This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Today was the opening keynote of TechEd 2013 and despite some nothing new pre-leaks - there were some substantial announcements and takeaways - I will concentrate on my top three takeaways - look for more later during the week.
Find out who wins this year's SuperNova Awards for innovators in disruptive technology. The winners will be announced LIVE at Connected Enterprise! This year we'll be announcing the winners of the SuperNova Awards at the SuperNova Awards Gala Dinner which is always held on the first night of Constellation's Connected Enterprise.
When it comes to cloud computing, do open systems win out over proprietary standards? My view is, perhaps in theory, but cloud computing--specifically public cloud infrastructure--has bigger problems right now than whether it's built on open source. Furthermore, open source cloud infrastructure providers have obstacles to overcome. I'm participating in an online video debate on October 29, hosted by IBM's Smarter Computing program, on "the pros and cons of open computing when it comes to cloud, big data, and software defined environments." This post outlines part of my viewpoint on this subject.
I have meant to write this post since quite a while after hearing and learning a lot about the changes that are happening and travelogueing the system integrator (SI) industry.
Live Quarks are fast-paced 10 minute demos of emerging technologies. The speakers are hand picked by the Constellation team to present their technologies to the Connected Enterprise audience. The majority of Live Quark presenters represent startups with tremendous disruptive potential.
At the 2013 Kana Connect event from September 15th to 17th, 2013 in New Orleans, I had the pleasure of co-leading a workshop with Scott Hays a Sr. Director, Product Marketing for KANA Software. The goal of the session was to explore eight strategies to improve customer experience.
By now, you are well aware that “experience counts.” Your customers’ loyalty and future purchases hang in the balance. In this session, we’ll explore the key things you can do to make sure their experiences are positive. Ray Wang from Constellation Research and Scott Hays from KANA guide an interactive workshop to invigorate your future initiatives.
Speaker(s): Scott Hays, Ray Wang, Constellation Research
Strengthening the Marketing-Sales InterlockDownload the report snapshotThis report provides a high level analysis of the best practices in driving and managing leads. It focuses on the vital interlock between the marketing and sales teams and provides frameworks to help optimize the flow of leads between them in order to dramatically improve lead quality and revenue potential.
On October 10th and 11th, 2013, over 800 attendees from more than 45 countries arrived at the Munich Olympic Park to share their passion and excitement about the latest augmented reality (AR) developments (see Figure 1). Hosted by augmented reality pioneer Metaio, Inside AR 2013, has emerged as one of the world’s largest conferences dedicated to the business of AR. The conference touched on key area
The folks at the DiG Festival in Newcastle have started posting videos of the keynote presentations. Here, Nick Aronson from the Commonwealth Bank talks about the fut
tibbr Continues To Show Momentum In Customer Adoption And Addition Of Key Enterprise Social Features. On October 14th to 17th 2013, the Tibbr enterprise social crowd mingled with the core Tibco faithful at this year’s TUCON 2013 user conference in Las Vegas. (An analysis of the broader Tibco announcements can be found from my colleague Holger Mueller). While the Tibbr team continues to build synergies with the core Tibco offering in Big Data, Events, Integration, and BPM, the Tibbr team also made key announcements that include:
With salesforce.com announcingits entrance into the identity market, we thought it would be valuable to review this step from all three perspectives it entangles - security as tied to identity - Steve Wilson’s realm; CRM as salesforce.com is a CRM provider - Bruce Daley’s area; and lastly PaaS as covered by Holger Mueller.
Are you tired of being lectured? So are we! That's why Constellation's Connected Enterprise's best practices panels feature executives who are actually using the disruptive technologies we hear so much about. Get pragmatic advice from early adopters who have first hand experience implementing a range of disruptive technologies and innovative business models. From collaboration to BYOD to predicitive analytics, these executive panels can tell you the good, the bad, and the overhyped. On the agenda this year...
TIBCO's TUCON conference is just ending in Las Vegas and it's time to take a look at the key takeaways from the conference. If you missed it - replays of the keynotes are available here and I collected two Storify streams that you can find here and here. [Event report]
When Siemens AG entered into the joint venture with Los Angeles-based Gores Group to operate Siemens Enterprise Communications, part of that deal was that the company could use the Siemens brand for several years but that it would ultimately have to discontinue using the Siemens moniker. That day has arrived.
Unify’s CEO, Hamid Akhavan, said, “In the past, we have come from a telephony background… that is no longer our focus.” This seems to indicate that Unify will move away from being a traditional PBX manufacturer and caused me to question Unify’s strategy going forward.
Just 14 days left until Connected Enterprise. Today I'm featuring Connected Enterprise's one-on-one interviews with market makers. On the schedule this year: John Taschek, SVP Market Strategy, Salesforce.comAlistair Rennie, General Manager IBM Collaboration Solutions, SWGShawn Price, President, SuccessFactors, SAP Cloud
On the tail end of the HR Tech conference, SAP smartly organized the SuccessFactors user conference - also in Las Vegas, just up the strip at the Venetian. And it was a good and well attended event... [Event Report]
Rimini Street Issues Tax Release 2013-E. Rimini Street’s updates provides clients with significant new tax, legal and regulatory changes required for the U.S. and Canada, as well as Australia, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Singapore and the UK.
The countdown has begun. We're just 15 days away from Constellation's Connected Enterprise -- THE innovation summit for the enterprise -- and we can't wait! Over the next 15 days I'll be highlighting experiences you can expect at this year's Connected Enterprise (#CCE2013). The visionaries delivering keynote addresses this year include Jane McGonigal, Chief Creative Officer of SuperBetter Labs and Chris Meyer, Founder of Monitor Talent.
In support of the release of the new Ducati 1199 Panigale, Portland-based Ducati dealer, MotoCorsa decided to mix it up. They started out with the standard girl-on-a-bike. But then they followed it up with another series. This time, the model, Kylie Shea Lewallen, was gone. And in her place was a series of MotoCorsa workshop blokes, striking the same poses with the same great motorbikes.
Be warned, there are things that cannot be unseen.