Cloud

I had the opportunity to attend SharePoint TechFest Houston last week and was duly impressed with the level of continued interest in SharePoint as a platform and the future of the product. Here are a few takeaways from the conference: To kick things off, Synxi CTO Naomi Moneypenny delivered the keynote address focusing on the […]

Azure Mobile Engagement is a SaaS-delivered, data-driven user-engagement platform that enables real-time and fine-grain user segmentation, app user analytics, and context-aware, smart push notifications across all connected devices. You can maximize your app usage, retention, and monetization with this powerful platform. It allows developers, app owners, and line-of-business decision makers to directly contact app users […]

Exciting news for Linux customers! From today’s announcement – The partnership we are announcing today with Red Hat extends our commitment to offer unmatched choice and flexibility in an enterprise-grade cloud experience across the hybrid cloud. With more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 using Microsoft’s cloud, for us to team with the leader […]

I wanted to share a few recent changes to Yammer that you may have started to notice. Some of them are small or effected features that no one used. Others, like External Groups, are rather major updates. In addition, Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a leader in the Social Software space for the seventh consecutive year!! […]

Last week, Oracle released version 12c of OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). There are several features that are new to 12c, among which is the UI which has now been updated to become more modern compared to the prior 11g interface. The most interesting feature that has been added is the new Data Visualization […]

“Retailers are light years ahead of Wall Street in analyzing their data to find out what their customers want,” said to Peter Giordano, managing director at Oppenheimer & Co. “Instead of analyzing customer data, the industry still relies on salespeople, relationships and actual trades to tell us what clients want.” Big data might be a […]

At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, Mukesh Nakra from Infosys talked about Reinventing HR as part of digital transformation. There are several imperatives driving HR to change: Working with millennial employees and a digital workforce – we can’t support this group with traditional Human Capital Management system Improving employee reach globally with multilingual HR applications Adopting social […]

This blog deals with  Global Organizational Data needs where there is insufficient window of non-Business hours to run heavy batch loads and at the same time a provision to access the data 24 hours with  negligible or no interference. Why 24 hours availability is needed? Organizations have a high need for 24 hour availability of […]

Kiumarse Zamanian and Kaila Garrison of Oracle Responsys talked at Oracle OpenWorld about the integration of Responsys with Oracle Commerce.  Kaila started by talking about the Rise of Digital Darwinism or what we like to call Digital Leaders vs Digital Prey.  Since 1955 only 12% of the Fortune 500 are still in business. Offline purchases […]

Aaron Lowe and Steve Papa with Oracle’s Marketing Cloud team talked about how marketers can use the Oracle Marketing Cloud to harness known and anonymous customer data to better understand audiences. Audience management is complex and there isn’t a silver bullet available to solve your audience problems.  Steve talked about a 5 step cycle to […]

Here is an interesting stat: 5% to 10% of social users are responsible for 60% to 80% of influence.  Reaching those 5%-10% of people on social networks is paramount.  In this session, we heard from a panel of social media practitioners about this topic. How should companies respond to agitators?  You have to pay attention […]

Ray Wang, Chairman of Constellation Research spoke at Oracle OpenWorld about “Inside The New Post-Sale, On-Demand, Attention Economy”.  Ray wrote a book called Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy.  The presentation covered many of the topics in his book. 52% of Fortune 500 firms since 2000 are gone. That is an amazing fact. […]