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Marketers Feel Unfulfilled, There Is a Fix
A recent survey found almost half of marketers felt unfulfilled at work — and they're not alone.
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Ethical Practices in a Data-Driven B2B World
In this new world of data privacy regulation, marketers must be humane and transparent in order to achieve long-term success.
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SAP Unveils SAP Data Hub to Pave the Way to Digital Innovation
New York City — High above the Hudson River, on the 53rd floor of 10 Hudson Yards, SAP CEO Bill McDermott led the unveiling of SAP Data Hub yesterday.
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SAP Acquires Identity Management Firm Gigya
On Sunday, software giant SAP announced its intention to acquire Mountain View, Calif.-based Gigya, a customer identity and access management platform provider. Though terms of the forthcoming sale have not been announced, analysts, including Constellation Research founder and analyst R Ray Wang, estimate the price to be around $350 million.
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How to Unstick Your Work Rut
It's time to take off the blinders.
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Syncplicity's Post EMC Ambitions
By now, anyone who cares knows that EMC sold Syncplicity to Skyview Capital. But there's much that hasn't been said. First off, it’s a bit of a farce to suggest that Syncplicity failed to thrive as an Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) provider — it was the leader among Leaders in Gartner’s most recent
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Elastic Makes It Easier to Connect the Dots
Good things come from connecting the dots. That’s what Elastic’s products help companies do. Based on open source projects Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK), Elastic’s commercial products are leveraged by an impressive list of organizations to do some equally impressive things.
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Is Hortonworks Paving the Way for Pervasive Hadoop Adoption?
Some say that Hortonworks is the steward for pure open source Apache Hadoop. But Matt Morgan, the company’s vice president of global product marketing doesn’t go that far.
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Is Microsoft Building an Outlook Chat App?
Apple, under Steve Jobs leadership, was known for its secrecy — very little was known about the iPhone, for example, before it was officially unveiled. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella’s leadership, may go down in history for its propensity to leak information. There was the acquisition of calendar app Sunrise that
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Gartner's Dismal Predictions for Hadoop Could Be Wrong
When Gartner speaks, tech vendors bow their heads and pray for blessings -- but that’s not always what they get.
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There's a New Guy in Charge at Dropbox for Biz
Dropbox for Business has received its share of criticism for not understanding the enterprise, but the critics might have to turn it down a notch now.
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MapR Raises its Hadoop-Without-the-Headaches Play
While much of the drama in the Hadoop world of late has surrounded the Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative, there’s progress outside of it, too. Today MapR announced that its Hadoop distribution now ships with Apache Drill 1.0.
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Dropbox for Biz Raises Its Privacy and Security Play
When we think of companies that set the bar for security and privacy, Dropbox may not be the first that comes to mind. But it may be one of the leaders in the industry, at least if today’s announcement is an indication.
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5 Productivity Apps You Can Check Out For Free
If you had been at Citrix’s Synergy conference in Orlando this week, you might have noticed a similarity between its CEO Mark Templeton and Oprah Winfrey.
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