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Musings - We are entering the age of the Über Super Computer
Time to put down a musings post on what is going beyond the move to the cloud. Like all musings posts these are my best guess how things will develop in the more distant than near future.I recorded...
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News Analysis - Unit4 announces Business World On – A modern ERP offering
European ERP vendor Unit4 is having their yearly user conference in Amsterdam, and the press releases are coming out in piles. Earlier last year the vendor shared its vision of ‘self driving’ ERP and...
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Event Report - Oracle HCM World - Innovation around the Core
We have the opportunity to attend Oracle HCM World in Chicago, held from April 4th to 7h 2016. The conference is well attended with over 1000 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the...
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Musings - The Bots are coming to your conversation - what are the implications?
Two weeks ago Microsoft CEO Nadella was on stage in San Franscisco, keynoting the developer conference Build, and introducing 'Conversations as a Plaform'. This week Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, launched a...
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News Analysis – NetSuite speaks BeNeLux – expands into Belgium, The...
Earlier this week NetSuite released a SuiteWorld like barrage of press releases – to the point I checked if I missed a SuiteWorld conference – but it was ‘just’ all about opening the vendor’s beachhead...
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Event Report - Equifax Insights EFXForum16 Good progress and CaaS looming
We had the opportunity to attend the Equifax Insights user conference – held at the beautiful Lone Pine Resort East of Austin. The event is well attended, with more 15% more attendees joining than last...
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Progress Report - SAP SuccessFactors makes good progress - now needs appeal...
We had the opportunity to attend the SAP SuccessFactors analyst summit this week, held in San Francisco, we were housed in the historic Argonaut Hotel and sessions took place at the California Museum...
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First Take - OpenStack Summit 2016 - Good start - and a Telco focus
We have the opportunity to attend OpenStack Summit 2016, happening in Austin from April 24th till 27th 2016, held at the Austin convention center. Good to see OpenStack coming back to the roots and...
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News Analysis - IBM Boosts Support to OpenStack's RefStack... first serious...
During OpenStack Summit in Austin, probably close to a hundred press releases have been published, tough to find the most important one, but this one from IBM stood out for me. Interoperabiity has...
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Event Report - OpenStack Summit 2016 - Austin - OpenStack matures,
We had the opportunity to attend OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, our first visit of an OpenStack Summit. Always good to see first hand and in person on how well community, vendors and ecosystem...
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Event Report - Infosys Confluence - The Future Watch is Software + People
We had the opportunity to attend Infosys’ Confluence event in San Francisco, held from April 27th to 29th at the Hilton Union Square. The conference was well attended with over 1500 participants,...
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News Analysis - Apple & SAP Partner to Revolutionize Work on iPhone & iPad
It looks like the SAP “pre Sapphire leak announcement” tradition that broke 2 years ago is alive and well – today Apple announced a partnership with SAP. It’s not clear what may have motivated Apple to...
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Progress Report - Cornerstone Convergence - HR Core debut, lot's of product,...
We had the opportunity to attend the Cornerstone Convergence event, held from May 9th till 12th in Los Angeles at the JW Marriott in the LA live neighbourhood. The conference is well attended, though I...
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Event Report - Salesforce Connections - Bringing together Builders and...
We have the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s Connections conference in Atlanta, held from May 10th to 12th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 5000 participants, coming from customers,...
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Event Preview - SAP Sapphire 2016 - What to expect and look for
Taking a short moment to collect my thoughts on what SAP could / should address this Sapphire.So take a look:No time to watch - then read the one slide summary:Event Preview - SAP SapphireNow 2016 from...
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Event Preview - NetSuite Suiteworld 2016
As attendees head to San Jose for this year's main SuiteWorld event of NetSuite, time to collect some thoughts and share what I will be looking out for at this event.So take a look at my musings:No...
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First Take - SAP Sapphire Bill McDermott Day #1 Keynote
This morning SAP's Sapphire user conference kicked off in Orlando, traditionally with the CEO keynote.Always tough to pick the Top 3 takeaways - but here you go:Empathy is the new Leitmotiv - 2 years...
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Event Preview - Google's Google I/O 2016
Later this week we will see Google's key developer conference, Google I/O start in Mountain View, so it's time to bring thoughts in order around what to expect.So take a look at my musings:No chance to...
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News Analysis - SAP and Microsoft usher in new era of partnership to...
It is SAP’s annual user conference that is happening in Orlando, so it’s the time of the big announcements, and SAP did not disappoint, having Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella join SAP CEO Bill McDermott on...
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Event Report - NetSuite SuiteWorld - NetSuite powers on innovates on all layers
We have the opportunity to attend NetSuite’s SuiteWorld user conference in San Jose, held from May 17th till May 19th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 5000 participants, coming from...
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