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Many clients ask about what all the fuss is about the digital disruption; why do I need to be concerned about this? Is this really new? Haven’t we been dealing with this for a while. And the answer, at least in my opinion, is that most brands have missed the point of the digital disruption. […]
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The friendship bench is a non-profit organization established to support existing mental health groups on college and university campuses across the country that raise awareness about anxiety and depression among students and the corresponding rise in student suicides.We need your help to spread the word. Here's how you can help.
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As a small ‘boutique’ analyst firm, we can’t chase and cover every business trend and every technology space. So at Constellation Research we choose to look at key business trends that are relevant for forward thinking businesses.
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Does it scare you when a favorite, once-small vendor gets big and starts adding products and changing pricing structures? BI market disruptor Qlik is clearly going through such a maturation, but that doesn’t mean it has lost sight of its roots.This week in Dallas at its annual partners’ conference, Qlik announced a number of new products:
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The shift towards asset based services, IP, or automation has finally accelerated. This has been a long time coming, and the slow pace of change has been an ongoing frustration for capioIT. Many SI and services organisations have finally begun to apply … Continue reading →
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How Today’s IT Professionals Reconcile Innovation and Complex Privacy Requirements This report presents a guide for organizations seeking to engineer privacy programs that simultaneously strengthen privacy practices and accommodate innovation. This report contains a set of practical tools and design methodologies to help IT architects and designers play a stronger, more positive role in privacy.
On the Apple earnings call on April 27th we heard a hidden ‘nugget’ of information in the prepared statement of Apple CFO Luca Maestri mentioned the following in its prepared statements: [14:30 into the conference call]In fact we are seeing very high interest from companies, who want to transform how work gets down. […] In addition to IBM we are working closely with more than 2 dozen other leading software and solution providers, including Box, Docusign, Microstrategy, Revel and Servicemax – to bring a broad range of innovative mobile solutions to more customers on iPad.In the past the problem with working across software portfolio has been integration of the different products that enterprises needed to integrate. If Chief Human Resource Officers are polled today what their largest problems are, software integration makes the Top 3 issues – all the time. And integration has not really been solved by the cloud, as integration between cloud based products can break the same way as it used to break on premise.
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There aren’t enough data scientists and deep analytics experts to go around, as we all know, so the race has been on to make advanced analytics more accessible to the average business user. SAS on Monday announced its latest effort in this vein through tighter integration of its SAS Visual Analytics (SVA) and SAS Visual Statistics (SVS) products.
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Social media was heralded as the greatest thing to happen to brand marketing since, well, since ever. Consumer-generated advocacy and publicity, direct conversations with customers and advocates, and free advertising through YouTube and other social networking sites were supposed to turn garage-based businesses into mega-conglomerates and save businesses tens of thousands in marketing costs. Yeah, right. Social...
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In a report we recently published we looked at how the Internet of Things (IoT) would impact the retail world. The smart counter top will be able to identify what you are placing on it. The smart counter will then be able to offer you ways to prepare the food offering you recipes and other items you may want to include. The counter will also be able to tie back into your wearables as well as other applications. Training to run a marathon and using your smart phone to keep track of your progress – maybe that bacon isn’t what you should be eating this close to race day – your counter top will tell your phone or wearable, which will tell you. Of course this will also come with the expected questions around privacy and information sharing. Will consumers trust the likes of Tyson Foods, Mondelez, Kraft, Dannon and other large food providers to have access to such data?
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Enterprises are only realizing 35% of the total potential value of their cloud deployments according to a recent Bain & Company study. Companies that moved development to IaaS and PaaS clouds from Amazon Web Services (AWS) reduced downtime by 72% and improved application availability by 3.9 hours per user per year. These and other key take-aways are from the recent Bain & Company study, Tapping Cloud’s Full Potential.
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Citrix Podio is a platform for developing applications which can be used on the web or mobile devices. People can build business applications by simply drag and droping fields to create forms and views. It requires very little development knowledge and no actual programming language skills.Then have recently added a feature I asked for, which allows you to limit the choices that are displayed in drop down lists.
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One of the most important things about technology is that it works and delivers on it’s promise. But it can’t do that without the ability to have it implemented well. And often it’s not a matter of just implementing it well. Today implementing technology means that you are looking at transforming the organization and how […]
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On April 23rd, 2015 I participated in CMSWire's SocBizChat on Twitter. Below is a summary of my responses to their questions.
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Dunbar's number proposes that humans can only comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships. Well I don't know about stable... but I'd say I interact with far more than 150 people every day. With interactions via email, chat, social networks, blogs, web sites, discussion forums, customer communities and a dozen other sources, it's a real challenge for me to keep up with who all these people are.
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Salesforce.com has stuck to CRM as core automation area for so long, that even analysts got nervous about how much runway the vendor can get from CRM (and yes platform and PaaS). So the news today that Salesforce.com is (re)entering the HCM market with ‘Salesforce for HR’ was met with some surprise. Here I dissect the press release to uncover implications for customers, partners, and competitors.
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Read the first chapter of my new book, Disrupting Digital Business, before its publication on May 5, 2015.
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We were invited to the Workforce Software user conference Vision2015. Here are my Top 3 takeaways from the analyst meeting / conference: Workforce Management Pure Play, Compliance, and the Partner Ecosystem.
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Identity Management Transforms from “Who” to “What” This research report explores the state of Identity Management (IdM) – and how it is evolving rapidly to meet the needs of Digital Safety and Privacy.
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The Internet of Things Presents a Host of Potential Benefits for Retail, but a Structured Approach Is Required This report addresses how retailers and CPG companies should prepare for and evaluate IoT. It examines the use cases applicable for retail as well as the different characteristics within retail that must be considered with IoT.
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Identity Management Leader Publishes Specifications, Launches a Certification Program, and Attracts Support in Microsoft Windows 10 Download the full report for a limited timeWith its focus, pragmatism and membership breadth, FIDO is today’s go-to identity/authentication standards effort. In this report, Constellation looks at what the FIDO Alliance has to offer vendors and end user communities, and its critical success factors.
Microsoft followed through with the general release of an important cloud service last week, laying the groundwork for real-time insight with Azure Stream Analytics.As the name suggests, Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) is about analyzing data in flight. Examples include data flowing from devices, sensors, web sites, apps, and infrastructure systems. Analysis is done with a SQL-like language that lets users visualize, alert, and act on events in real time.
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The State Of Identity Management in 2015Constellation Research recently launched the "State of Enterprise Technology" series of research reports. These assess the current enterprise innovations which Constellation considers most crucial to digital transformation, and provide snapshots of the future usage and evolution of these technologies.My second contribution to the state-of-the-state series is "Identity Management Moves from Who to What". Here's an excerpt from the report. Six Digital Identity Trends for 2015
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Adobe and Wipro Digital thought leaders will be joining our analysts and R "Ray" Wang in May to provide digital transformation insights to executives. If you're an executive who doesn't work in the technology industry and is interested in technology and disruptive business models, these complimentary events are offered for you and your peers. You're invited as our guests in San Francisco or Atlanta to make new connections, gain new knowledge, and secure your own complimentary signed copy of R "Ray" Wang's new book, Disrupting Digital Business, published by Harvard Business Review Press. We'll discuss disruptive trends that matter, so that you can either finetune your digital business models for incremental gains or push for transformational changes.We welcome our Constellation Executive Network members and senior leaders who typically work for non-technology industries to reserve seats for our inaugural Digital Disruption Tour. If you can benefit from curated Silicon Valley insights and technology insider's knowledge, you won't want to miss these.
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