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One of the most common questions and requests I receive from readers is who the best companies are to work for. I’ve put together the following analysis based on the latest Computer Reseller News list The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2014.
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If I can go back to high school and pick my own teacher, it would be Mr. Louis Zulli Jr. – a teacher from Centre of Advanced Technologies in Tampa, Florida. He spearheaded a fantastic magnet program that lets high school students develop SharePoint solutions for the school. Examples of these impressive solutions:...
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Constellation Research announced today the appointment of Peter Kim as Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst. Kim, whose research focuses on Digital Marketing Transformation, expands Constellation’s ability to provide marketing leadership research/solutions to its early adopter clients worldwide. The addition of Kim, a leading analyst in digital marketing and social business, signals Constellation's growing momentum in bringing together the brightest, innovation-minded analysts to serve its early adopter clients.
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Siebel veteran Doug Laird has joined Couchbase as its Chief Marketing Officer. Laird will lead marketing world wide and is charged with establishing the company as the market leader for enterprise NoSQL databases.
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Today at the SharePoint Conference 2014 (#SPC14) Microsoft unveiled Office Graph, a new architecture layer that maps the connections between people and content across the Office 365 family of products. Office Graph is not something people will see directly, instead it is a "behind the scenes layer" that will be used by developers to create user experiences that surface the information in various ways. Think of it more like the electrical wiring running through your house. You don't interact with the wires themselves, but they do provide a way for devices to connect to plugs to get power.
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[Video] I had the pleasure of speaking with the always charismatic Dux Raymond Sy last night about collaboration, social business, SharePoint and other enterprise software topics. Below is the 6 min video and if you want to hear more about this, please come to my SharePoint conference session at 10:45am on Tuesday.
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How Technology Disruptions Affect Your System Integrator SelectionDownload the Quark snapshot
This Quark provides enterprises with an eight-step guide to selecting a system integrator. The report also shows system integrators how to change their positioning and services in order to remain successful players in a rapidly shifting market.
Constellation Research announced today the appointment of Peter Kim as Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst.
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In his blog, How to Siebel?, long time consultant Jim Morse describes how to use Siebel with Twitter.
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In 2012, California generated more than 25% of the patents granted by the United States Patent Office (USPO) with almost 35,000 patents granted to citizens or organizations from California; the USPO granted a meek approximate 8,500 patents to citizens and organizations from New York, and as few as 32 from Alaska.
Startling? Not so much, but hold your horses, in 2012 Japan filed almost twice the amount of patents filed by citizens and organizations from California with the USPO granting almost 53,000 patents to citizens and organizations from Japan, Germany at approximately 15,000 (about half that of California), and the United Kingdom at approximately 6,000 (around the amount form New York).
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Many Big Data and online businesses proceed on a naive assumption that data in the "public domain" is up for grabs; technocrats are often surprised that conventional data protection laws can be interpreted to cover the extraction of PII from raw data. On the other hand, orthodox privacy frameworks don't cater for the way PII can be created in future from raw data collected today. This presentation will bridge the conceptual gap between data analytics and privacy, and offer new dynamic consent models to civilize the trade in PII for goods and services.
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The 2016 elections may be a ways off, but at least one prominent American would like to see Siebel Systems founder Tom Siebel run for President.
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Storytelling is hard work. It’s intricate, nuanced and can be expensive. But we crave it, know it and hold good storytelling and storytellers close to our hearts. After all, we all have books that we’d fight for. But in this world of digital media, simple tools for content creation, video production, worldwide publishing and distribution, we are confronted by so much fog. Static. Unimaginative or unengaging material. There are words but fewer stories that we can get our teeth into.
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Secret #3: Winning Brands Know What’s Working & What’s Not What’s the point of creating and posting content?It should be to drive business results. Content is what creates engagement and engagement is what drives business results. Here’s typical marketing metrics brands use to drive business results:Increase positive sentimentIncrease share of voiceIncrease awareness, interest, consideration, intentIncrease lead conversions rates and sales
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I know, I know.I said I would never do it again.They said it could never happen.But, at the end of the day you knew it had to happen. Right?I mean, no matter how hard I fought it, how bad I wanted not to – I have to do it.I have to enter the battle for the definition of “engagement”.What did you think I was talking about? You see, that’s the problem.
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Below are my top 10 tweets from Feb 2014 based on combined number of replies, favourites and retweets. I weighted each of those three actions equally.
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On Februrary 19th, San Francisco headquartered, FinancialForce.com announced the launch of its full suite of ERP offerings built on the Salesforce1 platform. Backed by investments from UNIT4 and Salesforce.com, the cloud based vendor began as a single ledger financial management system built on the Salesforce.com Force.com platform. The announcement and product launch shows how FinancialForce:
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Constellation shares with its clients the fourth annual groundbreaking survey of CIOs later this week. The 2014 survey interviews respondents about their priorities by CIO persona. Constellation identified infrastructure, integration, intelligence, and innnovaiton as the four personas of the next gen CIO in 2011.
Survey results show that while CIO’s prefer to spend more time on innovation projects, most CIOs must spend their time battling the reduction of cost in IT delivery. In the shift towards dominating digital disruption, CIOs can only move as fast as their organization’s DNA will allow while driving transformation. Using Constellation’s organizational DNA framework, CIOs can understand how much change they can expect their organization to consume and gauge their ability to impact the thought process and culture. An excerpt of some of the findings can be found below:
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Here’s a recent presentation I delivered with AMD’s Isabel Merlano at Microsoft Project Conference 2014. In this session, we shared common scenarios on how the different approaches taken by project managers and Project Management Offices (PMO) could make an organization’s project management environment complex and challenging for the different project stakeholders. We then showcased how Microsoft portfolio and project management solutions can be maximized to address varying pain points around schedule management, resource management and project reporting.
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[Event Report] Over 11,000 attendees convened at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the annual IBM Pulse event. The event focused heavily on cloud and mobile and served as the backdrop to unveil BlueMIx, Big Blue’s PaaS platform for year’s to come. Adding to the seriousness of the announcement, IBM, made a $1B commitment to BlueMix. Side note: We have learned from recent announcements around SoftLayer data centers and Watson that when IBM is serious about something, it makes a one billion dollar investment.
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"Six Trends Influencing Digital Disruption in 2014" webinar recording and slides.
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Webinar introducing Constellation's PESTEL futurist framework. Find out how six trends: political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative will affect digital business disruption in 2014. Slides.
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In it's earnings press release Workday of February 26th, the company disclosed the acquisition of Identified, a San Francisco based start-up that had specialized on recruitment success using analytical algorithms. Here's my analysis. Find out why I say "Good for Workday customers. Good for Workday talent - an acqhire. Not so good for Identified investors"
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If you live and work in the world of SharePoint, next week is the SuperBowl event – over 10,000 people will be attending SharePoint Conference 2014. It’s great to see a fantastic lineup of sessions, speakers and activities. In fact, I would love for you to join me in these activities that I’ll be a part of:
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