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Last year’s acquisition of Dayforce heralded Ceridian’s pivot from a payroll service bureau to an HCM vendor focused on technology and innovation. One year later, Ceridian demonstrates strong customer adoption of its new platform and continued HCM process transformation to enable HR organizations to create a more effective workforce.
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Why the Haley Stuart Group Recruited ShoreTel Sky as Its Cloud Communications Service Provider
In 2004 HSG installed a new PBX in its New Jersey offices. It soon became clear that the annual maintenance contract for this PBX was not only very expensive, but HSG discovered that it did not include any hardware upgrades nor did it include upgrades for software releases containing new functionality.
Find out why Haley Stuart Group chose ShoreTel Sky as its cloud communications provider.
As the size of our social networks grow (meaning we connect with more people) it's important that the tools we use make it simple to interact with the right people at the right time. (context matters!) I've found that some collaboration platforms do this well, while others do not.Here is a good example from Yammer. Notice when I type "@k" it first suggests Kevin Young, he is not the only person in my network who's name starts with K, but he is person I interact with most frequently. The next two suggestions are based on last name's starting with K. Notice...
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We are excited to announce the launch of our refreshed website with a design built around you.What to expect on the new website today:More media content: webinars, keynote speeches, Connected Enterprise recordingsCurated insight around a Business Problem or RoleUpdated research agendasEnhanced profile features including a “My Files” feature where you can store and reference all content you’ve downloaded from Constellation ResearchDeeper profiles of our Analysts. Our new analyst profiles reveal Big Ideas, published and planned research, blog posts, and events in which they are participating. Please be sure to check out our newSuperNova Awards application - now live ANDInformation about:Connected Enterprise - initial speaker list now available
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Creativity is hard work. Actually, work, life, everything is hard work.For every 100 good ideas that you put up, you’ll be lucky to see one take root.For every “yes” that you get, there’ll be dozens of “nos”.And for every spark you ignite in others, there’ll be whole audiences of blank faces.Remember, too, it all takes time.
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The five forces of the Consumerization of Information Technology (CoIT) do not just affect the chief information officer (CIO). The impact of social media, Big Data, analytics, mobility, cloud computing and unified communications will be felt across every business unit and across every enterprise.
However, it is the office of the CMO – the organizational executive responsible for the “front of house” – which will be increasingly exposed to the challenges presented by consumerization. As a result, marketing leaders will face significant new strategic and technology decisions in the next two years.
Marketers need to adopt a long-term view that demotes the campaign-based thinking that has dominated the marketing agenda for decades, replacing it with a focus on relationships, value and customer experience...
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At the recent Cisco Customer Collaboration Analyst Event, Cisco identified its key initiatives for the coming year and its plans to continue to capture market share with its customer collaboration strategy. It also demonstrated how its continuous improvement in its collaboration product line earned increased market share against contact center competitors. Cisco credits its recent success is in providing its customers with robust end-to-end solutions and its sound financial position, which especially appeals to larger enterprise customers. During the last year It has made significant gains with competitive wins against Avaya and other established contact center solution providers.
Cisco is prioritizing the following four areas for its customer collaboration solution:
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Anticipating and Preparing for Massive Disruption to Your Communications Environment and Engagement Strategies
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WebRTC is an emerging standard that enables real-time voice, video and data sharing in a Web browser without the need for browser plugins. Potentially billions of devices supporting a browser – PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets and a host of new devices – from a variety of manufacturers will be real-time communications-enabled.
This report is designed to provide CIOs and decision makers with the right balance of depth and breadth to help them understand what WebRTC can do for them as well as what it can do to them. We begin with an overview of WebRTC, what it is and how it is architected. We discuss federation among WebRTC-enabled sites and integration with legacy communications platforms including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the public switched telephone network (PSTN). We describe the security mechanisms inherent in WebRTC.
