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After spending more than 25 years building enterprise applications, and realizing that I will have probably another 25 years to work, I took some time to reflect, on how I want to spend the rest of my working years...
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[Tweetstream]As part of the Vivid Ideas Festival, innovator, Michelle Williams (founder of Ideaction) curated a knock out event designed to transform the thinking of business, creative and innovation professionals. The resulting one day conference brought together an eclectic mix of speakers, audience members and yes, active participants.
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Enterprise software veteran joins Constellation Research to provide coverage of cloud services with an emphasis on applicability to practitioners.Today Constellation Research announced the addition of Holger Mueller to the research team as Vice President and Principal Analyst. Mueller’s research will add depth to Constellation’s business research themes: Technology Optimization & Innovation, Data to Decisions, and Consumerization of Technology & The New C-Suite.
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Enterprise software veteran joins Constellation Research to provide coverage of cloud services with an emphasis on applicability to practitioners.SAN DIEGO, California– Constellation Research, Inc., the award-winning research and advisory firm focused on d
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Information technology goes far beyond the realm of enterprise IT. New technologies, such as big data, mobile applications, and cloud computing hold promise in addressing many of the world's great problems, while at the same time offering strategic advantage for businesses. Corporate IT leaders, therefore, need to reach outside their narrow focus on ongoing support to incorporate these new technologies to deliver business value.
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Have you ever wondered why marketing and advertising is such hard work?We are constantly trying to change the way that people behave and think – positioning brands and businesses in the centre of a relationship that is only ever on the peripheral of our customers’ worlds. And while for us – for the business owner, brand manager or agency – there is a real centrality to our relationship with the brand, it is simply not the case for the vast majority of the people that we want to talk to.
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Infosys announced on June 1st, 2013, that Mr. N R Narayana Murthy (NRN), the legendary co-founder of Infosys who retired in August 2011 as Chairman Emeritus, has been appointed by the board as Executive Chairman and a director. From the press release: Mr. N R Narayana Murthy said, “This calling was sudden, unexpected, and most unusual. But, then, Infosys is my middle child. Therefore, I have put aside my plans-in-progress and accepted this responsibility. I am grateful to Mr. K V Kamath – the Chairman, the Board, and every Infoscion for giving me this opportunity. I intend to do my best to add value to the Company in this challenging situation.”
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You know what it’s like when inspiration hits … an idea galvanises in your mind like a bolt of electricity, sending your pulse racing. And the more you think on it, the more you feel your nerve fibres tingling.But what happens when you tell someone about your idea? Your mouth dries. The words tumble out one on top of the other … you get tongue tied, excited and afraid. What happens if someone steals your brilliance? What if your idea is no good?...
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Many posts and articles have been written on how the HR function is somehow at a disconnect with the rest of the business. A perennial leitmotiv has been the question on how HR affects the business in a positive way - versus just trying to avoid that managers or the company do not get sued. So it all comes back to creating more value out of the HR function for the rest of the enterprise.
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Anyone interested in human behaviour knows how difficult it can be to change a personal habit. But trying to change habits within a culture add layers of complexity that can boggle the mind.Which is why this latest move from Twitter has me intrigued.
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One of the presentations I look most forward to on a yearly level are KPCB's Mary Meeker's 'State of the Internet' presentations. These days she releases them as the 1st speaker of the AllThingsD conference - and thankfully they are available on slideshare immediately afterwards. Somehow Mary manages to always have some interesting trends up the sleeve, that at least I have not seen at all seen or not seen with that relevance... so why not check out what this year's presentation held for the enterprise?
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One of the amazing things about the web is that we are constantly in a state of renewal. We read, consume, engage and move on. Great ideas, applications, innovations – and even people – come into our sphere of attention and leave. Sometimes without a trace. Or sometimes with only a line or two in our memory. A feeling. A sense of pride or loss.I remember watching Carnegie Mellon University professor, Randy Pausch deliver his “last lecture...
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Constellation Sees An Alarming Increase In Inquiries
Constellation has received an alarming increase in inquiries about an unethical vendor sales practice coined as “trolling for indirect access”. Indirect access is when a vendor claims that a client is accessing their perpetually licensed software in an unintentional manner or inappropriately licensed manner. One vendor uses a definition of, “any individual or machine that accesses the computing capabilities of the software must be a licensed user”. Another vendor sees it as “any time a system is accessed by a non-vendor system, a license is required to access that data”
In fact, a rash of inquiries over the past two quarters has raised the alarm bells among software customers.
