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We had the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s Dreamforce event – held at the usual location, Moscone Center in San Francisco, from November 5th till 9th 2017. As usual, it was mega event, distributed across downtown, with Salesforce claiming 170k+ attendees. Salesforce shared some interesting ecosystem statistics, for instance it will generate / power 850B+ US$ in business in the next 10 years and have a net positive employment effect of 3.3M+ FTEs. Impressive statistics.
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The theme for this year’s Dreamforce was centered on Salesforce's passionate group of customer Trailblazers.
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Investing in Innovation — From Startups to Historical Tech Lessons | DisrupTV Ep. 85
In DisrupTV Episode 85, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar welcome three distinguished guests:
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Barcelona in November means SAP TechEd, the technology focused event that is complementary to the more Business focused SAP Sapphire event every May in Orlando.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About AI but Were Afraid to Ask
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ADP Has Turned the Innovation Corner and Is Becoming a Next-Gen HCM Vendor
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The State of the Boardroom and CXO Leadership in an Era of Digital Business
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How a Cloud Vendor Evolves its Platform Toward PaaS and Ecosystems to Benefit Customers
Twitter eyes more enterprise business with premium APIs: While Twitter has long provided APIs (application programming interfaces) for its data at no charge, it also offers enterprise-focused tools based on its acquisition of Gnip back in 2014.
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This offering overview provides an overview of Oracle’s current database product, 12c R2.
Monday Nov 6 - Thu Nov 9, Salesforce held their annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. This massive gathering of customers and developers covers the full range of Salesforce offerings, from Sales to Marketing to Customer Service and much more. Constellation Research had a team of analysts in attendance, with my focus being on the collaboration components of the event. Below I will discuss 3 key areas: Quip, Community Cloud, and Salesforce and Google partnership announcement.
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Databases Remain the Key to Enterprise Software–The Next-Gen Database is Materializing but Getting More Capable
Salesforce Einstein Prediction Builder, Bots, Data Insights and a new data-explorer feature stand out as the big AI and analytics announcements. Here’s what they’ll do for your business.
To Salesforce customer Bill Hoffman, Chief Analytics Officer at Minneapolis-based US Bank, the “A” in “AI” is about “augmented” intelligence because, as he said in a keynote at this week’s Dreamforce event in San Francisco, “there’s nothing artificial about it.”
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It’s that time of the year when Salesforce persuades almost unbelievable numbers of people, (said to be 170,000), to come to San Francisco for its annual Dreamforce event. It’s no longer possible to classify attendees as customers, developers, even pure CRM professionals as the pervasive nature of Salesforce Technology at the center of Enterprise capability has broaden the roles and interests of the attendees.
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IBM pushes quantum computing envelope: Big Blue has fired the latest salvo in the competitive war between itself and the likes of Google and Microsoft over quantum computing, announcing it has created a working prototype of a 50 quibit processor.
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IBM tightens privacy measures for EU cloud operations: In response to both regulatory and competitive pressures, IBM is adding a new layer of data access and control guidelines in its Frankfurt data center operations, which serves many cloud infrastructure customers across the EU. Here are the key details from its announcement:
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IBM sings praises of build-anywhere, deploy-anywhere, open-source analytics. Here's a review of what's now a familiar refrain.
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The Design Point For All Future AI Driven Apps
The quest for mass personalization at scale in an era of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to new models of design for the future of applications. One design point for these new AI driven smart apps is a concept called Infinite Ambient Orchestration. The three components can be described as:
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