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[Video] My review of the Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 keynote.
Topics include:
- Salesforce - more than just technology... philanthropy is at the heart of the company's core values
- Introducing Salesforce1, the platform for the Internet of Customers
- The impact of connected devices - Demonstrations of Salesforce1 Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, ExactTarget Marketing Cloud
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Here is a four minute video with my thoughts on the Salesforce Dreamforce Day 1 keynote, which focused on Salesforce as a platform for applications, how customers can leverage this to improve their businesses and the opportunity available for applications developers and ISVs.
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Tweetup with the Constellation Team at Dreamforce!
Drinks and discussion with your favorite disruptive technology analysts! November 20 5:30p.m., The Intercontinental Hotel, San Francisco
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Best Practices from Two Early Cloud HCM Pioneers: Chiquita Brands and McKee FoodsChiquita Brands and McKee Foods were early pioneers in the cloud. Both organizations faced similar challenges in upgrading existing human resources (HR) technologies amid a changing economic climate. However, both organizations used the cloud through Workday’s solutions to drive cost savings and innovate. Find out why.
[Event report] The yearly Dreamforce conference kicked off today in full swing, well it hasn't even kicked off as the official start is only tomorrow. But we had a chance to attend the partner keynote - which was so full, attendees had to wait outside before it could get started.
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Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce. Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology meets SXSW event. One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1). The Salesforce 1 customer platform seeks to address a cadre of emerging digital business requirements that customer centric companies face.
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Sticking with tradition the day 2 keynote of the AWS reinvent conference was done by the AWS CTO, Werner Vogels. Vogels - or as referred to by his Twittter handle by a devoted developer community as @Werner - was once again at his best leading through the 100 minute keynote in front of 9000 clouderati.
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Silwood Technology has released new version of Safyr a tool for data model analysis of SAP and Oracle applications.Silwood Technology has released new version of Safyr a tool for data model analysis of SAP and Oracle applications. Safyr 6.1 offers improved user search and navigation of the complex data models. Among the improvements in this release: Safyr now incorporates tile based navigation to make it easier for new and occasional users to be productive. From the tile screen, users accesss any part of the Safyr product and initiate an extraction from a source system. The tile screen also contains a link to a multi-object search feature. The user can find Tables, Views, Domains, Data Elements, and Application Hierarchies using a single search term. By returning all the results as a unified picture of nodes categorised by object type, Safyr makes database objects easier to find.
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The AWS reinvent conference is in full swing in Las Vegas, attended by about 9000 clouderati, so it's time to look at the key statements and our takeaways of day 1 are.
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At CCE 2013 author Jane McGonigal described the benefits of games and also advocated using them solve to real world problems.
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Rebutting Matt Asay's article "In The Age Of Twitter, Do We Need Oracle? Larry Ellison Isn't Sure", the editor compares the technology of NASCAR and Twitter.
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"Consumerization of Identity in an Enterprise World" webinar recording and slides.
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When it comes to cloud integration – there are basically three larger vendors to watch – Tibco, Software AG and Informatics. The latter timely released it’s Winter 2014 of the Informatica Cloud family of cloud based integration and data management solutions. So time for a news analysis on the press release of November 12th 2013.Informatica timed this pretty well, kudos to the marketing people for seizing the timing and the developers for providing the release on time, at the eve of the largest IaaS vendor user conference, AWS reinvent and a week before the user conference of Informatica's largest cloud integration partner – Salesforce.com. And with over 60 billion monthly cloud transactions – there is certainly relevant data moving across the cloud on the Informatica platform.So what is being announced to come in Winter 2014?
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Below is a short video interview I did with BBC Click tech reporter Kate Russell on the BizCouch, where we discussed some of the things organizations should know about cloud computing.< /p>
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Siebel veteran KC Lam has joined the Singapore Exchange (SGX) as a director in the international sales department.
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[Event Report]It was interesting to attend the Kronos user conference, Kronos World, earlier this week in Orlando. Kronos is a key player in the HCM market, being the overall leader for workforce management. Quantitative specialist analyst firm IHS estimatesthat Kronos has a worldwide market share of 25% and a North American market share of 37%. And Kronos grows twice as fast as the market with 10% in FY 2013.
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Rimini Street plans to conduct a registered initial public offering after the SEC completes its review process.
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Age Is Not The Deciding Factor In Five Generations Of WorkersWhen discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people are with digital technologies and culture. Constellation sees five generations:
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Age Is Not The Deciding Factor In Five Generations Of WorkersWhen discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people are with digital technologies and culture. Constellation sees five generations (see Figure 1):
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I’ve spent the past few weeks thinking about video interoperability, and not just interoperability at the signaling level or the codec level, but at the security level as well. I presently have four video solutions in my office that I run regularly: a Cisco/Tandberg MXP 1700 executive unit, a Vidyo desktop client, Microsoft Lync hosted through Office 365, and Skype. In addition to these, I often use Apple’s FaceTime video product when using my iOS devices. It seems like video is all around me, and it is likely pervasive for others as well.
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It’s funny. Whenever I give a talk from stage, or talk to a few colleagues or even get asked for advice on strategy, it all revolves around the same cause. For some, it’s “we’re in this mess” while for others it’s “we have this great opportunity” and they always point to the same thing. It’s the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) that has been the reason we’re moving forward with mobile. What I find so funny about all this is that none of them get it. It’s not CoIT that has led so many businesses to start adopting mobile as a way to enhance access to their ecosystem. This misunderstanding is the whole reason why so many companies are having so much trouble getting to the point where mobile is no longer just a thought but a way of doing business.
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Pragmatic Advice on How to Get Started in Your Social Business InitiativesDownload the report snapshotConstellation pioneered the complete set of front office and back office use cases for social business in 2010. This report focuses on the campaign to lead mega-use case, which addresses internal- and external-facing use cases. Internal use cases include data to campaign, campaign creation and resource staffing. External-facing use cases include A/B/X testing, augmented events, feedback loops, lead generation and customer loyalty/VIP experience. These use cases should provide a starting point for mapping out the social and digital marketing journey.
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Pragmatic Advice on How to Get Started in Your Social Business InitiativesQuark version of the Premium Ressearch Report: Demystifying Social Business: Optimizing the Campaign to Lead Process (Marketing)This report focuses on the campaign to lead mega-use case, which addresses internal- and external-facing use cases. Internal use cases include data to campaign, campaign creation, and resource staffing. External-facing use cases include A/B/X testing, augmented events, feedback loops, lead generation and customer loyalty/VIP experience. These use cases should provide a starting point for mapping out the social and digital marketing journey.
I will be attending Kronos' user conference next week in Orlando - and when I got the customary what to do email from the vendor - I stumbled over a section mentioning some interesting marketing approach combining twitter buzz with charity.
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