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Workday powers on - adds more to its plate
The Workday Rising conference has concluded and - fair to say - it was a very good event for Workday. There is something naturally exhilarating for customers, partners and vendor when their is...
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What I would like Oracle to address this OpenWorld...
With one of the largest - if not the largest - user conference dawning on us in the less than a week - Oracle OpenWorld - starting September 22nd in Moscone Center in San Francisco, I thought it would...
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Takeaways from the Salesforce and Workday Strategic Partnership
While it was in June that Oracle surprised the ecosystem with the surprising partnerships with Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce.comit was today Salesforce.com and Workday's time to announcea...
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SAP’s Startup program keeps rolling
I had the pleasure to be invited to another SAP Startup Forum, an invite I always like to follow up as it provides some good proof points how SAP is progressing at creating and maintaining momentum of...
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Workday Update 20 - mostly a technology release
Recently Workday upgraded customers to Update 20 and briefed analysts on the release. Workday keeps providing these updates on a metronome like pace - which by itself isn't easy and deserves...
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1st take - Oracle in memory option for its database - very organic
Oracle's massive OpenWorld conference kicked off the other day - opening with the traditional Larry Ellison keynote - and a partner keynote - this time Fujitsu talking about the goods of their M10...
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News from one of the oldest software companies - and it's getting exciting
One of the oldest software companies in Europe - if not in the word - purely founded for the purpose of software as a business, is Software AG in Germany. Unlike some older companies, Software AG never...
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Is it all coming together for Oracle in 2014? Or not?
Oracle Openworld 2013 just finished in San Francisco - and it was the event it promised to be - not big, but mega - in all aspects - size, attendees, number of sessions, steps walked between meetings...
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ADP innovates with verve and good timing
One week before the yearly HR Technology Conference starts in Las Vegas, ADP decided to hold it first ever Innovation Showcase, featuring key product innovations in a live, interactive webcast. The...
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What to look for at the HR Tech Conference
The yearly HR Tech Conference is starting today - so last chance to compile a cheat sheet on what to check for during the conference and show...The last of its kind?As most of you will know the father...
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HR Tech 2013 Key Takeaways - 2 Races, Recruiting and more
This year's HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas proved to be more than ever, that it is the key event of the HCM industry. With more vendors, more buyers and more buyers with imminent purchase needs - it...
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SuccessFactors shows a lot of progress and promise - but ...
On the tail end of the HR Tech conference, SAP smartly organized the SuccessFactors user conference - also in Las Vegas, just up the strip at the Venetian. And it was a good and well attended event....
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Key Takeaways from TIBCO TUCON - Sunshine & Chance of Hail [From the Fences]
TIBCO's TUCON conference is just ending in Las Vegas and it's time to take a look at the key takeaways from the conference. If you missed it - replays of the keynotes are available here and I collected...
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Our take on Salesforce.com Identity Connect - from three angles - Identity,...
With salesforce.com announcing its entrance into the identity market, we thought it would be valuable to review this step from all three perspectives it entangles - security as tied to identity - Steve...
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Is the existing SI business being travolged?
I have meant to write this post since quite a while after hearing and learning a lot about the changes that are happening and travolging the system integrator (SI) industry. For the longest time SI...
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My Top 3 Takeaways from the SAP TechEd keynote
Today was the opening keynote of TechEd 2013 and despite some nothing new pre-leaks - there were some substantial announcements and takeaways - I will concentrate on my top three takeaways - probably...
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Why NetSuite acquired TribeHR?
Earlier this week NetSuite announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire TribeHR, the Canadian partner that prides themselves to be one of the first social HR vendors, having been...
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Can we please stop the [silly] CMO vs CIO spend debate?
So much has been written about the CMO outspending the CIO in the recent months, I do not even recall who started the whole conversation (Gartner I think?). Doesn’t matter anymore at this point as it...
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Now that SAP is a tech company, it wants to be a … cloud company
In the aftermath of SAP’s TechEd conference in Las Vegas last week – a few things have crystallized out – that really are setting up the company for the years to come.A few months ago I blogged about...
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Are we witnessing one of the largest cloud moves - so far!?
On October 30th IBM communicated to its SmartCloud Enterprise customers that they will have to move to SoftLayer cloud environments - latest by January 31st 2014. This is the first and possibly the...
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