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Unit4 pioneers the “hybrid analyst summit”

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Since Workday held its first Analyst Summit in 2010 - I had called their effort exhilarating - I have encouraged vendors to adopt a similar format. User Conferences are more for customers - I find analysts intrude on their time.

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Why SAP needs a chiropractor

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It was early in 2010. I was finishing up research for The New Polymath. I had a generous page in the manuscript on Hasso Plattner’s in-memory vision. An SAP employee reviewed an early draft and encouraged me to reach out.

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The New Polymath: The SAP version

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I don’t like to play favorites across my books, but many readers say they really liked my 2010 book, The New Polymath. The book bio read “A Polymath—the Greek word for Renaissance Man—is one who excels in many disciplines.

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Cloudy 2010

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I will be joining Phil Wainewright, Dennis Howlett and Narinder Singh, one of the co-founders of appirio in a session on cloud trends on Wednesday, January 13. Register here - the marketing promises we will make sense of the "myriad.

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Workday’s Relentless Discipline and the Power to Adapt

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Some of us are old enough to remember Workday’s pioneering analyst summit in August 2010. I wrote back then “Few vendors have the guts to be open to such a smart and opinionated bunch as Workday was during its Technology.

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Deja Vu all over again

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In my travels, I got reminders of several due diligence visits I had helped clients with from 2003 to 2010. I was in India last week and visited with a couple of outsourcing firms. The Renaissance in Powai reminded me.

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Infor: Part of the bigger Koch puzzle

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I was excited when Charles Phillips and his team arrived at Infor in 2010. I looked forward to them executing to their vision they would focus on various verticals like healthcare and hospitality. Over the last few years I have.

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