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Progress Report - Infosys Analyst Meeting - Can you transform customers while...
We had the opportunity to attend the Infosys Analyst Summit held in Orlando with close to 100 analyst colleagues. It was a key opportunity to check-in with the vendor given we are reaching the 100 day...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week of November 7th 2014
Here is my weekly recap of the week of November 7th:Top 3 Takeaways from the Workday Rising Keynote - read hereProgress Report - Infosys Analyst Meeting - Can you transform customers while you...
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First Take - KronosWorks - Day 1 Keynote - R&D Investment, Customer Success...
Kronos started its yearly KronosWorks user conference at the beautiful Aria Hotel in Las Vegas with 2500+ attendees. Here are my Top 3 takeaways from the keynote:Kronos invests in R&D - Kronos...
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AWS gives infrastructure insights - and it is very passionate about it
One of the highlights of last year’s re:invent was James Hamilton talk about the inner workings of AWS, so when it was James time to talk at the analyst summit here at AWS re:invent 2014 it was for...
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News Analysis - SAP appoints a CTO - some musings
On November 10th SAP announced the hiring of a new CTO, Quentin Clark, joining the product team working for Bernd Leukert immediately. So let’s dissect the press release our usual news analysis...
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Event Report - Amazon re:invent - AWS becomes more PaaS on in-house IP
Amazon’s yearly user conference re:invent winds down, and it was an announcement filled and action packed week in Las Vegas. The conference had over 13k+ attendees, with a huge global contingent, I...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending November 14th 2014
Here is my weekly recap of the week of November 7th:Here are the blog posts of the week:First Take - Kronos KronosWorks - Day 1 Keynote - R&D Investment, Customer Success and Analytics - read...
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Musings - The Dilemma with Cloud Infrastrcuture Upgrades
The recent outage that occurred for Microsoft Azure prompted me to collect some thoughts on the challenges of upgrading cloud infrastructure. The inherent challenge of cloud infrastructures is also...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - week of November 24th 2014
Here are my notes for the week ending November 24th: What happened this week... A nightime / early morning ride from Houston to Dallas / Ft. WorthPresented on Cloud & Security at IDG Roadmap in...
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Musings – Time to re-invent email – for real!
The recent weeks and days have shown a lot of movement in the email space – with IBM announcing Verse and Microsoft buying accompli recently.It’s simply fascinating to me that the piece of software...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Weeks of November 28th and December 5th 2014
Here are my takeaways of the two weeks:And here is the content:IBM Datapower - now embedded in the BlueMix PaaSContinuent (now VMware) - good integration process, now looking at adding BigData...
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News Analysis - IBM had a very good year in the cloud - but 2015 will be key
This morning IBM summed up its achievements of its IBM cloud business and it was worth a new analysis. So we dissect the press release (can be found here) in our usual style:ARMONK, N.Y. - 17 December...
View ArticleWeekly Recap - Week ending December 12th 2014
Another week - another recap done (late, soory).So here is the content:Webinar with Cornerstone - Unified vs. integrated Talent Management Webinar with TideMark / Proformative - New trends for FP&A...
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Market Move - Oracle buys Datalogix - Moves more into DaaS
This morning we learned that Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Datalogix, the provider of consumer data that fuels marketing campaigns. Instead of dissecting the press release in the usual...
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Re-Post - 9 Actions to consider before 2015
Every year we try to make a recommendation of what should be top of mind for CxO for the coming year - and were asked to re-post on our personal blogs - so here you go:9 Actions to Consider Before...
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2014 HCM Highlights - Month by Month
End of the year is a good time to review on what happened through the last 12 months – so I took a look at what made me blog about vendor events. Of course there are many other ways to look at this,...
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2014 Cloud and Next Generation Applications Highlights - Month by Month
After using the format for the HCM 2014 highlights, I will re-use the same for the cloud and next generation Applications in this post: So basically I revisited my blog posts of 2014 and determined...
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Facebook and LinkedIn tackle the enterprise – what are the implications for...
In not really surprising lockstep social network giants Facebook and LinkedIn announced enterprise offerings. For Facebook it is ‘Facebook at Work’ – bringing all the social tools of feeds, posts,...
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First Take - SAP's IoT Strategy becomes clearer....
Like many industry observers, I was also surprised when SAP started to prominently feature IoT as a key message by mid of 2014. Not that IoT is not an important trend and a key strategy to transform...
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Oracle discovers the power of the two socket server - or: A pivot that wasn't...
Last week Oracle provided an update on its engineered systems – mainly the launch of the new X-5 line. When Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison took the stage – he had a surprise in the bag that few counted...
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