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Below is a short video interview I did with BBC Click tech reporter Kate Russell on the BizCouch, where we discussed some of the things organizations should know about cloud computing.< /p>
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Siebel veteran KC Lam has joined the Singapore Exchange (SGX) as a director in the international sales department.
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[Event Report]It was interesting to attend the Kronos user conference, Kronos World, earlier this week in Orlando. Kronos is a key player in the HCM market, being the overall leader for workforce management. Quantitative specialist analyst firm IHS estimatesthat Kronos has a worldwide market share of 25% and a North American market share of 37%. And Kronos grows twice as fast as the market with 10% in FY 2013.
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Rimini Street plans to conduct a registered initial public offering after the SEC completes its review process.
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Age Is Not The Deciding Factor In Five Generations Of WorkersWhen discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people are with digital technologies and culture. Constellation sees five generations:
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Age Is Not The Deciding Factor In Five Generations Of WorkersWhen discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people are with digital technologies and culture. Constellation sees five generations (see Figure 1):
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I’ve spent the past few weeks thinking about video interoperability, and not just interoperability at the signaling level or the codec level, but at the security level as well. I presently have four video solutions in my office that I run regularly: a Cisco/Tandberg MXP 1700 executive unit, a Vidyo desktop client, Microsoft Lync hosted through Office 365, and Skype. In addition to these, I often use Apple’s FaceTime video product when using my iOS devices. It seems like video is all around me, and it is likely pervasive for others as well.
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It’s funny. Whenever I give a talk from stage, or talk to a few colleagues or even get asked for advice on strategy, it all revolves around the same cause. For some, it’s “we’re in this mess” while for others it’s “we have this great opportunity” and they always point to the same thing. It’s the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) that has been the reason we’re moving forward with mobile. What I find so funny about all this is that none of them get it. It’s not CoIT that has led so many businesses to start adopting mobile as a way to enhance access to their ecosystem. This misunderstanding is the whole reason why so many companies are having so much trouble getting to the point where mobile is no longer just a thought but a way of doing business.
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Pragmatic Advice on How to Get Started in Your Social Business InitiativesDownload the report snapshotConstellation pioneered the complete set of front office and back office use cases for social business in 2010. This report focuses on the campaign to lead mega-use case, which addresses internal- and external-facing use cases. Internal use cases include data to campaign, campaign creation and resource staffing. External-facing use cases include A/B/X testing, augmented events, feedback loops, lead generation and customer loyalty/VIP experience. These use cases should provide a starting point for mapping out the social and digital marketing journey.
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Pragmatic Advice on How to Get Started in Your Social Business InitiativesQuark version of the Premium Ressearch Report: Demystifying Social Business: Optimizing the Campaign to Lead Process (Marketing)This report focuses on the campaign to lead mega-use case, which addresses internal- and external-facing use cases. Internal use cases include data to campaign, campaign creation, and resource staffing. External-facing use cases include A/B/X testing, augmented events, feedback loops, lead generation and customer loyalty/VIP experience. These use cases should provide a starting point for mapping out the social and digital marketing journey.
I will be attending Kronos' user conference next week in Orlando - and when I got the customary what to do email from the vendor - I stumbled over a section mentioning some interesting marketing approach combining twitter buzz with charity.
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As we head towards 2014, de-identification of personal data sets is going to be a hot issue.
In Australia a new definition of Personal Information (PI or "PII") means that anonymous data that can potentially be re-identified in future may have to be classified as PII today. I recently discussed how security and risk practitioners can deal with the uncertainty in re-identifiability.
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What I learned at Constellation Research's Connected Enterprise Event about from Chris Meyer about US Capitalism and how to fix it
At the end of his talk Meyer predicted that new types of businesses – networked enterprises, hybrids, not-for-profit, and emerging market newcomers – will usher in a new and very possibly better form of capitalism that replaces the runaway capitalism of today by becoming less obsessed with return on equity and using broad-based measurements of success.The question is, when this happens where do you want to be?
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Yesterday I participated in the SAP Game-Changers broadcast, Virtual Hives for Collaboration and Innovation, where I provided my thoughts on the pros and cons of teams using collaboration tools to work together. Today's buzz: The hive. Your search for the best talent no longer has to be limited to candidates within driving distance of your site. Now the world can be your proverbial workforce oyster. But before you salivate over the benefits of talent globalization and diversity, first be sure your HR knows what to do when traditional face-to-face team environments are augmented or replaced by virtual ways of working. The experts speak.
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The week of 2013 October 28 was a big one for Paxata, Inc. Founded in January of 2012, followed by advisories, beta customers also known as "Pax Pros", and 12 sprints, Paxata quietly released their first GA product in May of 2013. With panels and debuts at the Strata + Hadoop conference in New York and other events, leading up to announcements and demonstrations at the Constellation Connected Enterprise at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, Paxata officially left stealth mode, publicly discussing: ...
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Market Leaders and Fast Followers Prepare for Digital Business In 2014Conversations at Constellation’s Connected Enterprise last week validate a larger trend in the market place. The audience of 220+ early adopters with 75% representing line of business and 25% in IT highlighted the convergence of the five forces of consumerization described in 2009 and 2010. This convergence of these five pillars of digital business now form the foundation of all future digital business strategy and drive customer experience, matrix commerce, future of work, data to decisions, consumerization of technology, and digital marketing (see Figure 1.). In fact, market leaders and fast followers have embraced this strategic direction in their 2014 planning.
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In the Siebel Essentials blog, Alexander Hansal explains how to create a popup screen using the new Siebel UI.
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The Consumerization of Identity: A collision of Worlds
US: Nov 13 1:00-1:30PM Pacific
Aus: Nov 14 8:00-8:30AM AEDST
Register here.
What happens when the irresistible force of Social Logon hits the immoveable object of enterprise risk management?
The webinar will cover:
What is the Consumerization of IT?
What is Federated Identity?
The State of the "identity ecosystem"
Pros and Cons of Federation
The Two Dimensions of Social Identities
What needs to happen for Social Logon to become "Business Grade"?
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Clearly the Data Scientist is the hottest job in the market. According the Harvard Business Review it is the hottest job of the 21st century.However, it struck me this week that the technology and business environments surrounding BI, Analytics and of course Big Data, can create the perspective that the entire world and aura of the data scientist is simply wrong from both an organisational priority and execution point of view. The data scientist should not have to be a super part robot part human employee. This is a completely conflicted requirement when considering the hoped/hyped business potential of data and analytics.
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Rimini Street will hold a Webinar called "Top 5 Strategies Every Siebel Customer Must Consider" on November 14th.
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Oracle Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held BigMachines, a cloud-based Configure, Price and Quote (CPQ) company
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In his Siebel Essentials blog, Alexander Hansal explains Siebel Open UI Manifest Administration Changes in the latest innovation pack.
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Constellation analysts weigh in on Salesforce.com’s October 15, 2013 entrance into the identity market. Steve Wilson provides a view from identity and security. Bruce Daley assesses the announcement from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and customer experience. Holger Mueller evaluates the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) implications. Alan Lepofsky examines the impact on the future of work and social business.
Today IBM communicated to its SmartCloud Enterprise customers that they will have to move to SoftLayer cloud environments - latest by January 31st 2014. This is the first and possibly the largest move between cloud infrastructures the same vendor that has happened so far in the short history of the cloud.
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