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SAS taps machine learning to speed model development and testing and overcome the talent shortage. Automation delivers hundreds of segment-optimized, big-data-ready models in minutes. SAS on Tuesday marked the general release … Continue reading →
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As manufacturing remains a vital driver for the economy, Plex continues to play an important role in making this happen. Bottom line as Jerry Foster, VP of Research and Development, said, “Our job is to ensure manufacturers can manufacture more efficiently every day.” It was clear from main stage as well my hallway conversations that Plex remains true to this mantra. They are completely laser focused on how they can partner with their customers to be the best manufacturers possible.
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Honor your organization's CIO or innovative business leader by nominating them for a SuperNova Award. The SuperNova Awards honor leaders that demonstrate excellence in the application and adoption of new and emerging technologies. SuperNova Award Winner: William Cooper, Chief Procurement Officer, University of CaliforniaTasked with saving the University of California $200m annually by 2017, Chief Procurement Officer William Cooper implemented a procurement platform and revised procurment strategy that enabled greater collaboration, spend visibility, and more informed negotiations across the University system. Aggressive procurement efforts designed by Cooper, which leverage the UC system’s size and buying power successfully delivered $128 million in savings in 2013.
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Germany is an interesting market for IT services, given it is one of the largest economies on the planet. But despite German consumers adopting cloud based services in equal fashion than in other places, German IT has been traditionally skeptical to the point of not adopting public cloud (yet). The NSA / Prism / Snowden affair certainly did not help here, and just recent additional rumors of the CIA spying on more levels of the German government than ‘just’ the chancellor did not help either. Overall a good event for AWS in one of the most attractive (and skeptical) public cloud markets out there. Certainly a watershed moment that the public cloud has not only arrived physically in Germany with the opening of the AWS region last fall, but its imporance is growing in the mindset of German IT decision makers.
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Case Study: Adobe The Inside Story of How Adobe Used Workday’s Core HR to Drive Executive-Level Transparency and Engagement
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Vendor Profile: Zementis This vendor profile provides an overview of Zementis and identifies key differentiators, product offerings, and a short list guide for buyers.
Let’s say you’re an account executive and you have an urgent customer issue you need to resolve. A typical process for this common scenario may involve email messages, the customer support ticket, the customer record (CRM), information about inventory (ERP) and prices, and a few other tools like chat, video conferencing and more. How do you bring all that information together to combine into a single story?
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Below are the posts I made about Microsoft's new Project GigJam, as they demod it at Worldwide Partner Conference 2015. #WPC15See my review of GigJam for more details.To view the embedded storyline you may have to scroll down to see all the tweets.
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It is easy to get excited about big data. After all, it’s lots of small pieces of data woven together into a patchwork that stretches our imaginative capacity. Just think, we’re creating more data every two days than was produced from the dawn of civilisation up to 2003 (or so Google’s Eric Schmidt claims). That […]
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Age is not the deciding factor in five generations of customers, workers, suppliers, vendors, people. When discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people are with digital technologies and culture. In the intersection of comfort level with technology and likelihood to apply the technology, we see five generations (see Figure 1):...
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We had the opportunity to attend the CapGemini global analyst summit held close to Paris at the beautiful conference hotel LesFontaines. A great location always contributes to a great meeting and that was the same here, it had the unique mixture of a classic chateau with a modern conference center, a balance the French know how strike very well.
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It is not the easiest of time for NGA with two of its four businesses undergoing major market changes. We think the focus on global HR, complex payroll for global employee populations and deliver via BPO remains the sweet spot for NGA. It is good to see more focus on that business. We think NGA could be more aggressive in this market, and should start taking market share from competitors who are less committed since a few years. NGA certainly had to wait for the Payroll Exchange product to be ready, now it will be interesting to see how aggressively NGA can sell, deliver and operate global BPO.
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Today Workday informed the markets via a press release that it is expanding its footprint in healthcare with a functional extension that goes beyond its traditional HCM and more recent efforts in Financials, with the addition of inventory management.
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Here's a list of Constellation's most popular research reports from 2015 (Q1 & Q2) These reports reflect the trends that are currently resonating with our early adopter audience. Download your copies today.
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On July 7th I had the honour of participating in CxOTalk with Michael Krigsman and Vala Afshar. We discussed the role of collaboration in the Future of Work.
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Graduates and graduate recruitment programmes have never been more important in enabling the Digital outcome for both providers and users of digital solutions in all measures. Rampant short term thinking in organisations has mean that many graduates were traditionally looked down upon because of “a lack of experience” and the time required for productivity factors. Certainly over the past 20 years I have noted many organisations have cut back on graduate programs, or narrowed focus.
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We had the opportunity to attend the analyst summit for IBM’s cloud efforts, held last week in New York at the brand new and beautiful Watson HQ at Astor Place. The event was very well attended, despite the summer season and the Friday date, showing the interest that IBM has gained in cloud matters in the analyst community.
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We’ve all heard the analogy of social media acting like a megaphone, digitally amplifying your voice to a large crowd. While this is technically correct, amplification no longer the end-goal of social media marketing. Well, at least it shouldn’t be. When we were first introduced to “Web 2.0,” marketers were excited about the fact that technology would...
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Every year the Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize eight individuals for their leadership in digital business. Nominate yourself or someone you know by August 7, 2015.
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Two weeks ago I was on the road again…in Paris France, where Capgemini was hosting their summer analyst day at their fabulous training center. The discussions with Capgemini were dominated by the theme of innovation and how Capgemini is working with leading firms across a variety of industries to infuse innovation into their every day DNA.
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How do you get to the next level of customer understanding? The July 15-16 Sentiment Analysis Symposium in New York offers an update on the latest in textual insight into consumers of products, financial services, healthcare, media… Continue reading →
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The 2015 IBM Smarter Consumer Study: Shoppers Disrupted gauged global sentiment about consumers’ shopping behaviour. The extensive survey of 28,500 online respondents across 15 countries saw more than 1,800 Australians respond to the survey. A key finding included Australian shoppers are less loyal than ever – 10% act as advocates while 37% act as antagonists. The big question, of course, is when will retailers fix these problems?
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As a general rule I don’t reference product releases by the mainstream technology players as I figure that they have enough marketing muscle of their own, but occasionally I make an exception because a release seems to offer more than the obvious headlines suggest, and as such, may be don’t get picked up and read through in what I consider to be the full context.
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With Major League Baseball in full swing, I couldn’t resist a nod to what has long been considered one of the great American pastimes, especially since we have July 4th right around the corner.
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