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It’s that time again! Today, we are releasing an update of the Constellation ShortList™ portfolio. We offer 46 lists across our coverage areas, including 13 new lists launched today:
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No new technology since the Internet itself has excited so many pundits as blockchain, but the mania has largely settled down, and I have warmed to the third generation ledger technologies carefully researched and developed from the ground up, by R3, Hyperledger and Microsoft, to name a few of the main players in this field.
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Smart Cities, Digital Infrastructure, and Sustainability | DisrupTV Ep. 73
In Episode 73 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a compelling discussion with three industry leaders:
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Facebook goes neural for translations: Machine translation has come a long way over the years, but the rise of neural networks as the favored method for processing translations stands to up the ante significantly. To that end, Facebook recently completed the shift of its translation services from phrase-based models to neural networks.
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Wipro showcases “the art of the possible” in Mountain View, CA. Here’s a peek inside the collaborative R&D and incubation hub. Systems integrator, consulting and business process services firm Wipro … Continue reading →
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What’s the news: Buried in the Q4 and all FY announcement of Oracle was the CAPEX figure for Q4 of the last Fiscal year. And it was for the first time in the last eight quarters – more than 2B. YoY it was a close to 1B bump from 1.1B Q4 last year to a little more than 2B this Q4. CEO Saffra Catz seems to like 1.6B CAPEX spend, which was the number in in 5 of the last 8 quarters. But two quarters were just 1B, now Q4 2B+.
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Increasing customer loyalty is a very important aspect of business today. There are too many choices for customers to go elsewhere on a whim. This is not to say that a company shouldn’t continue to acquire new customers, but the loyal customers are the ones that will name drop you in conversations. They will recommend you to their friends and family. They will broadcast your message on social channels and in emails.
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New deadline August 11, 2017
You now have a few more days to complete your SuperNova Award application! The new deadline to apply for the SuperNova Awards is August 11, 2017.
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The importance of ‘Services’ as a means to both grow revenue and create a reoccurring business revenue stream is well accepted, but increasingly Enterprises find they are competing on the quality of their Services. Traditional measures focus on customer responsiveness and satisfaction, balanced with competitive cost/price reduction, achieved by using recognized multi-point action plans.
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The AI arms race continues: AI and machine learning startups have been popping up like mad in recent times, and are being acquired just as quickly. This week, Facebook and SaaS application vendor LogMeIn continued the trend, buying Ozlo and Nanorep, respectively.
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What’s the news: Azure Stack – announced a little more than two years ago is Microsoft’s on premise version of Azure (with some reduced / missing capabilities to the cloud version). Originally slated to run on Microsoft hardware and available last summer, the product suite is now available for partners to certify.
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Oracle Database Service Combines MySQL Enterprise Edition Advantages, Hybrid Flexibility and Oracle Cloud Integration
What’s the news: Google wants to help recruiters be more successful. It wants them to use G-Suite to schedule appointments, Gmail to email with applicants and internal stakeholders, use Google Search to make job post more attractive. Google has also thought of reports and data migration to get started. Hire leverages assets from Bebop – the ‘acquihire’ that brought Diane Greene to Google.
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Artificial Intelligence is with us today. When you fire up your smart phone’s map application, it knows where you’re probably going based on the time of day, and without prompting, gives you a bit of advice about how to get there and what traffic jam to avoid. That’s pretty cool. And from there we easily slide into an optimistic outlook for self-driving cars.
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Alan's Angle - The Social Business News Recap for the week ending July 28th, 2017
Slack raises $250M - Analytics, AI, business partners and their first customer conference
WalkMe raises $75M - Digital Adoption Platforms help guide people through enterprise applications and websites
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This week Zoho launched Zoho One, an offering that provides customers with access to all of the Zoho business and productivity applications for a single price of $1/person/day. If you're unfamiliar with Zoho, you should really take a look at their extensive product portfolio which includes:
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On July 25th IBM announced the availability of IBM Connections Engagement Center. This is the first release of this optional enhancement to IBM Connections since IBM acquired the software from TIMETOACT back in May.
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