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HootSuite Managed Security & Compliance Services educate and empower enterprises to protect their brand and reputationTo help enterprises protect their brands as they scale social media across their organization, HootSuite has announced the launch of its Managed Security and Compliance Services.
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For the value it creates, SharePoint can cause eDiscovery and information governance headaches if proper planning does not take place. It is all too easy to assume that if information is searchable, eDiscovery will be no problem when the time comes. But, as is often the case in life, the devil is in the details.
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Last week I wrote about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Thursday night in New York I stumbled into another innovation in the medium of exchange:...
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“Fast IDentity Online” Is the Go-To Standards Alliance in Protocols for Modern Identity Management
[An update of the original "The FIDO Alliance" Quark] The FIDO Alliance – for Fast IDentity Online – is a fresh, fast growing consortium of security vendors and end users working out a new suite of protocols and standards to connect authentication endpoints to services. Launched in early 2013, the FIDO Alliance has already grown to nearly 100 members, amongst which are heavyweights like Google, Lenovo, MasterCard, Microsoft and PayPal.In February 2014, the FIDO Alliance announced the release of its first two protocol drafts.
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Game-Changing Two-Factor Authentication: The Long-Awaited Driverless, Readerless Chip Key
We are at the dawn of digital wallets, and simultaneously in the midst of a data breach pandemic. The public is baying for proper protection in cyberspace. Yubico has developed the world’s first driverless USB security key, and has a credible plan for introducing its two-factor authentication product to the general public. Yubico heralds long overdue progress in everyday identity security. Progress Constellation believes is a true game changer.
Last week saw widespread attention to a bug in Apple's iOS operating system which rendered website security impotent. The problem arose from a single superfluous line of code - an extra goto statement - that nullified checking of SSL connections, leaving users totally vulnerable to fake websites. The Twitterverse nicknamed the flaw #gotofail.
There are all sorts of interesting quality control questions in the #gotofail experience.
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With a bunch of exciting new members joining up on the eve of the RSA Conference, the FIDO Alliance is going from strength to strength. And they've just published the first public review drafts of their core "universal authentication" protocols.
An update to my Constellation Research report on FIDO will be published soon. Here's a preview.
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Why did Facebook develop EdgeRank? Are you one of those brands spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on creating content for social media interactions? Facebook themselves admits the average brand page only reaches 16-17% of its fans. Data from PageLever shows that for brands with millions of fans, even less of their fans see the content. They estimate the content only reaches ~3% of their fans. Why is this so? It’s because of an algorithm, EdgeRank, that calculates what posts to filter out.
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In a case with potentially important consequences, Judge Hicks of the U.S. District Court has found that Rimini Street infringed on some Oracle copyrights but not on others. Is there justice in this? What the decision means for customers, vendors, and the industry itself.
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Bitcoin, the leading P2P currency, is coming to an ATM near you. There is an ATM right here in Boston now! At least Boston keeps its place as a high tech center…barely. Anyways, first what really is Bitcoin, other than being linked to the infamous Winklevoss twins?
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Microsoft's announcement of new marketing, customer care and social listening features added to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM product reveals some true creativity and innovation. Not so much in terms of product features (although there are some). What the announcement really highlights is a creative business and go-to-market strategy.
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Every defined era of economic history is characterized by waves of disruption. From the agricultural revolution to the current information and digital revolution, innovation and change is results in continual disruption.
The drivers and outcomes of these eras of economic history have several common themes.
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Rankings. I can take them or leave them. But Brand Directory’s evaluation of banking brands for 2014, in association with The Banker, does an interesting job of placing a monetary value on the intangible asset that is an organisation’s brand. And this year, as shown below, ANZ pips CommBank at the post, to take out first place in the Australian rankings.
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On February 19th, Sprinklr announced the acquisition of Dachis Group. The acquisition will make Sprinklr the largest independent end-to-end Social Relationship platform in the market. While many will see this deal as a services play, the acquisition is significant in the for a few key reasons:
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I have visited China for business repeatedly over the last 15 years. As most would be more than aware, the growth on any econometric variable has been sustained and typically staggering. As someone who studied economic and regional development as an undergrad student the demographics of China is equally of interest and impressive.The challenge for these 15 cities with over 5 million people, let alone the 140 with over one million is standing out in a competitive environment. The largest cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen et al) clearly stand out and have defined roles and investment attractiveness with which to differentiate themselves.
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The Facebook data science team has been digging through the mountains of interactions that take place between people before, during and after they fall in love. They looked in detail at the number of posts exchanged going back to 100 days before the “couple” changed their relationship status from “single”. What they found was that social media interaction plays an important role in the formation of the relationship.
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In 2011 Business Week ran an article suggesting every worker is a knowledge worker. While this may be true standing on the body of knowledge surrounding “knowledge workers” gifted to the world by Peter Drucker, when we look past the runway of Drucker’s foresight the term “knowledge worker” starts to fall short on its promise to enterprises--that all knowledge workers would engage in meaningful, visionary work.
While today’s knowledge workers chug away using more knowledge and cognition than manual workers in factories a century ago, "knowledge work" as we know it today can be boiled down to a series of repeatable manual steps that are often commoditized and optimized: install, test, configure, deploy, apply load, measure, tweak, freeze, replicate, and repair. Most of these “knowledge” worker roles are barely using knowledge and rarely using cognition.
The big question is what new revolution will automate the manual tasks of today’s knowledge workers freeing them from the broken promise?
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The 2014 trends are out. The big predictions have been made. Yet what does it all mean as most organizations anticipate another unpredictable year? Since 2000, 52 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist (Figure 1). The pace of change has increased, competition has intensified and business models have been disrupted. The only certainty is that change will accelerate.
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The February 12th, 2014 Good Technology Mobility Index report validates what many enterprises know – Apple iOS is dominating Google Android inside the enterprise. While this data is limited to the Good Technology customer base, anecdotal inquires and formal polling by Constellation Research, Inc. validate that this data is directionally accurate. Here are three graphics that illustrate the point:
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On February 13th, 2014, the United States District Court , District of Nevada Judge Larry Hicks issued a partial summary judgment in the Oracle vs Rimini Street Case. Here’s the executive summary to key questions about the ruling*:
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A Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin I’m engaged in a fascinating project — interesting both because I started from total ignorance and because the subject is complex and profound.
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Constellation Research has identified a series of political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative trends that will impact your business and your career. At a high level, the noted advisory services firm has identified the following trends: Political issues point...
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Why is it important for brands to have a Facebook e-commerce capability? Mike Fauscette, an Analyst at IDC Consulting says, “In three to five years, 10 percent to 15 percent of total consumer spending in developed countries may go through sites such as Facebook.”
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