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News Analysis - VMware makes progress towards the (hybrid) cloud - now let's...
VMware seems to have made February the month of the cloud and is promising 28 days of Cloud Insight (see more here). VMware execs must be pretty confident that they have enough material – as they did...
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First Take - SAP launches S/4HANA - The good, the challenge & the concern
On February 3rd SAP announced what the vendor called its biggest product announcement since the launch of the venerable R/3 system back in 1992. It is always a pleasure to witness a product launch,...
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Analyst Event Best Practices - A year in review
As an analyst you attend a lot of events every year, user conferences and analyst briefings being the most prominent event types. So looking at the year in review – let me comment on some Dos and...
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Market Move – Vector Capital takes Saba Software Private
Today we learnt that Saba Software (Saba) is being taken private by San Francisco headquartered Vector Capital (Vector). The deal is valued at 400M US$ (see here) - setting the Saba stock price at 9...
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Research Preview: 9 Cloud Trends Every CxO Needs to Know in 2015
In the digital age, the cloud has transitioned from the responsibility of the CIO to the responsibility of the entire C-suite. Cloud computing has morphed from a simple utility into a running a set...
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Progress Report - SAP HCM makes progress and consolidates - a lot of moving...
SAP had their yearly analyst meeting in San Francisco and it was a good time to catch up on overall progress almost 6 months after SuccessConnect in Las Vegas (my takeaways here). Before we embark,...
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News Analysis - Pivotal pivots to Open Source and Hortonworks - or: Open...
This morning Pivotal informed the world on three major announcements, the creation of a BigData Product Suite, a partnership with Hortonworks and the launch of an ‘Open Data Platform’. All three...
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First Take - SAP Cloud for Planning - The next spreadsheet killer is off to a...
I had the pleasure to attend a FP&A conference yesterday (#FPAWest) – conveniently located here in San Diego. SAP chose the event to launch a new product – ‘SAP Cloud for planning’, so let me share...
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First Take - IBM InterConnect Day #1 Keynote - BlueMix, SoftLayer, Watson
It is end of February and it is time to make it to Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect, the new mega IBM event, combining three separate previous events. Spanning from Mandalay Bay to MGM Grand it will for...
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New Research: Inside the 9 Cloud Trends Every CXO Needs to Know in 2015
Last week I published a report, Inside the 9 Cloud Trends Every CXO Needs to Know in 2015. This report asses the state of the cloud market and identifies nine trends influencing cloud technology....
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Event Report - IBM InterConnect - IBM makes bets for the hybrid cloud
We had the opportunity to attend the newly created IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas this week. The conference was very well attended with over 25k attendees, over 40% being first time...
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Market Move - HP acquires Aruba – It’s about Wifi – not the Caribbean
Ont the morning of March 2nd 2015 the long rumored acquisition of Aruba Networks by HP came through with the official press release (find it here). So let’s dissect it New Analysis style:PALO ALTO,...
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Progress Report – Ceridian executes on product – next challenge –...
We were invited to the Ceridian Analyst Summit in San Francisco earlier this week, and the vendor organized a great event. The event itself was extended from one to one and half days, with the first...
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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...
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Progress Report - Cloudera's is all in with Hadoop - off to verticals
We had the opportunity to attend the yearly Cloudera analyst meeting at the beautiful historic Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco. The vendor had a remarkable audience of almost 40 analysts attending,...
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First Take - ADP Meeting of the Minds - Day #1 Keynote
We are attending ADP’s Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) in Nashville. The conference is well attended, targeted at ADP’s North American national accounts, with over 1100 client attendees from over 550...
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News Analysis - Pivotal makes CloudFoundry more about multi-cloud
On March 24th Pivotal announced that it will support deployments to Amazon Web Services (AWS) per ‘one click’ from its Cloud Foundry product.So let’s dissect the press release in the usual news...
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Event Report - ADP Meeting of the Minds - It’s all coming together for ADP in...
We had the opportunity to attend the 2015 edition of ADP’s Meeting of the Minds user conference, which is targeted to the large enterprise customers of ADP. The conference was very well attended, with...
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First Take - Ultimate HCM UltiConnect Day #1 Keynote
We have the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s user conference #UltiConnect in Las Vegas. The conference is well attended, with a record 2400 attendees. So let’s look at the top 3...
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First Take - Oracle HCM World Thursday Keynote - off to a good start
We have the opportunity to attend Oracle’s 2nd overall dedicated HCM event – that is taking place in Maryland this year. The event is well attended – but I have not been able to get to any official...
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