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Workday and Peakon. My take.

Workday and Peakon. My take.

By Thomas Otter on February 1, 2021

Workday agreed to acquire Peakon. There is an obvious logic to this deal. Engagement tools are an important part of HRTECH today, and the cycle of larger vendor absorbing edge innovators continues. Cue Disney circle of life music. Engagement tools have done well under COVID-19, with the move to more remote work etc. Whereas 2 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, GDPR, HRTech, M&A, Peakon, Start Up, workday

News Analysis: Celonis Launches Ecosystem Management System

News Analysis: Celonis Launches Ecosystem Management System

By R "Ray" Wang on December 14, 2020

Eliminating System Complexity Is Celonis’ Number One Priority On October 14th, 2020, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Rinke, kicked off its Ecosystem Summit and showcased its new Execution Management System (EMS).  The goal is to improve an enterprise’s execution capacity by simplifying complex processes.  Celonis defines execution capacity as the ability to get things done over […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 2020, acquisition, acquisitions, AI, ambient experience, ambient experiences, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, business graph, CDO, Celonis, CEO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CTO, Customer Experience, digital, Digital acceleration, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, digital feedback loops, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, disruptive business models, dynamic feedback loops, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, event driven architectures, events, excecution management system, execution capacity, Integromat, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microservices, News Analysis, personalization at scale, precision decisions, process mining, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition

News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition

By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2020

Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI.  Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 2020, acquisition, acquisitions, AI, ambient experience, ambient experiences, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, business graph, CDO, CEO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CTO, Customer Experience, digital, Digital acceleration, Digital Business, Digital Transformation, disruptive business models, Dr. Yoshua Bengio, dynamic feedback loops, Element AI, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, event driven architectures, events, Jean-François Gagné, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microservices, Montreal, News Analysis, personalization at scale, precision decisions, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, servicenow, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

By Thomas Otter on December 3, 2020

Thank you ! Creative commons: Jeremy Segrott https://www.flickr.com/photos/126337928@N05/ I’m not one to try and get a razor sharp analysis out before I have had my tea and rashers. There is a lot to ponder on this one, and it is rather long to tell. Some context and a bit of a diversion The big enterprisey […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, marketing, Product Management, salesforce, Slack

News Analysis: SalesLogix Given New Life With Infor Acquisition

News Analysis: SalesLogix Given New Life With Infor Acquisition

By R "Ray" Wang on August 14, 2014

  Infor Acquires SalesLogix To Expand Vertical CRM Footprint On August 14th, New York City headquartered, enterprise software giant, Infor, announced the intent to acquire the assets of Scottsdale AZ, Saleslogix for an undisclosed sum.  For those keeping track of CRM history, Saleslogix was last owned by Sage Group and sold off to Swiftpage, an […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Apps Strategy, Chief Customer Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud suites, CMO, Constellation Research, CRM Magazine, CustExp, Customer Experience, customer relationship management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, CXM, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Infor, Infor CRM, Infor ION, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, mobile, mobility, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Saleslogix, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Swiftpage, vendor strategy

News Analysis: Netsuite Acquires Venda For Digital Commerce And EMEA Expansion

News Analysis: Netsuite Acquires Venda For Digital Commerce And EMEA Expansion

By R "Ray" Wang on July 21, 2014

 Netsuite Sees Venda As Key To EMEA Expansion On July 17th, 2014, San Mateo, CA based NetSuite announced the acquisition of London based Venda for an undisclosed sum.  Since General Manager Andrew Lloyd’s arrival in January 2011, NetSuite has made several acquisitions to bolster its standing in the world of Matrix Commerce with OrderMotion in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Apps Strategy, B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, CDO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, commerce, Constellation Research, Digital Business, digital commerce, DigitalBiz, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Matrix Commerce, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, netsuite, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

Acquiring Innovation

Acquiring Innovation

By Evangelos Simoudis on July 7, 2014

In 2001 Apple introduced iTunes based on the IP of a company it had acquired in 2000. By 2003, after the introduction of the iPod and of the iTunes Store, iTunes had become the de facto disruptive innovator of digital music. More recently Apple itself started being disrupted by Pandora and Spotify.  These streaming music […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, android, apple, google, ibm, innovation, SoftLayer, WhatsApp

Event Report: Customer Experience Management Alive and Well At Clarabridge Customer Connections #C3Rocks14

Event Report: Customer Experience Management Alive and Well At Clarabridge Customer Connections #C3Rocks14

By R "Ray" Wang on May 3, 2014

Customers Celebrate Success With Customer Experience Management (CXM) Around 450 customer experience professionals gathered at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort at Clarabridge’s Customer Connections Event April 28th to April 30th, 2014.  The event brought together professionals passionate about best practices, trends, and techniques in improving customer experience management.  Key customers at the event include major […]

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Quips: What the Google Motorola – Lenovo Deal Is Really About

Quips: What the Google Motorola – Lenovo Deal Is Really About

By R "Ray" Wang on February 7, 2014

Google Enters China Via Lenovo While Counter Balancing Samsung On January 29th, 2014, Mountain View based Google announced it would sell it’s Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese based Lenovo for $2.91 in cash and stock.  The deal cuts across many spectrum including mobile OS, computing wars, and search.  Here’s 12 talking points: Source: Not sure, […]

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News Analysis: VMware Signals Commitment To Mobility With $1.54B Intent To Acquire Airwatch

News Analysis: VMware Signals Commitment To Mobility With $1.54B Intent To Acquire Airwatch

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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