Constellation Research takeaways of Oracle OpenWorld
Listen to Natalie, Guy, Holger & Ray on their takeaways of Oracle OpenWorld. It was both a technology challenged (Holger lost network as moderator and could not rejoin in video & audio, Ray did...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending October 3rd 2014
So here is the video recap of the week ending October 3rd - enjoy:Here is what I am talking about in the recap:My takeaways form the Oracle HCM Analyst Meeting (read here)My takeaways from the Oracle...
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Event Report - IBM Enterprise - A lot of value for existing customers, but...
We had the opportunity to attend the IBM Enterprise conference in Las Vegas, the event that is attracting users of IBM’s STG (Server and Technology Group) products. Attendance rose by 30+% to over 3600...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending October 10th 2014
Here is my weekly video recap of the week ending October 10th 2014 - enjoy:Here is what I am talking about in the recap:HP splits in two - Enterprise and PCs & PrinterMy Event Report of IBM's...
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Musings - What are ‘true’ analytics - a manifesto
A lot is being called analytics today – so it’s time to remind ourselves what ‘true’ analytics really are – and with that calling out the abusers of the term analytics to consider using their offerings...
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News Analysis - IBM and SAP partner for cloud success - good move
Earlier today IBM and SAP announced a partnership to move the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud onto IBM’s cloud, powered by SoftLayer. So let’s dissect the press releases in our typical new analysis and...
View ArticleConstellation Research Video Takeaways of Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2014
Listen to Natalie, Alan & Holger on their takeaways of Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2014 We are talking about the new announcementsAnalytics cloud powered by Wave (read press release here)Lightning...
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Event Report – Salesforce Dreamforce – A Customer Success Platform, Analytics...
We had the opportunity to attend the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week. The conference has only gotten bigger, and probably better. There are more Salesforce customers, developers and...
View ArticleConstellation Research Video Takeaways from Salesforce Dreamforce 2014
Natalie, Alan and me recorded a hangout on Day #3 of Dreamforce, sharing our takeaways:Here is what we talk about:Salesforce positions as the Customer Success PlatformSalesforce launches its 6th cloud...
View ArticleHR Tech Conference 2014 - Holger Mueller's Takeaways
I attended this year's HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas - and as usual the show was massive, tons of vendors, too many announcements to keep the overview, etc. And a lot of briefings - so instead of...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending October 17th 2014
Here is my weekly video recap of the week ending October 17th 2014 - enjoy:Here is what I am talking about in the recap:Time to look what analytics really means - a manifesto - read hereAlan Lepofsky's...
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Musings - Are we witnessing the rise of the enterprise cloud?
There can be no question that the ‘cloud’ is transforming the way enterprise applications are created, operated and consumed. It affects the results of established players - see e.g. IBM CEO Rometty...
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Event Report - SAP's SAPtd - (Finally) more talk on PaaS, good progress and...
Earlier this week I had the chance to attend SAP’s developer conference in Las Vegas, SAP TechEd && dcode (SAPtd). It was a larger event than last year with over 6000 attendees - and it was...
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New Analysis - Amazon AWS spricht jetzt Deutsch - The cloud wars reach...
Not as a big surprise – it was rumored for some time – Amazon AWS today announced that it has opened another AWS region, based in Frankfurt, Germany.So let’s digest the press release in our typical...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending October 24th 2014
Here is my weekly recap of the week of October 24th:My 'True Analytics' post has gotten some attention, my attention is merely to share my view on what analytics are all about - and it's good to see...
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First Take - IBM Insight Day 1 Keynote - BigData, Analytics, Content, Watson...
We have the opportunity to attend IBM Insight currently happening in Las Vegas, with over 12k+ attendees, Insight is the largest IBM conference, centering on BigData, Analytics, Content and of course...
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Customer Case Study - Constellation SuperNova Award Winner - RMH Franchise...
Once a year - at the yearly Constellation Connected Enterprise conference, we award innovative executives in each of our research areas. It was my honor this year to award the winner in our research...
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Event Report - IBM Insight 2014 - Is it all coming together for IBM in 2015?...
We had the chance to attend IBM Insight, which was attended by well over 12000 attendees at the Mandalay Bay convention center in Las Vegas. I already blogged my Day 1 takeaways here. After many IBM...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending October 31st 2014
Here is my weekly recap of the week of October 31st:First Take about IBM Insight Day 1 Keynote - read hereConstellation Research Connected Enterprise event at the Ritz Carlton on Half Moon BayThe...
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First Take - Top 3 Takeaways of Workday Rising Day 1 Keynote - The dawn of...
We had the opportunity to attend Workday’s Rising conference held at Moscone Center in San Francisco this year. It was good to see that the conference is growing - we are lacking official attendee...
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