SALT LAKE CITY – April 25, 2013 Constellation Research, Inc. the research and advisory firm focused on disruptive technologies today announced the publication of “Ten Things CIOs Should Know about WebRTC: Anticipating and Preparing for Massive Disruption to Your Communications Environment and Engagement Strategies” by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Dr. E. Brent Kelly. This research report analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, and potential impact of WebRTC. This report is designed to arm CIOs with the research necessary to help them understand the potential positive and negative impacts of WebRTC on their organizations.Download the report snapshot
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Big Data Vendors Seek To Move From Data To Decisions
The move from Data to Decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across the entire organization. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-diciplinary approach that incorporates performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence technologies. Gather key insights from your data, transform insights into actionable information, and then make the right decisions (see Figure 1).
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SILICON VALLEY, California., and TOKYO, Japan –April 25, 2013 – Constellation Research, Inc. and ITR Corporation today announced that Constellation COO Dennis Kanemitsu will provide opening remarks at IT Trend 2013, ITR's annual executive forum.
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SILICON VALLEY, California., and TOKYO, Japan –April 25, 2013 – Constellation Research, Inc.
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SALT LAKE CITY – April 25, 2013 Constellation Research, Inc.
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Dennis Howlett interviews R "Ray" Wang about themes presented at Inforum 2013.
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After many years of depending on the Community Dashboard Framework as the core of the dashboard capabilities, Pentaho has acquired Webdetails to bring that UX expertise into all their products. In addition, Webdetails will continue to provided Pentaho professional services. And as the best piece of this news, Pedro Alves, while continuing in his role heading up Webdetails, will be the new SVP of Community.
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Welcome to our series of market maker 1:1 interviews with business leaders in the world of enterprise software The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.Kirill Tatarinov, President of Microsoft Business Solutions (@KirillTatarinov)
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Interview following Alan's keynote on Purposeful Collaboration at Oracle CloudWorld Mumbai on April 2nd, 2013.
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Today SocialCast by VMware announced the new version of their enterprise social networking platform. The main new feature of this release is the integration of Social Task Management, which they are calling Socialcast Projects. As you know, I've been preaching about the benefits of Social Task Management for quite some time, so clearly I am happy to see Socialcast provide this new element to their product. With this new enhancement people using Socialcast will be able to more easily to organise, manage, share and complete the work they are doing.
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Netsuite Achieves Epic Status in Inaugural Bill of Rights Certification for Cloud Apps Suites
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The Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights provides a tool for clients and vendors to change the tenor of contract negotiations from user subservience to an equal and collaborative long-term partnership.
Netsuite provides an end-to-end cloud business application suite. Netsuite achieved a 4.48 weighted score and achieved the highest certification – Epic for its achievement in meeting the 61 requirements of the Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights category.
Today Tylr Mobile unveiled WorkinBox, an iPhone application designed to help sales professionals by bringing together email (via IMAP) and CRM (currently Salesforce.com) information.Unlike so many of today's startups who pontificate about the evils of email, WorkinBox embraces the fact that email is a critical tool for Sales professionals...
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Constellation Certifies Vendors On How Well They Perform To The Cloud Bill Of RightsThe Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights provides a tool for clients and vendors to change the tenor of contract negotiations from user subservience to an equal and collaborative long-term partnership.
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Actian DataCloud Achieves Epic Status in the Inaugural Bill of Rights Certification for Cloud Integration
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The Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights provides a tool for clients and vendors to change the tenor of contract negotiations from user subservience to an equal and collaborative long-term partnership.
Actian’s acquired Pervasive Software on April 11, 2013. Constellation evaluated Pervasive Software prior to the merger. Actian DataCloud achieved a 4.77 weighted score and achieved the highest certification – Epic for its achievement in meeting the 61 requirements of the Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights category.
Everything that we do on an internet connected device leaves a digital trail. Whether it is an internet enabled refrigerator, a PC, smartphone or tablet – somewhere there is a log file recording of what your device did, what it connected to and when. And if that involves sending files, or creating or consuming content – then that data grows – for those files would be copied, replicated or cached in each location.Google’s Eric Schmidt famously suggested that from the dawn of civilisation through to 2003, the human race had created roughly 5 exabytes of data.
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Starting a business is like flying by the seat of your pants. Even experienced entrepreneurs experience the simultaneous challenges of validating and launching a product, marketing, resourcing, managing staff, engaging stakeholders and securing funding. Often – in the whirlwind – a strategic approach to marketing is lost. Or worse – ignored. My view (as it would be), is that it is never too early to market.
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