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Here is my video recap of the week ending September 26th:
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I wrote a long - covering all what Oracle does - post last year before Oracle’s OpenWorld conference - you can find it here. Re-reading it before writing this post I found it surprisingly accurate - even one year later… tempted to ‘copy & paste’ it - I will try to only look at this post from the vantage point of my research areas - Next Generation Applications and Future of Work.
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This week I had the privilege of attending the Wipro analyst day in Boston. A large number of industry analysts and influencers were in attendance – it is always good to see old friends at these events.
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Today Microsoft announced that the group functionality commonly found in social networking tools will now be available right inside the Office 365 Outlook client. As seen below, people can access their normal email Inbox and folders as they always have, but now below that they can navigate to the groups they are part of. A group is a place where people can share messages, files and take advantage of a group calendar.
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EMC was a very successful vendor in redefining the storage space, but its business is being impacted on all angles from changing buying patterns, competitive shifts, Infrastructure as a Service, price pressure and of course an internal inability to shift the business model quickly.
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We were invited to the yearly Workday Technology Summit in the beautiful Golden Gate Club in the San Francisco Presidio. More than 20 analysts and influencers spent a full day with Workday executives getting briefed on the latest and greatest of where Workday is today and where it plans to go.
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Case Study: FinancialForce
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Fast-growing cloud-based consulting firm Bluewolf chose FinancialForce HCM to replace its home-built custom HR system. This case study gives insights about the starting point, best practices applied and lessons learned.
Concur employees woke to the surprising news last Friday that enterprise giant SAP had bought their company for an eye-watering US$8.4 billion. What does the world’s most famous ERP company want with a horizontal app in expense and travel management? And why did it pay so much?
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I was just at Sales Connect Conference, LinkedIn’s Social Selling Conference. I was there to meet and great many of the top minds in social selling and to do research for an upcoming report. What I found was that one of the best things about being at the conference (besides the technology) was to be […]
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In thinking about the value of the information companies can obtain about their customers, their products and services, etc… from structured and unstructured data, who do you think should lead this effort in an organization? Each department – Marketing, Sales, Customer Service / Contact Center professionals can all do their part, but often are not […]
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Trek Uses Microsoft Dynamics and Integrated CRM to Manage Retailer Relationships, Customer Data and Customers
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This case study details how Trek Bicycles improved customer experience by centralizing its diffuse sales and customer data with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Ringling College of Art and Design, the premier art college located in Sarasota Florida, had the same goal that every higher education institution has: to increase admissions. However, while every college may have the same admissions goal, each faces a unique set of challenges in trying to achieve that goal. Ringling College is a private, not-for-profit, fully ...
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35% of all ads posted for engineering jobs in the last 30 days prioritize 3D printing and additive manufacturing as the most sought-after skill.
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Social Media Week, Sydney is just around the corner. It is the first time that the event has been run in Australia but the organising team, Simon Micarone, David Wesson and Will Ockenden have high hopes for it becoming a regular feature on the Australian conference landscape. I have selected some of the must-see sessions and master classes that will impact not just the way that you think, but the way you carry on the business of social media.
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Today Constellation hosted the webinar, 10 Things We Want to Know About IoT. Join R “Ray” Wang and Richie Etwaru as they discuss glaring questions about IoT. 1) what type of utility will we derive from IoT? 2) When will we be able to derive that utility from IoT?
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Despite the overabundance of 'experts' in IoT, many questions about IoT remain unanswered. R “Ray” Wang and Richie Etwaru discuss unanswered "big picture" questions about IoT. 1) What type of utility will we derive from IoT? 2) When will we be able to derive that utility from IoT?
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Time to try something new - tackling the highlights of the week in video - as they flew by me...[Bear through the initial bad audio, the magic of Google Hangouts makes it better soon.]Here are the events captured in the video:
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Over 20 analysts received a comprehensive briefing starting with CEO Carlos Rordriquez all the way to an update on ADP’s Research activity. Here are my top 3 takeaways.
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At the recent INBOUND2014 conference, HubSpot announced a bold new offering – HubSpot CRM. Now, HubSpot, along with many other marketing automation platforms have long provided a simple CRM-style database – or tight integration to dedicated customer relationship management platforms such as Salesforce. But this feels different. It is different. It is FREE – as part of your HubSpot subscription.
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Another week, another security collaboration launch!
"Simply Secure" calls itself "a small but growing organization [with] expertise in usability research, design, software development, and product management". Their mission has to do with improving the security functions that built-in so badly in most software today. Simply Secure is backed by Google and Dropbox, and supported by a diverse advisory board.
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