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From the beginning, software company Xero has signalled that its vision is broader than online accounting software.
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I’ve been talking about my new book Disrupting Digital Business a lot lately, and featuring key lessons here in my blog. My book tour has led to many conversations where it’s apparent that we stand at the precipice of one of history’s major moments of truth – the disruption of digital business as we know it. I am presenting on Disrupting Digital Business: The Customer Experience Imperative at a webinar 26th May (hosted by Microsoft) – feel free to join the conversation at #MSDynCRM #CustExp. I also encourage you to keep watching for lessons, and join in full keynotes and book tours.
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Digital is impacting the future of the store. What is the role of the storefront? eCommerce, mobile, social were a few areas that have had deep impact on how we trade and the role of the store front. We covered such areas as stores becoming multifunctional assets – acting as both traditional stores as well as distribution centers. Or even becoming primarily show rooms. One of the issues that this creates is how the financials will also have to change. Revenue per square foot may not be a true measure of a store’s usefulness with these new functions. Savvy CFOs need to be aware of this shift and figure out how to navigate those waters.
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AnaplanHub15 Event Report: Is your business headed for disruption, or are you going to be a disruptor? That’s the question Frederic Laluyaux, CEO of Anaplan, put to the more than 1,000 attendees of the company’s AnaplanHub15 event this week in San Francisco.Anaplan is clearly on a roll, annually tripling in size on dimensions including revenue, bookings and number of employees over the last two years, according to Laluyaux. The customer list is impressive, and customer executives here were openly effusive about the agility and flexibility of planning capabilities.Fast growth has brought growing pains, but Anaplan is responding with its internal scalability improvements and enterprise architecture plans for model- and app-lifecycle management capabilities.
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By John Patzakis It seems obvious to say, but Microsoft is furthering its dominance in the enterprise. While Microsoft has always dominated with is ubiquitous OS, it is dramatically consolidating its presence in terms of data sources. Outlook is only … Continue reading →
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This morning’s Google release the news about more price reductions for Google Cloud Platform, with the catchy tag line ‘pay less, compute Moore’. Yes Moore (and not more) as Google has promised to pass on the savings from Moore’s Law to customers. Here I dissect the news.
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The SuperNova Awards honor leaders that demonstrate excellence in the application and adoption of new and emerging technologies.
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Dr. Natalie Petouhoff describes why the modern sales experience should align with the modern customer experience.
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The digital age requires brands and organizations to figure out what the smallest increment of a product or service can be sold. The traditional adage of not selling the razor but selling the blade holds true as we disrupt digital business models. We just have to take that model to the smallest increment.
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There was a time when the battle for social media was simply one of recognition. For some time, brands and businesses held out. Restricting firewall access to social networks. Directing marketing spend to broadcast. Ignoring the trending shift to digital across a range of categories – from marketing to HR, supply chain to finance.Now, this pent up force has been loosed and it is transforming the way that we work, why we work and how we work faster than we could have anticipated. As a result, we are seeing disruption almost everywhere we look:...
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It’s time for another edition of Infographic Friday. Today’s content comes to us from Revel Foundry regarding customer experience and loyalty. While this specific infographic is not sports-specific, I feel there are several key lessons that apply to the industry, especially around the live event experience as compared to at-home viewing.
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Andy Mulholland, Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, offers the perspective of a former CIO on the Internet of Things, and what makes it valuable.
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We were invited to the first Acumatica analyst summit in Boston this week. For a vendor’s first event of this type, the summit was very well attended with key analysts in the audience, certainly kudos for a first event.
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I'd like to share an article that I wrote for a recent sports-business themed issue of W.P. Carey Magazine (a publication from my MBA Alma Mater) that discusses the value of "small data" in sports and in business overall.
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We had the opportunity to attend Infomatica’s user conference Informatica World, happening this week in Las Vegas at the beautiful Cosmopolitan property in Las Vegas. The conference is well attended with over 2500 attendees (up from 2300 last year), attendees are in general positive mood and looking forward to learn more about new product functionalities. Uniquely presentations (at least the ones I attended) are always setup with a few slides and then demos with a ton of Q&A.
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Holger Mueller, Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, shares which HCM trends make a difference in the war on talent and gain your competitive advantage.
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Informatica World 2015 Event Report. With its Intelligent Data Platform, Informatica is raising the level of discourse out niche data projects and up to five prominent IT initiatives: analytics, total customer relationship, application consolidation, cloud modernization, and data governance. These five initiatives account for the lion’s share of Informatica deployments, and they are tied to larger business objectives (read, funding sources) like driving better decisions, improving cross-selling and up-selling, grappling with mergers and acquisitions, improving business agility, and getting governance, risk and compliance under control.
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Event report from Cornerstone's Convergence conference. Cornerstone is innovating in key areas around its core offering with Analytics and a PaaS, both critical moves in our view to offer the next level of best practices for HCM. Both also help to foster a vibrant eco system. It was also good to see that Cornerstone is innovating ‘back at the roots’ with its Learning module. And for the first time, the vendor's ambition to reach 1B US$ revenue seems plausible.
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It's impossible to make lasting security promises anymore. Instead of blaming end user security, we need to turn up the heat on enterprise IT. Here's how.
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Here are five reasons you can not afford to miss the Digital Disruption Tour.
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The Content, Network, And, Arms Dealer Come Together With MergerThe planned acquisition of AOL by Verizon for $4.4B is more than just the acquisition of the programmatic ad platform. Verizon is making the big shift to disrupting digital businesses for a few reasons..
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At this morning's Informatica World keynote, Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi made a number of key product announcements, which all have an impact on Informatica’s customers, partners and the vendor itself.
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Last week at SuiteWorld Netsuite announced SuiteCommerce InStore – a next generation POS (point of sale) and retail reporting tool that bridges the online and brick & mortar experience. This new offering from NetSuite, which builds on their existing solutions, follows the mantra launched from main stage. Is it an ERP or a web site? At the core of this statement is the belief that you must treat your business from a unified view.
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The following list contains news about funding rounds and company acquisitions from the vendors I cover under The Future of Work research theme.
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