By R "Ray" Wang on January 14, 2013
In a global announcement in Palo Alto, New York and Frankfurt, SAP’s top executives Dr. Vishal Sikka, Rob Enselin, Jim Haggeman Snabe, and legendary founder and chairman Dr. Hasso Plattner announced availability of SAP’s Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. SAP has rewritten the Business Suite to work on SAP’s HANA platform and believes that [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 3, 2013
The Inside Story On Oracle Fusion Apps At The End of 2012 Constellation sat down with Steve Miranda, Oracle’sExecutive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development to discuss the state of Oracle Fusion Apps in a no-holds barred honest conversation about what’s working, what’s not, and what to look forward to in 2013. R “Ray” [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 16, 2012
Think TED Meets Enterprise For The C-Suite – Constellation’s Connected Enterprise. Constellation’s flagship event, Connected Enterprise 2012, starts November 9th to 11th, 2012. This intimate innovation summit in Dana Point, CA (www.stregismb.com) is designed for senior business leaders who are attempting or successfully using disruptive technologies such as social business, cloud computing, mobile enterprise, big [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 1, 2012
Think TED Meets Enterprise For The C-Suite We are almost 30 days away from Constellation’s flagship event -Connected Enterprise 2012! This event from November 9th to 11th, 2012, celebrates innovation in the enterprise and the impact of disruptive technologies on business. Our theme for 2012 and 2013 centers on the “Art of the Possible”. This [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 19, 2012
Forward And Commentary Software ownership costs continue to escalate as vendors accelerate their efforts to capture support and maintenance revenues. Some vendors have gone to the extreme to eliminate third-party options for their customers. This best practices report examines three strategies to free up unnecessary costs to fund innovation and new projects. A. Introduction On [...]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 26, 2012
Why is it that so many traditional companies with an enormous wealth of assets largely fail to transform them for the digital era? By assets here, I mean established customer base, closely held relationships with trading partners, mountains of data and IP, as well as their bread and butter, the actual products and services they [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Analysis, Enterprise architecture, Network effects, peer production, strategy, The Enterprise |
By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 18, 2011
It was just over a decade ago that businesses were still wondering why it was necessary to have a Web site. Now it’s a foregone conclusion that they are one of the most important touchpoints for any organization to possess….
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Application programming interface, Cloud Computing, CxO Issues, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, google, Google Analytics, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, REST, SOA, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
Title: Workday Predict And Prepare 2011 Start Date: 2011-12-07 11:00 am PST End Date: 2011-12-07 12:00 pm PST Location: Webinar Link For the fourth year in a row, join the country’s top IT, HR and Talent Management analysts and consultants for their predictions of next year’s critical trends, plus their advice on how you [...]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 18, 2011
The title of this post is almost right. The workplace of tomorrow will look like a lot of things actually, including the Internet; just not a whole lot like the way our organizations look today. For one, the workplace itself has steadily begun to disappear as teleworking becomes more and more prevalent, though the latest [...]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on August 3, 2011
While social networks are still just getting their sea legs in most organizations, the next big leap forward — in addition to social analytics – is likely to be the integration of our productivity and line of business apps into our activity streams. Will this unleash significant new value? Very probably. But it’s also possibly the big integration [...]
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