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The news started trickling out late last week that Google is freezing support for social media management solution Wildfire in order to integrate more closely with DoubleClick. The company's official statement says that they "won’t be building new features or signing up new customers" and current customers and competitors know what this means -- there are suddenly dozens of brands and agencies looking for alternative solutions.
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In one of the most highly anticipated sessions ever at the annual South-by-Southwest (SXSW) culture festival, NSA whistle blower Ed Snowden appeared via live video link from Russia. He joined two privacy and security champions from the American Civil Liberties Union - Chris Soghoian and Ben Wizner - to canvass the vexed tensions between intelligence and law enforcement, personal freedom, government accountability and digital business models.
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The bigger SXSW gets, the better it becomes for a place to get business done. Here's why.
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Enjoying my first week of no work related travel for 2014 I watched the keynote of HR 2014 remotely. Here are my takeaways.
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Moving beyond Traditional Salesforce Automation
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This report provides a high level discussion of best practices in which organizations should partake in order to fully take advantage of the data growth coming from a combination of social, mobile, and cloud technologies.
[Video] Setting up Office365 in a snap
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Whilst capioIT and others repeat it ad nauseam, a view that considers that the countries of the Asia Pacific market to be generic and require a single strategy is making the most fatal mistake of all in terms of understanding … Continue reading →
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Reform to Australia’s Privacy legislation began in 2004 – and as of tomorrow, 12 March 2014, there will be a raft of changes to the way in which our privacy is regulated. The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, provides a high level of overview of the changes in this video. Australian Privacy Principles The changes […]
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On March 10th 2014 SAP and Accenture announced the formation of a Business Solutions Group to be formed in San Jose. Enterprise application vendors like SAP have a long history to form partnerships with system integrators (Sis). So is there something different in this announcement?
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I'll be hosting a core conversation today at 5 pm in Hilton 616AB.
What is a core conversation?
"The informal discussions that take place in the hallways between sessions have traditionally been one of the most productive parts of the SXSW Interactive Festival. In 2008 we formalized this process by adding our Core Conversation program, sessions in which a single moderator leads an open discussion with attendees around a specific topic for an hour's time."
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[Event Report] We had the chance to learn from Oracle executives about the company’s progress in all things cloud, at a recent event in Palm Springs. It was good to see that Oracle communicated openly and with candor where the company stands in regards getting ready for and taking advantage of the cloud era. Oracle is and remains committed to the cloud. Thomas Kurian who kicked of the day of briefings was crystal clear on that. All prior irritations of the past are history and there can be no question that the product development executives we spoke to are fully committed to cloud. Maybe even a little too much – as in my view too many products got the as a Service suffix – not sure how many ‘aaS’ products customer will really want to deal with.
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I’m thrilled to be attending the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit 2014. Here is more information if you’re interested in joining me:
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In his On Demand Education blog, Richard Napier looks at where in the world Siebel is most popular.
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In his Siebel Essentials blog, Alexander Hansal continues his exploration of the world's favorite on premise CRM system by describing some helpful upgrade utilities.
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Constellation Applies A Futurist Framework To Guide 2014 Outlook and Beyond
Constellation’s research team uses a tried and true futurist framework that looks at the political, economic, societal, technological, environmental and legislative (PESTEL) shifts ahead. The strategic assumptions from Constellation’s 2014 PESTEL framework form the basis for the business theme-led research. Over the next 36 months, research from each business theme will factor these trends into the overall research agenda. The goal in 2014 is to help clients not only navigate, but also dominate digital disruption.
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Insights from Constellation's Annual Next-Generation CIO Survey
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This report delivers the results of the annual next-generation CIO survey conducted by Constellation Research.Survey results showed that while CIOs prefer to spend more time on innovation projects, most CIOs must spend their time battling to achieve reduction of cost in IT delivery. Using Constellation's organizational DNA framework, CIOs can understand how much change they can expect their organization to consume and they can gauge their ability to affect the thought process and culture.
Constellation Orbits member, Chris Meyer, discusses how the spread of capitalism will change business everywhere.
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Get ready for the future. Chris Meyer elaborates on the elements of our society that will change as a result of the proliferation of the internet.
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As an analyst, I've always valued the perspective of firsthand experience. So next week I'll be an active participant in the collaborative economy during SXSW in Austin: I've registered as an uberX driver.
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In a virtual press conference SAP’s Vishal Sikka in conversation with Jonathan Becher went through two press releases that the company just published.Let’s look first at the key statements in the cloud press release:
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Richie Etwaru and John Nosta discuss AI, implantables, and more in this fast-paced interview.
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Tiffany Parker and Sheniya Brown of Wilmington, Delaware, exchanged heated messages on Facebook over a mutual love interest, and the conflict escalated considerably when they subsequently encountered each other in public and became embroiled in a physical altercation. The Parker court ultimately concluded that social media evidence was no different from any other evidence and that it was thus subject to the same authentication test as any other exhibit.
While the prosecution in the Parker case achieved a favorable result, it faced a concerted challenge on the authenticity of the evidence, and as we have seen in other cases, relying on simple printouts of social media site pages is a very risky value proposition. This highlights the importance of utilizing best practices technology such as X1 Social Discovery to ensure all supporting metadata and other key circumstantial evidence is properly and comprehensively collected to ensure proper authentication of social media and other website evidence.
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Event Report: Microsoft Convergence 2014 Day 1 Demonstrates Solid Momentum and Mindshare ( #CONV14 )
Microsoft Convergence Kicks Off In AtlantaThe annual Microsoft Convergence customer event kicked off on March 4th, 2014. Far from the days of the Stampede in Fargo, North Dakota, the event shows how far the Microsoft Dynamics customers, partners, and products have progressed. Analysis from four key announcements on Day 1 include:...
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