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It is important to understand what WebRTC can do for you, but it is equally important to understand what WebRTC may do to you.IntroductionWebRTC is an emerging standard that enables real-time voice, video and data sharing in a Web browser without the need for browser plugins. Potentially billions of devices supporting a browser--PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets and a host of new devices--from a variety of manufacturers will be real-time communications-enabled. Whereas browsers have typically interacted only with one or more Web servers, WebRTC allows browsers to exchange media and data with one another directly and in a secure manner.
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Hard Times And Good Will Drive The Disownership Movement
From car sharing in the late 1990′s, to vacation rentals, to collaborative financing, the sharing economy has been inching it’s way into the forefront of the consumer’s minds. Since the late 2000′s, thought leaders such as Rachel Botsman, Lisa Ganksy, Anne-Sophie Novel, have been chronicling the forces, underlying trends, and players behind the movement. During the past five years, several poster children have emerged including AirBnB, DogVacay, Fon, GetAround, LendingClub, Liquid (Spin Lister), Lyft, Neighborgoods, Poshmark, Relay Rides, SideCar, Task Rabbit, Zaarly, and ZipCar.
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If there is one thing I love, its when people are publicly honest. Or self-deprecatingly honest. Or self-deprecatingly honest in public. But I love this even more when the person at the centre of the confession is famous. Or hyper-famous, like Lindsay Lohan.
So, imagine that you are the brand manager for eHarmony, the dating site, and you notice that your social media mentions are going through the roof. What could it be? A crisis? A catastrophe? Another cat picture?
Maybe it’s a parody by Funny or Die. Featuring Lindsay Lohan.
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SuccessConnect – Where Talent and Social Collide at the SuccessFactors Conference
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I am always going to love an Elvis quote. We don’t see enough of it in the world of business. And we should. After all, he was “The King”.
So this quick guide to unhackable passwords from McAfee and Intel caught my attention straight away.
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Today we presented the webinar "Ten Things CIOs NEED to Know About WebRTC". Here are a few highlights from the event:...
Also available are the webinar recording and presentation deck
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I am a fan of deep thinking. Really I am. And I am a fan of long copy advertising. Documentaries. And books. Those old fashioned paper products that immerse you in other worlds. I love them and collect them and will continue to do so.
Each of these sing to my soul. They ground me in a way that other things cannot. And they tap into my sense of self. My sense of purpose. My reason for being.
But while I love ideas and the way that they can inspire others, what happens when the energy of that moment wanes? What happens when the talk stops and you find yourself alone and unguarded. What then?
That’s when your reason for doing takes over.
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IBM Watson Engagement Advisor Brings Supercomputing Power to Customer Support
IBM Watson Engagement Advisor redefines the delivery of customer service. This new supercomputer processes huge amounts of data and “understands” it with astounding speed. Watson provides an opportunity for companies to transform how they deliver support to customers. It may finally be the breakthrough application that supercharges the adoption of self-service. While not every customer service organization may need such powerful computing, the potential breakthroughs are unlimited and deserve a closer look.
On May 20th Flickr announced their new design as well as new account plans and storage options. As a long time Flickr Pro user, there are a few things I wanted to understand before making a decision about how I'll use Flickr in the future. Since I was finding it difficult to understand the changes, I created the following spreadsheet and asked the world to help me fill it in. (go crowd-sourcing!)
I had always used a Pro account because of the need for more than 300MB of storage, but now with a 1 TB available in the free account I (along with almost everyone I've heard from) will most likely switch to the new free account. Yes, there will be ads, but I live with them in Gmail, Facebook and other free services. What I don't like is that it appears the detailed analytics will be going away. I enjoyed being able to see which of my photos, sets and collections were being viewed, liked and commented on.
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If NetSuite is going to continue its growth, reported at 28% last year in its core business, it really has no choice but to pursue manufacturing customers. Manufacturers are the largest market for ERP systems and therefore an attractive target for NetSuite's development efforts. Although manufacturers have been slower to embrace cloud computing than many other sectors have, the situation is rapidly changing. Manufacturing companies are increasingly open to cloud ERP. Sometimes, in fact, they only want to look at cloud solutions. In other words, NetSuite is at the right place at the right time.
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The case for investing in five emerging technologies for extraordinary customer serviceSAN FRANCISCO CA – May 16, 2013 Constellation Research, Inc. the research and advisory firm focused on disruptive technologies announced today the publication of “Compelling Investments for Extraordinary Service”, by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Elizabeth Herrell. This report helps customer service organizations identify quantifiable value for deploying emerging technologies and steps to build a business case for justifying new investmentsThis report highlights five key technologies that all customer service organizations should evaluate as these technologies create new revenues, lower service costs, and positively enhance customer experience.
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