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News Analysis - ADP Announces Spin-Off Plans for Dealer Services Business -...
ADP just announced that it will separate itself from the ‘other’ part of its business, the less know dealer business the company has been operating and building through the decades.So let’s dissect and...
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Event Report - Ultimate’s UltiConnect - Off to a great start, but the...
We attended the Ultimate Software user conference, UltiConnect, held over three days at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. With over 2000 attendees it was the largest user conference for Ultimate yet –...
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Progress Report - Infor moves to the cloud with innovation and (micro)...
We had the opportunity to attend the Infor Innovation Summit in the company’s beautiful Manhattan headquarters. It was impressive to see that the complete management team took the time to spend the day...
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Site Visit - ADP's new Innovation Lab in Chelsea
On the heels of ADPs Meeting of the Minds user conference last week I had the chance to visit ADP’s brand new innovation lab in the trendy Manhattan Chelsea neighborhood. As a matter of fact it is so...
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Musings - What is the future of recruiting?
With one of the leading recruiting conferences starting this week, it was time to spend some thought cycles on the future of recruiting. And the purpose of this blog post is purposefully slanted in the...
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First Take - 3 Key Takeaways from IBM’s Impact Conference - Day 1 Keynote
We have the opportunity to attend IBM’s Impact conference - happening in Las Vegas right now. The conference is well attended with over 9000 attendees.Here are my Top 3 Takeaways from today’s...
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News Analysis - SAP moves Ariba Spend Visibility to HANA - Interesting first...
SAP today announced that it has moved a vital analysis piece of Ariba, the Ariba Spend Visibility functionality, to HANA and that it plans to move the Ariba Network to HANA. Let’s dissect the press...
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Event Report - IBM Impact - what a difference a year makes - and off to a...
We had the chance to participate at IBM’s Impact conference this week in Las Vegas. Impact is the show formerly centered on WebSphere, but the product centricity of IBM events seems to be a thing of...
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News Analysis - SAP becomes more about Applications - again.
So SAP did another weekend re-org announcement. Few people know, that by German law a supervisory board is not allowed to delay the release of material information - hence the weekend surprise(s). So...
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Workday Update 22 - Recruiting and a rich Update 22 are here
Today Workday unveiled its Update 22 – including the addition of Recruiting to Workday’s HCM automation portfolio. Recruiting has been long anticipated, and already a lot previewed at earlier...
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News Analysis - Today's Billion in Cloud investment is HP's and it goes to...
In a webcast today HP announced its new cloud brand – HP Helion. The event was largely scripted, not sure why it was so formal – and for all the fans of a no slide presentation – take a look at it and...
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Musings - The era of the No-Design DataBase
I have been spending some thoughts on the whole area of data base innovation that we are witnessing these days. The post of colleague and friend Vijay Vijayasankar looking for a better name than the...
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First Take - Microsoft discovers data ambience and delivers an organic...
Three weeks ago Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella was back in SFO for another announcement – after cloud for mobile and Office for iOS, then appearance at the build conference, now it was the...
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Event Report - Microsoft TechEd Day 1 Keynote - Top3 Enterprise Takeaways
Today the Microsoft TechEd conference kicked off in Houston with the first keynote, largely delivered by Brad Anderson, who called in colleagues for separate demos. And here are my top 3 takeaways from...
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Progress Report – Cornerstone completes Talent Life Cycle - what’s next?
We had the opportunity to catch up with the Cornerstone executive team for almost a day of briefings around the Cornerstone user conference in San Diego this week. And it was a packed agenda, with CEO...
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Event Report - NetSuite powers on with targeted innovation
We had the opportunity to attend NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference in San Jose this week. It was a successful event for NetSuite with over 6500 attendees overall, great partner presence while still...
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What I would like SAP to address this Sapphire
SAP’s Sapphire conference is coming next week, June 1st to 5th– so it’s time to get some thoughts down on what SAP should address this Sapphire. If you care – my takeaways of the 2013 Orlando Sapphire...
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Musings - How Technology Innovation fuels Recruiting and disrupts the Laggards
Innovation has been fueling the recruiting industry for quite some time. And given the competitive nature of recruiting – one of the few areas in the HR practice where a professional can be fired...
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First Take - 3 Takeaways from HireVue’s Digital Disruption conference - Day 1...
It was a privilege to be invited to the first HireVue user conference at the beautiful Stein Ericsen lodge in Park City, Utah. Great to see the company embracing its location, showing off the beauty of...
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First Take - Sapphire 2014 Day 1 Keynote - Top 3 Takeaways
We are attending Sapphire 2014 in Orlando and it’s time to see how the SAP under soon to be sole CEO Bill McDermott will start messaging and communicatingAnd different it was with a 30 minute start...
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