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We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s combined Ignite and Envision events held in Orlando, taking place from September 24th till 28th2017. It was the first time Microsoft merged the two events, resulting in a conference that was attended by almost 30k people. As usual with Microsoft, analyst, influence and press attendance was massive.
Analyst Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - Constellation Research, Inc., the Silicon Valley-based disruptive technology research and advisory firm, announced its keynote speaker lineup for Connected Enterprise 2017. Kim Scott, Marco Tempest and Tricia Wang will take the main stage, setting the tone for this year’s theme of digital business in an AI-driven world. This exclusive conference for innovation and digital transformation leaders will take place October 24-27, 2017 at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, Calif.Headliners:
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We had the opportunity to attend Zenefits’ Shift 2017 event in San Francisco, held at the Metreon on September 21st, 2017. The conference was well attended, though less in audience than the Z2 launch 12 months ago.
Analyst Blog
Case Study
SlamData Provides Missing Platform for NoSQL Data Insight
Google introduces 'zero-touch' enterprise deployment for Android devices: It's going to be easier and more secure to roll out enterprise Android devices, with Google's introduction of "zero-touch enrollment" capabilities.
Insight Blog
We had the opportunity to attend Kronos’ very first analyst day, held at the vendor’s new headquarters outside of Boston. It was the first day at the office for many of the executives and employees, a very nicely remodeled older office building (the former Wang HQ), with many interesting and useful features and capabilities. Interestingly there are no rooms, corner offices etc. facing the windows. The idea is to allow as much possible day light to flood the building.
Analyst Blog
Even though we are almost only two weeks off Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco - Oracle is pushing the gas pedal. Yesterday Oracle announced its Sparc M8 chip / architecture – today it was Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison’s turn: New pricing.
Analyst Blog
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s yearly analyst day, held in New York on September 12th, 2017, at the vendor’s innovation lab in Manhattan (see my site visit report here). The analyst day was well attended with over 25 analysts and influencers in the audience.
Analyst Blog
Most practitioners would agree that there's been a steady shift in IT service management over the last decade.
Analyst Blog
John Chambers' legacy at Cisco: After more than 20 years as either executive chairman or CEO of Cisco, John Chambers is stepping back from his duties. Chambers will not stand for reelection this December to Cisco's board, which intends to name CEO Chuck Robbins chairman as his successor.
Insight Blog
David Chou, CIO at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, and I wrote a paper “How Healthy is Blockchain Technology?” for the HIMSS Asia Pacific 17 conference in Singapore last week. The paper is a critical analysis of the strategic potential for current blockchains in healthcare applications, with a pretty clear conclusion that the technology is largely misunderstood, and on close inspection, not yet a good fit for e-health.
And we were awarded Best Paper at the conference!
Analyst Blog
Connecting Products, IoT & Smart Homes — Insights from Ecobee & Salesforce | DisrupTV Ep. 79
In DisrupTV Episode 79, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by:
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We had the opportunity to attend SAP SuccessFactors Success Connect yearly user conference in Las Vegas, held from August 29thto 31st 2017, at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
Analyst Blog
Larry Ellison teases Oracle's 'self-driving' database: Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison has spilled the beans on the company's big news announcement for OpenWorld, and it's all about the database. Here's what Ellison told analysts this week during Oracle's first-quarter earnings call:
Insight Blog
Today Slack held their first user conference, Slack Frontiers. Since jumping into the collaboration market just a few short years ago, Slack has been one of the primary catalysts in kick-starting an industry that was in a bit of a rut. Slack's rapid rise to social business stardom has resulted in a slew of competitive products, from small startups to big names like Microsoft (Teams), Google (Hangouts), Facebook (Workplace), Cisco (Spark), Atlassian (Stride) and IBM (Watson Workspace). Similarly Slack has motivated thousands of developers to build integrations and add-ons for Slack.
Analyst Blog
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