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Today I am sharing an article that I wrote for the most recent issue of SEAT Magazine, a quarterly publication of the Association of Luxury Suite Directors.Strategy Before Systems: IBM steps up to the plate in sports and entertainment with a new approach to technology decisionsWithout question, the changing technology landscape impacts the relationship between sports and sports fans. Teams, colleges, and venues are consistently challenged with making sure the in-venue experience matches and exceeds the at-home experience. New social media channels seemingly appear out of thin air to provide more ways to create and distribute content for fans to consume. And data that used to be impossible to get pours out of every new platform, from loyalty systems to mobile ticketing.
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Earlier today Microsoft announced new capabilities for its BigData products. Not a surprise regarding the timing as the marquee Hadoop gathering, Strata, is happening this week.Microsoft comes late to the overall cloud platform and BigData market. During the time in which Microsoft lagged behind competitors in the big data servies market, enterprise clients retained big data services elsewhere. Around spring of this year, Microsoft finally caught up to its competitors in product capability and messaging. The big data capabilities announced ahead of Strata are another major step forward for Microsoft, but the interested buyer needs to note the GA dates of most of these offerings.
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Controlling the Flow of Personal Information in a World of Superconnectivity and Data-Driven Services This report uncovers the subtle and unexpected flows of personal data on the Internet of Things (IoT), using a “superconnected” automobile as a case study. The intent is to help IoT strategists, architects and product managers understand the privacy impacts of both purposeful and inadvertent data flows, and to help them to engineer better privacy outcomes.
Cloudera announces access control layer and columnar storage engine for Hadoop. News analysis from Strata + Hadoop World 2015. It’s going to be a big week for big data as Strata + Hodoop World 2015 kicks off this week at New York’s Jacob Javits Center. Ahead of the show there were two big announcements from Cloudera on Monday as it introduced RecordService and Kudu.
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Workday Momentum, HCM, Finance, and SCM should all get air time at Workday Rising 2015. Here's why.
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Dreamforce is over for another year. This year there were 170,000 attendees, 400 partners and 1,600 sessions. In any measure the event is a big deal and the Launchpad for Salesforce through the next year. The winners for the event include Salesforce, integration of Microsoft and Salesforce, Salesforce IoT & Analytics, ... Losers include the keynotes, large SI's, the Microsoft Dynamics team... [more]
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Under new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, innovation for once is the policy du jour in Australia. Innovation is associated with risk taking, but too often, government wants others to take the risk. It wants venture capitalists to take investment risk, and start-ups to take R&D risks. Is it time now for government to walk the talk?Obviously government must be prudent spending public money on new technology. Yet at the same time, there is a public interest argument for selecting newer solutions: in the rapidly changing online environment, citizens stand to benefit from the latest innovations, bred in response to current challenges.
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Cloud computing is the strongest technology investment sector for the third year in a row.Biopharmaceuticals and robotics are the two sectors that have gained the greatest venture capital confidence from 2014 to 2015.U.S. technology hubs (Silicon Valley/San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles & Chicago), Israel and Canada dominate while confidence continues to fall in Brazil and other emerging markets.These and other insights are from Deloitte’s 2015 Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey.
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Here is a recap of some of the key news of the last week in the Social Business / Employee Collaboration / Future of Work world.
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We had the opportunity to attend the ADP Analyst Day in New York today, ADP commanded the 'usual suspects' to New York (though we learnt some like to be called pundits) into their amazing innovation lab in the heart of Manhattan.
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Vendor Profile: Bluenose Understanding Which Customer Success Management Approach Fits Best This is an overview of Bluenose. This report identifies key differentiators, product offerings, and provides a short list guide for buyers.
TCS says it’s now among the top-four in consulting and business process services in terms of brand recognition. Here are three ways TCS differentiated itself at its annual analyst day. … Continue reading →
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It’s time for another edition of Infographic Friday. Today’s content comes to us from Synergy and @SynergyTim who put together a great set of marketing insights from the 2015 Rugby World Cup. It has a little bit of everything from broadcast rights and kit sponsors to Twitter mentions and TV ratings.
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After a semi sabbatical summer; semi in the fact that I continued to actively follow the industry, its business customers and attempt to understand implications; sabbatical in the sense that I didn’t try to react to each announcement or event individually; instead I was looking for a bigger picture to form. This is the first part of three posts breaking the picture down into the natural divisions of ‘causes’; ‘responses’; and ‘good practice’.
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TCS is well aware of the fundamental transformation that is happening to the consulting, system integrator and outsourcing services space. Wage arbitration is a diminishing factor, so it is good to see that TCS not only understands the new disruptive scenarios, but also masters the technologies and has customer references to show in each of them. Promising are also investments on IaaS side as well as the BPaaS side.
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This morning Google launched the beta version of Google Cloud Dataproc - a new offering that will interest BigData projects being undertaken.
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Stop Thinking In Channels And Start Thinking In Settings and ScenesWith the advent of internet of things (IOT) and customer experiences, omni-channel is not good enough for digital. The design point must deliver on channel ubiquity across a wide variety of settings and scenes. Why? Digital customer experiences: ...
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The big bombshell news today on the IoT (internet of things) front was that Volkswagen was caught programming their diesel vehicles to behave better during emission testing. This will be a severe blow to Volkswagen, but it will have some other repercussions as well. A new reason for some to pooh-pooh IoT.
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Find out who wins this year's SuperNova Awards for innovators in disruptive technology. The winners will be announced LIVE at Connected Enterprise! This year we'll be announcing the winners of the SuperNova Awards at the SuperNova Awards Gala Dinner on the second night of Constellation's Connected Enterprise.
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Last week in San Francisco, Salesforce held their annual Dreamforce conference. This year's attendance was announced at 150,000 people... regardless of the accuracy of that number, it's safe to say the event is massive.
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ECommerce giants such as Amazon and Alibaba began to drive the conversation around why have stores at all? With large logistic networks, strategically placed distribution centers and savvy order capture systems the need for physical stores for customers to come and look at products and then purchase were a relic of the past. Not so fast. Stores are making a come back.
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To securely bind users' identities or attributes to their computerised activities is indeed a technical challenge. In most conventional IDAM systems, there is only circumstantial evidence of who did what and when, in the form of access logs and audit trails, most of which can be tampered with or counterfeited by a sufficiently determined fraudster. To create a lasting, tamper-resistant impression of what people do online requires some sophisticated technology (in particular, digital signatures created using hardware-based cryptography).
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The 2015 SuperNova Award polls are now open! Cast your votes for the winners of the 2015 SuperNova Awards by viewing the individual application and clicking "Vote for this Entry" button. Polls close October 2, 2015. View applications and vote here: https://www.constellationr.com/events/supernova/2015
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Managing The Shadow IT Explosion In The CloudJoin me (@rwang0) Tuesday, September 22, 2015 from 10 to 11 am PT for a tweet chat that addresses head on the deep issues organizations face when the shadow IT takes on a life of its own.To join, just follow the hashtag #CiscoChat and #ShadowIT and hop on in to the discussion!
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