Darwin on demo: Workday Rising
I saw Panera Bread present eye-popping stats at Workday Rising – 65,000 hires a year with rapid growth and 90% staff turnover and yet, on-boarding expectations of less then 24 hours. It would not be an exaggeration to say Panera, along with Starbucks, Whole Foods and a few others have significantly influenced American diet in […]
A Newbie’s Guide to Dreamforce. Hint: You Can Go For Free. And You Will Learn at Ton.
Next week is the largest SaaS event on Planet Earth: Salesforce’s Dreamforce. (The SaaStr Annual ’17 will be #2). I’ve been going since 2005, from ’06-’11 as a vendor, and ’12-today as a participant / speaker / etc. I went first in ’05, when I knew nothing about SaaS. Back then, I think it just […]
Camunda Community Day: community contributions
Two years ago, I attended Camunda’s open source community day, and gave the opening keynote at their enterprise user conference the following day. I really enjoyed my experience at the open source day, and jumped at the chance to attend again this year – and to visit Berlin. The first day was the community day, […]
Autonomous Vehicles: The Empty Re-positioning Challenge
Over the next 10 years it is estimated that the number of autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads will become a mainstream force. The rate of progress to this goal is accelerating, building on the success of technology-enabled safety features such as lane assist, adaptive cruise control, and emergency braking. We first saw these technologies come […]
And nearby somebody finally gets it – new interaction programming models
I saw a tweet this morning that caught my eye. .Check out https://t.co/Q9TDQMD74P and https://t.co/6Sn0ssBSWq #google #beacons #nearby #devs #tech — Gen Ashley (@coderinheels) September 9, 2016 Having written about Conversational IoT earlier this week I thought it was worth a quick follow up. I said then that The nature of the current dominant user […]
AI’s moment
There’s lots of talk pro and con these days about bots, AI, and intelligent assistants. A lot of this talk is not necessarily new; it’s been percolating around the industry for decades. Vinnie Mirchandani, a friend and truly gifted analyst, wrote a book recently, Silicon Collar that accepts that this automation might be eliminating jobs […]
Why We Invested in ProsperWorks CRM
With so many CRM products in the market, I was not looking for a new CRM startup. But when I met Jon Lee, the founder and CEO of ProsperWorks, two years ago I thought he was on to something big by solving the biggest, unsolved problem of CRM: Sales people hate entering data They do […]
News Analysis: @Adobe Chooses @Microsoft #Azure For Cloud #MSIgnite
Adobe Move To Azure Signals Closer Partnerships Ahead On September 26th, 2016 at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a strategic partnership between the two companies. Constellation sees the announcement from three points of view: Adobe makes Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud platform. Adobe intends […]
Oracle: Time to push the pedal on cloud apps
Larry Ellison joked at Oracle OpenWorld he was told Fusion applications would be developed in 4 years. They have taken over a decade. Snicker all you want. The flip side of that is Oracle started developing cloud apps years before most others. While IaaS and Amazon got a lot of attention during OOW, the winner […]
Workday Rising: Sneak Preview from Leighanne Levensaler
Workday’s annual user conference, Rising is in Chicago this week. The European version is in Barcelona in a few weeks. It’s always an enjoyable event with “The Citizens of the Cloud” – some of the happiest customers in the world. Founders Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri showcase an entertaining keynote, and this year I am […]
