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First Take - Google Google I/O 2016 - Day #1 Keynote - Enterprise Takeaways
First Take – Google I/O 2016 – Day #1 Keynote – Enterprise Takeaways [From the Fences]It’s a busy week in May and I missed being in person in Mountain View for the Day #1 keynote of Google I/O due to...
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First Take - SAP Sapphire Day #2 Keynote
We had the opportunity to attend Sapphire in Orlando, held from May 17th to 19th in Orlando. The Day #2 keynote is traditionally about product, and so it was also in 2016.The keynote was divided across...
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Event Report - Google I/O 2016 - Android N soon, Google assistant sooner and...
We had the opportunity to attend Google’s I/O conference, the vendor’s premiere developer conference that has moved out of San Francisco back to Mountain View, to Shoreline Theater, an unusual venue,...
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Event Report - SAP Sapphire 2016 - Top 3 Positives & Concerns: SAP changes -...
We had the opportunity to attend Sapphire 2016 in Orlando, the event was the usual large show, with similar attendance like last year, an amazing, probably the best in the industry, show floor and...
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News Analysis - Salesforce selects AWS as preferred Public Cloud...
Earlier this week we were surprised by a partnership announcement of Salesforce and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The announcement has implications in both regards of best practices where SaaS based...
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Event Report - Informatica World 2016 - The Cloud is the new platform
We had the opportunity to attend Informatica’s Informatica World conference in San Francisco, held from May 23rd till 26th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 3000 participants, coming from...
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Event Report - Greenhouse Open Conference - Best of Breed Talent Acquisition...
We had the opportunity to attend Greenhouse’s Green House Open conference in San Francisco, held from May 25th till 27th 2016. The conference was well attended with over 900 participants, coming from...
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Event Report - Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry Summit - It's good to be king of PaaS
We had the opportunity to attend Cloud Foundry’s Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, held from May 23rd till 25th 2016. The conference was well attended with over 2000 participants, coming from...
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News Analysis - Microsoft opens Windows Holographic to partners for a new...
Earlier this week, when day broke in Asia, Microsoft used the Comdex event happening in Taiwan to make a major announcement around its holographic product plans, making Windows Holographic available to...
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Event Report- Alteryx Inspire 2016 - Enabling change agents in data management
We have the opportunity to attend Alteryx Inspire 2016 in San Diego, held from June 6th till 10th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 1200 participants, coming from customers, prospects and...
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Progress Report - NGA HR with new HR service offerings - unshackled
We had the opportunity to attend NGA HR’s analyst summit held in Chicago, on June 8th 2016. The summit was well attended with over a dozen analysts there, check out my Storify below for more details....
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Market Move - Microsoft acquired Linked - Tons of synergies, start with...
This Monday morning - besting out some headlines for Apple’s WWDC (hony soit…) - Microsoft announced the intent to acquire LinkedIn. This is Microsoft's largest acquisition and LinkedIn is a Top5 - if...
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Event Report - HireVue Digital Disruption 2016 - More Recruiing and now......
We had the opportunity to attend HireVue’s yearly user conference, Digital Disruption in Deer Valley, held from June 13th till 15th at the beautiful Stein Ericson lodge. The conference was well...
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News Analysis - Amazon Web Services Cloud now speaks… Hindi - Indian AWS Data...
Yesterday AWS announced the availability of its new datacenter locations in Mumbai, India. The original announcement was made at the AWS Summit about a year ago in Berlin (read here).So let’s dissect...
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Event Report - SAP Insider Vienna - HCP, BI and SuccessFactors are the takeaways
We had the opportunity to attend the SAP Insider conference held in Vienna, from June 19th till 24th 2016. The event isn’t organized by SAP but an events organizer that combined BI, GRC, HANA, HCM and...
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Event report - AWS Enterprise Summit 2016 Frankfurt - The German Road to...
We had the opportunity to attend AWS Enterprise Summit in Frankfurt, held on June 30th 2016. Always a welcome chance for a US based analyst – despite European roots, history and professional networks,...
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News Analysis - Unit4 acquires prevero; gets more strategic and intelligent
Earlier today Unit4 surprised with a ‘summer’ acquisition – wisely timed after end of the European soccer championships – which can always be a major distraction on the ‘old’ continent – of prevero, a...
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News Analysis - GE and Microsoft partner to bring Predix to Azure -...
Microsoft is having its third large customer event of the year in Toronto right now, the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and as to be expected there are a number of announcements to be made. Given...
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Musings - The Privacy Shield is real - what are the CxO repercussions?
Earlier this week the EU Commission approved the Privacy Shield regulation, that is to replace the now invalid Safe Harbor agreement. With the notice being sent to the EU member states, the agreement...
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Global HR Matters - How to get there - Part 1 - Why global is challenging,...
I am starting a blog series on problems and challenges that I keep hearing from HR professionals as I make the rounds talking to them and advising them. These are bigger topics, such as Globalization,...
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