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Event Report - Cornerstone on Demand Convergence 2017 - Back to Learning Basics
We had the opportunity to attend Cornerstone’s yearly user conference Convergence in San Diego, held from June 5th till 7th 2017, at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina. The conference was very...
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Progress Report - Hortonworks ploughs on - seeds BigData
We had the opportunity to attend Hortonworks analyst day in San Jose, held June 12th 2017, at the Marriott San Jose, in advance to the Dataworks Summit, held at the McEnery Convention center next door....
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Event Report - HireVue Digital Disruption 17 - Doubling down on Video...
We had the opportunity to attend HireVue’s yearly user conference Digital Disruption in Deer Valley, held from June 12th till 14th, at the panoramic Stein Ericson lodge. The conference was similarily...
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Event Report - Cloud Foundry CF Summit 2017 - Microsoft joins the kingdom
We had the opportunity to attend Cloud Foundry’s yearly user conference, Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, held from June 13th till June 15th, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The...
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Progress Report - Unit4 Analyst Summit - New Achitecture and Deep Verticals
We had the opportunity to attend Unit4 bi yearly analyst conference in Boston, held on June 15th, 2017, at the Boston Seaport Hotel. The meeting was (very – see the #MRS rule on Twitter) well attended,...
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Event Report - FInancialForce Community Live 2017 - All about Services
We had the opportunity to attend FinancialForce’s 2nd user conference, Community Live – the first open for influencers, held in Las Vegas, from June 19th to 21st, at Cesar’s Place. Over 700 attendees,...
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Sports Event - Lessons learnt for CxOs from America's Cup #5
We had the opportunity to attend the America's Cup (AC), currently happening in Bermuda. For any sports (and sailing enthusiast) a once in a life time opportunity. And there is always something to be...
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Event Report - Salesforce TrailheaDX - AI, Events and more
We had the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s developer and admin conference TrailheaDX in San Francisco, held from June 28th till June 29th 2017, at the Moscone West. It was the 2nd edition of the...
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Event Report - July 2017 Microsoft London AI Event
We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s AI event held in London on July 12th 2017. The event was Microsoft R&D centric, with R&D Leader Harry Shum leading the presentation and more key...
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Summer 2017 News Analysis Series - Preview
Nothing is more feared by the colleagues of the writing press than summer, when nothing happens. But this summer is off to a different start – with substantial news coming out in the 2nd half of...
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Summer 2017 - News Analysis - Google introduces Google Hire
What’s the news: Google wants to help recruiters be more successful. It wants them to use G-Suite to schedule appointments, Gmail to email with applicants and internal stakeholders, use Google Search...
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Summer 2017 News Analysis - Microsoft makes Azure Stack available
What’s the news: Azure Stack – announced a little more than two years ago is Microsoft’s on premise version of Azure (with some reduced / missing capabilities to the cloud version). Originally slated...
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Summer 2017 News Analysis - Oracle invests in IaaS (or at least CAPEX)
What’s the news: Buried in the Q4 and all FY announcement of Oracle was the CAPEX figure for Q4 of the last Fiscal year. And it was for the first time in the last eight quarters – more than 2B. YoY it...
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Summer 2017 News Analysis - SAP Leonard event July 2017
What’s the news: SAP had its Leonardo event in Frankfurt July 11th and 12th. Originally planned as an IoT event (that’s the original Leonardo brand) it was supposed to be a sequence to the (very good)...
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Summer 2017 News Analysis - Workday announces its PaaS
What's the news: Workday did a soft launch of its new PaaS capabilities at its partners conference earlier in the year. The announcement was short of details, as Workday likely did not want to steal...
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Event Report - SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect - New Leadership - Old...
We had the opportunity to attend SAP SuccessFactors Success Connect yearly user conference in Las Vegas, held from August 29thto 31st 2017, at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The conference was well...
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Progress Report - ADP pushes on - 2018 will be BIG
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s yearly analyst day, held in New York on September 12th, 2017, at the vendor’s innovation lab in Manhattan (see my site visit report here). The analyst day was...
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News Analysis - Oracle Unveils New Programs that Transform how Customers Buy...
Even though we are almost only two weeks off Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco - Oracle is pushing the gas pedal. Yesterday Oracle announced its Sparc M8 chip / architecture – today it was...
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Progress Report - Kronos grows and grows
We had the opportunity to attend Kronos’ very first analyst day, held at the vendor’s new headquarters outside of Boston. It was the first day at the office for many of the executives and employees, a...
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Event Report - Zenefits Shift 2017 - Another pivot - even more about software
We had the opportunity to attend Zenefits’ Shift 2017 event in San Francisco, held at the Metreon on September 21st, 2017. The conference was well attended, though less in audience than the Z2 launch...
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