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It is that time of the year again here in the United States…tax day. Unfortunately, much like death and taxes, supply chain disruptions are not something to look forward to. But much like taxes and death, the inevitability of their happening does not mean we shouldn’t plan for their potential impacts. By preparing for these events we can ensure that we emerge from these situations in the best shape possible.
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Latest Earnings Reflect Macro Trends In PC Shipments, Data Center Growth, and IOTIndustry bellwether, Intel, reported earnings per share of 41 cents versus 38 cents per share year over year. Revenue came in flat at $12.78 billion versus $12.76 billion. The continued secular PC slump and late entry into mobile chips still drives into the flat revenues of the recent earnings at Intel.The Bottom Line: Intel’s Outlook Reflects A Broader Secular Outlook On Digtialization
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I have just updated my periodic series of researh reports on the FIDO Alliance. The fourth report, "FIDO Alliance Update: On Track to a Standard" will be available at Constellation Research shortlyThe Identity Management industry leader publishes its protocol specifications at v1.0, launches a certification program, and attracts support in Microsoft Windows 10. The FIDO Alliance is the fastest-growing Identity Management (IdM) consortium we have seen. Comprising technology vendors, solutions providers, consumer device companies, and e-commerce services, the FIDO Alliance is working on protocols and standards to strongly authenticate users and personal devices online.
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This infographic provides some great high level stats, pros and cons for each of the platforms and some useful comparison benchmark data. The data appears to be current as at February 2015 and includes sources like Social Media News, YouTube press statistics and DirectTarget.
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Payroll and related services are somewhere beyond 80 to 90% of HCM enterprise spend, and making sure that an enterprise is compliant with legal and statutory updates, and can pay its employees correctly and on time, is a ‘must have’ for HR Leaders… so big news today comes from Workday – as the vendor announced Workday Payroll for the UK as part of its Workday 24 update, its 3rd organically-built country payroll application (Workday offers native Payroll for the USA and Canada already, and France is on the roadmap for 2016). Here I dissect the news and highlight implications for customers, partners, and the Market.
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The headlines about the California drought have been a constant drum beat about the issues we face with this most vital of global resources. The latest water shortage in California is a reminder that natural disruptions are omnipresent within our supply chains. Of course our supply chains cannot control natural occurrences such as droughts. But when it comes to simulating our supply chain networks, determining our planning and sourcing we must factor the possibility of these disruptions.
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If you follow the news you know that GetSatisfaction was acquired by Sprinklr last week.Almost immediately the press and analysts went into congratulatory overdrive. However, shortly after the acquisition was announced, less than flattering news about the transaction trickled out – including this piece on Business Insider today (grain of salt: its business insider – the yellow press of business journalism) where one of the founders complain.It is not, as you likely know by now, my place to take sides on fights that don’t involve me. But there are two issues worthy of analysis...
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No doubt you’ll have heard about Bitcoin by now. It’s that disruptive technology that is keeping Financial Services CEOs awake at night. JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon, in his annual letter to shareholders warned investors and the banking industry that “Silicon Valley is coming” – suggesting that there are hundreds of startups focusing on the […]
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Kudos to my friends at Workfront for putting together this great parody on email.
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Last year, 1,896 experts responded to questions from the Pew Research Center around how artificial intelligence and robotics will affect our work and lives by 2025. The group was about evenly split on whether more jobs would be created or destroyed, but they also gave more nuanced comments on the different themes underlying their thinking. One theme tightly related to my own research is summarized as, “Technology will free us from day-to-day drudgery, and allow us to define our relationship with “work” in a more positive and socially beneficial way.” Technology will change the nature of work. Technology can also help us cope with these changes.
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An announcement and feature rich kickoff event for Amazon in the capitol of Silicon Valley (sorry San Jose). Amazon is doing the hard work to integrate their offerings and making them available across administrative and developer services and platforms. The result is a more congruent, efficient and ultimately more appealing platform for enterprises and developers. My top 3 takeaways from the event: Amazon Machine Learning, The Amazon Platform, ISV Traction
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Case Study: EgnyteHow a Leading Ad Agency Used Egnyte Adaptive Enterprise File Services to Work with Clients Find out why one of the world’s largest advertising agencies selected Egnyte Adaptive Enterprise File Services platform (Egnyte) to help account teams and clients work together.
This morning Workday unveiled Workday 24 as part of their twice yearly release cycle. All customers are live and the vendor is (rightfully) proud that the overall application of the release took little more than 4 hours – showing that Workday has done some additional housekeeping on its overall cloud infrastructure. Here are my 3 takeaways from the announcement: "True" Analytics, Professional Service Automation, A function-rich release
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Case Study: FinancialForceHow a Systems Integrator Achieved Front-to-Back Office Integration Venture Technologies, a systems integrator selected FinancialForce to unify its modern, SaaS-based CRM system and its aging Finance system.
Veteran enterprise technology editor joins research team as Principal AnalystConstellation announces the appointment of Doug Henschen to the research team as Principal Analyst covering big data analytics. Henschen, whose research focuses on information and orchestration technologies, business intelligence, data-visualization, analytics, NoSQL and big-data analysis, expands Constellation’s ability to provide data-to-decisions research to its early adopter clients worldwide.
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A deliberately bold statement, however it is a logical prediction, particularly so if you have been following this winter series of Blog posts. The currently the transformation to Digital Business is driven by the capability to increase sales and market share by using ubiquitous Internet connectivity to reach potential and existing customers.
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Veteran enterprise technology editor joins research team as Principal Analyst
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Investments in emerging enterprise software companies increased 53% from Q3 to Q4, 2014 according to MoneyTree Report, a collaborative research initiative between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. A graphic from the latest available data shows how software investments were 39% of all investments in Q4, 2014.
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For those of you who haven't met Guy Courtin yet, he's the analyst who can share what you always thought you should know about matrix commerce, one of Constellation's key business themes. We're excited to share that he was just appointed to the Advisory Board of Integrated Supply Chain, Ltd. (ISC), a organization serving global leaders that is headquartered in London.
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If the reality of Digital Business is the transformation of Business and Industry sectors driven by ‘everything becoming connected, and therefore ‘smarter’, how do you manage to make sense of the huge amount of data being generated? Big Data is a tough enough prospect today, but in a future world it looks impossible to continue to scale up the current approaches.
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R “Ray” Wang to negotiate Gartner and Forrester contracts for $1Constellation Research, Inc. (@ConstellationRG), will conduct complimentary contract reviews of legacy analyst firms for its clients and future prospects. Constellation Research, a Silicon Valley based analyst firm, recognizes many clients are locked into contracts with legacy analyst firms who don’t possess the specialized knowledge and ambition to serve customers in the digital era.Know what you're paying for. Apply now.
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I had the opportunity to attend the 2nd edition of Oracle’s HCMWorld conference in Washington last week. The event was well attended, the audience had more senior HR leaders than the audience we say last year in Las Vegas. Customers were generally curious and excited of things to come and using the whole spectrum of Oracle HCM products.Here are my top three takeaways: 1. New learning module; 2. Digital Disruption meets HCM; 3.Oracle Momentum
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If you read my “stuff” you know I am a very big proponent of cloud computing. I wrote a small e-book on how to be a cloud purist (which talks about and describes the proper way to — well, cloud). I have engaged in numerous battles and debates (both online and offline) that were lengthy … Continue reading On Electrical Grids, Cloud, And What We Are Doing Wrong →
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