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First Take - SapphireNow - Bernd Leukert & Steve Singh - Day #2 Keynote
This morning we had the opportunity to attend the Day #2 keynote at Sapphire in Orlando. It was the traditional product day with both Bernd Leukert and Steve Singh on stage.So here are my Top3...
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Progress Report - Oracle HCM moves from essentials to differentiators - will...
We had the opportunity to attend the Oracle HCM Analyst Summit in Redwood Shores recently. This was the largest analyst attendance ever for an Oracle HCM Cloud event and it is a proof point for Oracle...
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First Take - Ultimate Software 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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Event Report - SAP Sapphire - Top 3 Positives and Concerns
SAP invited me to attend Sapphire and I gladly attended the conference in Orlando. I missed the attendance number, but I’d say it was the same like last year. The exhibitor area of the show floor was...
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News Analysis - Cornerstone OnDemand Announces Cornerstone Edge, the 1st PaaS...
In the early hours before its yearly user conference Convergence in downtown Los Angeles, Cornerstone made an important announcement on its product capability, announcing a PaaS.So let’s dissect the...
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News Analysis - Informatica's Sohaib Abbasi Showcases Innovations For The Age...
At this morning’s keynote Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi made a number of key product announcements, which all have an impact on Informatica’s customers, partners and the vendor itself.So let’s dissect...
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Progress Report - Cornerstone innovates with Analytics, PaaS and Learning,...
We had the opportunity to attend Cornerstone’s yearly user conference, Convergence in Los Angeles, taking place from May 12th-14th 2015. The conference is well attended with over 1500 attendees, a good...
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Event Report - Informatica World 2015 - Product Progress and New Approaches
We had the opportunity to attend Infomatica’s user conference Informatica World, happening this week in Las Vegas at the beautiful Cosmopolitan property in Las Vegas. The conference is well attended...
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Progress Report - Acumatica shows good progress on its unique path
We were invited to the first Acumatica analyst summit in Boston this week. For a vendor’s first event of this type, the summit was very well attended with key analysts in the audience, certainly kudos...
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News Analysis - Google does it again (lower prices for Google Cloud...
This morning’s Google release the news about more price reductions for Google Cloud Platform, with the catchy tag line ‘pay less, compute Moore’. Yes Moore (and not more) as Google has promised to pass...
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Event Report - Alteryx Inspire - Positive Growth on Product, Go to Market and...
We had the opportunity to attend Alteryx user conference this week in Boston, held at the Westin hotel (, which did not win a prize for its elevator service). The conference was well attended with 850+...
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Market Move - EMC to acquire Virtustream - More paths to the cloud
EMC surprised the cloud sphere with its intent to acquire Virtustream. This marks the first separate cloud move of EMC since a while [Update - EMC points out that it did acquisitions of CloudScaling,...
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News Analysis - Salesforce Transforms Big Data Into Customer Success with the...
Salesforce pulled a surprise earlier today with a partnership announcement in the BigData space, by announcing a partnership with a number of key BigData players.So let’s dissect the press release in...
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First Take - Google I/O Day #1 Keynote - it is all about Android
We had the opportunity to attend Google I/O in San Francisco today. As usual the conference sold out in a matter of hours and is filling up Moscone West with 6500 attendees. So here are the takeaways...
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Musings - Speed matters for HR - how to accelerate - Part I
We know business is running faster than ever before, with little to no chance of slowing down. We often talk about the fact that more than 50% of the Fortune 500 are no longer part of the index, a...
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Event Report - Google I/O - Google wants developers to first & foremost build...
We had the opportunity to attend Google’s I/O conference held in San Francisco last week at Moscone West.The conference was sold out quickly as usual and the 6500+ attendees were treated to probably...
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Event Report - MongoDB keeps up the momentum in product and go to market
We had the opportunity to participate in MongoDB’s user conference MongoDBWorld in New York this week. The conference is well attended with approx. 2000 attendees, remarkably most of them ‘doers’ that...
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News Analysis - HireVue Secures $45 Million in Funding to Fuel Team...
Right in time for its yearly Digital Disruption user conference taking part in Park City, HireVue announced a new round of funding.So let’s dissect the press release in our usual commentary style, it...
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News Analysis - Updates to HP Helion Portfolio - a commentary
HP is having its yearly HP Discover conference right now in Las Vegas, and (finally - we have been waiting for some time) has clarified and updates its cloud plans.The press release can be found here -...
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News Analysis - Couchbase unveils N1QL and updates the NoSQL Performance Wars
A number of press releases by Couchbase crossed the wires and the may have a deep impact on the No SQL / BigData market – so let’s look at them quickly.The press releases can be found hereA new...
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