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Fiori BUILD - SAP customers have been challenged by suboptimal user interfaces for the longest time. Fiori addresses this, as it turns out the price tag was not really the issue for customers, even now that Fiori is free, way too many SAP users are still working with not so great user interfaces. To make the work of designers more easy, the new Fiori BUILD tool makes it easier for a designer to even take screen layouts out to users and collect feedback on the mochup's usability. We will not see the majority of SAPtd attendees become UI designers, but they may as well use a tool to create applications with a better user interfaces. HCP and VORA - We saw live usage of tax and translation services in HCP, and the usage of VORA, unfortunately not with any code (relevant for the audience). Cloud for Analytics - SAP brings together all BI, GRC and newer assets into one product family. Core pillars are for now the Cloud for Planning product and the Digital Boardroom (built with the latter). More to come.
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We had the opportunity to attend the HR Tech conference this week in Las Vegas. New record attendance with close to 30k attendees, record exhibitors, sessions etc. it is clear if you are looking for the latest in HR, you need to be at HR Tech.
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These are heady times for the storage industry of late, what with Dell’s pending $67 billion acquisition of EMC and Wednesday’s announcement that Western Digital will buy SanDisk for $19 billion.
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One way to enter the marketplace is to do all your development stealth-style and then announce to the world what you have created. And that, in fact is what RevJet, a tech start-up has done. Atter a year of confidential development, the marketing technology corporation revealed the first-of-its-kind Creative Side Platform (CSP), which extends it’s […]
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Dell CEO Michael Dell had promised to deliver a "new theory of the universe" during his Dell World 2015 keynote on Wednesday. Well, it didn't quite work out that way.
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Microsoft and Dell have announced a new private cloud appliance that isn't exactly a new idea—they released a larger, more expensive version last year—but nonetheless underscores that cloud computing has reached another inflection point.From the release:
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SAP’s new platform for BI, planning and predictive analytics promises simplicity and consistency, but it will require a fresh start for BusinessObjects or Lumira customers looking to move to this … Continue reading →
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Much has been said about Big Data analytics, usually in the context of a definable set of Business goals that allow, equally definable, context to be placed on the data collected. Internet of Things, IoT, massively increases the amount of data points, or flow, as well as looking for a real-time interpretation. To see unique ‘Insights’, or to launch reactive processes, requires a wholly different approach to conventional databases and analytical tools.
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Dell CEO Michael Dell’s opening press conference at Dell World 2015 was rather short in length, but it delivered some interesting nuggets and sound bites nonetheless. Call it the appetizer for what should be quite a hearty enterprise meal this week in Austin, Texas. Here’s a look at some of the highlights from Tuesday’s press event in Austin.Dell’s New ‘Theory of the Universe’
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Teradata announced two new breakthrough software capabilities that empower business users to uncover and operationalize the insights hidden within Internet of Things (IoT) data. These were 1. Teradata® Listener™ and 2. Teradata Aster® Analytics on Hadoop make it possible to intelligently listen in real-time and then use analytics to see the distinctive patterns in massive streams of IoT data. […]
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Teradata puts Aster database on Hadoop to support ‘multi-genre’ analytics. New ‘Listener’ software collects and delivers high-volume, high-velocity data for IoT and other streaming scenarios. Teradata is making a slew … Continue reading →
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Google has unveiled a tempting-sounding offer aimed at convincing customers to switch to its Docs productivity tools, as competition heightens in the space from the likes of Microsoft Office 365 and IBM SmartCloud. Here's the gist, from the official blog post announcing the deal:
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SAP's major US developer and technology conference, TechEd, kicks off this week in Las Vegas, featuring keynotes from platform solutions president Steve Lucas and Bernd Leukert, global head of products.
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A short event preview of SAP's upcoming developer conference, SAP TechEd, happening in Las Vegas this week.
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A new effort dubbed Project Enigma "guarantees" us privacy, by way of a certain technology. Never mind that Enigma's "magic" (their words) comes from the blockchain and that it's riddled with assumptions; the very idea of technology-based perfection in privacy is profoundly misguided.
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What should end user consider when going to HR Tech in Las Vegas - the 18th edition, happening in Las Vegas this week.
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Here is a recap of some of the key news of the last week in the Social Business / Employee Collaboration / Future of Work world.VMWare's end user computing division acquires mobile email client BoxerBox shifts gears and turns their core file-sharing services into a platform from developers to leverage in business applicationsJive improves their external community platform, Jive-x
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Oct 15, 2015, Quip raises $30M in Series B financing.In the video below, I talk about some of Quip's key features, highlighting how they combine content creation and conversations into a single user experience. Earlier this year I named Quip one of my Constellation Research Rising Stars
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Email: Is there any more criticized yet pervasive productivity tool out there? The fact is that despite many, many pronouncements to the contrary, email isn't going anywhere and in fact, its ecosystem seems stronger than ever, as Constellation Research analyst Alan Lepofsky noted recently on Twitter:
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The long and winding legal saga between Oracle and Rimini Street over the latter's third-party software maintenance service reached a pivotal point this week with a Las Vegas jury's award of $50 million to Oracle.
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We have all heard the statement – you can’t cost cut your way to profitability. Too often in business, CxOs and others forget the spirit of this saying. Cost cutting, or more precisely, cost management, is vital to running your business. In many businesses and their associated supply chains, however, this is achieved in disjointed and siloed departments. This disjointed approach to cost cutting can achieve the basic goal of saving money and therefore “improving” the bottom line. But it falls short of long-term benefits for the businesses. Savvy CxOs need to look at cost through a different lens.
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SAP Financial Excellence Forum offers a preview of TechEd announcements including S/4HANA Finance and SAP Cloud For Analytics. The finance app needs a lift from S/4HANA Logistics while Cloud For Planning is … Continue reading →
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This WSJ article, in May 2014, was most certainly not advocating the end of the Cloud, but instead was highlighting the challenge of the ever-growing numbers of devices of all types connecting, and interacting, in a wholly different manner. The technology industry has come to realize that the Internet of Things is not just about sensors, it’s about the shift to millions and millions of devices interacting in new ways around events.
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Adobe has announced a series of enhancements to its Document Cloud's e-sign capabilities, but the most important aspect of the release for customers is an expanded partner program that integrates the product into Salesforce, Workday and SAP Ariba. From the release:
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