Category: Blog Posts
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AWS re: Invent – Full Speed Ahead to the Cloud
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its first ever user conference, AWS re: Invent, at The Venetian Las Vegas with 6000+ plus customers, partners and vendors in attendance. Senior Vice President Andy Jassy, head of AWS, explained that the name re: Invent was chosen for the conference to reflect…
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HRTechEurope – Cloud without Borders
Just back from Amsterdam a and very well attended HRTechEurope Conference with some 800 plus HR practitioners and vendors in attendance. This was the second annual iteration of the European version of an event that is in its 15th year here in the United States and regardless of continent this is the…
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HRTechnology Conference 2012: We Want Solutions
The 15th Annual HRTechnology Conference was held earlier this week in Chicago, Illinois. With records being broken for both attendance and exhibitors, the atmosphere was full of energy and excitement over improving the management of the human side of business. As a vendor at the show [Infor], I spent a considerable amount…
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Multi-tenancy vs. single tenant virtualziation: the debate continues…
The software world is certainly no stranger to vigorous debates over the superiority of one technology vs. another and one of the latest debates in this vein is multi-tenant vs. single tenant virtualization. The context for this debate is cloud and the question is which of these two technologies offers…
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Who cares about the cloud?
Vinnie Mirchandani is a technology analyst known for not being shy about expressing his thoughts on a matter, particularly those that involve technology and innovation, or calling it as he sees or hears it. I completely respect Vinnie’s frankness and transparency and it is the primary reason I follow his…
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Simple – A Goal for the Cloud
Since beginning to work with the cloud, one of the overarching goals that I have personally had is to use the cloud to simplify enterprise software. Not just the installation and delivery, but every aspect. We, the collective we, in the enterprise software industry have managed to build layer of…
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Focusing on Value
Daryl Plummer, Gartner Fellow, has just published a new ebook, The Business Landscape of Cloud Computing. If you are not familiar with Mr. Plummer’s work, you will find his straight forward approach and ability to translate ‘geek speak’ into practical business scenarios refreshing. For those still searching for a definition of…
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In the Review Mirrow
The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of high profile events, acquisitions, press releases and frenzied planning as many in the software industry hold user conferences and prepare for a new fiscal year. However, for me the final week of May 2012, will be the first time that…
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Off the Ledge and into the Cloud
Armed with my latest and greatest cloud presentation, I headed out to a customer user conference this week. The driver for the conference was to provide an update on one of our primary HCM products, but for the purpose of my presentation the conference could have been centered around any…
Heath Brownsworth 