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Future of Work - One spreadsheet at a time
Whenever people need to do anything with numbers in a professional environment – Microsoft Excel is the tool at hand. Most enterprise desktops come with a full Microsoft Office suite and with that...
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First Take - SAP’s SuccessConnect - Top 3 Takeaways Day 1 Keynote
We have the opportunity to attend SAP’s SuccessConnect conference in Las Vergas, the user conference of the former SuccessFactors. In opening Mike Ettling said that attendance is at a record with over...
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News Analysis - HP acquired Eucalyptus - Genius or Panic on Page Mill Road?
Quite a surprise this morning when news was out that HPacquiredEucalyptus. A surprise because HP had previously firmly committed to OpenStack and its related benefits, and become the largest OpenStack...
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Progress Report - The mainframe is alive and kicking - but there is more in...
I had the opportunity to attend the yearly STG (Server Technology Group) analyst meeting in Greenwich earlier this week. STG is the 4th division in Steve Mills responsibility area of IBM – which by...
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SAP SuccessFactors picks up speed - but there remains work to be done
SAP SuccessFactor’s yearly North America user conference, SuccessConnect concluded this week in Las Vegas. It was the largest SuccessConnect ever, with over 2200 attendees, a good indicator that the...
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Challenges in Customer Service - Today - The Mirage Las Vegas
Every now and then I go off topic and to some of my older enterprise passions, as I started out my professional career in CRM, originally in Sales Force Automation, but that quickly expanded to overall...
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First Take - Infor’s Inforum - Top 3 Day 1 Keynote Takeaways
We have the opportunity to attend Infor’s user conference Inforum in New Orleans - which is well attended with over 6000 participants. Here are my Top 3 Takeaways from the Day 1 keynote:Infor Xi -...
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HANA Cloud Platform - Revisited - Improvements ahead and turning into a real...
I am sure SAP executives would probably play back the whole HANA marketing and product naming story if they could - given the confusion that was created in the initial enthusiasm around the HANA in...
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Market Move - Cisco wants to buy Metacloud - getting more into the cloud game
This morning Cisco announced its intent to acquire Pasadena based Metacloud. It has been quiet over at Cisco since the launch of the Cisco Intercloud earlier this year. So it’s a good sign we some...
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Event Report - Infor's Inforum - It was all about verticals, now it is...
I had the opportunity to attend Infor’s yearly user conference in New Orleans. The event was very attended with over 6000 participants and was filled with pretty strategic announcements for Infor,...
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SAP strikes again - this time it is Concur - and the push into spend management
It was rumored for quite a while, that SAP may acquire Concur. After SAP acquired Ariba a few years back and Fieldglass this year (we covered earlier here) - it was only a matter of time till the...
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Progress Report - ADP shows great vision, delivers product innovation, now it...
We were invited to ADP’s yearly analyst summit in their brand new Innovation Center in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. What was an empty floor plan back during my first visit in April this year –...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - September 19th 2014
Time to try something new - tackling the highlights of the week in video - as they flew by me...[Bear through the initial bad audio, the magic of Google Hangouts makes it better soon.]So here are the...
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Musings - Is Transboarding the future of People Talent Management?
I recently was asked at a conference if Onboarding was more part of Recruiting or Succession Management… which reminded me of this musings post that I wanted to blog since a long time…Lets look how the...
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Progress Report - Workday supports more cloud standards - but work remains
We were invited to the yearly Workday Technology Summit in the beautiful Golden Gate Club in the San Francisco Presidio. More than 20 analysts and influencers spent a full day with Workday executives...
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5 Questions for Apple - Or how good product development practices matters
I have been looking at the challenges that Apple has been facing with its iPhone since quite a while. And to go on record before that - the iPhone has transformed the smartphone industry, just this...
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What I would like Oracle to address this OpenWorld
I wrote a long - covering all what Oracle does - post last year before Oracle’s OpenWorld conference - you can find it here. Re-reading it before writing this post I found it surprisingly accurate -...
View ArticleWeekly Recap Week of September 26th
So here is my video recap of what I saw flying by in the week ending September 26th:Looks like my Parrot Zik lead to a better sound quality. Enjoy.[The piano in the background is our 8 year old...
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Progress Report - Oracle HCM gathers momentum - now it needs to build on that
We had the opportunity to attend the Oracle HCM analyst session that was held before the official start of Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Together with almost two handful of analyst colleagues we...
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Event Report - Oracle OpenWorld - Oracle's vision and remaining work become...
5 Days of Oracle OpenWorld are over and it is time to look at the takeaways. Given the length of the conference, the number of briefings (Oracle had 38 meetings scheduled for me) and the number of...
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