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Bitcoin, the leading P2P currency, is coming to an ATM near you. There is an ATM right here in Boston now! At least Boston keeps its place as a high tech center…barely. Anyways, first what really is Bitcoin, other than being linked to the infamous Winklevoss twins?
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Microsoft's announcement of new marketing, customer care and social listening features added to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM product reveals some true creativity and innovation. Not so much in terms of product features (although there are some). What the announcement really highlights is a creative business and go-to-market strategy.
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Every defined era of economic history is characterized by waves of disruption. From the agricultural revolution to the current information and digital revolution, innovation and change is results in continual disruption.
The drivers and outcomes of these eras of economic history have several common themes.
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Rankings. I can take them or leave them. But Brand Directory’s evaluation of banking brands for 2014, in association with The Banker, does an interesting job of placing a monetary value on the intangible asset that is an organisation’s brand. And this year, as shown below, ANZ pips CommBank at the post, to take out first place in the Australian rankings.
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On February 19th, Sprinklr announced the acquisition of Dachis Group. The acquisition will make Sprinklr the largest independent end-to-end Social Relationship platform in the market. While many will see this deal as a services play, the acquisition is significant in the for a few key reasons:
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I have visited China for business repeatedly over the last 15 years. As most would be more than aware, the growth on any econometric variable has been sustained and typically staggering. As someone who studied economic and regional development as an undergrad student the demographics of China is equally of interest and impressive.The challenge for these 15 cities with over 5 million people, let alone the 140 with over one million is standing out in a competitive environment. The largest cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen et al) clearly stand out and have defined roles and investment attractiveness with which to differentiate themselves.
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The Facebook data science team has been digging through the mountains of interactions that take place between people before, during and after they fall in love. They looked in detail at the number of posts exchanged going back to 100 days before the “couple” changed their relationship status from “single”. What they found was that social media interaction plays an important role in the formation of the relationship.
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In 2011 Business Week ran an article suggesting every worker is a knowledge worker. While this may be true standing on the body of knowledge surrounding “knowledge workers” gifted to the world by Peter Drucker, when we look past the runway of Drucker’s foresight the term “knowledge worker” starts to fall short on its promise to enterprises--that all knowledge workers would engage in meaningful, visionary work.
While today’s knowledge workers chug away using more knowledge and cognition than manual workers in factories a century ago, "knowledge work" as we know it today can be boiled down to a series of repeatable manual steps that are often commoditized and optimized: install, test, configure, deploy, apply load, measure, tweak, freeze, replicate, and repair. Most of these “knowledge” worker roles are barely using knowledge and rarely using cognition.
The big question is what new revolution will automate the manual tasks of today’s knowledge workers freeing them from the broken promise?
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The 2014 trends are out. The big predictions have been made. Yet what does it all mean as most organizations anticipate another unpredictable year? Since 2000, 52 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist (Figure 1). The pace of change has increased, competition has intensified and business models have been disrupted. The only certainty is that change will accelerate.
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The February 12th, 2014 Good Technology Mobility Index report validates what many enterprises know – Apple iOS is dominating Google Android inside the enterprise. While this data is limited to the Good Technology customer base, anecdotal inquires and formal polling by Constellation Research, Inc. validate that this data is directionally accurate. Here are three graphics that illustrate the point:
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On February 13th, 2014, the United States District Court , District of Nevada Judge Larry Hicks issued a partial summary judgment in the Oracle vs Rimini Street Case. Here’s the executive summary to key questions about the ruling*:
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A Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin I’m engaged in a fascinating project — interesting both because I started from total ignorance and because the subject is complex and profound.
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Constellation Research has identified a series of political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative trends that will impact your business and your career. At a high level, the noted advisory services firm has identified the following trends: Political issues point...
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Why is it important for brands to have a Facebook e-commerce capability? Mike Fauscette, an Analyst at IDC Consulting says, “In three to five years, 10 percent to 15 percent of total consumer spending in developed countries may go through sites such as Facebook.”
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The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Fusion-IO (NYSE:FIO), Qualys (NASDAQ:QYLS) and Workday (NYSE:WDAY). A $10K investment in Akamai on January 2nd of this year is worth $12,901 and $10K invested in F5 Networks is worth $12,509 as of market close yesterday. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP share prices are included for comparison.
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On January 17th, 2014, the NASSCOM team interviewed Constellation Research about the digital disruption ahead. The short 10 minute video covers key topics including:...
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Consultant Jim Morse describes how to use Siebel with Google Analytics.
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$100 million has overshadowed the pivot it made in an attempt to remain relevant.
Joe Fernandes, Klout's CEO, claimed in a recent interview that the change was in response to players who kept asking how they can increase their score. Klout's score is essentially based on the number of mentions and retweets a person's content receives across Twitter, and to a lesser extent, other social networks. For Klout's players, any tactic or tool that will help artificially inflate their scores is certainly a welcome addition to the game. The higher your score is, the more likely they'll receive Klout Perks, a hodgepodge of free product samples and trial offers from businesses who pay Klout for access to you.
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Happy Valentines day! We're continuing to show love for our Constellation Orbits members by highlighting a few each day with our "Meet the Constellation Orbits Influencers" series. Today we'll meet change management visionary Paul Van Essche and all-things-cloud expert, Louis Columbus.Catch the latest insights from Paul and Louis right here on the Constellation blog. The Constellation Orbits influencer network establishes Constellation Research as the authoritative source for analysis of the latest developments in disruptive technology.
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A recent study completed by Gartner titled Survey Analysis: Adoption of Cloud ERP, 2013 Through 2023 published on January 24, 2014, written by Nigel Rayner advises CIOs and application leaders of financial services institutions to “consider cloud ERP as a potential replacement for aging core ERP systems that are out of support or running on an old technology platforms (such as mainframes).“
The methodology is based on a survey of Gartner Research Circle members from North America, EMEA, APAC and Latin America from companies that range in size from $10M to $10B.Two-tier ERP is the Trojan Horse of cloud ERP. If Gartner had asked their respondents about if and how cloud-based ERP systems are being considered and used in two-tier ERP strategies globally, their survey and previous forecasts would have been significantly different.
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Constellation Research has identified a series of political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative trends that will impact your business and your career. Political issues point to a lack of digital proficiency in the political class
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Despite social proof casting doubt on their veracity, it seems that social scoring platforms continue to be popular in social media marketing. We shouldn’t be surprised; these tools offer a quick, if not effective, means of identifying those who might help brand messages cut through the growing online noise. Despite this, I’m still rather optimistic on the future of influence marketing. I posit an alternative: The Next Level of Influence – Cognitive Dissonance
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