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On the last Friday of every month, Vibewire in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum, hosts fastBREAK. Now in its third year, fastBREAK has become an essential part of the Australian creative industries scene – providing a vital showcase for young innovators, artists, creatives and entrepreneurs. The event attracts an eclectic audience, with artists mixing with business people, ballerinas rubbing shoulders with bankers and social entrepreneurs sharing breakfast with venture capitalists and investors. And most importantly of all, it is an event that encourages cross-generational conversations – where people of all ages are inspired to network and engage, fuelled by powerful ideas, great coffee and a creative breakfast from the Black Star Pastry.
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NGA (NorthgateArinso) had their analyst day on July 16th, and it was well attended and provided an update where the company stands and where it plans to go in the coming years. Read on...
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Earlier today IBM announced Q2 2013 financial results. The number of most interest to me is a 22% year over year increase in revenue in the Social Workforce Solutions (formerly Lotus ) division.
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Orange is the New Black, the latest in its offering of original programming, will be renewed for a second season. This really isn't extraordinary news, except that the decision and announcement were made before the premiere of season one was aired.
Commissioning the second season of a television series in advance of the airing of a season one premiere is the latest in a slew of industry-altering decisions made by Netflix (NFLX), turning ripples into waves throughout media and investor communities. Netflix has emerged from a somewhat troubled startup to become the unconventional bellwether for what is to come in the digital media world. In fact, I'd go so far as to draw parallels between Netflix Inc. and Apple Inc.
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[VIDEO] The rapid pace in which new technologies develop combined with the speed of change of the technology market makes determining the 'disruptiveness' of a technology difficult. I'd like to share with you my methodology for determining if a technology is truly disruptive or merely a sustaining innovation.
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[VIDEO] While at Oracle CloudWorld in London, I had the honour of speaking with BBC Click tech reporter Kate Russell on the BizCouch. The first of our three part interview is now available.
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Aaron Levie talks about innovation in enterprise tech, the difficulties he faced securing funding for an enterprise startup, and how Box maintains agility. Interview conducted at Constellation's Connected Enterprise 2012.
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It's been a long time I have looked at Ceridian - and being part of the vendor's yearly user conference Insights in Orlando was a great opportunity to take a fresh look.
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Today Siemens Enterprise Communications publically announced Project Ansible, their vision for the next generation of communication and collaboration. Developed with support from Frog Design, Project Ansible is Siemens attempt to compete with enterprise collaboration platforms like Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Connections and Jive Software.
My take on the announcement.
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Event Report: Over the last few years, Adobe has been quietly acquiring companies, building and extending their enterprise focused suite of products and – to some surprise – integrating and consolidating their marketing software into a powerful “marketing cloud”.At today’s digital marketing symposium, Adobe showcased much of this hard work – with products that are focused around their four pillars:
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Brent Kelly applies the Innovator's Dilemma litmus tests to WebRTC to determine if WebRTC is disruptive and truly innovative.
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Jane McGonigal and Chris Meyer to deliver keynote addressesSan Francisco, CA, July 15, 2013 -- Constellation Research, the research and advisory firm focused on how disruptive technologies transform business models today released the preliminary speaker list for the third-annual Connected Enterprise innovation summit. Connected Enterprise is Constellation’s annual innovation-focused executive retreat that is best described as TED for the Enterprise.
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Seeking The Rebels – Pioneers, Early Adopters, and Thought Leaders
Since we started Constellation Research in 2010, we have had a single mission – serve the market leaders and fast followers. Yet, finding these market leaders and fast followers was no easy task. These folks shrugged off the legacy analyst firms as they failed to swiftly recognize and validate trends for good reason. Why, the legacy analyst firms often ignored the needs of the business. These legacy analyst firms would rubber stamp already accepted ideas for their base of IT-centric cautious adopters and laggards years after the business had made key purchases. Just recently, a legacy analyst firm showcased their innovative research around a “nexus of forces” in 2013 that we identified in 2010!
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Jane McGonigal and Chris Meyer to deliver keynote addresses
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There has been a great deal of change in marketing practice over the last decade. There are new channels like social and mobile, new technologies like apps and new ways to measure effectiveness.To take account of the changes, ADMA is kicking off a consultation process to engage marketers with the aim of updating the ADMA Code of Practice by the end of the year. You can participate in a two minute survey on the code here.
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The Internet of Things has expanded in many directions: Smarter Planter, Internet of Everything, Industrial Internet and more, but is in danger of being a passing fancy, unless Sensor Analytics Ecosystems make it relevant.
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Today Oracle announced the availability of Cloud Application Foundation (CAF), and never shy, declared it the #1 Application Foundation across conventional and cloud environments. This is a key step for Oracle to integrate products and make it easier to built applications on the Oracle technology stack. We take a look at the announcement and present our takeaways.
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CEO Steve Ballmer published a long-awaiting memo this morning announcing corporate-wide organizational changes at Microsoft. Although the reorg includes changes across many Microsoft functions, what does it mean specifically for the Dynamics group, which is responsible for Microsoft's business applications?
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Over the last six months or so, I have taken a deep dive into the world of Marketing Automation, Digital Disruption and Mobility and Marketing Trends. And with every report, I see evidence of the situation playing over and over again – there is a growing distance between business and customers. It’s not just a gap anymore – it’s a chasm:
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Deadline for applications July 22, 2013 August 7, 2013The first awards to recognize pioneers, leaders, innovators who use technology to transform businessContinuing the SuperNova Award tradition, we’re searching for the boldest, most transformative technology projects out there. If you or someone you know has what it takes to compete in the SuperNova Awards, fill out the application here: http://www.constellationr.com/content/supernova-awards-application
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HANA in Review: I had the pleasure of being hosted by SAP for a fully loaded day of HANA briefings - and it was an information-rich and very interesting day. Needless to say, I learned a lot - and need to review my position on HANA to be more positive, as more progress has been made by SAP than I previously thought.
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Continuing to explore the new world of Knowledge Management thanks to my sponsored research model, right now with my friends at Coveo, I want to take a moment to focus on an often overused, always misunderstood, and seldom (to the best of my knowledge – no pun intended) related to knowledge metric of FCR (First […]
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