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Oracle steps up data and analytic services as part of its platform-as-a-service push. New Exadata, Big Data and Analytic cloud services are all in the mix, but the strongest appeal is to all-red-stack Oracle shops.
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In the course of my Twitter usage, I discovered Ted Glick (@ted_glick), an Account Executive for the Philadelphia 76ers. If you just look at his Tweets feed, you’ll see a lot of positive 76ers content, everything from RTs of the team’s content to asking fans what they think about the new logos and potential draft picks.However, if you click over to his “Tweets & replies” feed, what you’ll see is someone who understand the power of Twitter as a sales channel. From the looks of the tweets that he has replied to, it seems like he searches for relevant combinations of the team name and tickets. The result? A social feed of self-identified potential ticket buyers.
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Earlier this week Oracle put the world through a ‘monster’ 5 hour online event updating on its cloud strategy – with a focus on the IaaS, PaaS and DaaS aspects, SaaS was quickly presented by Ellison, but I guess more will come at a later time in the year (OpenWorld?). The event was planned since a long time, so any speculation that it was a reaction to Oracle recent Q4 / FY 2015 earnings does not bear much substance.
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News Analysis: Salesforce offers the Salesforce Wave, the platform, and Sales Wave Analytics, the first of multiple apps to come. Should you choose focused apps, the all-purpose platform, or both? As always, cost and functionality should be your guide.
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Digital scale comes from two areas that focus on stripping out friction and transaction costs. Any situation where you can strip out the middleman and go direct, you win. However, where there are networks to participate in, there must be a good exchange of value.
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This mind map shows my reading list for the futures of work. (Here is a link to an Amazon page including all the entries -- and I will update it as new books are added). This has been my homework as I develop the ideas for my next project. I see these contributions as providing a great foundation for how we think about what the future may bring, but I think we’re just at the beginning in terms of making these ideas reality for most of us.
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ERP is back on the agenda, but not as Enterprise ‘Resource’ Planning, to run a successful Digital Business you need a different approach to ERP. Better to think of it as Enterprise ‘Response’ Planning, the ability to support a dynamic Digital Business where the very business activities are constantly changing.
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Retail and CPG companies do not have to wait until IoT matures before making investments in IoT. Investment in IoT in the near-term will improve customer experience, demonstrate positive returns on investment in IoT, and lay down the ground work for the eventual maturity of IoT.Here are five ways retailers can take advantage of IoT today. This video concludes with advice for CXOs making near and long-term investments in IoT.
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Learn how retailers can take advantage of the internet of things today. Concludes with advice for CXOs making near and long-term investments in IoT.Download deck Research report - Retail: Prepare for the IoT Revolution
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Self-service analytics transforms predictive analytics, once accessible to statisticians, data scientists and the like, into a powerful tool now accessible to the business user. I recently published a self-service analytics market overview of IBM Watson Analytics, SAP Lumira, and SAS Visual Analytics and discovered a growing field of self-service analytics providers that cater to a variety of needs. While many self-service analytics solutions exist, selecting the right solution for your organization depends on the breadth of your deployment, the skill level of your users, and the nature of the decisions users are trying to support. Use this guide to evaluate analytics solutions for your organization.
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Spark Summit event report: IBM unveiled big plans for Apache Spark this week, but it’s not alone in banking on this open source analytics platform. Here’s why this still-green technology is quickly gaining adoption.
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Probably the hottest area in building next generation applications these days is microservices, running on containers. One key challenge with containers has been that they do not allow persistent data.
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Last week I spent part of it in a much warmer and sunnier location – Hollywood Florida – attending the GT Nexus show: Bridges 2015. The event format was, no surprise, the usual roster of executives and customer stories paraded … Continue reading →
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Earlier today Unit4 announced that it selected Azure as the platform upon which it will build its next generation ERP applications.
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This morning SAP announced the release of its latest version of SAP HANA, its in memory database, SPS10. SAP needs to keep expanding SAP HANA capabilities and drive to more customer adoption. It has made the right moves on the product side, now it needs to get the early customer adoption to show case the new capabilities, but that’s a good and natural problem to have.
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I’m speaking at Salesforce Exact Target’s Connections Conference. And Salesforce has announced their next generation marketing cloud. For more information follow @salesforce, @marketingcloud and #CNX15 on Twitter. With the next generation Journey Builder brands are empowered to create journeys that blur the lines of CRM and span the Salesforce Customer Success Platform – connecting journeys across sales, service, marketing and custom apps. Keeping the connectivity between and from difference departments is very important and critical to the success of providing great customer experiences.
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IBM Says Business Intelligence Users Can Tap Advanced Analytics, But Which Approach Fits Your Firm? IBM Watson Analytics is a cloud offering that starts with a free subscription and then evolves to paid tiers of service with more storage capacity, data-connection options, and collaboration capabilities. Use this market overview to evaluate IBM Watson Analytics for your organization's data-to-decisions needs.
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SAP Says Business Intelligence Users Can Tap Advanced Analytics, But Which Approach Fits Your Firm? SAP Lumira starts with desktop data-visualization software, and its cloud and server deployment options are growing in depth and versatility. Native prediction capabilities are basic in Lumira, but it’s integrated with SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0, which has gained automated modeling capabilities through SAP’s KXEN acquisition. Use this market overview to evaluate SAP Lumira for your organization's data-to-decisions needs.
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Transform Ordinary Experiences into Superb Experiences That Keep Brand Promises Use this Big Idea report to create a successful Experience Management strategy.
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SAS Says Business Intelligence Users Can Tap Advanced Analytics, But Which Approach Fits Your Firm? Use this market overview to evaluate SAS Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics for your organization's data-to-decisions needs.
IBM stole the day-one headlines at Spark Summit 2015 in San Francisco with a big endorsement of the open-source, big-data-analysis platform. But it’s sure to be a selective embrace, as IBM, like other commercial vendors, plans to offer its own software and services on top of Spark.
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Is your brand following any of these best practices for customer experience management? Find out more at this webinar on 6 steps to superb customer experience management and here’s the research paper on best practices in customer experience management, technology, roles and the strategy required for success! As brands realize customer experience management is key to […]
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Join me for a webinar on the Future of Marketing to learn how marketing teams need to deliver continuity in order to really operationalize the campaign-to-commerce lifecycle.
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