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Last year cloud accounting program Xero added the ability to take payments the moment a business issued its invoice through online invoicing with Xero Pay Now. Now payment providers are building on the service with advanced features that give offline businesses the advantages of e-commerce but without the cost.
Despite a proliferation of alternative payments systems, credit and debit cards remain the preferred method for making payments and are expected to make up three quarters of all point-of-sale payments by 2017, market research firm Javelin Strategy & Research has reported.
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"Big Privacy: The New Big Data Privacy Pact"
Learn how to get fair value for your data.
June 18, 2014 1pm PT/ 4pm ET
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If you have implemented something and have a great case study there is no time like the present to submit it to Constellation’s SuperNova Awards. In our 4th annual The SuperNova Awards we seek to honor leaders who have overcome adversity to successfully implement disruptive technologies in their organizations. We’re looking for applications that demonstrate overcoming adversity, replicability (project’s ability to be replicated in organizations), and applications of disruptive technology that resulted in business model transformation.
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Learn all about trends in hybrid cloud in this series of videos. Included in this series: hybrid cloud use cases, how does hybrid cloud enable global expansion, PureApplication, SoftLayer, BlueMix, more!
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Why is hybrid cloud important and what are some use cases for it? How does hybrid cloud help companies expand globally? How are clients using cloud to innovate? What's the deal with PureApplications, SoftLayer, and BlueMix? Get the answers to these questions and more in this series of videos discussing trends in hybrid cloud.
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Constellation Research announces call for applications for fourth annual SuperNova AwardsFirst awards to honor leaders who successfully apply disruptive technologies in their organizations Judging panel comprised of enterprise technology thought leaders to select winners Application deadline August 1, 2014
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Cut Through The Hype and Get Started
Over the past 12 months, Constellation has interviewed, researched, or assisted more than 50 market leaders and fast followers crafting a digital transformation strategy. Regardless of industry, size of company, or geography, these early adopters share five common steps to success.
1) Designing new experiences and business models.
2) Developing a culture of digital DNA.
3) Applying new technologies to existing infrastructure.
4) Moving from gut to data driven decisions.
5) Co-creating and co-innovating with new partners.
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The shift toward outcomes-based pricing is accelerating in emerging markets, but slow to arise in mature markets. Does relationship familiarity inhibit this change?
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Today, someone asked if I could help him make a “Sweet Resume” on LinkedIn – this was a first.
Here are some of my techniques, they go a bit deeper than the simple stuff like complete the profile, add others colleagues, or add education, etc.
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No matter where you turn these days, everyone is talking about dual personas. Everyone is said to have these 2 personas, one for home and one for work. They are vastly different and don’t overlap. The only problem with this way of thinking, it’s not really how things work these days. Yes, there are cultures and a subset of people in this country where a person really has two separate identities but in the real world, we have evolved from having a separate personal vs work life to integrating our home and work lives into one persona.
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The first awards to recognize leaders who successfully apply emerging technologies to transform businessNotable judging panel to select finalistsConstellation Research announces the call for applications for the 2014 SuperNova Awards, the first awards recognizing early adopters of technology that have overcome adversity to successfully apply emerging and disruptive technologies within their organizations.Apply for SuperNova Award
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As I watched the CiscoLive! keynote titled Exceptional Collaboration Experiences in the Age of the Connected User, a line from one of my favourite movies The Princess Bride kept going through my head: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." In this case it's collaboration, as Cisco and I clearly have a vastly different definition of the word.
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Crimson Hexagon, is a provider of software for social intelligence is announcing a new app integration with HootSuite, a social relationship platform. The new integration powers social engagement for enterprises, allowing customers to gain valuable business insights and competitive analysis from online conversations.
MY POV: There’s so much data out there. And data alone is not helpful unless it can provide insights. And insights and actionable decision intelligence take the right combo of technology as well as people with the right skills to truly understand how to use these applications and tools. What’s really missing is...
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Lithium Launches Inaugural Customer Expectations Survey. This study shows how online experiences are essential to American life. Americans evenly split on whether to give up good sex or good Internet if forced to choose.
