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Tweeting and feeling good about it - or effectiveness of marketing spend
I will be attending Kronos' user conference next week in Orlando - and when I got the customary what to do email from the vendor - I stumbled over a section mentioning some interesting marketing...
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Kronos executes – 2014 will be key
It was interesting to attend the Kronos user conference, Kronos World, earlier this week in Orlando. Kronos is a key player in the HCM market, being the overall leader for workforce management....
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Informatica pushes the cloud integration stakes
When it comes to cloud integration – there are basically three larger vendors to watch – Tibco, Software AG and Informatica. The latter timely released it’s Winter 2014 of the Informatica Cloud family...
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AWS powers on, into new markets - Day 1 reinvent takeaways
The AWS re:invent conference is in full swing in Las Vegas, attended by about 9000 clouderati, so it's time to look at the key statements and our takeaways of day 1 are.The usual conference statistics...
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AWS moves the yardstick - Day 2 reinvent takeaways
As it's getting tradition the day 2 keynote of the AWS reinvent conference was done by the AWS CTO, Werner Vogels. Vogels - or as referred to by his Twittter handle by a devoted developer community as...
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Platform ecosystems are hard: Salesforce grows it - FinancialForce shrinks it
The yearly Dreamforce conference kicked off today in full swing, well it hasn't even kicked off as the official start is only tomorrow. But we had a chance to attend the partner keynote - which was so...
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First takes from IBM's Software Group's Analyst Insights
Once a year IBM invites to its global analyst meeting in Stamford to brief on the latest of their software products. The event is very valuable to the analysts as the IBM software group is so wide...
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Dreamforce 2013 Platform Takeaways - All about the mobile platform - or more?
So the 2013 edition of Dreamforce is over and it's time to look at the key takeaways from this 5 day mega event. Needless to say that everything Dreamforce is BIG - attendees numbers, space used,...
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A tale of two cloud GAs - Google & HP
It does not happen often - or ever - did it? - that two major cloud players announce general availability (GA) or a new release of their respective cloud platforms. So HP announced version 13.5 of it's...
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SAP get serious on open source and courts developers - about time
With SAP being a global company it has regional editions of the Sapphire and TechEd events. For anyone following the company it's always a key question if the follow up events to the traditionally...
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Is 2014 going to see some sacred cows of the cloud being slaughtered?
Since quite some time there as been wide agreement on some criteria for cloud based applications - namely that they had to support multitenancy, all the way down to the database level, they had to be...
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IBM kicks off the cloud data center race for 2014
In a press release today IBM announced it's intention to extend its current data center landscape from currently around 20 to up to 40 data centers in 2014, effectively doubling the data centers...
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Workday Update 21 - All about the User Experience ... and some more
On January 23rd Workday officially unveiled its Update 21 to the public in various webcasts, the details of the release can be found in the press release here. Another highlight was the new user...
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First take - IBM makes Connections - introduces the Talent Suite at...
Earlier this week IBM kicked off their yearly Connect conference in Orlando. Think of Connect as the conference for all things formerly Lotus, collaboration, customer and employee experience - and...
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Oracle pushes modern HR - there is more than technology
Oracle had their first HCM World conference from February 4th to February 6th in Las Vegas and it rolled out the big guns - both CEO Larry Ellison and President Mark Hurd presented - something you...
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First take - Why Workday acquired Identified - (real) analytics matter
In its earnings press release Workday of February 26th, the company disclosed the acquisition of Identified, a San Francisco based start-up that had specialized on recruitment success using analytical...
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Another week and IBM investes another billion - this week it is (a) BlueMix /...
Over 11,000 attendees convened at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the annual IBM Pulse event. The event focused heavily on cloud and mobile and served as the backdrop to unveil BlueMIx, Big Blue’s...
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News Analysis – SAP slices and dices into more Cloud, and of course more HANA
In a virtual press conference SAP’s Vishal Sikka in conversation with Jonathan Becher went through two press releases that the company just published.Let’s look first at the key statements in the cloud...
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Progress Report - Good cloud progress at Oracle - and a 2 step program
We had the chance to learn from Oracle executives about the company’s progress in all things cloud, at a recent event in Palm Springs. It was good to see that Oracle communicated openly and with candor...
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News Analysis - SAP and Accenture partner - more of the old or something new?
On March 10th 2014 SAP and Accenture announced the formation of a Business Solutions Group to be formed in San Jose. Enterprise application vendors like SAP have a long history to form partnerships...
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