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Event report from Cornerstone's Convergence conference. Cornerstone is innovating in key areas around its core offering with Analytics and a PaaS, both critical moves in our view to offer the next level of best practices for HCM. Both also help to foster a vibrant eco system. It was also good to see that Cornerstone is innovating ‘back at the roots’ with its Learning module. And for the first time, the vendor's ambition to reach 1B US$ revenue seems plausible.
It's impossible to make lasting security promises anymore. Instead of blaming end user security, we need to turn up the heat on enterprise IT. Here's how.
The Content, Network, And, Arms Dealer Come Together With MergerThe planned acquisition of AOL by Verizon for $4.4B is more than just the acquisition of the programmatic ad platform. Verizon is making the big shift to disrupting digital businesses for a few reasons..
At this morning's Informatica World keynote, Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi made a number of key product announcements, which all have an impact on Informatica’s customers, partners and the vendor itself.
Last week at SuiteWorld Netsuite announced SuiteCommerce InStore – a next generation POS (point of sale) and retail reporting tool that bridges the online and brick & mortar experience. This new offering from NetSuite, which builds on their existing solutions, follows the mantra launched from main stage. Is it an ERP or a web site? At the core of this statement is the belief that you must treat your business from a unified view.
In this Microsoft Ignite 2015 session that I presented, I share practical steps and effective techniques to manage your multi-device and multi-generational workforce.
In the early hours before its yearly user conference Convergence in downtown Los Angeles, Cornerstone announced Cornerstone Edge, a PaaS, which represents an important announcement in product capability.
Today, IT departments have an unprecedented opportunity to transform their business by providing solutions that help people get things done more efficiently, from anywhere and […]
Below is the presentation Microsoft Senior Director Bryan Goode and I gave at Microsoft Ignite 2015 about the state of collaboration and the rise of more dynamic and automated tools and teams.
Over the course of the next 10 weeks, I’ll be sharing one lesson per week. For traditional businesses to succeed, they will have to apply all 10 lessons from Disrupting Digital Business in order to not only survive, but also relearn how to thrive.
SAP invited me to attend Sapphire and I gladly attended the conference in Orlando. I missed the attendance number, but I’d say it was the same like last year. The exhibitor area of the show floor was even more dense, so more partner interest, spend and investment than last year (my guestimate).
It’s time for another edition of Infographic Friday. Today’s content comes to us from Nikolai Vetter and the SAP Community Network who takes us through a hypothetical match day experience of a modern fan, showing the logical connections between traditional actions (ordering tickets, meeting up with friends, buying merchandise) with digital enhancements (sharing via social, mobile replays and geolocation).
The marketing skills gap is a hot topic right now. No matter how many clients, colleagues or competitors that I speak with, it’s clear that the marketing industry is facing a skills crisis. And the questions and discussions are often the same: Do we have the right people? How do we understand data and put […]
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Constellation is on a mission to profile all disruptive technology vendors. These profiles will help buyers understand and evaluate technology companies before entering into contract. Each vendor profile contains a company overview, identifies key differentiators, product offerings, and provides a short list guide for buyers.
My latest report, Customer Data: The Missing Link to Customer Success explains how successful organizations will utilize customer data to power their business initiatives in the digital era. Customer data is your organization's most strategic asset. Use it the right way to rise above your competitors, delight your customers, and create a sustainable digital business. Constellation's seven-step customer data framework will show you how.
Many brands have been coming to me for years to try and figure out what to do about customer frustration. At the end of the day, it might be that a brand has to completely rethink of the customer experience, from the customer’s point of view. Often what happens if a company looks at the customer journey from the company’s point of view is that they miss why customers are frustrated. It’s often that, even during the experience between a customer and a company, that the company can’t see why a customer is frustrated.
SAP signaled a deeper embrace of big data platforms on Wednesday at SAPPHIRE with the announcement that it will create a deeper integration with Hadoop using Apache Spark as a low-latency, in-memory connector and data-filtering mechanism. The announcement, signals that SAP is counting on Hadoop as a high-scale storage container in Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployments and other scenarios where data-collection and data-processing needs are geographically distributed. SAP’s announcement shows that it has thought through the workloads and bottlenecks likely to be encountered in real-world IoT deployments.
Vendor Profile: Syncsort This vendor profile provides an overview of Syncsort and identifies key differentiators, product offerings, and a short list guide for buyers.