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It's week two, and we unveiled the next 19 new and updated lists for the Constellation ShortList™ portfolio. Here's the full update on categories if you are looking for a good starting place for your planning and pruchasing decisions.
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Introducing the Constellation ShortList for Work Coordination Platforms. This vendor recommendation list is an evolution of the previously Social Task Management category. Vendors are not selected on features alone. Instead, factors including funding, customer wins, integrations, management/executive team, services, strategy and long term vision also play a role.
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Driving Digital Transformation with AI, Personalization, and Customer-Centric Strategies | DisrupTV Ep. 94
In this insightful episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Dux Raymond Sy and his team at AvePoint to discuss their new Learning Management System and the state of the Microsoft Education portfolio.
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We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft's first Business Applications analyst meeting, in Seattle on February 11th till 12th 2018, held at its HQ in Seattle. The event was well attended with over 30 analysts, including my colleagues Cindy Zhou, Dion Hinchcliffe and Ray Wang, look for their findings of the event here.
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Massive Megatrends Looming for 2018-2022 Reflect Fears of Business Extinction
Oracle Bets Big On Cloud With New Data Centers, SLA, And Autonomous Cloud
Oracle Corporation announced this week plans to add 12 new data-center “regions” as it ramps up competition with Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Google. Critical to the delivery of cloud infrastructure services and eventually artificial intelligence, the capital spending to quadruple Oracle’s current presence will require significant investment as Oracle plays catch up. Oracle currently runs cloud data centers in Phoenix, Arizona; Ashburn, VA; London, UK; and
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We’re rolling out the updated Constellation ShortList™ portfolio over the next three weeks. Today, we released 19 new and updated lists from across our coverage areas. Below is the full list:
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At CloudWorld today, Oracle announced additional capability on the road to self-driving technology stacks, the Oracle Cloud Platform Autonomous Services.
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State of Arizona Senate Passes Bill To Accept Tax Payments With Blockchain Technologies
On February 8th, 2018, the Arizona Senate passed a bill allowing payment of taxes by cryptocurrencies. With a Senate Finance Committee vote of 4-3 on January 24th, and a 16-13 vote in favor by the senate on February 8th, Arizona Senate Bill 1091 now heads to Arizona’s House of Representatives for approval. Switzerland, through the munincipalities of Zug and Chiasso, have led the way for
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How “Quirky” Innovators Break the Mold | DisrupTV Ep. 93
In Episode 93 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar speak with Dr. Mark Lombardi (Maryville University), Melissa Schilling (NYU Stern) and Gunther Sonnenfeld (Novena Capital) about what it takes to be a breakthrough innovator. Below are the important takeaways, memorable quotes, and actionable lessons from the discussion.
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We had the opportunity to attend ADP's ReThink 2018 conference in Monaco from January 29th till February 1st, 2018. The conference targets ADP customers who use its Global View product, most of them large international enterprises. The enterprises who made it to Monaco represented 6T US$ in global revenue…
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How Disruptors Break the Mold: Lessons in Innovation, Gender & Technology | DisrupTV Ep. 92
This episode features Dr. Patti Fletcher (author of DISRUPTERS: Success Strategies From Women Who Break the Mold), Toby Olshanetsky (CEO, prooV), Alexey Sapozhnikov (CTO, prooV), and Ron Miller (Enterprise Reporter at TechCrunch), in conversation with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar.
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A quick tour of my home office and some of the devices I use to create videos.
Product links:
Blue Snowflake microphone
DJI Osmo steadycam
Insta360 camera
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Few open source standard have won faster than Kubernetes, and that also means the ecosystem consolidation is moving faster than almost any market in enterprise software. So it came as no surprise that Red Hat announced it acquired CoreOS.
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Today Microsoft released an update to Microsoft Teams that enhances the "seamless hub for personal productivity and team collaboration" experience.
Here is my review:
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SAP hasn't been on the 1B+ acquisition path since 2014, and at the same time is building out its next generation ERP offering with S/4HANA. SAP seemed to be on an organic build out path of capabilities, so the more (or less) was the surprise that SAP stepped back into acquisition mode, acquiring Dublin, CA based CallidusCloud (Callidus going forward here) for 2.4B US$.
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From Davos to Disruption: LifeSite's Story & Design Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 91
In Episode 91 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with Chris Wong (CEO of LifeSite), YoonJin Chang (Co-Founder / Business Development, LifeSite), Soon Yu (designer, author, and brand strategist), and Larry Dignan.
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This week I attended Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's (ALE) partner and analyst conference, Connex18 in Riga, Latvia. ALE is currently known mainly for unified communications, contact centre, PBX and telephony type solutions, but they are evolving to a more cloud based Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider.
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MicroStrategy promises quick-to-deploy data-discovery and departmental capabilities that sync with its venerable, enterprise-scale platform.
MicroStrategy is back. After a few years in which the business intelligence and analytics company made little noise, it’s back with new energy, new capabilities for ad hoc and departmental users and a new educational push around what it calls its “Map of the Intelligent Enterprise.â€
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Davos Day Three Unpacked: AI Hype, Global Growth & Trust in Disruption — DisrupTV Road Edition
On Day Three of DisrupTV’s Road Edition at Davos, hosts and panelists explored themes resonating across tech, trust, AI, regulatory shifts, and global economic tension. Here are the key ideas, lessons, and implications from the day’s discussions.
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