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I still remember the phone call. I was in Paris attending a Capgemini event when a Microsoft executive called me...
Microsoft: "We need you in Redmond within the next few days."
Me: "Well, I'm going to be at your Worldwide Partner Conference in a few weeks, can we talk then?"
Microsoft: "No, we need to show you something."
Me: "Can we do it via Skype?"
Microsoft: "No, you have to come here and see it."
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What's the news: Workday did a soft launch of its new PaaS capabilities at its partners conference earlier in the year. The announcement was short of details, as Workday likely did not want to steal any thunder from its major yearly event, Workday Rising, to be held later this fall (see the blog here).
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In early July 2017, Constellation’s analysts descended on New York City’s Javitz Center for Infor’s annual customer event, Inforum 2017. Infor attracted over 7,000 attendees, its biggest crowd to date at Inforum.
Google looks to differentiate with premium cloud tier: The public cloud market is dominated by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM. While all offer general-purpose and specialized compute power for increasingly lower cost, Google is betting that its proprietary fiber network can give it a competitive edge.
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It’s taken some time to catch on since Geoffrey Moore first outlined the concept of Systems of Engagement and Systems of Record as two separate Enterprise functions back around 2010, but now the term is increasingly used in blogs and presentations. Unfortunately, increasing usage doesn’t necessary equate to increased understanding, particularly as technology vendors naturally apply the term to the aspects that correspond to their product focus.
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Empowering Innovation and Data-Driven Leadership | DisrupTV Ep. 75
In Episode 75 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
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There is a lot of fear mongering when it comes to the role of Artificial Intelligence in the workplace. Are machines going to take all our jobs? No, at least not any time soon! Instead, artificial intelligence is going to augment the way we do our work, helping us filter content, derive insights and ultimately make better decisions.
Below is an interview I did on CNBC's show Capital Connection hosted by Nancy Hungerford, where I discuss AI and the Future of Work.
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Docker EE update brings together Windows, Linux and mainframe apps: The latest version of Docker Enterprise Edition is now available and includes some significant enhancements to the popular CaaS (container as a service) platform.
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Microsoft wants to push .NET everywhere with Core 2.0: Under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has made a consistent push toward embracing open source software and cross-platform support. That continues in a big way with the release of .NET Core 2.0, the latest edition of its open-source software development framework.
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What’s the news: SAP had its "SAP Leonardo Live" event in Frankfurt July 11th and 12th. Originally planned as an IoT event (that’s the original Leonardo brand) it was supposed to be a sequence to the (very good) launch event in Rome in fall last year (event report here).
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This is a request for help. My colleagues and I are working on an article that is the academic side plugged-in management -- what we call systems savvy. We are hoping to find current examples of people who do fabulous jobs integrating across the human, technical, and organizational dimensions of their work.
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AI, Blockchain, and the Future of Finance | DisrupTV Ep. 74
In Episode 74 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
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Oracle shakes up database release naming convention: The Oracle database has long been and remains the market-share leader. Now the company is making a major change to its database release numbering structure, one that could have mixed results from a marketing and customer-satisfaction perspective.
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This week Constellation released the latest versions of our Constellation ShortLists. These lists help organizations decide on which vendors they should be evaluating across various markets. They are not rankings, but rather guides to help the decision making process. The current lists for my coverage in the area of the Future of Work are:
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Inaugurating the New AstroChartâ„¢ of Tech Trends for The New C-Suite
Designed for strategic planning and roadmap development by executives, leadership, and key digital decision makers, Constellation’s AstroChart™ of Tech Trends for The New C-Suite is designed to be a highly usable visual guide to the top-level technology trends. The position of a given technology on the Astrochart maps its strategic urgency and impact to today's digital enterprise.
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Our cycle for refreshing the Constellation ShortLists completed in July and in addition to my B2B and B2C Marketing Automation reports, I’m pleased to release a new ShortList specific to Marketing Analytics. Today’s CMOs face an increasingly challenging landscape of marketing channels and technology to manage while needing to prove their efforts are impacting sales.
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What’s up in data cataloging, data lake management, hybrid- and cloud-ready databases, and business intelligence and analytics? Here’s my biannual take via Constellation ShortLists.
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IBM lawsuit reveals plans to take fight to AWS: Former IBM CIO Jeff Smith is trying to take a job with rival Amazon Web Services, but a lawsuit filed by Big Blue this week is tryiing to put the kibosh on his move.
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