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We had the opportunity to attend the Randstad Sourceright analyst summit this week, it took place in Atlanta and was well attended by the analyst community. Watch my video analysis of the summit.
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Today Pivotal used its upcoming European Cloud Foundry user conference to release a round up press release on its overall progress… time to check in where Cloud Foundry stands today.
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Oracle Open World 2015 announcements included three data-related standouts: Oracle Cloud Platform For Big Data, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, and Oracle Data Cloud. Here’s a deeper dive on what … Continue reading →
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Castlight Health recently extended its healthcare management platform’s capabilities with a new module called Action. The SaaS solution uses predictive analytics to help benefits leaders determine what employee engagement campaigns to run, in the interest of helping workers make better health care choices while squeezing out unnecessary costs.
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The chip-to-click stack becomes more real, but will it all work? Video with more highlights from Oracle OpenWorld.
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Advanced analytics vendor Alteryx got a resounding vote of confidence from venture capital groups this week in the form of an $85 million investment round. The infusion of money is certainly good news for Alteryx, but may also require it to make thorny strategic decisions. Here are the details from the press release:
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SAP and Google have announced a patent cross-licensing agreement that is significant in scope and which could have implications beyond a desire to avoid
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The enthusiasm for crypto currency innovation has proven infectious, and many commentators have promoted the blockchain in particular as something special for identity management. Prominent financial services blogger Chris Skinner says "the blockchain will radically alter our futures" and envisages an Internet of Things where your appliances are "recorded [on the blockchain] as being yours using your digital identity token (probably a biometric or something similar)". While blockchain aficionados have been quick to make a leap to identity, the opposite is not the case.
The identerati haven't had much to say about blockchain at all.
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IBM has announced plans to buy the Weather Company's technology and B2B businesses and couple them with its Watson IoT Unit and cloud platform. From the release:
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Oracle has unleashed the usual barrage of press releases at OpenWorld, happening right now in San Francisco.I compiled a short presentation with one slide for each press release and MyPOV in them - take a look...
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IBM serves up data-analytic cloud services, an Apache Spark service on BlueMix, and new data-discovery capabilities within IBM Watson Analytics. As for that Cognos update? It’s a half step to … Continue reading →
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We really should replace "identity" with "attributes". In particular, we should realise there are no "Identity Providers" -- they're all just Attribute Providers. No third party ever actually "provides" a Subject with their identity; that was a naive industrial sort of metaphor that reduces identity to a commodity, able to be bought and sold. It is always the Relying Party that "identifies" a Subject for their (the RP's) purposes. And therefore it is the Relying Party that bestows identity.
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If a non-partner brand were to stand outside Citi Field before a World Series game giving away free products to fans, you better believe that their security staff would immediately escort them off the premises. This type of “guerrilla marketing” can often happen around major sporting events and always presents a challenge to the property to enforce.So what do you think of this tactic?
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I have written before pages and pages defining the cloud (including my cloud purist e-book – check it out) in many ways. I have done charts and slides, entire presentations, reams for electronic paper, and more – but defining it in one page was proving nearly impossible.Until yesterday.I finally figured out what the problem has been. It is not a problem of definitions (there are plenty of those going around) but a problem of confusion.There is a general confusion as to what the cloud is because we use the same word to define three very different things.
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Dell CEO Michael Dell has repeatedly cited his company's "world-class supply chain" as one major synergy in for its pending mega-merger with EMC.
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s OpenWorld keynote on Monday featured the expected heavy sales pitches and claims of Oracle’s leadership in the cloud, but also provided some bold predictions and interesting perspectives from large customers. Here’s a look at some of the highlights. The 2025 Vision
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If Oracle and its executive chairman Larry Ellison have a favorite competitive target, it's IBM. The latest broadside—delivered in conjunction with Intel—is aimed at luring customers running Oracle database workloads on IBM Power7-based systems to Oracle's Exadata platform, which uses Intel Xeon processors.
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Before making it to Oracle OpenWorld it is time to sort out some thoughts on where Oracle stands overall, where the event will likely take the vendor and what prospects and customers should look into.
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How to Secure the Best Cloud Software Contract with R “Ray” WangWebcast November 10, 2015 11:00am PT/ 2:00pm ETGet ready to learn the secrets of avoiding Cloud Vendor lock-in with this free introductory webinar brought to you by the Constellation Executive Network.Join Constellation Research principal analyst and bestselling author R “Ray” Wang as he shares how to structure the most favorable cloud software contract for your organization. R “Ray” Wang will share his top cloud negotiation tips derived from his involvement in 1,000+ cloud contract negotiations. The increasing complexity of cloud services contracts means you can not afford to miss this webinar.
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Apttus, Booker, Lattice Engines, Segment and Tubular Labs are the five hottest cloud-based marketing startups of 2015.13 of the hottest 34 cloud-based marketing startups are from the Bay Area, followed by Los Angeles with 3, and Bangalore and New York, both with 2.14 are in Pre Series A, 7 in A-Stage, 5 in B-Stage and 3 in C-Stage funding rounds.These and other insights are from a quick analysis completed today using Mattermark Pro, in response to reader requests for more research on marketing startups.
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Fiori BUILD - SAP customers have been challenged by suboptimal user interfaces for the longest time. Fiori addresses this, as it turns out the price tag was not really the issue for customers, even now that Fiori is free, way too many SAP users are still working with not so great user interfaces. To make the work of designers more easy, the new Fiori BUILD tool makes it easier for a designer to even take screen layouts out to users and collect feedback on the mochup's usability. We will not see the majority of SAPtd attendees become UI designers, but they may as well use a tool to create applications with a better user interfaces. HCP and VORA - We saw live usage of tax and translation services in HCP, and the usage of VORA, unfortunately not with any code (relevant for the audience). Cloud for Analytics - SAP brings together all BI, GRC and newer assets into one product family. Core pillars are for now the Cloud for Planning product and the Digital Boardroom (built with the latter). More to come.
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We had the opportunity to attend the HR Tech conference this week in Las Vegas. New record attendance with close to 30k attendees, record exhibitors, sessions etc. it is clear if you are looking for the latest in HR, you need to be at HR Tech.
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