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News Analysis - VMware has found AWS as its public cloud IaaS
Today – consistent to announcements hinted at earlier at VMworld, VMware has embarked in its new public cloud strategy, embracing IaaS vendors and partnering with them, while helping customer to...
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Event Report - Oracle OpenWorld - the HCM perspective - Almost no news, but...
We had the opportunity to attend Oracle’s OpenWorld mega event a few weeks ago, a busy fall schedule has not allowed us to sum up the key findings, though we posted them on YouTube (see here) and...
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Event Report - Zenefits Hello Z2 event - Good start for the very SMB
We had the opportunity to attend Zenefits’ ‘Hello Z2’ event, which was also its first user conference. Held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, on October 18th the event was a small, efficient...
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News Analysis - Microsoft announces SAP's choice of Azure to help enterprises...
In a follow up move to its announced partnership from May this year, Microsoft and SAP extended their partnership to the HR area, something that could have been expected, but was not necessarily a...
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Event Report - IBM World of Watson - IBM's bets its future on Watson
We had the opportunity to attend the IBM World of Watson event, still going on in Las Vegas October23rd till 27th 2016. It is the first-time IBM brings all together under the Watson umbrella, and with...
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First Take - Microsoft discovers teams - launches Microsoft Teams
We had the opportunity to attend the satellite location of the Microsoft Teams launch event in San Francisco on November 2nd 2016. The event was held at the Xbox Lounge on Bryant Street, always a...
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News Analysis - SAP to unveil HANA 2 - New platform vs a fork's tine
SAP kicked off its European Edition of its developer conference TechEd in Barcelona today, and the big news was the announcement of SAP HANA 2.Definitively work our customary news analysis (check out...
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Event Report - SAP TechEd Barcelona - Analytics, ML, PaaS and HANA 2
We had the opportunity to attend the European edition of SAP’s developer conference, TechEd, held in Barcelona from November 8th till 10th 2016. The event was well attended, with an estimate 4k...
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Event Report - Kronos KronosWorks - Solid progress and big things loom
We had the opportunity to attend Kronos yearly user conference KronosWorks, , held in Orlando from November 13th till 16th 2016. Here is the 1-2 slide condensation (if the slide doesn’t show up, check...
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Event Report - Microsoft Connect - No April's Fools - Linux, Google and more
We attended Microsoft’s Connect event in New York, held on November 16th 2016. So take a look at my musings on the event here: (if the video doesn’t show up, check here)No time to watch – here is the...
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Musings - What is your Twitter Persona?
A blog I have meant to write since a long time, being a heavy user of Twitter... related to how reputation and follower dynamic on Twitter are working out - from my vantage point... so let's muse about...
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First Take - Google enters enterprise software space with Google Jobs API
Hidden in an overall update on its vast Machine Learning portfolio of last week (see the blog here) was an unusual use case for a vendor like Google - a Jobs API. Clearly a foray into the enterprise...
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News Analysis - New IBM Bluemix Services Help Organizations Accelerate Data...
IBM has been more quietly and less loudly build out its BlueMix PaaS platform, the press release from earlier in the week is a good reminder on the progress that IBM has made.So time to dissect the...
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Musings – 5 lessons enterprises CxOs can learn from the US Elections
By now we have some weeks of distance to the recent US elections – so time to muse about the enterprise takeaways.There are many repercussions, let’s look at the general themes, I may blog closer to...
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First Take - AWS reInvent - 1st Keynote - AWS enters the hardware business -...
Already in Las Vegas since two days, having the opportunity to attend AWS reInvent and getting briefed before hand by AWS on all announcement - a useful, different approach how to run these events.So...
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New Analysis – Google enables citizen developers and developers with Google...
Earlier today Google announced Google App Maker, an important step in Google’s overall portfolio to get a bigger piece of enterprise automation, addressing the citizen developers and the larger...
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Event Report - AWS reInvent 2016 - Growth at full speed
We had the opportunity to attend AWS reinvent, held this week in Las Vegas, from November 27th till December 2nd 2016. It was the largest reinvent ever, with over 32000 attendees… not only to me it...
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Tip - How to be "Social User" on Twitter
A few weeks ago I blogged about how the behaviour on follower dynamics can be used to categorize users on Twitter, in Newbies, Spammers, Hoarders and Social Users... you can find the post here.Many...
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New Analysis - AWS has now data centers in Canada. Or is it data centres?...
Last week Amazon’s AWS division made official what was already word on the street at the AWS reinvent event the week before that: AWS’ expansion into Canada. Worth dissecting the press release in our...
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Progress Report - MapR has platform ambitions - now it has to deliver
We had the opportunity to attend MapR’s first ever analyst event, held December 12th and 13th in San Jose. The event was well attended for a first analyst event, as to be expected when one of the three...
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