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Event Report - Microsoft Ignite / Envision 2017 - Broad push - few highlights
We had the opportunity to attend Microsoft’s combined Ignite and Envision events held in Orlando, taking place from September 24th till 28th2017. It was the first time Microsoft merged the two events,...
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News Analyses Roundup - SAP's September Tech Announcements - SAP doubles down...
As if enterprises, press and influencers would not be busy enough with Microsoft’s combined user conferences in Orlando and the dawn or Oracle’s Openworld next week- SAP decided to do an acquisition...
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Top Event Questions [Anwered] - Microsoft Ignite and Envision 2017
As you know, Microsoft had their combined Ignite and Envision conferences in Orlando this week. As often before major user conferences, I tweet out my top 10 questions for the event (see here). And if...
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Event Report - Oracle Open World 2017 - Top 3 Positives / Top 3 Concerns -...
We had the opportunity to attend Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle’s yearly mega user conference, held in San Francisco from October 1st till 5th 2017, at Moscone Center. Moscone is under construction, so it...
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Event Report - Ceridian Insights 2017 - Ceridian widens and deepens the...
We had the opportunity to attend the Ceridian yearly user conference, Insights, held at the Aria in Las Vegas, from the 3rdtill 5th of October 2017. The conference had record attendance with almost...
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Event Report - Workday Rising 2017 - Workday opens and advances the platform...
We had the opportunity to attend the North American edition of the Workday user conference, held in Chicago from October 9th till12th 2017 at McCormick place. The event was very well attended (almost...
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Event Report - SAP Hybris Live 2017 Barcelona - YaaS morphs and more agility...
We had the opportunity to understand SAP Hybris’ user conference, Hybris Live, held in Barcelona from October 17th till 19th2017. The conference was well attended, with over 3000 attendees. It also...
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Progress Report - C3IoT Analyst Day - A unique approach to PaaS needs more...
We had the opportunity to attend the first C3IoT analyst day at their headquarters in Redwood City. The office itself is worth mentioning as it’s a nice departure from the often bland offices in...
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Event Report - Salesfore Dreamforce 2017 - My oh my - and serious platform news
We had the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s Dreamforce event – held at the usual location, Moscone Center in San Francisco, from November 5th till 9th 2017. As usual, it was mega event, distributed...
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News Analysis - Microsoft and SAP join forces to give customers a trusted...
When SAP and Microsoft announced the plans to move more of SAP load to Microsoft Azure in Spring of 2016 (here is the news analysis blog post), it was clear this was a partnership that was bound and...
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Event Report - Kronos KronosWorks - Kronos unleashes the Falcon - launches...
We had the opportunity to attend Kronos’ yearly user conference, held at the Aria in Las Vegas from November 12th till 15th 2017. The conference was well attended, similar to last year, we sensed an...
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Progress Report - Ultimate Software Analyst Day 2017 - Keeping the momentum
We had the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s first analyst summit, held at the vendor’s headquarters in Weston, Florida, November 16th. Always good to be at an inaugural analyst meeting, good...
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Event Report - Pivotal SpringOne 2017 - It’s all about PCF – and some Spring
We had the opportunity to attend Pivotal’s yearly user conference of the Spring developer community. SpringOne, held in San Francisco December 4th till 7th 2017 at Moscone West. With about 3000...
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News Analysis - SAP HCM On-Premise Option for SAP S/4HANA - or is this S/4HCM?
It’s a new year and new product announcements are coming out – normally in the consumer space, given CES looming large. Looks like SAP did not want to stand back and had a major announcement in the HCM...
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News Analysis - Google expands its global infrastructure with new regions and...
The monopoly race is on between all key cloud IaaS players, the most prominent ones being AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. There are always monthly press releases about new data centers being...
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Market Move - ADP Acquires WorkMarket to Further Extend Human Capital...
This morning ADP informed the markets about its acquisition of WorkMarket, founded 2010 and a leading platform / marketplace for freelancers.A first move by a key HCM player, so certainly worth one of...
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News Analysis - Informatica Delivers the Industry's Next-generation iPaaS >>...
More and more software is moving to the cloud and it allows vendors to redefine the value proposition of their software during the process. A good example is Informatica with its integration product...
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Market Move - SAP acquires Callidus - More Sales Effectiveness in the Back...
SAP hasn’t been on the 1B+ acquisition path since 2014, and at the same time is building out its next generation ERP offering with S/4AHANA. SAP seemed to be on an organic build out path of...
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Market Move - Red Hat snaps up CoreOS - The Kubernetes ecosystem heats up
Few open source standard have won faster than Kubernetes, and that also means the ecosystem consolidation is moving faster than almost any market in enterprise software. So it came as no surprise that...
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Event Report - ADP ReThink - Great event and a lot in the making
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s ReThink 2018 conference in Monaco from January 29th till February 1st, 2018. The conference targets ADP customers who use its Global View product, most of them...
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