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News Analysis - Salesforce Launches Salesforce Shield - More PaaS...
Earlier today Salesforce launched Salesforce Shield, a set of administrative PaaS capabilities aimed at bringing to the Salesforce1 platform a number of key (and long desired) capabilities like...
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First Take - Ceridian Insights Day #1 Keynote Takeaways - off to a good start
We have the chance to attend the Ceridian user conference Insights this week in Las Vegas, happening at the beautiful Aria Hotel and Resort. The event is well attended with a record 2000+ attendees....
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Event Report – Couchbase Connect – Couchbase’s shows momentum
We had the opportunity to attend the Couchbase user conference in San Jose back in June. The event had record attendance and was held in an usual setting, the 49ers new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara....
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Event Report - Ceridian Insights - Momentum and Differentiation Building
We had the opportunity to attend the Ceridian user Conference Insights in Las Vegas at the beautiful Aria hotel. The event had record attendance with over 2000 customers, partners and employees...
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News Analysis - Salesforce Delivers Salesforce1 Lightning Components and App...
Earlier today Salesforce announced that it was extending the PaaS capabilities of its Salesforce1 platform with the addition of Lightning Components, a faster way to build apps by users who don’t code...
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News Analysis - SAP SuccessFactors Introduces Next Generation of Intelligent...
This morning SAP SuccessFactors kicked off their yearly user conference in Las Vegas. As often at these events, SAP had a major product announcement to make, evolving around a next generation of HCM...
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Musings - Google re-organizes - will it be about Alpha or Alphabet Soup?
Yesterday Google surprised the industry watchers with the announcement of a new structure - Alphabet. Not surprisingly G is for... Google. Which becomes a subsidiary of Alphabet. At the helm of Google...
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First Take - SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect - Day #1 Keynote Top 3 TakeawaysS
We have the opportunity to attend SAP’s SuccessFactors SuccessConnect conference being held in Las Vegas. The conference is well attended, with over 2500 attendees - an increase over last years. So...
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News Analysis - WorkForce Software Announces Global Reseller Agreement with SAP
One of the many announcements happening at SAP’s SuccessFactors’ SuccessConnect conferences has been the global reseller agreement that SAP and Workforce Software (going forward Workforce) signed. It...
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Event Report - SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect - Good Progress sprinkled...
We had the opportunity to attend SAP’s SuccessFactors SuccessConnect user conference held in Las Vegas this week. The conference was well attended with a record of 2800 attendees. As we have seen often...
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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 - 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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Musings – What will it be this year at VMWorld
On the route to VMWorld 2015 I am letting last two VMWorld pass by, and it is remarkable how my understanding on what the biggest challenge is that the vendor is grappling with. First of all – let’s...
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News Analysis - SAP Unveils New Cloud Platform Services and In-Memory...
This week SAP released information about new capabilities in regards of Hadoop (the major news in my view) and HCP (interesting, less relevant). SAP deemed it an important enough event to invite...
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Event Report - VMware VMworld 2015 - VMware stays the course - executes -...
We had the opportunity to attend VMworld in San Francisco this week. The conference remains a key event of the overall IT industry, with well over 28k attendees. What I realized this year is that the...
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News Analysis - IBM and ARM Collaborate to Accelerate Delivery of Internet of...
Earlier this week IBM and ARM announced a partnership in the fast growing next generation application use case of IoT. The announcement caught my attention as it is one of the first processor and stack...
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News Analysis - Salesforce Announces Salesforce App Cloud - A Unified...
This morning we heard from Salesforce announcing the Salesforce App Cloud, bringing together former efforts on force.com, Saleforce1, Heroku etc. Surprising timing, but then this is the vendor with a...
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Market Move - IBM acquires StrongLoop - nodejs comes to BlueMix
This morning we learnt that IBM has acquired StrongLoop - a key player in the nodejs space. Instead of writing a blog post - I went with the new medium - video...So take a peak...MyPOVOverall a good...
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