By R "Ray" Wang on January 22, 2014
Mobile Management Consolidation Continues And VMware Accelerates Mobile Efforts On January 22nd, 2014, VMware (NYSE: VMW) announced the intent to acquire Atlanta, GA based Airwatch for $1.54B. More than just an acquisition of a leading enterprise mobile management (EMM) vendor, the acquisition represents a cornerstone for VMware’s mobile strategy for end user computing. Should the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 5, 2014
Consumer Trends Often Lead The Enterprise Space The Consumer Electronics Show begins Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 in Las Vegas. Dubbed consumer tech’s largest event, Constellation expects to see a few big things for #CES14. In fact, digital disruption is alive and well. The five forces of consumer tech: social, mobile, cloud, big data and video […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 25, 2013
IBM Acquires Fiberlink (MaaS360) For Mobile Management And Security On November 13th, Blue Bell, PA based Fiberlink Communications signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Armonk, NY based IBM for an undisclosed sum. Fiberlink has over 3500 clients in key verticals such as financial, retail, public sector, education, and healthcare. IBM expects to close […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 12, 2013
Age Is Not The Deciding Factor In Five Generations Of Workers When discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 6, 2013
Market Leaders and Fast Followers Prepare for Digital Business In 2014 Conversations at Constellation’s Connected Enterprise last week validate a larger trend in the market place. The audience of 220+ early adopters with 75% representing line of business and 25% in IT highlighted the convergence of the five forces of consumerization described in 2009 and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 23, 2013
Past Oracle Open Worlds Have Disappointed Customers and Partners Let’s be frank. The past five years at Oracle Open World have disappointed even the faithful. The over emphasis on hardware marketing and revisionist history on cloud adoption bored audiences. The $1M paid advertorial keynotes had people walking out on the presenters 15 minutes into the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 23, 2013
Forward And Commentary Constellation Research keynoted at Ping Identity’s Cloud Identity Summit 2013 in July. Gathered in front of the Identerati, an Identity Manifesto was presented. The research behind that manifesto has been summarized here in this summary. The final big idea research report will offer insight into four of Constellation’s primary research themes, the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 25, 2013
At the end of the day two veterans of the enterprise software industry, Hasso Plattner and Larry Ellison are re-inventing their companies through database innovations…
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 2, 2013
Partnership Announcements Enhance Ultimate Software’s Offerings Amidst a crowd of 1500 customers, partners, and attendees, Ultimate Software held their annual gathering from March 12th to March 15th, 2013 in Las Vegas. Geared towards the medium sized to enterprise markets, Ultimate Software has steadily taken market share from ADP for payroll and expanded out into operational […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 6, 2013
Shift From CMO to CDO Is In Progress Today’s marketing strategies increasingly depend more on digital and on data than in the past. With more data, marketers can measure against a new set of metrics that matter including: calculating return on promotional investment (ROPI), performing multivariable testing (beyond A/b) driving conversion rates and optimizing efforts, […]
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