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HR2014 Takeaways - What a difference a year can make
Enjoying my first week of no work related travel for 2014 I watched the keynote of HR 2014 remotely – many thanks to WisPubs for that service. I did the same in 2013 – so it’s a good way to compare the...
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2 Key GA Milestones for the Cloud – Amazon AppStream and Oracle Software on...
This week marked the general availability (GA) of two milestones for the cloud. Let take a look why they are milestones and their implications on the industry and customers …Microsoft announces GA of...
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Research Summary - An in depth analysis of Salesforce1 - Better Packaging or...
Around 4 months ago, it was mid November, Salesforce.com released it's new Salesforce1 product during their annual Dreamforce1 conference. It caused quite a stir and more questions in regards of what...
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Progress Report - Good start for VMWare EUC – time for the 2nd inning
We had the opportunity to catch up with the VMWare End-User-Computing (EUC) management team at their analyst meeting in Boston. Very good meeting and great chance to feel the pulse of the EUC...
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Progress Report - Ceridian makes a lot of progress – but the road(map) is long
We had the opportunity to catch up with the Ceridian executive team for a full day of briefings. And it was packed full of information – in an interactive format, with Dave Ossip emceeing and the...
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Event Report - BI2014 and HANA2014 takeaways – It’s all about HANA & Lumira -...
I had the opportunity to attend the keynote presentation at the SAP BI2014 / HANA2014 conference in Orlando, organized by Wispubs. This used to the BusinessObject event and has slowly morphed into a...
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New Analysis - Another week another Billion - Cisco Intercloud - A different...
Cisco entered the public cloud market today with announcing the world’s largest Intercloud (a new term – surprise). Let’s look at the press release – and read between the lines a bit:As businesses...
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News Analysis – Google get serious about the cloud – and it is different
Google had its widely anticipated cloud event in San Francisco, and it for sure did not disappoint. Developer focus, tools and significant price reductions were expected. Probably the biggest surprise...
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Launch Report - When BW 7.4 meets HANA it is like 2 + 2 = 5 - but is 5 enough?
I was invited to attend the BI / HANA 2014 event organized by WisPubs in Orlando this week. I have blogged on my keynote takeaways from yesterday here, today the conference continued with a separate BW...
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Event Report - AWS Summit in SFO - AWS keeps doing what it has been working...
We had the opportunity to attend the AWS Summit in San Francisco today, a well-attended event. Not surprisingly Amazon can pull a lot of interest in the Bay Area, and most of the crowd was...
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Market Move - SAP acquires Fieldglass – off into the contingent workforce –...
On March 26th SAP announced the intention to acquire Fieldglass, a leading vendor in the contingent workforce management software category. We take a look at the news release and then take a stab at...
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Market Move - Infor runs CloudSuite on AWS - Inflection Point or hot air...
Last week was all dominated by public cloud announcements, starting with Cisco’s Intercloud, then Google Cloud platform live event, then AWSSummit and lastly the Microsoft cloudformobile event. In the...
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Event Report - Equifax Workforce - Preventive Medicine for the HR department...
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend Equifax Workforce Services annual user conference in Scottsdale. It was an almost intimate affair with a little more than 200 customers attending –...
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Event Report - Microsoft Build Day 1 Keynote - Top Enterprise Takeaways
Microsoft’s build developer conference kicked off today in San Francisco – it’s well attended with over 5000 guests - and sold out since months. Day 1 was all about Windows Phone 8.1, the launch of...
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Event Report - Microsoft Build - Azure grows and blossoms - enough for...
On the second day of Microsoft’s Build developer conference it was time for getting serious about the cloud, in Microsoft’s case to get serious about Azure.And there can be no question that Microsoft...
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First Take – 3 Key Takeaways from ADP’s Meeting of the Minds Conference Day 1...
We have the opportunity to attend ADP’s annual user conference for large enterprise customers – happening in Orlando right now. The conference is well attended with over a 1000 attendees.Here are my...
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Musings - Future of Work – Is voice part of it? Post Cortana debut...
Today’s’ debut of Cortana at the Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco made me think once again how we work with our devices. Obviously devices are a key component of the ‘Future of Work’...
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Event Report - ADP’s Meeting of the Minds - ADP has made up its mind (almost)...
We had the opportunity to attend ADP’s yearly user conference for their large enterprise customers, the Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) as ADP calls the event. With well over a thousand attendees this was...
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First Take - 3 Key Takeaways from Ultimate's UltiConnect Conference Day 1...
We have the opportunity to attend Ultimate’s annual user conference – happening in Las Vegas right now. The conference is well attended with over a 2000 attendees.Here are my top 3 takeaways from...
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Progress Report - Checking in with startups from the HANA startup program
During HANA 2014 SAP provided the opportunity to check-in with some of the startups that are part of the HANA startup program. As I have blogged before – the HANA startup program is probably the...
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