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DECEMBER 20, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. We are running a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Yesterday, Tom Peff in Product Marketing.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Analytics has replaced Quality as Job 1 and no wonder CEO Alan Mullaly has been rumored as a Microsoft CEO candidate As Ford rolls out the 6th generation of its iconic Ford Mustang, Computerworld reports "Historically, you didn''t want to.'

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Analytics 207

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MARCH 14, 2018

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Cloud revenues are just 4% of total 2013 revenues. Three of its senior cloud executives from SuccessFactors and Ariba acquisitions have moved on in the last year. Its own internally developed BYD shows little traction after years of investment. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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MARCH 14, 2018

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Nate Silver, the election forecaster was on CNN this morning. Try as hard as he might, Fareed Zakaria could not get very specific answers about November from Nate. I found that segment part frustrating because of Nate’s evasiveness, part fascinating.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In the 32nd episode of the series is Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Markets Head of AI & Analytics at Cognizant. How has COVID changed the way customers are looking at analytics?" - I asked that in this post which.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

In episode 5 of the Burning Platform series, Brian Sommer and I discuss what we have seen in the last few months about analytical tools and talent. We also talk about the need for a next generation management science to.

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APRIL 7, 2019

Tom Bogan is CEO of Adaptive Insights, a company whose business planning cloud automates previously manual planning tasks—for finance, sales, and workforce planning—and supplements those capabilities with enterprise-scale reporting and analytics. Tom joined Adaptive Insights when it was at $40.

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JULY 6, 2017

At SapphrieNow a few weeks ago, SAP’s Hasso Plattner painted the vision of “Intelligent Applications” to include Intelligent Transactions – automate high-frequency repetitive tasks Analytics – make data-driven insights available to everybody Collaboration – tap into the collective intelligence of.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Workday has been consistent in the last few years to acquire analytical capabilities and talent especially in its back office focus areas. Many companies make acquisitions to diversify into new markets. Others do it to acquire revenues and customer bases.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

Last summer when I started to interview executives for the Karl-Heinz Streibich book, The Digital Enterprise, I presumed most would talk to me about how they are using social, mobile, analytical and cloud computing in their industries and countries.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Cognizant popularized the acronym SMAC for the stack of Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud technologies where most innovation IT dollars are going. Indeed Malcolm Frank, EVP Strategy and Marketing was talking about it as far back as November of 2012.

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MARCH 12, 2014

The Software AG theme at CeBIT was “smart big data” – using analytics and processes much more intelligently I have been thinking on the trip about two very smart set of services and two shockingly inefficient ones. 1a) I called. Industry Commentary'

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JUNE 11, 2018

Workday has been consistent in the last few years to acquire analytical capabilities and talent especially in its back office focus areas. Many companies make acquisitions to diversify into new markets. Others do it to acquire revenues and customer bases.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

Analytics, Big Data Industry Commentary' Rajesh Gill, Group Chief Pilot Technical and Efficiency at AirAsia, shared his version of “data visualization” at GE’s annual Minds+Machines day in New York. He expresses to fellow pilots the impact of certain maneuvers such as shutting down an engine.

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APRIL 1, 2013

As SAP chases the Big Data market it is running into competition from IBM, Oracle, HP, SAS, Cloudera and a host of other analytical players. But a more existential threat to the product may be coming from an unexpected source.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Last week at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the first session I attended had Michael Lewis moderating a panel which included Nate Silver, the baseball, now political analytics whiz. Lewis mentioned how his book Moneyball rattled a number of.

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Analytics 207

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JANUARY 8, 2014

In the Workday Predict and Prepare videocast last month, my second prediction was HR is at the cusp of an analytical revolution as it learns to leverage sensory, social and yes, plenty of HR data. I used examples like UPS. Enterprise Software (other vendors)'

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference last year a panel decomposed that metric. One of the most closely watched metrics at the annual NFL Scouting Combine this time of the year is each athlete’s 40 yard dash timing. Industry Commentary'

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Metrics Analytics 230

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In a panel on Big Data last week at Cognizant Community I cited several examples from the New Florence blog collected over the last few years – National Hurricane Center, Union Pacific, U of Washington’s ENCODE project, Social Media analytics.

