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It is spring and the partnership announcements are blossoming… In April it was NetSuite and Ultimate, and in May it is IBM and SAP partnering in the HCM market. Here I dissect the news and identify implications for partners, competitors, and customers.
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I had the opportunity to attend NetSuite SuiteWorld conference in San Jose today. Here are my takeaways from day 1: It's about the Omnis, Microsoft partnership, Insights power the future.
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This morning SAP CEO Bill McDermott kicked off Sapphire in Orlando. Here are my top three takeaways: HANA remains front and center, S/4HANA gets a roadmap tomorrow, SAP attracts brands and partners
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It’s always exciting when new ways to buy and sell tickets emerge, both from the potential revenue impact they can have on properties to the ever-changing consumer experience. So, I thought it would be fun to do a “Tale of the Tape” between the two most recent and buzz-generating sales options: ReplyBuy and Twitter’s Buy Button.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday announced the next major release of the company’s flagship database management system, Microsoft SQL Server 2016. It's a significant milestone for a product has grown into a $5-billion-per-year business for Microsoft, second only to Oracle Database in revenue.
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Event report: Microsoft BuildI had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. The leitmotiv of the conference was all about developer enablement on innovative platforms. My top three takeaways from the event: Azure becomes the intelligence cloud, SQL Server grows up, and Windows 10 makes Windows different.
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We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. The conference is targeted at developers and development managers using Microsoft tools and technology stack. As traditional the conference sold out quickly and was as well attended as last year. Comparing it with other events held at Moscone (West), we can say that Microsoft attracts probably the biggest developer audience, especially considering international aspects….
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We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. The conference is targeted at developers and development managers using Microsoft tools and technology stack. As traditional the conference sold out quickly and was as well attended as last year. Comparing it with other events held at Moscone (West), we can say that Microsoft attracts probably the biggest developer audience, especially considering international aspects….
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We have very loyal customers; we don’t need a customer advocacy campaign.” I’ve been in a senior sales and/or marketing position for more than 20 years and the one constant mistake I still see and hear is a lack of understanding in the difference between customer loyalty and customer advocacy.Making the distinction is not difficult.
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Digital disruption is more than just a technology shift. It's about transforming business models and how we engage. Lesson One (of ten) from my new book, Disrupting Digital Business. On bookshelves May 5, 2015.
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Earlier this year I had the opportunity to attend SAP’s S/4HANA launch in New York. Hasso Plattner to put down the thoughts and design principles for S/4HANA in great detail. Here I dissect the SAP S/4HANA launch.
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Every now and then, a large organisation in the media spotlight will experience the special pain of having a password accidentally revealed in the background of a photograph or TV spot. Security commentator Graham Cluley has recorded a lot of these misadventures, most recently at a British national rail control room, and before that, in the Superbowl nerve centre and an emergency response agency.Security isn't what people think it is. Instead of meticulous procedures and hawk-eyed inspections, too often it's just simple people going through the motions. Security isn't intellectually secure. The things we do in the name of "security" don't make us secure.
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Oracle is making a lot of progress with its cloud products.My observations from the field at Oracle Cloud Summit. Included: the state of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS as reflected in Oracle's presentations.
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Constellation founder, R "Ray" Wang is on a worldwide book tour (tweeting under the hash tag #cxotour). I was thrilled to participate in the Melbourne leg last week. At this event, we were joined by two of Australia's deep digital economy experts, Gavin Heaton and Joanne Jacobs. Gavin kicked off the night, surveying the importance of innovation, and the double-edged opportunities and threats of digital disruption.Then Ray identified cases of business disruption, old and new, demonstrating how innovative businesses are thriving in the digital age.The Digital Disruption tour dates are just around the corner, so you're welcome to RSVP, if you haven't already.San Francisco May 4th - sponsored by Wipro DigitalAtlanta May 14th - sponsored by Adobe & Wipro DigitalLondon June 18th - sponsored by Financial ForceAmsterdam June 22nd
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If you are reading this you don’t need to be directed to an article explaining what happened: Bloomberg said that (somehow) it leaked that Salesforce had retainer investment bankers to help them evaluate a potential acquisition or buyout.Of course, these are all speculations – so I decided to add my 0.0015 drachmas to the affair and add my speculation.
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On May 14th, join my colleagues Ray Wang, Guy Courtin and me as we talk about how digital technologies are changing the way business are getting work done.>>> Register Now! <<<Showcasing the content from his new book Disrupting Digital Business, Ray will be keynoting on what it takes to build an organization in the digital age.
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On the prelude of Microsoft’s yearly Build conference I had a firsthand opportunity to demo Microsoft’s HoloLens. Microsoft is still developing the HoloLens, so understandably secret about the device, e.g. we had to surrender all recording devices, including smartphones – but here are the takeaways on the specs I can share...
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Many clients ask about what all the fuss is about the digital disruption; why do I need to be concerned about this? Is this really new? Haven’t we been dealing with this for a while. And the answer, at least in my opinion, is that most brands have missed the point of the digital disruption. […]
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The friendship bench is a non-profit organization established to support existing mental health groups on college and university campuses across the country that raise awareness about anxiety and depression among students and the corresponding rise in student suicides.We need your help to spread the word. Here's how you can help.
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As a small ‘boutique’ analyst firm, we can’t chase and cover every business trend and every technology space. So at Constellation Research we choose to look at key business trends that are relevant for forward thinking businesses.
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Does it scare you when a favorite, once-small vendor gets big and starts adding products and changing pricing structures? BI market disruptor Qlik is clearly going through such a maturation, but that doesn’t mean it has lost sight of its roots.This week in Dallas at its annual partners’ conference, Qlik announced a number of new products:
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The shift towards asset based services, IP, or automation has finally accelerated. This has been a long time coming, and the slow pace of change has been an ongoing frustration for capioIT. Many SI and services organisations have finally begun to apply … Continue reading →
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How Today’s IT Professionals Reconcile Innovation and Complex Privacy Requirements This report presents a guide for organizations seeking to engineer privacy programs that simultaneously strengthen privacy practices and accommodate innovation. This report contains a set of practical tools and design methodologies to help IT architects and designers play a stronger, more positive role in privacy.
On the Apple earnings call on April 27th we heard a hidden ‘nugget’ of information in the prepared statement of Apple CFO Luca Maestri mentioned the following in its prepared statements: [14:30 into the conference call]In fact we are seeing very high interest from companies, who want to transform how work gets down. […] In addition to IBM we are working closely with more than 2 dozen other leading software and solution providers, including Box, Docusign, Microstrategy, Revel and Servicemax – to bring a broad range of innovative mobile solutions to more customers on iPad.In the past the problem with working across software portfolio has been integration of the different products that enterprises needed to integrate. If Chief Human Resource Officers are polled today what their largest problems are, software integration makes the Top 3 issues – all the time. And integration has not really been solved by the cloud, as integration between cloud based products can break the same way as it used to break on premise.
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