My POV: Are you kidding me? What happened to being human? Have we lost our way? Or is this the right way to go?
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Tealium is currently known as a market leader in enterprise tag management and solutions. Today Tealium announced new data connectors that allow enterprises to integrate rich audience profile data into leading marketing clouds, including Oracle Responsys, Silverpop (recently acquired by IBM) and StrongView. Tealium also announced today an email integration with the Salesforce ExactTargetMarketing Cloud.
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I had the pleasure of conducting a SharePoint eDiscovery webinar with Patrick Burke of Reed Smith for the OLP last week. The subject is fascinating because finding, preserving, and reviewing SharePoint content in the litigation/investigation context can be so challenging. The metadata users add to content (e.g. workflow tasks), the web page interface that creates more native ESI than just a document, and the decentralization of SharePoint deployments make eDiscovery for SharePoint a topic unto itself. Often lost in this topic is the issue of end-user search of SharePoint.
When I talk about end-user search in SharePoint, most people just assume that the search functionality baked in to the product (Microsoft acquired FAST Search & Transfer several years back) is enough. In some cases, that will be correct, but in others it does not work to give business users efficient access to information.
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This Sunday, 25 May, as part of Vivid Sydney, Vibewire and the Powerhouse Museum will be hosting the biggest and boldest fastBREAK event ever. From 10:30am, you will be treated to a barrage of ideas and topics from 10 great speakers. There will be a band as well as breakfast. And for those who are fascinated by technology and social media, there will be an additional special guest – the Twitter Mirror.
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Why Oracle Is Meeting the Competition Head-On by Shifting to a New Type of Technology Buyer
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The announcement made at the Oracle Marketing Cloud launch event April 30, 2014 provides insight into where major players like Oracle think the market is headed. Perhaps for some vendors, it’s time to say goodbye to IT and hello to the CMO. Or it’s time for IT and the CMO to collaborate.
R "Ray" Wang shares his thoughts on cloud adoption and the opportunities for recruiting. 0:00 The next wave of cloud adoption 0:31 Recruiting and the cloud 1:23 HR and IT as change drivers 2:08 The importance of mobile in the recruiting process
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My interest in Infor is in the excellent way they have integrated collaboration capabilities directly into their business applications. Rather than just providing an enterprise social network, Infor developed Ming.le, which runs seamlessly across their vertical solutions providing collaboration features directly in the context of where people are working.
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As I furthered my studies and experiments with the Internet of Things writing “A Framework to Humanize the Internet of Things through Verbs” I landed on the question of “so what if we connected all of these things to the Internet?Well not so fast, and as I continued to study and experiment in the phenomenon designing mentally for the maturity model, the business models that will emerge, and the design of the industry that will ensue, I landed on the following two constructs.There is a difference between the Internet of things already built, and things that will be built.There will be categories of things already built or to be built clustered by the intelligence of said things. Once connected, some things will do more than others and the level of “smartness” will vary widely. Some of the categories I am thinking through are:...
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Replacing Disparate Systems with SAP Business ByDesign Led to Kaizen Approach to Sales Processes
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ARCA is a leading vendor of cash solutions. Faced with unpredictable sales, the enterprise boldly re-organized its sales efforts and is now experiencing, almost two years after restructuring, 68 percent annual sales growth.
It has been said that the United States is experiencing a jobless recovery. The redesign of work is partially the cause. Are you ready to lead your organization in this environment?
I'm kicking off my next book project and will take on the future of work from its design to its leadership. You will learn how some of the best known companies, and many you may not have heard of, work with their people, technology, and organizational practices to lead with a lighter touch. What they've found is that, like pro equestrians, golfers, and dancers, you can't keep a death grip and do great things.
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I had the opportunity to attend NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference in San Jose this week. As usual NetSuite has released a barrage of news releases – so let’s look at my top 3 takeaways from the event: 1) New UI 2) Re-inventing the General Ledger 3) HCM Traction ...
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