Industry Disruption - Going to 0 data centers in Healthcare in 12 months - it...
During Constellation Research's Connected Enterprise event in Half Moon Bay last week, I had the chance to catch up with Shawn Wiora, CIO and CISO of Creative Solutions in Healthcare.Creative Solutions...
View ArticleNews Analysis - Microsoft announcements at Convergence Barcelona - Office365....
Microsoft is currently having its European Convergence conference in Barcelona - and has unleashed three major announcements, my colleague Alan Lepovsky and me take a first stab analyzing them.So let's...
View ArticleNews Analysis - Workday and ADP partner to Deliver a Seamless Customer...
Workday has its European Rising event happening in Dublin this week and one of the major product news has been an improved level of partnership with ADP.Let's take a peak:If you can't watch - let’s...
View ArticleProgress Report - Workday Tech Summit - Good Progress, More Insights, Less...
We had the opportunity to attend Workday's Technology Summit, held at the beautiful Cavallo Point resort in Sausalito.So take a peak at my takeaways:I you cannot watch - read along: Always tough to...
View ArticleSite Visit - IBM Design Studio Austin
I finally got around to follow up on the invitation by IBM’s GM of Design, Phil Gilbert, to visit the campus in Austin, which hosts the nucleus of the IBM Design activities. Needless to say – it was an...
View ArticleNews Analysis - Unit4 announces integration with Slack
This morning Unit4, a rising ERP player with European origins, announced its partnership with the 'hot' collaboration startup Slack. As such its the first partnership of Slack, which has covered more...
View ArticleMusings - Retail is the breeding ground for NextGen Apps
The yearly circus called NRF is upon us, and frankly I am glad to be watching from the fences (that is, not attending the hoopla, but watching from abroad, social, hear from colleagues on the ground...
View ArticleMarket Move - Atos completes acquisition of Unify - gets more into IP
It seldom happens that an acquisition is being closed during an analyst event, but so it happened today – Atos completes the acquisition of Unify from Gores Group and Siemens.So let’s take it apart in...
View ArticleProgress Report - Oracle Cloud - More ready than ever, now needs adoption
We had the opportunity to attend the third Oracle Cloud analyst summit earlier in the week, held in New York at the iconic Walldorf Astoria. One could wonder if Oracle executives know that the very...
View ArticleProgress Report - Unify makes progress, needs to close the circuit
We had the opportunity to attend the Unify analyst summit, which happened this week in beautiful Bermuda (a surprisingly convenient location from NYC). Over 40 analyst were there to get updated on the...
View ArticleFirst Take - Workato’s Workbot cuts business users some slack with Slack...
I have written about Workato before, the startup that makes it easier for business users to integrated business applications with each other – with no coding skills. But there is more than interfaces...
View ArticleNews Analysis - From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield - what does it mean?
Earlier in the week the EU and the USA 'hammered' out a framework that is supposed to replace the invalidated Safe Harbor agreement.You can find the EU press release here, which includes a good summary...
View ArticleNews Analysis - SAP SuccessFactors innovates in Performance Management with...
Earlier this week SAP SuccessFactors announced its new capabilities in Performance Management, taking a first step at helping make Performance Management 'work'.So take a look:If you don't have a...
View ArticleNews Analysis - VMware unveils Workspace ONE – will the EUC adoption begin now?
Earlier in the week VMware unveiled its new capabilities in the end user computing (EUC) space, VMware’s offerings in the space of virtual desktop integration.So let’s take apart the press release in...
View ArticleNews Analysis - Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Arrow - BigData...
This morning we learnt that the Apache Software Foundation has announced a new top level project - Apache Arrow. We think the announcement is important for the BigData and next gen Apps space, as it...
View ArticleEvent Preview - IBM Interconnect 2016
En route to IBM Connect in Las Vegas it is time to order some thoughts on where IBM stands in its move to the cloud and overall becoming more of a software company.Let’s organize our thoughts from...
View ArticleNews Analysis - IBM and VMware announce partnership to accelerate enterprise...
We are attending the IBM InterConnect conference happening in Las Vegas this week, and probably the most important announcement for CxOs with on premises VMware loads has been the partnership between...
View ArticleMarket Move - Oracle acquires Ravello Systems - makes good on nested...
Earlier this week we learnt that Oracle has acquired Ravello Systems, a hybrid cloud vendor that has specialized in moving VMware and KVM based loads from on premises into the public cloud. Take a look...
View ArticleProgress Report - Ceridian makes good progress, the basics are done now its...
We had the opportunity to attend the Ceridian analyst summit held in Hollywood at the beautiful W Hotel.Tough to pick the Top 3 Takeaways – but here you go - check out the video:No time to watch - read...
View ArticleEvent Report - IBM Interconnect - IBM innovates and partners into the hybrid...
We had the opportunity to attend IBM’s Interconnect conference happening in Las Vegas this week. The conference is a combination of the former Interconnect, the developer conference Pulse and the...
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