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Investments in emerging enterprise software companies increased 53% from Q3 to Q4, 2014 according to MoneyTree Report, a collaborative research initiative between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. A graphic from the latest available data shows how software investments were 39% of all investments in Q4, 2014.
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For those of you who haven't met Guy Courtin yet, he's the analyst who can share what you always thought you should know about matrix commerce, one of Constellation's key business themes. We're excited to share that he was just appointed to the Advisory Board of Integrated Supply Chain, Ltd. (ISC), a organization serving global leaders that is headquartered in London.
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If the reality of Digital Business is the transformation of Business and Industry sectors driven by ‘everything becoming connected, and therefore ‘smarter’, how do you manage to make sense of the huge amount of data being generated? Big Data is a tough enough prospect today, but in a future world it looks impossible to continue to scale up the current approaches.
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R “Ray” Wang to negotiate Gartner and Forrester contracts for $1Constellation Research, Inc. (@ConstellationRG), will conduct complimentary contract reviews of legacy analyst firms for its clients and future prospects. Constellation Research, a Silicon Valley based analyst firm, recognizes many clients are locked into contracts with legacy analyst firms who don’t possess the specialized knowledge and ambition to serve customers in the digital era.Know what you're paying for. Apply now.
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I had the opportunity to attend the 2nd edition of Oracle’s HCMWorld conference in Washington last week. The event was well attended, the audience had more senior HR leaders than the audience we say last year in Las Vegas. Customers were generally curious and excited of things to come and using the whole spectrum of Oracle HCM products.Here are my top three takeaways: 1. New learning module; 2. Digital Disruption meets HCM; 3.Oracle Momentum
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If you read my “stuff” you know I am a very big proponent of cloud computing. I wrote a small e-book on how to be a cloud purist (which talks about and describes the proper way to — well, cloud). I have engaged in numerous battles and debates (both online and offline) that were lengthy … Continue reading On Electrical Grids, Cloud, And What We Are Doing Wrong →
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Up until recently, I have rarely listened to podcasts. They just did not seem to work for me. I didn’t have the regularity of travel or the time to focus. But podcasting seems to be riding a wave of new popularity – and an explosion in the type and number of podcasts combined with easy to use apps has seen me start to change my ways. And with an interest in supporting people and businesses I know, I started with some local casts – Trevor Young’s Reputation Revolution podcast and Mark Pesce’s This Week in Startups Australia.
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Here are my takeaways from Oracle’s second dedicated HCM event.
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Event report of UItimate Software Connections user conference - top 3 takeaways are a rich roadmap, a strong analytics agenda and the partnership with Netsuite.
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I had a letter to the editor published in Nature on big data and privacy.Data protection: Big data held to privacy laws, tooWhat do you think?
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New technologies and changing demographics fundamentally change the workplace. My newest report, "Inside The Future of HCM", helps you adapt to the ever-changing work paradigm by identifying the forces shaping the future of Human Capital Management. This report identifies seven trends influencing the Future of HCM.
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The Business case for the Internet of Things -- indeed for everything becoming network connected -- lies in the positive outcomes enabled by leveraging the data collected from the instrumentation of the business as a whole. Its not just about collecting more data from existing applications, it’s about being able to obtain data in new ways. The combination of this new data and traditional analytics is expected to add Business value via ‘Insights’ that come from marring these two, previously isolated data sets, in real-time.
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We have the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s user conference #UltiConnect in Las Vegas. The conference is well attended, with a record 2400 attendees. So let’s look at the top 3 takeaways
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We had the opportunity to attend the 2015 edition of ADP’s Meeting of the Minds user conference, which is targeted to the large enterprise customers of ADP. The conference was very well attended, with over 1500+ client participants from over 700+ customers. The event took place in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel – a definitive alternative to the Las Vegas and Orlando hotels.Here are my top 3 takeaways from the conference (and checkout my First Take of Day #1 here):
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Apple Event Announcements Shows Continued Progression In The Digital LifestyleThe Spring Forward Apple event at Yuerba Buena gardens brought forth a slew of major announcements that pointed to the continued build out of the Steve Jobs "Star Trek" road map. The analysis of key announcements include:...
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On March 24th Pivotal announced that it will support deployments to Amazon Web Services (AWS) per ‘one click’ from its Cloud Foundry product. Let’s identify implications for partners, competitors, and customers...
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Yawn. Alexander Nazaryan in Newsweek (March 22) has penned yet another tirade against privacy.His column is all strawman. No one has ever said privacy is more important than other rights and interests. The infamous Right to be Forgotten is a case in point -- the recent European ruling is expressly about balancing competing interests, around privacy and public interest. All privacy rules and regulations, our intuitions and habits, all concede there may be over-riding factors in the mix.
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My top three takeaways from ADP's Meeting of the Minds conference in Nashville: No change in the vision, UI & analytics, and New ways of analyzing data.
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Most credit card safety advice is virtually useless. The truth is very few payment card details are stolen from websites or people's computers. Organised crime targets the databases of payment processors and big merchants, where they steal the details of tens of millions of cardholders at once. You might never have shopped online in your life, and still have your card details stolen, behind your back, at a department store breach.
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Another week another analyst day…this time it was to Detroit and a meeting with Plex Systems. Between my attempts to discover where South Detroit was located and enjoying a great tour of the Sanders Fine Chocolate factory, I was able to spend an educational day and half with the Plex executive team. The time was well spent getting an update on where Plex ended up in 2014 and where they are heading for 2015. A few take aways:
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The following video contains news about:Microsoft Office 365 Delve rolling out to eligible customersLiquidPlanner's new dashboard featuresThe new Adobe Document CloudUnify Circuit's new (and upcoming) integrationsIBM and Twitter partnering for new insights in IBM BlueMix and IBM Watson Analytics
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Many Enterprises see their adoption of Digital Business being driven by Sales and Marketing additions to their current products and activities. Sadly this is unlikely to be enough as many Industry sectors are becoming transformed markets adding a imperative time scale for individual Enterprises to reconsider their need to grasp Digital Business.
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We had the opportunity to attend the yearly Cloudera analyst meeting at the beautiful historic Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco. The vendor had a remarkable audience of almost 40 analysts attending, documenting the importance of Cloudera for the BigData market. Here are my top 3 takeaways of the event...
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