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How to Benefit from the Evolution of Enterprise Collaboration Platforms and their Business Use CasesDownload the report snapshot
When implemented correctly, these new tools enable people to create, find and share information, connect with colleagues, customers and business partners and participate in communities more effectively than ever before.Unfortunately, many organizations experience adoption challenges with these new platforms, especially when the tools are not part of the business processes employees use to get their jobs done. Learn about a new generation of collaborative platforms where social features are built directly into the business tools employees are already familiar with.
Constellation attended Infosys’ 2013 Global Analyst Summit from July 29th to July 30th in Boston. Despite the below industry average growth of the previous year, conversations with key executives and top customers indicate an imminent shift. In fact, Infosys has added 100+clients not including customers from Lodestone. Retention is 98% for about 800 clients. The client list includes more than half of the Fortune 500. Repeat business is between 95 to 96%. Most clients represent the top 5 or top 10 of each major industry. All is not gloom and doom.
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Moving beyond simple sharing to getting work doneMaking collaboration an integral part of the business process
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These days with the rapid changes in technology, new thinking in digital and social media and constant experimentation with both, every week seems to be a “big week”. But this week, the ADMA Global Forum is running – bringing marketers and technologists face to face.
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I was excited to receive a message this morning from Beth Wellington that more and more poets are starting to use Twitter....
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#CXOTalk featuring R "Ray" Wang, Michael Krigsman, Vala Afshar
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An Overview of IaaS Trends That are Here to StayToday Constellation Research announced the publication of "Nine Cloud IaaS Trends for 2014 and Beyond” by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Holger Mueller. This research report presents 9 distinctive trends in the IaaS market and 8 recommendations for organizations seeking to evaluate and craft their IaaS/cloud strategy.
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An Overview of IaaS Trends That are Here to StayConstellation Research identifies the latest trends in the Internet-as-a-Service (IaaS) market that affect services-consuming organizations as well as services-providing vendors.
I like marketing and branding, but I have always been more interested in action. In movement. In change. And how we make decisions in a digitally connected world.I like seeing the way that words, image (and sometimes) music, can set a ball rolling.
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An Overview of IaaS Trends That are Here to Stay
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You probably read my piece earlier this year where I described where and how to do Social Business in five easy steps; it was called “Social Business is a Snap”. I put together a deck with that and more information and presented it at Inbound Marketing Summit 2013 yesterday. Here is the deck in case […]
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Tips for a competitive SuperNova Award application.
Also included in this post, an explanation of the SuperNova Award categories and a sample application may be found below.
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I wanted to write this post for a while - and as summer vacations are coming up for me and family as well as fellow readers - I wanted to start a summer series... keeping it with Mark Twain's famous - sorry I wrote you a long letter - I did not have time to write a short one - this could well backfire - but it's worth a try. Shouldn't take more than 2 minutes to read.There seems to be a lot of interest around recruiting functionality in the HR enterprise software space these days... So let's understand why that is...
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The Fast Food Giant Used Social Analytics to Bolster Customer Engagement and Execute the Brand's Most Successful Product LaunchThis is the first in a series of posts highlighting the winners of the 2012 SuperNova Awards for innovators in disrutptive technology. Doritos Locos Tacos: unless you were living under a rock last year the buzz surrounding the crunchy Taco Bell taco with a Dorito shell was inescapable...
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This post was overdue by now - but today's (July 24th 2013) events triggered it into existence, as I wanted to write a post on the OpenStack dynamics as we see them unfolding in the coming quarters since a long time. Cloudscaling's Randy Bias' unbiased (pun intended) open letter to the OpenStack community was just the spark that was needed.
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When I began researching the marketing automation market late last year, it seemed like a crowded market. It seemed clear at the time that the competitive fog produced by the various marketing platforms was obscuring the very real benefits that technology delivers to marketers, and that the end result would be consolidation.Yesterday, Adobe helped clear some of this fog by completing its acquisition of privately held marketing automation vendor, Neolane. What impact will this have? My news analysis can be found here – and the official release here.
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Constellation Research keynoted at Ping Identity’s Cloud Identity Summit 2013 in July. Gathered in front of the Identerati, an Identity Manifesto was presented. The research behind that manifesto has been summarized here in this summary. The final big idea research report will offer insight into four of Constellation’s primary research themes, the Next-Generation Customer Experience, The Future of Work, Matrix Commerce, and the Consumerization of IT and the new C-Suite.
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Is knowledge really power? People are struggling with privacy in this new age of sharing, but sharing could be the only way to the top. Interview with BBC's Kate Russell at Oracle CloudWorld 2013 in London.
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Over the weekend we learned that SAP is making more changes at the top - with Hagemann-Snabe giving up the co-CEO role in May 2014 and likely moving to the supervisory board then.
Questions and scenarios arise: Did Hagemann-Snabe surprise Plattner? Why not co-CEO with Sikka? The German Angle. The Pros and Cons of Co-CEOs.
My analysis.
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The following video is part 2 of 3 of my conversation with BBC Click tech reporter Kate Russell on the BizCouch while at Oracle CloudWorld in London
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Constellation Research, Inc. the research and advisory firm focused how disruptive technologies transform business models announced the publication of ”The Cloud Changes Everything” by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Holger Mueller. This research report recaps the events of June 20 through June 27 in which Oracle entered into several strategic relationships with Microsoft, Salesforce, and Netsuite, and examines the implications of the Oracle alliances for the market, customers, partners and competitors.Download the report snapshot
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Constellation Research, Inc. the research and advisory firm focused how disruptive technologies transform business models announced the publication of ”The Cloud Changes Everything” by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Holger Mueller.
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Cloud and HANA saved SAP's Q2 - almostOn July 18th SAP released their 2nd quarter 2013 results. Here's my take on the results.
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[NEWS ANALYSIS] Why Oracle’s Alliances with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite Will Change the MarketIn late June 2013, Oracle Corp. released a new version of its flagship database software, Oracle Database 12c, and announced a series of alliances with key software vendors aimed at strengthening Oracle’s presence in the cloud. We analyze how these alliances will change the positioning and usage of these products going forward. Download report snapshot
Constellation recaps the events of June 20 through June 27 and looks into the implications of the Oracle alliances for the market, customers, partners and competitors.