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Innovative CIO’s Betting On Disruptive Technologies That Impact Enterprise Business Value
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While enterprise cloud computing pioneers such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com get much of the attention, there is some interesting cloud-work going on among traditional enterprise software providers. One such provider is Infor.
I had the opportunity to get an update on Infor’s cloud computing program last week, at Infor’s annual user conference, Inforum. The bottom line: I see Infor’s cloud strategy as having two prongs, and it is beginning to bear fruit.
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This document addresses many questions asked by CFO’s about cloud deployments and the top integration questions often asked by CFO’s responsible for key business initiatives that involve technology.
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Integrating social media sites into the core customer support operations has been a slow process. Many do not see the value of doing this and fail to quantify the costs of not doing it. There are several steps a company can do to address this issue and improve their response times to customers. These include
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Acquisition Brings A Proven Multi-Channel Cloud Based Service Offering To The Growing Mid-market
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SAP’s made big claims about HANA and its capabilities today and into the future. This Quark goes into the details and Constellation’s point of view.
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Approachable Financial Applications Supported by Strong Data Integration, Reporting, and Graphics
One of the growth areas in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions is the mid- market (companies between $50 million and $1 billion in revenue). EPM is top of mind for mid-market companies because it allows them to produce budgets more efficiently – less staff, reduced total cost of ownership and enhanced time to benefit. Among the vendors most considered for mid-market EPM are Adaptive Planning, Host Analytics and Prophix.
SAP in its press conference last week provided a major update on its database and mobility strategy. In my first post, I outlined my view of SAP’s database strategy. Now, in this second post, I provide my perspective on SAP’s mobility strategy.
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How Mobile Phones and Tablets Change Sales Practices and Open Up Opportunities, Both Internally and Externally.
In this report, Sunbelt Rentals' Director of Enterprise Architecture Dean Moore discusses the introduction of smart devices (specifically iPhones and iPads) to Sunbelt Rentals' sales force.
Last week I attended a half day SAP press conference in San Francisco, on the subject of SAP’s strategy for database technology and mobility. Both are hot topics in enterprise software, and there were plenty of announcements. In fact, it’s quite easy to get lost in the weeds. So, in this first of two posts, I’ll try to summarize what I see as the big picture for SAP’s database strategy.
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Forward And CommentaryThis trends report examines how changing expectations among business leaders and the consumerization of IT will shape the future of insights and decision-making. As organizations make the move from transactions to engagement to experience, a new type of analytics will be required.A. Introduction
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Mobile Devices and Their Mangement Change Business Processes and Attitudes to IT
In this report, Neil Goodrich, Holly Hunt's Director of Business Analytics and Technology, discusses the introduction, management and use of smart devices (specifically iPads). He discusses the changes that occur as people discover that smart devices are opportunities for improving business processes.
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Answers to Ten Common Questions Innovative CFOs Have Asked
Organizations have escalated their adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications in the past 3 years. As part of the broader trend in consumerization of IT (CoIT), business leaders have slowly tipped the balance of power in determining technology acquisition. However, the proliferation of adoption has led to organizational chaos in data, process and meta data integration as users adopt and deploy the cloud in silos without considering the implications of organizational silos and services oriented architecture (SOA).
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Both HANA as an architecture and database alternative indicate SAP’s future direction and next-generation approach. Consequently, numerous clients and SAP customers have inquired on whether or not they can replace their underlying Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) in their SAP Business Suite with HANA. Constellation believes SAP HANA is a critical technology that SAP customers should evaluate and understand as the roadmap reveals itself. This report primarily describes the role HANA will play for use with SAP Business Suite and in future SAP applications.
All-Star Judges Select Semi-Finalists for the Second Annual Awards Event That Recognizes the Explorers, Pioneers, and Unsung Heroes That Successfully Put Technology to WorkFinalists to win $100K in prizes from Constellation Research
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Clarabridge “Turns Up The Heat” On Delivering Context For Customer Experience
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Preparing Your Organization for Pervasive Personal Video
Tablets and smartphones sporting touch ‘n swipe interfaces along with apps that integrate into the enterprise infrastructure are causing organizations to pause and consider what the future for video should be within the enterprise. What impact will these new interfaces and devices have, and how should video – both personal and group/telepresence – be integrated into the overall enterprise communications fabric? Significant benefits accrue when the power of video is unleashed through intuitive users’ interfaces enabled by unified call control.
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The Differences Between Cloud ERP and Hosted ERP and Why They Matter
This research report, “Market Overview of Cloud ERP: Part I,” explores the five essential characteristics of cloud computing, the emerging benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the cloud, and its increasing market acceptance. This report aids buyers in understanding the differences between cloud ERP and hosted ERP so that they can choose the best deployment option for their unique situations.
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The wildly popular slide describing the various social media tools.
In January 2012 , I wrote about Dolby Labs entering the audio conferencing market with wide-band spatially-oriented audio technology. At that time, I stated that the company needed to do a bit more to prove to me that it really had something differentiating.
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At Enterprise Connect 2012, one of the session speakers made the following statement: “Presence is not about being productive, it is a way to interrupt.”
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Last week I attended Microsoft’s annual Convergence conference, for users and partners of its Dynamics line of enterprise applications. The back-to-back briefings were a great opportunity to get an update on where Microsoft is going with enterprise applications.
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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) unveiled its new Opentouch Conversation Tablet at Enterprise Connect and delivers a truly unified solution. Unlike many business tablets that provide unified communications (UC) features, the ALU Opentouch software provides a highly sophisticated single architecture that supports multi-party, multi-devices and multi-modal conversations running its UC software on the iPad. What could have been complex and cumbersome is actually a sleek solution on a single application to deliver this robust functionality.
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