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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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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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Constellation announces the winners of the 2013 SuperNova Awards at Constellation's Connected Enterprise.
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In the aftermath of SAP’s TechEd conference in Las Vegas last week – a few things have crystallized out – that really are setting up the company for the years to come.
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This is a copy of an op-ed I wrote in IT News on 20 September.
It's been suggested that with Apple's introduction of biometric technology, the "i" in iPhone now stands for "identity". Maybe "i" is for "ironic" because there is another long-awaited feature that would have had much more impact on the device's identity credentials.
The fingerprint scanner has appeared in the new iPhone 5s, as predicted, and ahead of Near Field Communications capability. In my view, NFC is much more important for identity. ..
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So much has been written about the CMO outspending the CIO in the recent months, I do not even recall who started the whole conversation (Gartner I think?). Doesn’t matter anymore at this point as it has taken off beyond expectations with not only the enterprise software vendors selling to CMOs – but all the journalists, analyst, pundits etc. blog and talk about it.
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IBM researchers in Zurich recently revealed a new Two Factor Authentication technique in which the bona fides of a user of a mobile app are demonstrated via a contactless smartcard waved over the mobile device. The technique leverages NFC -- but as a communications medium, not as a payments protocol. The method appears to be compatible with a variety of smartcards, capable of carrying a key specific to the user and performing some simple cryptographic operations.
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Cegedim Relationship Management is an international provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions for the Life Sciences with some disruptive technology built around Return on Investment (ROI)
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Privately held third-party maintenance and support provider announced record results for its third fiscal quarter of 2013.
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Today at the 5th annual JiveWorld conference in Las Vegas, in front of approximately 1600 attendees, Jive Software announced their upcoming Fall Cloud release, Jive 7. Here are my high level thoughts on the event and today's announcements. [Event Report]
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Sure, life's great at the top, but did you ever wonder what it's like to be a CIO in Silicon Valley--a region known for it's technological brain trust and early adopter approach to technology? With the CIO role changing due to business priorities and disruptive technologies, the modern CIO has his or her hands full just adapting to these changes. Add in Silicon Valley's infamous brain power and the expectation that new technologies will be rapidly adopted, and you're dealing with a whole new high-pressure animal. Join us at Constellation's Connected Enterprise as CIOs from HP, VMWare, Box, and Tesla share their insights --the good, the bad, and the ugly of being a CIO at the epicenter of innovation.
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Earlier this week NetSuite announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire TribeHR, the Canadian partner that prides themselves to be one of the first social HR vendors, having been founded in 2009 - in the midst of the social boom, thus building their product on a social foundation. Let's find out why.
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Veeva, a company whose founders include Siebel Systems alumni has gone public with a very successful IPO.
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Today was the opening keynote of TechEd 2013 and despite some nothing new pre-leaks - there were some substantial announcements and takeaways - I will concentrate on my top three takeaways - look for more later during the week.
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Find out who wins this year's SuperNova Awards for innovators in disruptive technology. The winners will be announced LIVE at Connected Enterprise! This year we'll be announcing the winners of the SuperNova Awards at the SuperNova Awards Gala Dinner which is always held on the first night of Constellation's Connected Enterprise.
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When it comes to cloud computing, do open systems win out over proprietary standards? My view is, perhaps in theory, but cloud computing--specifically public cloud infrastructure--has bigger problems right now than whether it's built on open source. Furthermore, open source cloud infrastructure providers have obstacles to overcome. I'm participating in an online video debate on October 29, hosted by IBM's Smarter Computing program, on "the pros and cons of open computing when it comes to cloud, big data, and software defined environments." This post outlines part of my viewpoint on this subject.
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Golden, Colorado based Net-Results offers a disruptive technology within the broader marketing automation space
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Disruptive companies at Colorado Technology Association Wine Tasting Even - ReadyTalk, Net-Results, and Coldwater Software.
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Oracle Corporation has released the Siebel Innovation Pack for 2013 including many enhancements to the Siebel Open UI.
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I have meant to write this post since quite a while after hearing and learning a lot about the changes that are happening and travelogueing the system integrator (SI) industry.
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Live Quarks are fast-paced 10 minute demos of emerging technologies. The speakers are hand picked by the Constellation team to present their technologies to the Connected Enterprise audience. The majority of Live Quark presenters represent startups with tremendous disruptive potential.
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At the 2013 Kana Connect event from September 15th to 17th, 2013 in New Orleans, I had the pleasure of co-leading a workshop with Scott Hays a Sr. Director, Product Marketing for KANA Software. The goal of the session was to explore eight strategies to improve customer experience.
By now, you are well aware that “experience counts.” Your customers’ loyalty and future purchases hang in the balance. In this session, we’ll explore the key things you can do to make sure their experiences are positive. Ray Wang from Constellation Research and Scott Hays from KANA guide an interactive workshop to invigorate your future initiatives.
Speaker(s): Scott Hays, Ray Wang, Constellation Research
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