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Salesforce is promising low-latency data processing for real-time apps, but don’t expect hear the ‘Thunder’ until Dreamforce 2016.Salesforce announced the IoT Cloud Powered by Salesforce Thunder this week at Dreamforce 2015, but it’s a streaming data capability not likely to become generally available until next year’s Dreamforce.
Greetings from Dreamforce! Constellation analysts have analyzed all the announcements made by Salesforce, and have compiled a rundown of the top announcements for their coverage areas. Continue checking the Constellation blog for ongoing coverage of the announcements made at Dreamforce 2015.
Precision Medicine Has Arrived: A research team at UC San Francisco has won a five-year award of $14.1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to investigate whether a personalized approach to breast cancer screening is as safe and effective as annual mammograms. The project, called the WISDOM study, will be led by breast cancer researcher Laura Esserman, […]
The Salesforce Dreamforce event is happening in San Francisco, and a number of key news are coming out of the event, todays was a joint announcement of Microsoft and Salesforce.
Sometimes it does take a village. Yesterday’s product development would have been a bunch of developers, with lot’s of diet coke, cheese burgers and very late days and nights programming like crazy. But today, product development has changed. How? More and more companies are collaborating. Why? It does take a village to create internal collaboration […]
Connected World, Disconnected Data: The Answer? IOT Cloud The combination of mobile, social, sensor, wearable and cloud technologies has triggered a deluge of data. More than 90 percent of the world’s data has been generated over the last two years. And, with the number of connected devices projected to reach 75 billion by 2020, the […]
Today at Salesforce Dreamforce in San Francisco, Microsoft and Salesforce joint announced future integrations between their two business collaboration platforms. While today integration is already available between Outlook and Salesforce, future integrations planned for preview in the second half of 2016 will include:...
Salesforce has revamped its Wave Analytics Cloud to embed insights directly into CRM, but the real winner for customers will be a bevy of new, pre-built sales, service and third-party analytic apps.
The major announcement at Dreamforce so far has been the Salesforce IoT cloud. The setup looks / sounds very much of what Salesforce unveiled a year ago for Wave, now Salesforce Analytics Cloud. My concern is that the architecture required for IoT is very different from a BI / Analytics ingestion architecture.
As the connected customer experience continues to evolve, Cagemini today released the 16th annual global automotive study, The 2015 Cars Online “The Selfie Experience”. Phones have become “the” selfie device, now this study shows consumers want that same personalized experience as a segment of one. Something that can be difficult to pull off in real-life, customers expect seamless […]
With Dreamforce in full swing in San Francisco, many of the key players in the Salesforce ecosystem have major announcements coming, too – one of them is Informatica, who updated us on new cloud capabilities.
Join me Thursday, October 8th, 2015 from 12 to 1 pm PT for a webinar on customer experience in a mobile world.Only 37% of US brands rate their ability to achieve their eCommerce goals as very effective. As a result, most brands lack the ability to convert a large balance of prospects into revenue producing, loyal customers who could continuously provide revenue for the brand. Better understanding the customer journey and engagement preferences can help eCommerce professionals deliver an in-store experience to their digital customers.
This morning Salesforce released information on what is likely going to be the most important announcement of this year’s Dreamforce user conference, currently taking place in San Francisco. A good first step by Salesforce, creating value for existing customers, but much more needs to follow to make Salesforce an IoT contender, and Salesforce App Cloud a veritable IoT platform contender. Maybe something Salesforce does not want to become. We will learn more at Dreamforce, stay tuned.
The judges' votes are in. Constellation Research is happy to announce the finalists for fifth annual SuperNova Awards for leaders in disruptive technology! The Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize the leaders and teams leading successful disruptive technology implementation projects.
Delivering Actionable Insights Across the Customer Success Platform - Glass half full - and half empty!This morning Salesforce announced the latest progress on their analytics platform - as part of the Salesforce Analytics Cloud. It is an important area to watch as Salesforce for a long time has not been competitive on the reporting, data exploration side.
Constellation Research names finalists for fifth annual disruptive technology leadership awards Silicon Valley, California, September 14, 2015— Constellation Research, Inc. the disruptive technology research and advisory firm announced the finalists for the fifth annual SuperNova Awards. The Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize the leaders and teams leading the most successful disruptive technology implementation projects.
42% of manufacturers say big data and analytics as their highest priority in 2015. 56% of power distribution providers rank big data and analytics within their top three priorities for 2015. 61% of aviation companies consider big data and analytics their highest priority this year. Bottom line: Digital manufacturing strategies are gaining ground as manufacturers […]
Dealing With Tough Contract Negotiation ScenariosJoin me Thursday, September 24th, 2015 from 8 to 10 am PT for a webinar chat that shares best practices in building win-win relationships with Oracle
Here is a recap of some of the key news of the last week in the Social Business / Employee Collaboration / Future of Work world.Did I miss something big? Please post a link in the comments.
This morning IBM acquired StrongLoop - a key player in the nodejs space. Overall a good move by IBM, delivering on the API Economy vision, that was formulated about 2 years ago at the software units global analyst event. BYOL is powerful and will bring a large IaaS platform to nodejs developers courtesy of BlueMix and SoftLayer.
Alteryx Analytics 10.0 brings self-service data prep and analysis to high-scale platforms with in-database processing on Amazon Redshift, Cloudera Impala, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Spark and Teradata. … Continue reading →
This morning Salesforce announced the Salesforce App Cloud, which brings consolidates Salesforce's efforts across multiple platforms - force.com, Saleforce1, Heroku etc. Salesforce is effectively announcing a cross cloud platform PaaS. The vendor is usually coy about admitting that Heroku runs on Amazon AWS, and the rest of Salesforce runs in Salesforce data centers. Now customers and partners can more easily build applications across both platforms, effectively creating the first multi-cloud PaaS.
There have been some massive improvements in the world of technology – with automated content and engagement platforms seeming to do amazing work. Just look at the journalism robots created by Associated Press that now publish around 3000 stories every quarter. This is journalism content “without a human byline”. It is a cocktail of 1 part excitement, 1 part absolute dread. After all, what happens when those “journo bots” turn their attention to marketing?It’s time for us to grapple with the future of marketing