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MARCH 1, 2013

Baseball coaches and scouts didn’t need no stinkin’ analytical rigor or new metrics. Michael Lewis was describing how controversial his book, Moneyball, was when it first came out in 2003. A decade later, as I attend the MIT Sloan Sports.

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Analytics Metrics Technology 259

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MAY 13, 2013

In the run up to SapphireNow this week I have seen several blogs and tweets about SAP’s new (as in last five years) analytical, cloud and mobile products – HANA, SuccessFactors, BYD etc. During the course of the week every. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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APRIL 14, 2013

Worth a proper read (sub required) but they outline several drivers: a) Smarter products with sensors/software and supported with advanced analytics b) 3D printing c) Energy economics.' Time magazine has a cover story on the bounce back of American manufacturing.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

I would urge them to also consider going to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics event even if they are not big sports fans. Many HCM professionals are headed to HR Tech this week. For a decade, that event has cataloged.

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MAY 24, 2013

SAP is consolidating several cloud, analytical, mobile innovation developments under Vishal Sikka. That''s a good move. For a while now, I have watched him focus a bit too much on HANA - "his baby" as he calls it, while leadership. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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APRIL 9, 2014

Innovation from around the globe Wagenstandanzeiger – a beauty of data visualization - Germany Daring New Buildings – Azerbaijan Microsoft and the Sochi Olympics – Russia Video Analytics Capital – Macau World Design Capital – S. Africa Innovation is GREAT. Globalization and Technology'

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Azerbaijan Russia Africa Germany 191

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

on the innovation blog Hotels for the “tech savvy, design forward” The explosion of social analytics The Big Data of Oracle Team USA Google’s $ 249 laptop for everyone Newsweek’s 2012 Green Ratings The iPad Mini Spray Painted Battery Nice.

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Green Analytics Design Technology 239

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

This time it is Sanjay Poonen, President and Corporate Officer at SAP, and a thought leader in Analytics, Big Data and Mobility. This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

He is now tackling the impact of Big Data/analytics on many. Rick Smolan, former National Geographic and Time photographer, has used a crowdsourced model (of fellow media professionals) to create a series of “A Day in the Life of” books.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

On New Florence, I have been cataloging impressive use of advanced analytics for a few years now. Nowadays, it is jarring when you see scenarios which do not leverage the deluge of data available at reasonable cost to most enterprises.'

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Turns out it is services around its newer products (SAP HANA platform and business analytics, mobility and on-demand). I recently saw an SAP announcement around its Next-Gen services and got excited. That’s certainly one definition of Next-Gen. I was hoping.

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MARCH 14, 2013

One of the aha’s I took away from the MIT Sloan Analytics event a couple of weeks ago was how various sports are not giving up on their “brick and mortar” – their stadiums inspite of growing fan preference to.

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Analytics 191

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

on the innovation blog Essential Android Apps for Business Grand Central Station: a throwback to century old technologies Yves Behar – a serial designer The Big Data of Groundhog Day Google’s HR Analytical Rigor Innovating Innovation What your hotel knows.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

One of my favorite chapters to research and write in my last book was on Analytics – Big Data, Visualization, Pattern Recognition, storage implications and several other angles. And in my next book, I touch on data driven business model.

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JUNE 12, 2012

IBM’s PR firm sent me a story idea about the Charleston Police Department using its analytics for “predictive policing”. It looked a very good candidate for New Florence, except that 6 months ago I had already posted about predictive policing.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

My friend Brian Sommer recently pointed out “On 5/14/2012, SAP, NetSuite, Plex Online, Host Analytics and other vendors(?) are all having their user conferences.” Clearly, that will be a busy news week. But it made me think about the news.

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