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Event Report - ADP ReThink 2019 - Global Customer Success, TMBC and a great...

We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s ReThink conference, held from January 29th till 31st 2019 in Berlin. Attendance was over 250 attendees, it is a pretty exclusive event. ADP always does an...

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News Analysis - IBM Unveils New Offerings for Faster and More Secured Path to...

Since about a year IBM is pushing the pedal again on cloud, hybrid cloud more specifically. Adding the RedHat acquisition, IBM now has several products and services to position. Having consolidated all...

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Musings - SAP democratizes Product Development - what does it mean for...

This is an overdue post, which I should really have written back when it was announced that Bernd Leukert was changing roles starting in 2019… now reality has caught up, and Leukert is leaving not only...

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Musings - Apple Services Event 2019

Apple had its long anticipated services event in Cupertino on the 25th of March. Not surprisingly, Apple announced a news, TV service. The gaming service was expected somewhat. The real surprise was...

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Progress Report - SAP Cloud Analyst Summit 2019 - Intelligent Suite and...

We had the opportunity to attend the yearly SAP Cloud analyst meeting, held from March 6th till 7th in Salt Lake City. It was co-located with Qualtrics X4 Summit user conference, a good move to get the...

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News Analysis - SAP keeps - re-organizing - Fox-Martin in charge of...

Late on a Friday night in Germany SAP issued a press release that Robert Enslin is leaving the company. The organizational consequence was that of Jennifer Morgan taking over the Cloud Business Group,...

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Event Report - Oracle Modern Business Experience - MBX - the Future of Work...

We had the opportunity to attend Oracle Modern Business Experience (MBX) event, held in Las Vegas from March 18th till 21st at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. A new event for Oracle, that is...

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Event Report - Google Next 2019 - Google puts more arrows in the cloud quiver

We had the opportunity to attend Google Next 2019, held from April 9th till 11th 2019 at the Moscone Center and adjacent hotels in San Francisco. Attendance with over 30k registrants (my estimate about...

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Event Report - ADP Meeting of the Minds - Wisely front and center - and the...

We had the opportunity to attend ADP yearly user conference  “Meeting of the Minds” (MOTM), held from March 31st till April 3rd, 2019. Attendance with over 1100 attendees, the usual attendance of MOTM,...

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Event Report - Ultimate Software Connections Conference - More mobile, more...

We had the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s yearly user conference, Ulti Connect, held from April 1st till 5th 2019 at the Wynn Conference Center in Las Vegas. The event has moved from the...

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Progress Report - Workday Innovation Summit 2019 - Workday doubles down on AI...

We had the opportunity to attend Workday’s yearly analyst meeting, now known as Workday Innovation Summit, held from April 22ndtill 24th 2019 at the stunning scenic Cavallo Point, across from San...

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New Offering Launch - Oracle Exadata X8 - How a 10 year innovation spree...

Few products in cloud software / platforms are around for 10 or more years, Oracle Exadata just turned ten years old and joined that illustrious club. Let's look at what the underlying importance and...

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Progress Report - ADP Analyst Day 2019 - Ready for Prime Time

We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s yearly analyst day, held from September 12th till 13th at the vendor’s innovation labs in New York City. As usual well attended by the analyst and influencer...

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New Offering Launch - Oracle Exadata X8M - The fastest platform to run the...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2019, held in San Francisco from September 16th till 19th, Oracle unveiled Oracle Exadata X8M, the latest member of the Exadata family. Oracle ExaData X8M is remarkable, as it...

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Musings - What enterprises want from their HCM Suites

Earlier this year Constellation published its Market Overview for HCM Suites. Currently I am in the midst of writing the Offering Overviews of the eight vendors that were part of the Market Overview....

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Market Move News Analysis - Kronos and Ultimate Software Enter Definitive...

This morning, news broke, originally over the Wall Street Journal, that Kronos and Ultimate Software are merging. Long rumored, asked for and denied, this merger is now happening. Time for a merged...

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Musings - IBM's 10th CEO takes the reins - Krishna has his work cut out for him

Today it became official, Arvind Krishna succeeds Ginny Rometty as CEO at IBM. A technology company that has only had 10 CEOs since 1911, starting as Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) in...

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News Analysis - SAP Co-Chief Executive Officer Christian Klein Continues as...

In the night before its earnings call for Q1 2020, SAP surprised (probably) all of us with another change in its executive team, ending the dual CEO structure with Christian Klein and Jennifer Morgan....

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Event Report - IBM Think 2020 - Hybrid Cloud, AI, Quantum and more

IBM had to cancel the physical Think 2020 conference and go to a digital format like many other conferences. As the first major vendor event going digital, IBM had to set a yardstick in terms of...

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New Offering Launch - Oracle Boosts Developer Velocity with Autonomous JSON...

More Time to Code, Less Time Lost on Admin/OpsIntroductionOracle introduced a new offering of its technology stack on August 13, 2020: Autonomous JSON Database. Autonomous JSON Database joins the...

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Musings - Seven lessons enterprises can learn from Yogi Löw

As a lifelong soccer fan, watching international major international soccer events is a firm social event for my social network, family, friends and more. And while a German native, I am past any...

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Market Move – Ceridian acquires ADAM HCM, becoming a Caribbean and Latin...

It has been quiet on the global payroll front in general – the biggest news of the year has been incremental addition of countries by practically all major global HCM vendors (see here for the Market...

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Event Report - IBM Quantum Partner Forum 2023 - Quantum is alive and well at IBM

IBM invited its partners for three days to the IBM Innovation Lab in Paris, to share progress in quantum as well as provide partner the chance to educate each other, share progress and state of their...

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Musings - Debunking your vendor's Generative AI Hype

We are midway through the fall conference cycle, and it is time to take stock on where vendors are in the uptake of generative AI…  Here are eight questions to ask the vendor to separate the hype from...

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Nine lessons CxOs can learn from Julian Nagelsmann

 A few year back I published my blog post “Seven lessons enterprises can learn from Yogi Löw’ (find it here) – pointing out the similarities of challenges, opportunities and mistakes that are common...

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