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Comments on "5+ garages to service your car? Sure"
Here is my comment in 'one run' to fitzecarraldo's comment here: @fitzecarraldo: Likewise - nice meeting you. At this point it seems I cannot comment on my own blog.... need to debug what is going on...
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Amazon's AWS powers on - Day 1
This was Amazon's first developer conference - so I thought it would be important to spend some observation time and thought cycles on what they presented and announced in the keynotes around what I...
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An evening with Gil Amelio
Thanks to TiE Southcoasta small audience was treated to some interesting insights by an industry icon, Gil Amelio, former CEO of Apple and National Semiconductor. Here are some of the takeaways from...
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Why Oracle is buying ACME Packets
Before market opening Oracle announced the intent to acquire ACME Packet (ACME), subject to ACME shareholder approval and the usual regulatory details. It's Oracle's first acquisition of 2013 and...
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How Blackberry 10 matters to the enterprise
After significant delays RIM - now renamed as Blackberry - has launched it's Blackberry 10 (BB10) operating system - or as the company refers to - a platform. Reviews are genuinely positive with the...
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Why is analytics so hard? Or: The holy grail
I have been going over this for a while and today a twitter interaction with @DAHowlett, @InFullBloom and @JimHolincheck put me into action - thanks for the jolt!Let's look at the scope, as I...
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Takeaways from Oracle Cloudworld LA
I had the pleasure to attend Oracle CloudWorld in Los Angeles last week - it was a good opportunity to catch up on where Oracle's latest efforts around the cloud are. The conference was part of a...
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UIX done right!? Dexplora for salesforce.com
In an interesting development today, Dexplora got their iOS app GetSalesDone approved for salesforce.com. For those you who haven't heard of Dexplora before - it's a Swedish startup, formed by a former...
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A Persona Driven Innovation Model (PDIM)
In my recent post about the adoption of analytics (or 'Why is Analytics so hard'). I referred to an innovation model that has been firing synapses in my brain since quite a while, so it's about time...
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5 Reasons why it's good, that Oracle customers don't know about Fusion!
Forrester Research grabbed some headlines on the news services this week with a report titled: "Oracle's Dilemma: Applications Unlimited Versus Oracle Fusion Applications". In true tradition of...
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Next in your mall... SAP and Oracle!?
In today news we learnt, that Google is likely going to follow Apple, Blackberry and Microsoft with opening stores in malls. Google has tested this strategy already in Dixon's outlets in the UK and...
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6 Misunderstandings of Analytics
I had the pleasure today to join the #AnalyticsChat "How the Next-Gen CMO Harnesses Analytics" hosted by Gavin Heaton (@ServantOfChaos) from Constellation Research Group. It was a blast of tweets, a...
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Why Application Unlimited is a good strategy for Oracle customers and Oracle
I am getting surprised how Oracle's Application Unlimited (AU) program is getting a bad reputation in the news and blogsphere recently... probably all triggered by the recent Forresterreport that is...
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What will Michael Wu have for dinner? Or: What's right data - Small vs Big
Following the AnalyticsChat earlier this week Michael Wu (@mich8elwu) kept tweeting on a specific question that Michael brought up - is predicting what he will have for dinner a 'small' data problem...
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A new software category - User Experience Software?
The other week Dexplora from Sweden garnered some attention in the news services with their release of a iPhone front end to salesforce dubbed 'getsalesdone'. You can read my review here.Spending some...
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Why SAP acquired SmartOps
Late on Friday SAP issued a press release about their acquisition of privately held SmartOps. The acquisition is minor and supposed to conclude this calendar quarter. An acquisition from the...
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Life in transition is hard - SAP HCM
Following the attention my posts around Oracle's Application Unlimited program have gotten, it was interesting to see how SAP's David Ludlow (@dHRLudlow) solved the challenge of new and old products...
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How many Pivots make a Pirouette? Salesforce's latest Pivot
Earlier this week salesforce unveiled a new marketing tagline to the public. The message was carefully planted, shared with media and advisers earlier, then employees, and now a selected and small...
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I am worried about ... Workday
By all means Workday has been a picture book success story. A charismatic and iconic leader of the enterprise software industry with Dave Duffield, a talented day to day CEO with Aneel Bushri, an...
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Why SAP acquired Camilion
Looks like SAP is getting into the acquisition grove, last week it wasSmartOps, this week with Camilion. No financial terms were disclosed and no timeline for the acquisition was mentioned. An(other)...
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