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DisrupTV Episode 120 - 3 x 3 Key Takeaways on Engagement, Learning and...
Last Friday we had the opportunity to record the 120th episode of DisrupTV, and with we I mean usual host Vala Afshar, and yours truly stepping in for the always on the move Ray R Wang. The show focus...
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News Analysis - Adobe, Microsoft and SAP announce the Open Data Initiative to...
Today at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was joined by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan and SAP CEO Bill McDermott to announce the Open Data Initiative across the three...
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Progress Report - ADP Analyst Day 2018 - Things are looking up
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s yearly analyst summit, held on September 20th 2018 at its innovation lab in Chelsea / New York City. With over 20 analysts, the event was well attended.Prefer to...
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Event Report - Salesforce Dreamforce 2018 - AI, Apple & Customer 360 - but...
We had the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, held from September 25th till 28th in San Francisco. It was the usual ‘zoo’ of marketing spend and attendees all over San Francisco....
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Event Report - SAP TechEd 2018 - Las Vegas -
We had the opportunity to attend SAP’s developer conference TechED in Las Vegas, held from October 8th till 12th 2018 at the Venetian Conference center. Attendance was not officially disclosed, but...
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Market Move - IBM buys RedHat - A bold move for hybrid cloud and PaaS
On Sunday afternoon, October 28th 2018, IBM reported that it has reached a definitive agreement to buy all issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share, which values the...
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News Analysis - SAP intends to buy Qualtrics - Pairing operational and...
SAP is back on the acquisition trail with the acquisition of 16-year-old Qualtrics, the Provo, Utah, based survey vendor. But surveys are such a 20th century category, so survey vendors are becoming...
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Event Report - Workday Rising 2018 - The analytics love story continues -...
We had the opportunity to attend Workday’s Rising conference, held from September 30th till October 3rd, 2018, held at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas. The event had record breaking attendance, in...
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Event Report - Ceridian Insights 2018 - Ceridian is on a roll
We had the opportunity to attend Ceridian’s yearly user conference Insights 2018, held from October 15th till October 19th at Cesar’s Palace Hotel in Las Vegas. Attendance was over 3.5k, a new record...
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Event Report - AWS reInvent 2017 - AWS grows and grows...
We had the chance to attend AWS reInvent in Las Vegas. The conference has grown beyond the original limits of the Sands Convention Center and has now sprawled all over Las Vegas - from the Mandalay Bay...
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Event Report - Kronos KronosWorks 2018 - Kronos is firing on all cylinders...
We had the opportunity to attend Kronos’ yearly user conference, Kronos Works, held from November 4th till 7th 2018 in Las Vegas at the Aria Resort. Attendance was similar like the year before with...
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Progress Report - Ultimate HCM Analyst Summit 2018 - AI, Europe & HR Services...
We had the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s yearly analyst summit, held November 13th and 14th 2018 at the vendor’s headquarters in Weston, Florida. Good attendance from the key influencers...
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Event Report - AWS reinvent 2018 - Push, push - AI and hardware
We had the opportunity to attend Amazon AWS reinvent user conference, held from November 26th till 30th 2018, across Las Vegas. With over 50k attendees, reinvent has become the yearly come and get...
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Musings - Why Open Source has won and will keep... winning
Yes, Open Source has won for platform software and possibly even more. Time to look how it all happened, and what the trends going forward are going to be.My 2 eyeopeners…Somewhere in the early 2000,...
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Event Report - ADP ReThink 2019 - Global Customer Success, TMBC and a great...
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s ReThink conference, held from January 29th till 31st 2019 in Berlin. Attendance was over 250 attendees, it is a pretty exclusive event. ADP always does an...
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News Analysis - IBM Unveils New Offerings for Faster and More Secured Path to...
Since about a year IBM is pushing the pedal again on cloud, hybrid cloud more specifically. Adding the RedHat acquisition, IBM now has several products and services to position. Having consolidated all...
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Musings - SAP democratizes Product Development - what does it mean for...
This is an overdue post, which I should really have written back when it was announced that Bernd Leukert was changing roles starting in 2019… now reality has caught up, and Leukert is leaving not only...
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Musings - Apple Services Event 2019
Apple had its long anticipated services event in Cupertino on the 25th of March. Not surprisingly, Apple announced a news, TV service. The gaming service was expected somewhat. The real surprise was...
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Progress Report - SAP Cloud Analyst Summit 2019 - Intelligent Suite and...
We had the opportunity to attend the yearly SAP Cloud analyst meeting, held from March 6th till 7th in Salt Lake City. It was co-located with Qualtrics X4 Summit user conference, a good move to get the...
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News Analysis - SAP keeps - re-organizing - Fox-Martin in charge of...
Late on a Friday night in Germany SAP issued a press release that Robert Enslin is leaving the company. The organizational consequence was that of Jennifer Morgan taking over the Cloud Business Group,...
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