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In 2012, California generated more than 25% of the patents granted by the United States Patent Office (USPO) with almost 35,000 patents granted to citizens or organizations from California; the USPO granted a meek approximate 8,500 patents to citizens and organizations from New York, and as few as 32 from Alaska.
Startling? Not so much, but hold your horses, in 2012 Japan filed almost twice the amount of patents filed by citizens and organizations from California with the USPO granting almost 53,000 patents to citizens and organizations from Japan, Germany at approximately 15,000 (about half that of California), and the United Kingdom at approximately 6,000 (around the amount form New York).
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The 2016 elections may be a ways off, but at least one prominent American would like to see Siebel Systems founder Tom Siebel run for President.
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Many Big Data and online businesses proceed on a naive assumption that data in the "public domain" is up for grabs; technocrats are often surprised that conventional data protection laws can be interpreted to cover the extraction of PII from raw data. On the other hand, orthodox privacy frameworks don't cater for the way PII can be created in future from raw data collected today. This presentation will bridge the conceptual gap between data analytics and privacy, and offer new dynamic consent models to civilize the trade in PII for goods and services.
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Storytelling is hard work. It’s intricate, nuanced and can be expensive. But we crave it, know it and hold good storytelling and storytellers close to our hearts. After all, we all have books that we’d fight for. But in this world of digital media, simple tools for content creation, video production, worldwide publishing and distribution, we are confronted by so much fog. Static. Unimaginative or unengaging material. There are words but fewer stories that we can get our teeth into.
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Secret #3: Winning Brands Know What’s Working & What’s Not What’s the point of creating and posting content?It should be to drive business results. Content is what creates engagement and engagement is what drives business results. Here’s typical marketing metrics brands use to drive business results:Increase positive sentimentIncrease share of voiceIncrease awareness, interest, consideration, intentIncrease lead conversions rates and sales
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Below are my top 10 tweets from Feb 2014 based on combined number of replies, favourites and retweets. I weighted each of those three actions equally.
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I know, I know.I said I would never do it again.They said it could never happen.But, at the end of the day you knew it had to happen. Right?I mean, no matter how hard I fought it, how bad I wanted not to – I have to do it.I have to enter the battle for the definition of “engagement”.What did you think I was talking about? You see, that’s the problem.
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On Februrary 19th, San Francisco headquartered, FinancialForce.com announced the launch of its full suite of ERP offerings built on the Salesforce1 platform. Backed by investments from UNIT4 and Salesforce.com, the cloud based vendor began as a single ledger financial management system built on the Salesforce.com Force.com platform. The announcement and product launch shows how FinancialForce:
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Constellation shares with its clients the fourth annual groundbreaking survey of CIOs later this week. The 2014 survey interviews respondents about their priorities by CIO persona. Constellation identified infrastructure, integration, intelligence, and innnovaiton as the four personas of the next gen CIO in 2011.
Survey results show that while CIO’s prefer to spend more time on innovation projects, most CIOs must spend their time battling the reduction of cost in IT delivery. In the shift towards dominating digital disruption, CIOs can only move as fast as their organization’s DNA will allow while driving transformation. Using Constellation’s organizational DNA framework, CIOs can understand how much change they can expect their organization to consume and gauge their ability to impact the thought process and culture. An excerpt of some of the findings can be found below:
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Here’s a recent presentation I delivered with AMD’s Isabel Merlano at Microsoft Project Conference 2014. In this session, we shared common scenarios on how the different approaches taken by project managers and Project Management Offices (PMO) could make an organization’s project management environment complex and challenging for the different project stakeholders. We then showcased how Microsoft portfolio and project management solutions can be maximized to address varying pain points around schedule management, resource management and project reporting.
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[Event Report] Over 11,000 attendees convened at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the annual IBM Pulse event. The event focused heavily on cloud and mobile and served as the backdrop to unveil BlueMIx, Big Blue’s PaaS platform for year’s to come. Adding to the seriousness of the announcement, IBM, made a $1B commitment to BlueMix. Side note: We have learned from recent announcements around SoftLayer data centers and Watson that when IBM is serious about something, it makes a one billion dollar investment.
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"Six Trends Influencing Digital Disruption in 2014" webinar recording and slides.
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Webinar introducing Constellation's PESTEL futurist framework. Find out how six trends: political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative will affect digital business disruption in 2014. Slides.
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In it's earnings press release Workday of February 26th, the company disclosed the acquisition of Identified, a San Francisco based start-up that had specialized on recruitment success using analytical algorithms. Here's my analysis. Find out why I say "Good for Workday customers. Good for Workday talent - an acqhire. Not so good for Identified investors"
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If you live and work in the world of SharePoint, next week is the SuperBowl event – over 10,000 people will be attending SharePoint Conference 2014. It’s great to see a fantastic lineup of sessions, speakers and activities. In fact, I would love for you to join me in these activities that I’ll be a part of:
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HootSuite Managed Security & Compliance Services educate and empower enterprises to protect their brand and reputationTo help enterprises protect their brands as they scale social media across their organization, HootSuite has announced the launch of its Managed Security and Compliance Services.
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For the value it creates, SharePoint can cause eDiscovery and information governance headaches if proper planning does not take place. It is all too easy to assume that if information is searchable, eDiscovery will be no problem when the time comes. But, as is often the case in life, the devil is in the details.
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Last week I wrote about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Thursday night in New York I stumbled into another innovation in the medium of exchange:...
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“Fast IDentity Online” Is the Go-To Standards Alliance in Protocols for Modern Identity Management
[An update of the original "The FIDO Alliance" Quark] The FIDO Alliance – for Fast IDentity Online – is a fresh, fast growing consortium of security vendors and end users working out a new suite of protocols and standards to connect authentication endpoints to services. Launched in early 2013, the FIDO Alliance has already grown to nearly 100 members, amongst which are heavyweights like Google, Lenovo, MasterCard, Microsoft and PayPal.In February 2014, the FIDO Alliance announced the release of its first two protocol drafts.
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Game-Changing Two-Factor Authentication: The Long-Awaited Driverless, Readerless Chip Key
We are at the dawn of digital wallets, and simultaneously in the midst of a data breach pandemic. The public is baying for proper protection in cyberspace. Yubico has developed the world’s first driverless USB security key, and has a credible plan for introducing its two-factor authentication product to the general public. Yubico heralds long overdue progress in everyday identity security. Progress Constellation believes is a true game changer.
Last week saw widespread attention to a bug in Apple's iOS operating system which rendered website security impotent. The problem arose from a single superfluous line of code - an extra goto statement - that nullified checking of SSL connections, leaving users totally vulnerable to fake websites. The Twitterverse nicknamed the flaw #gotofail.
There are all sorts of interesting quality control questions in the #gotofail experience.
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With a bunch of exciting new members joining up on the eve of the RSA Conference, the FIDO Alliance is going from strength to strength. And they've just published the first public review drafts of their core "universal authentication" protocols.
An update to my Constellation Research report on FIDO will be published soon. Here's a preview.
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Why did Facebook develop EdgeRank? Are you one of those brands spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on creating content for social media interactions? Facebook themselves admits the average brand page only reaches 16-17% of its fans. Data from PageLever shows that for brands with millions of fans, even less of their fans see the content. They estimate the content only reaches ~3% of their fans. Why is this so? It’s because of an algorithm, EdgeRank, that calculates what posts to filter out.
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In a case with potentially important consequences, Judge Hicks of the U.S. District Court has found that Rimini Street infringed on some Oracle copyrights but not on others. Is there justice in this? What the decision means for customers, vendors, and the industry itself.
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