounding Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS). The webcast can be replayed here but don't expect to be blown away. It's all just tablestakes for a global cloud provider.Security is being standardised all over the place now. Ordinary people are getting savier about security best practice; they know for example that biometrics templates need to be handled carefully in client devices, and that secure storage is critical for assets like identities and Bitcoin. "Secure Element" is almost a lay-person's term now (Apple tried to give the iPhone security chip the fancy name "Enclave" but seem to now regard it as so standard it doesn't need branding).All this awareness is great, but it's fast becoming hygeine. Like airplane safety. It's a bit strange for corporations to seek to compete on security, or to have the CEO announce what are really textbook security services. At the end of the speech, I couldn't tell if anything sets Microsoft apart from its arch competitors Google or Amazon.Most of today's CISOs operate at a higher, more strategic level than malware screening, anti-virus and encryption. Nadella's subject matter was really deep in the plumbing. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But it just didn't seem to me like the subject matter for a CEO's global webcast.The Microsoft "operational security posture" is very orthodox, resting on "Platform, Intelligence and Partners". I didn't see anything new here, just a big strong cloud provider doing exactly what they should: leveraging the hell out of a massive operation, with massive resources, and massive influence.
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As many of you know, we were founded almost five years ago on November 9th, 2010. In the midst of a recession, and after working at another startup that was moving from analyst firm to boutique consulting, the goal was to build something different in the market. Elaine and David were the first two team members to join. The challenge – we had no funding. We covered salary on 500,000 in personal savings. We boot strapped the organization with a loose federation of independent analysts . Today we have evolved into a full employment model with full benefits, stock options, and retirement plans. Though we are five years older, the goal hasn’t changed – unite star people under one roof, bring star clients together, and engender a community and ecosystem around stars – hence the name Constellation Research.
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Whether they are spooked by the specter of “digital disruption” or just afraid that the bandwagon will leave before they can jump on, organizations are desperately looking for C-level talent with digital credentials. “Digital credentials,” however, can cover an array of competencies, and organizations have produced their own array of titles for the potential occupant of the newly allocated “digital corner office.”
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The robots are coming! What does the future of work have in store for people in the digital age. Will it be a dystopian existence where humans are the bottleneck to productivity and innovation or will we enter a world of augmented humanity and the humanization of digital?
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A few weeks ago I spent the majority of my time in Las Vegas with Software AG at their Innovation World summit. Software AG aggressively pushed their digital platform agenda from day one on main stage as their executives took turns highlighting Software AG’s efforts with creating a digital platform to allow their customers to innovate.
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