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[News Analysis] Two major cloud players announce general availability (GA) or a new release of their respective cloud platforms. So HP announced version 13.5 of it's public cloud and Google announced the GA of Google Compute Engine (GCE). I break down the trends, dish out advice to customers and competitors, and provide an analysis of this development's impact on the market.
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Despite Workday's Hard Won Success, Customers and Prospects Should Still Ask the Tough Questions
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In this Trends Quark, Constellation makes a point to provide an objective evaluation of Workday’s technology and strategies using the same risk factor analysis criteria employed in client vendor selection evaluations. Consequently, Constellation sees six areas on which buyers and existing customers should keep watch.
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Market Leaders and Fast Followers See Real ROI with Mobile InitiativesDownload the report snapshotRecent results from Constellation IndexTM, Constellation’s proprietary data product, identify where mobility has made massive impacts on measurable metrics. The results revealed the rate of adoption for the 42 business process metrics and real ROI results for early adopters, sliced by size of organization, industry, department and business process.
[Video] I test out the new Salesforce platform and discover is that it only takes a minute to be up and running and developing your first application.
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Read event reports and analyses authored by Constellation analysts. It's almost better than being there in person.
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Vibe Data Stream [Vibe] and Virtual Data Machine [VDM] combine at the center of Informatica’s Internet of Things strategy. Primarily for Machine-to-Machine [M2M] data, and by connecting through Power Center, ultimately leading to Machine-to-Human [M2H] Data. The goal is to have VDMs residing in mobile devices and sensor packages, but for now VDMs are mostly for Data and Operations Centers.
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[Event Report] At this year’s Dreamworld Saleforce.com Chairman Marc Benioff announced a new and potentially disruptive technology from a podium set in the center of the Moscone South convention center. His audience consisted of such notables’ as actor Sean Penn, model and...
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Marc Benioff's introduction of Salesforce1 left many of his audience of 134,892 puzzled. It is not a platform, not a strategy, not a mobile interface, not a combination of existing products. Can you explain Salesforce1 by explaining what it is not?
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Six Representative Customers in Recent Oracle Fusion HCM ImplementationsDownload the report snapshot
[Best Practices]At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Constellation interviewed a dozen Oracle customers who have implemented Oracle Fusion HCM. Based on those interviews, customer inquiries and conversations with implementation partners, Constellation believes it's important to not only move to the cloud, but also consider Fusion HCM when functionality, usability/mobility, integration and flexible deployment matter.
IBM Acquires Fiberlink (MaaS 360) For Mobile Management And Security
On November 13th, Blue Bell, PA based Fiberlink Communications signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Armonk, NY based IBM for an undisclosed sum. FiberLink has over 3500 clients in key verticals such as financial, retail, public sector, education, and healthcare. IBM expects to close the acquisition at year’s end. The deal is significant to customers because:...
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Time-to-market, more flexible support for business strategies by IT, and faster response time to competitive conditions are combining to accelerate cloud computing adoption today.
Of the enterprises I’ve spoken with over the last several months including several Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses just beginning to evaluate cloud-based CRM and manufacturing systems, one message resonates from all of them: they need enterprise applications that keep pace with how fast they want to move on new business strategies. The latest round of cloud computing forecasts reflect the urgency enterprises have of making IT a foundation for strategic business growth.
The following is a summary of the latest cloud computing forecasts and market estimates:
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Commerce Server Finds Its Logical Home
On Wednesday November 20th, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark based Sitecore acquired Ottawa, Canada based commerceserver.net for an undisclosed price. Originally known as the Microsoft Siteserver and Commerce Server 2000, the product was orphaned by Microsoft, then sold to Ascentium, the key development partner. Adding to the lore, Ascentium changed their name to Smith in the Fall of 2012.
Sitecore’s acquisition continues a consolidation trend in the Matrix Commerce market where vendors are aggregating technologies to support a buyer centric approach to customer experience. Constellation believes customers should pay attention because Sitecore: ...
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[Event Report: Key Takeaways] So the 2013 edition of Dreamforce is over and it's time to look at the key takeaways from this 5 day mega event. Needless to say that everything Dreamforce is BIG - attendees numbers, space used, concerts held, bands playing, prizes (1 M$!) etc - which makes Dreamforce the dream event for any CMO. I am sure any marketing professional not working at Salesforce would wish they could spend similar on their customer event. And Salesforce is under pressure to keep outdoing itself - as the hype is a substantial ingredient with Dreamforce.
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At its DREAMFORCE 2013 event Salesforce introduced Salesforce 1 Service Cloud, which is powered by the Salesforce 1 Platform. The Salesforce 1 platform provides open API’s for developers or ISVs to incorporate service notification into products and applications. With this cloud based offering, problem notification is embedded into the application itself and connects products directly to service support. Service becomes proactive and provides the customer with an entirely new experience of being notified when a product needs service. When the product notifies the service organization it needs repair, customers avoid having to make a service call or wait for a device to break, thus enabling them to enjoy uninterrupted use of a product.
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[Video] My review of the Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 keynote.
Topics include:
- Salesforce - more than just technology... philanthropy is at the heart of the company's core values
- Introducing Salesforce1, the platform for the Internet of Customers
- The impact of connected devices - Demonstrations of Salesforce1 Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, ExactTarget Marketing Cloud
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Here is a four minute video with my thoughts on the Salesforce Dreamforce Day 1 keynote, which focused on Salesforce as a platform for applications, how customers can leverage this to improve their businesses and the opportunity available for applications developers and ISVs.
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Tweetup with the Constellation Team at Dreamforce!
Drinks and discussion with your favorite disruptive technology analysts! November 20 5:30p.m., The Intercontinental Hotel, San Francisco
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Best Practices from Two Early Cloud HCM Pioneers: Chiquita Brands and McKee FoodsChiquita Brands and McKee Foods were early pioneers in the cloud. Both organizations faced similar challenges in upgrading existing human resources (HR) technologies amid a changing economic climate. However, both organizations used the cloud through Workday’s solutions to drive cost savings and innovate. Find out why.
[Event report] The yearly Dreamforce conference kicked off today in full swing, well it hasn't even kicked off as the official start is only tomorrow. But we had a chance to attend the partner keynote - which was so full, attendees had to wait outside before it could get started.
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Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce. Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology meets SXSW event. One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1). The Salesforce 1 customer platform seeks to address a cadre of emerging digital business requirements that customer centric companies face.
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Sticking with tradition the day 2 keynote of the AWS reinvent conference was done by the AWS CTO, Werner Vogels. Vogels - or as referred to by his Twittter handle by a devoted developer community as @Werner - was once again at his best leading through the 100 minute keynote in front of 9000 clouderati.
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Silwood Technology has released new version of Safyr a tool for data model analysis of SAP and Oracle applications.Silwood Technology has released new version of Safyr a tool for data model analysis of SAP and Oracle applications. Safyr 6.1 offers improved user search and navigation of the complex data models. Among the improvements in this release: Safyr now incorporates tile based navigation to make it easier for new and occasional users to be productive. From the tile screen, users accesss any part of the Safyr product and initiate an extraction from a source system. The tile screen also contains a link to a multi-object search feature. The user can find Tables, Views, Domains, Data Elements, and Application Hierarchies using a single search term. By returning all the results as a unified picture of nodes categorised by object type, Safyr makes database objects easier to find.
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The AWS reinvent conference is in full swing in Las Vegas, attended by about 9000 clouderati, so it's time to look at the key statements and our takeaways of day 1 are.
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At CCE 2013 author Jane McGonigal described the benefits of games and also advocated using them solve to real world problems.
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