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A sensor is anything that can create data about its environs. A more formal definition is
a device that detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or otherwise responds to it -New Oxford American Dictionary
A very simple example is a thermocouple.
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BYOD and Mobility Mean Enterprises Should Consider Advantages of External Mobility Management Specialists
Enterprises need to evaluate whether mobility management is a core competence or not in an age of BYOD and increasing complexity. This Quark discusses what to think about when considering third-party management of mobility.
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Transform your Business Options with Mobility
Mobility can open up profound and creative opportunities to change business models and/or improve business processes. This report looks at benefits and strategies for harnessing mobile technologies.
This Quark complements Constellation Research's Mobile Device Management (MoDM), Mobile App and Data Management (MADM) and Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) reports.
The pharmaceutical industry is fraught with rules and regulations, but that didn’t deter Nathan McBride, VP of IT, from moving AMAG Pharmaceuticals’ IT services to Google Enterprise.
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Today Oracle announced its new Social Relationship Management (SRM) Platform, an integrated software platform that helps organizations listen, engage, market and monitor their social interactions with all of its constituents across the enterprise (prospects, customers, influencers, partners, candidates and employees.)
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Global outsourcing and Bangalore Infotech bellwether Infosys (NASDAQ:INFY), announced its agreement to purchase Zurich-based Lodestone Management Consultancy for $350M. A quick analysis of the news reveals:
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If there were a secret sauce to organizational success, then you would find “Effective Talent Mobility Program” as one of its first ingredients.
From addressing the top concerns of CEOs to the daily challenges of line of business leaders and the concerns of individual employees – an effective talent mobility strategy can have significant positive results at all levels, and on the business as a whole.
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Digital Media Luminary to Launch Constellation’s Newest Research Theme, Digital Marketing Transformation
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Salesforce.com will be unveiling its HCM platform, Work.com, at Dreamforce in San Francisco later this month. What can we expect?
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After the Constellation Research Summer Retreat in late July a survey of mobile device penetration was undertaken. The results, analyzed during the vacation season, are not dramatic. But they do illustrate why BYOD, if Constellation is a proxy for larger organizations, is an issue for enterprises. Mobile phones For mobile phones, there were: no feature [...]
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The moment you've all been waiting for is here. Constellation Research is happy to announce the semifinalists of the second annual SuperNova Awards! This year's semifinalists are recognized as champions of technology that have overcome the odds in successfully applying emerging and disruptive technologies within their organizations.
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How Movius Extended Its Customer Offerings By Addressing Enterprise Mobility Concerns
In this report, Movius Director of Marketing and Technology Jose Romero discussed how the company analyzed the challenges that enterprise end users must confront when faced with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) purchases made by employees who want to use these personal devices to assist them at work.
Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big ThingSocial has given us the tools to connect. Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere. Cloud delivers access points to us with a rich array of content and information. Big data provides us with the context and information to make decisions. Unified communications and video transform how we share ideas. This convergence of the five forces of consumerization drives the next shifts in technology. The move from transaction to engagement and from engagement to experience is happening now. The era of transactional apps rapidly makes way for the era of engagement.
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The Real Deadline To Consider Third Party SAP Maintenance Is September 30thIn conversations with hundreds of SAP customers, many have not realized that they must act now in the next 30 to 45 days if they want to move off of SAP customer specific maintenance from extended maintenance for older products. Despite the support window ending in March 2013 for extended maintenance, SAP is requiring organizations to serve notice by September 30th, 2012 (see Figure 1). Key products impacted by this deadline include:
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Why The Mexican Lender Needed A New Approach To Technology In Order To Evolve Its Business
Nacional Monte de Piedad (NMP) recently announced plans to open a branch in every major Mexican city. In the past two years, NMP has changed its approach to business process and IT support. The lending institution chose Dell to be its strategic delivery partner, providing both technology equipment and services.
This case study is the first in a series in which different user organizations will talk about their objectives and experiences when looking for Technology Optimization. Through these studies, Constellation Research clients discover what others had to find out for themselves.
The CRM industry’s major non-vendor customer focused event kicked off at the Marriott Marquis in New York from August 13th to 15th. Conversations with prospects and practitioners at the event highlighted a few emerging trends:
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Customer support organizations strive to deliver exceptional customer experience but often fall short of meeting the expectations of today’s media-savvy socially connected customer. While it is important to deliver the right response to customers in a professional manner, this alone is not enough to retain customers over the long term. To be a front runner in customer support, companies need to engage customers more proactively and personally by creating a sense of connectedness with them.
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For 20 years, he was consulting editor for Esther Dyson’s leading computer industry newsletter, Release 1.0. Previously he was the founding editor of the monthly magazine, Computers in HR Management; managing editor of Ziff-Davis’ Computer Industry Daily; and a reporter for The New York Times and The New York Daily News. He has also published articles in Newsweek, Washington Post, Institutional Investor, New York Magazine, Business Month, IHRIM Journal, Cruising World and Backpacker (where he was the founding editor).
We sat down with industry pioneer Bill Kutik for a preview of this year’s event:
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It’s coming. That annual event that calls together the technology leaders and rising stars; innovators and educators; providers and users of all things HCM technology. The “gathering of the clans” (as the Scots would say) as old friends and colleagues touch base to see who’s working where this year. A 3-day long festival of information, technology, networking and, I’ll admit it, FUN, that never fails to yield new ideas and important new connections.
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Marketing and Advertising Budgets Are The New Land Grab
Constellation Research, Inc. predicts that the global advertising market (paid search, display, and classified) will hit $125B by 2015. While IT budgets continue to stay flat, marketing budgets are up. Warc’s recent Global Marketing Index (GMI) entered positive territory in March 2012. Consequently, the heat up in marketing and advertising market attracts not only start-ups, but also tech vendors looking to enter this lucrative market.
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Former PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner brings social business and strategy management experience to research and advisory firm focused on disruptive technology.
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Over at Computer Economics, we've now launched our 2012 Technology Trends survey, and we're looking for qualified IT executives to take a 15-minute survey about their technology investment plans.
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Lessons Learned from Mobile Management Optimization
Kevin Capp, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Castle Rock discusses the town's mobile communications problems, and how he conducted negotiations with the mobility carriers to resolve them.
Customer community forums provide a meeting place for customers to engage with fellow customers in order to share ideas and information, get tips on product usage and access knowledgeable subject matter experts. Importantly, early adopters find that community forums differentiate them from competitors by providing interactive ways for customers to engage and find support. Forums aggregate relevant product information and usage ideas and share pertinent information to online communities. As more customers become members of a company’s community forum, it is essential to monitor sites and add fresh content to provide a wide range of valuable and actionable information to consumers.
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