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The Rise Of The Digital Executives

The Rise Of The Digital Executives

By R "Ray" Wang on March 24, 2021

  Digital Leaders and Their Efforts Take a Front Seat in the Post-Pandemic Era When the pandemic impacted businesses a year ago, most brands and enterprises scrambled to accelerate digital transformation efforts. These “digital” efforts ranged from rekindling digital channel projects to doubling down on digital channels to even accelerating subscription business models. Often led […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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News Analysis: Apple Brings New Post Pandemic Solutions To Remote Learning

News Analysis: Apple Brings New Post Pandemic Solutions To Remote Learning

By R "Ray" Wang on June 3, 2020

K-12 Education Market Faces New Requirements The latest CDC guidelines highlight the major challenges administrators and educators have for reopening schools.   The general principle – the more interactions, the longer interactions, the higher the risk of #COVID-19 spread. The CDC states that the risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows: Lowest Risk: […]

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News Analysis: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Quick Start Addresses Post Pandemic Requirements

News Analysis: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Quick Start Addresses Post Pandemic Requirements

By R "Ray" Wang on May 25, 2020

Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated. Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains […]

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Monday’s Musings: Inside The Five Levels Of Autonomous Enterprises

Monday’s Musings: Inside The Five Levels Of Autonomous Enterprises

By R "Ray" Wang on March 22, 2020

Cognitive Apps Power The Future Of Autonomous Enterprises Cognitive applications run mission-critical business systems in a continuous, self-driving, self-learning, auto-compliant, self-securing, and self-healing approach.  These AI driven systems intelligently automate transactional systems and processes such as campaign to lead, order to cash, procure to pay, incident to resolution, concept to market, and hire to retire.  […]

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Research Report: What's Top Of Mind From SAP Customers

Research Report: What’s Top Of Mind From SAP Customers

By R "Ray" Wang on December 20, 2017

Relevance And Value Lead The Inquiries About SAP From the criticism about indirect access to SAP Leonardo, the 2017 SAP landscape has been both gut-wrenching and transformational for clients. Rounded out by conversations at Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), SAP Australia User Group (SAUG) and UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) events, the top […]

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News Analysis: Rumors On Apple’s Foray Into Cars “Project Titan”

By R "Ray" Wang on February 16, 2015

 Project Titan May Put Apple Into The Auto Business The February 13th, 2015 Wall Street Journal story spotlighted many of the rumors around the developments behind Apple going into the car business.   Framed around challenging Tesla Motors, the story discussed how the Cupertino juggernaut may be putting together an Apple branded electric vehicle.  Vice […]

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Trends: 9 Actions to Consider Before 2015 For Digital Transformation

Trends: 9 Actions to Consider Before 2015 For Digital Transformation

By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2014

Digital Strategy From The Analysts At Constellation Research Constellation’s year end checklist offers suggestions designed to enable you to take control of your digital strategy in 2015. Consider these actions to ensure you dominate digital disruption in the new year. 1. Matrix Commerce: Scrub your data By Guy Courtin When it comes to Matrix Commerce, […]

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Social Business and Digital Strategy

Social Business and Digital Strategy

By Michael Fauscette on November 12, 2014

Social business, collaboration, community and content, is there real business value tucked away in those words? Digital transformation, digital strategy and digital disruption, are businesses really feeling the pressure to do somethings differently and by changing can they be more competitive, grow faster and be more successful? What’s different today that would help businesses unlock […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, Community, content, Customer, CX, digital, employee, ESN, internet, networks, socbiz, Social, strategy, transformation, work, Workforce

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