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Market Move - IBM gets into private cloud (services) with Blue Box acqusition
The need to manage private clouds seems to be really heating up on the demand side – last week EMC announced plans to acquire Virtustream (see analysis here), today both IBM and Cisco announced the...
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Market Move - Cisco wants to acquire Piston Cloud - gets more into cloud
It seems to be the weeks in which the tech giants are discover the appeal of managed cloud services – last week EMC acquired Virtustream (my take here), this week IBM acquired Blue Box (my take here)...
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Progress Report - Teradata is alive and kicking and shows some good...
We had the opportunity to attend the Teradata Influencer Summit held at the beautiful L’Auberge Del Mar in northern San Diego. When mentioning to other influencers that I would be en route for that...
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Musings - Speed matters for HR - how to accelerate - Part II
So we looked at the need for enterprises to accelerate last week, find the blog post here, with more of a technology view, as all good ‘inner values’ are based on a decent architecture of the right...
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News Analysis - Teradata Launches First Enterprise Support for Presto
We attended the Teradata Influence Summit last week in Del Mar, North of San Diego, (Progress Report here) and fresh off the heels of this event, and well timed before press release tsunami likely to...
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News Analysis - Unit4 acquires Three Rivers Systems
This morning, Unit4 a European ERP vendor, announced the acquisition of Three Rivers Systems, a vendor specialized at helping the Higher Education sector to run efficiently.So let's dissect the press...
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Event Report - Globoforce Workhuman - Growth everywhere - customers,...
We had the opportunity to attend Globoforce’s Workhuman event, currently being held in Orlando. A year ago this event was a small 100 attendees affair, this year it has grown to about 500 attendees....
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News Analysis - JDA Software Announces Game-Changing Strategic Cloud...
This morning Google and JDA software surprised the markets with a press release that announced that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is becoming JDA’s public cloud infrastructure. This is obviously a first...
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Progress Report - Unit4 lays out a big vision - now it needs to execute
We had the opportunity to attend Unit4’s North America analyst summit (the vendor had the same event for Europe based analysts last week) in Boston this week. The event was held on top of the 60 State...
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News Analysis - SAP delivers next release of SAP HANA - SPS 10 - Ready for...
This morning SAP announced the release of its latest version of SAP HANA, its in memory database, with SPS10. So let’s dissect the press release in our custom style (it can be found here):NICE, France...
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News Analysis - Unit4 picks Microsoft Azure for ‘Self-Driving’ ERP vision -...
Earlier today Unit4 announced that it has picked Azure as its platform to build its next generation ERP applications.Let’s digest the press release in our custom Constellation style (it can be found...
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News Analysis - ClusterHQ helps containers become persistent with Flocker
Probably the hottest area in building next generation applications these days is microservices, running on containers. One key challenge with containers has been that they do not allow to persist data....
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Event Report - Oracle PaaS Event - 6 PaaS Services become available, many...
Earlier this week Oracle put the world through a ‘monster’ 5 hour online event updating on its cloud strategy – with a focus on the IaaS, PaaS and DaaS aspects, SaaS was quickly presented by Ellison,...
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News Analysis - AWS learns Hindi - Amazon Web Services announces 2016 India...
Amazon AWS surprised markets with its announcement to put an AWS region into India in 2016. AWS has been relatively slow to roll out data center regions in the past, partly because they are massive...
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Progress Report - IBM Cloud makes good progress - but needs to attract more load
We had the opportunity to attend the analyst summit for IBM’s cloud efforts, held last week in New York at the brand new and beautiful IBM Cloud and Watson HQ at Astor Place. The event was very well...
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News Analysis – Workday to Expand Suite of Applications for Healthcare...
Workday earlier today informed the markets via a press release that it is expanding its footprint in healthcare with a functional extension that goes beyond its traditional HCM and more recent efforts...
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Progress Report - NGA sees Global Payroll BPO as the future - as other...
We had the opportunity to attend the NGA HR (formerly known as NorthgateArinso) analyst summit in Chicago. Despite the summer date, the event was well attended by the analyst community.So here are my...
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Progress Report - CapGemini is ready for the Digital Economy - but challenges...
We had the opportunity to attend the CapGemini global analyst summit held close to Paris at the beautiful conference hotel LesFontaines. A great location always contributes to a great meeting and that...
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Event Report - AWS Summit Berlin - AWS spricht Deutsch - but when will the...
We had the opportunity to attend the Berlin edition of the Amazon AWS event series called AWSSummit that is taking place around the world these months. I was interested in the Berlin location to get an...
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Why Apply for a SuperNova Award - Recognizing leaders in digital business
Every year the Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize eight individuals for their leadership in digital business. Nominate yourself or someone you know by August 7, 2015. The SuperNova Awards honor...
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