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Event Report - 3 Indian HCM Market Takeaways from NASSCOM HR Summit 2016
I was in India this week on customer advisory and attending the Nasscom HR Summit in Chennai, I had the honor to keynote the event on Day 1 and moderate a panel on the synergy story between man and...
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Market Move - Oracle acquires NetSuite - Oddly consolidation means more...
Earlier today Oracle announced its intent to acquire NetSuite… rumors of the acquisition are almost as old that if they were humans, they would attend middle school, but there was a recent pickup, and...
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Event Report - Pivotal SpringOne Platform - Spring in its 2nd spring
We have the opportunity to attend Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform conference in Las Vegas, held from August 1st till 4th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 2000 participants, a record for a...
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Market Move - Randstad to acquire Monster Worldwide - Bridges a moat, now it...
Earler this week Randstad surprised with the acquisition of Monster, the venerable, one valued multiple billions, hob posting site. In a tell of times it shows how the talent acquisition market has...
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News Analysis - Workday, IBM Form Strategic Partnership on the IBM Cloud -...
Earlier today IBM and Workday announced a partnership with the intent of Workday using IBM’s Cloud for its development and test systems. Announcements of SaaS vendors (like Workday) and IaaS vendors...
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Progress Report - IBM Alliances Insights - Deep Plans, now it is execution time
We had the opportunity to attend the yearly IBM Alliance Insights event, held August 23rd and 24th in New York. The analyst event was well attended with the usual colleagues covering services players,...
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Progress Report - O.C. Tanner has software and wants to build more of it
We had the opportunity to attend O.C. Tanner’s first analyst summit held in Salt Lake City on August 26th 2016. For the first edition there was good attendance from the analyst and influence community....
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Event Report - SAP SuccessFactors SConnect - Push on all fronts
We had the opportunity to attend SAP SuccessFactors SConnect event in Las Vegas this week, held from August 29th till 31st 2016 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The conference had (in my records) the best...
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Event Report - Box BoxWorks - Box is on the run - now with a platform
We had the opportunity to attend BoxWorks in San Francesco, held from September 7th till 9th 2016. It was record attendance for Box, with over 7k registrants, the largest BoxWorks ever. So take a look...
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Market Move - Dell Technologies is here - 3 scenarios and a bonus perspective
Dell Technologies came into existence on September 7th 2016 (see here) – almost a year after the original announcement – and after clearing all regulatory hurdles. So take a look at the video (check...
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Progress Report - ADP Analyst Day 2016 - ADP has turned around Vantage HCM
We had the opportunity to attend the ADP Analyst Day, held on September 15th on Pasadena, at the ADP innovation center. Always good to be at a location where ‘work and innovation happen’, after having...
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Event Preview - Oracle OpenWorld 2016 - What to expect, what to watch for ......
We have the opportunity to attend this year’s edition of Oracle’s mega user conference, Oracle OpenWorld, held in San Francisco from September 18th to 23rd 2016. Expect it to be a big event on all...
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First Take - SAP BW/4HANA - Data Gravity and Cloud win
A few days ago SAP formally launched its newest offering, its BW product as BW/4HANA. No surprised on HANA, as it dominates branding with SAP these days, the 4HANA suggests a sister relationship to the...
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First Take - Early Oracle OpenWorld 2016 Keynotes
We have the opportunity to attend Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, happening from September 19th till 22nd 2016. With over 60k+ attendees, multiple show floors, Howard Street closed, it is the mega...
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First Take - Microsoft Ignite - AI, Adobe and FPGA [From the Fences]
We could not make it to Microsoft’s IT management focused in Atlanta, but that did not hinder us to watch the event from the fences. The conference is well attended, Microsoft says over 22k attendees,...
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News Analysis - SAP acquires Altiscale: It's not about BigData, but Next Gen...
Long rumored (see my colleague’s Doug Henschen pre-acquisition take here) and now it’s official, SAP has acquired Altiscale, a Big Data as a Service vendor.So let’s dissect the press release in our...
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Musings - Quo vadis Twitter? Who could, should buy Twitter - and what is...
So the rumors are out, Twitter is up for sale – and I see it with a wary eye, my most used social network may change owners… time to muse about it.But let’s start what Twitter really is, sharing 5...
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Event Report - Cloud Foundry Summit Europe - Europe & Cloud - A long path
We had the opportunity to attend Cloud Froundry’s CFSummit conference held in Frankfurt September 27th and 28th 2016. The conference was well attended with over 700+ participants, coming from...
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Event Report - SAP / Trenitalia Digital Summit - SAP is serious about IoT
We had the opportunity to attend the Trenitalia / SAP Digital Summit, held last in Rome, Pietrarsa, October 29th 2016. Though not formally labelled as a launch event, it felt like SAP bringing together...
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Event Report - Salesforce Dreamforce - It's not about Einstein - but the...
We had the opportunity to attend the Dreamforce 2016, held in San Francisco, from October 4th till 7th 2016. As usual, it was a massive affair, Salesforce claims over 160k attendees. Noticeable from...
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