This year’s Dreamforce conference was bigger than ever as Salesforce.com painted an even broader vision of a connected world enabled by cloud-based platforms and powerful analytics-driven solutions. The company also took the time to showcase how its rapidly growing ecosystem of third-party relationships is helping to accelerate the migration to cloud alternatives. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ views about the industry implications of Salesforce.com’s partner ecosystem in Sandhill.com.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff last month tweeted about the tentative agenda for this week’s Dreamforce and caused a tizzy by revealing a keynote session entitled “Analytics Cloud.” Although the company immediately denied that it was planning to unveil such a thing or that Benioff intentionally spilled the beans about the new offering, Salesforce.com did indeed launch its analytics cloud, called “Wave,” when Dreamforce kicked off on Monday. This launch represents a milestone moment for the cloud marketplace. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ perspective on Salesforce.com’s latest move in E-Commerce Times.

THINKstrategies’ Connected Cloud Summit focused on the rapidly evolving ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) marketplace on September 18 in Boston was a tremendous success!

The peer-to-peer, executive networking event brought together over 200 registered attendees, 36 expert speakers, 21 industry partners and 15 corporate sponsors to share perspectives regarding the exciting new business opportunities created by the IoT phenomenon and key issues that must still be overcome to capitalize on these opportunities in eleven keynote and panel sessions.

Click here to view the Summit highlight reel to give you a quick glimpse of the key takeaways from the event. You can also view all the session recordings and one-on-one speaker interviews, and download the keynote presentations on the Summit website at http://cloudsummits.com/event/connected-cloud/.

You can also click here to read my perspectives regarding the industry implications of the Summit sessions and presentations in Sandhill.com. You can also find the … Read More »

Salesforce.com, Oracle, Avnet Technology and Corent Technology have agreed to return to the fourth annual Cloud Channel Summit as sponsors and speakers at the executive forum focused on building successful partnerships in the Cloud.

This year’s Summit will be hosted by THINKstrategies and the Cloud Computing Showplace on Wednesday, December 3 in San Diego, in conjunction with the Channel Company’s NexGen Cloud Conference & Expo on December 4-5.

The Cloud Channel Summit is a peer-to-peer, executive networking forum focused entirely on helping attendees build successful partnerships in the Cloud. The Summit has been the ‘go to’ event for key executives from leading Cloud vendors and their channel partners to share ideas and showcase success stories since 2011. Click here to see highlights from last year’s Summit, as well as the speakers, sponsors and partners who participated in last year’s executive forum.

By combining forces with the Channel Company, the publisher of Computer Reseller News … Read More »

Although the true meaning of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to provoke plenty of debate, there is no question the cloud is helping organizations across nearly every industry capitalize on an increasingly connected world. The business implications of this brave, new world of the IoT was the theme of last week’s Connected Cloud Summit in Boston. Click here to read about the major takeaways from the executive forum in Sandhill.com.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly, but most companies are still struggling to determine how to make money in this new marketplace. IoT monetization management solutions not only measure the activity associated with the connected things being monitored, but also collect valuable information. The data analytics engine underlying the monetization solutions can help decision makers figure out how to properly package, price and even position their IoT deployments to generate new revenue and uncover greater profits. Click here to read our views in E-Commerce Times.

Although cloud services in general and Amazon Web Services in particular are growing at unprecedented rates, periodic service failures continue to disrupt users’ operations and raise questions about the best way to mitigate the risks created by these outages. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ suggestions in SearchAWS about how your organization can reduce the chances of becoming victimized by Cloud service disruptions.

There are limited seats remaining for the Connected Cloud Summit executive forum which will examine the unprecedented market opportunities and key technology challenges associated with the rapidly evolving ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) on September 18 in Boston. Register now to save your seat and $200 off the standard registration fees by using promo code CCSIoT14!

The Summit will show how the Cloud is enabling enterprises to pursue new IoT business opportunities to,

Better serve their customers,
Create new product/service offerings, and
Gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

The executive forum will showcase the latest solutions, best practices and innovations being generated by leading IoT providers, start-ups and enterprises. Click here to see who is already registered to attend the Summit.

Senior executives from Aria Systems, Axeda, Birst, Cognizant, CorSource Technology Group, Dyn, Flexera Software, HP, MetraTech, Oracle, SafeNet, ServiceSource,ThingWorx (a PTC company), Xively by LogMein, and Zuora will join CXOs from GE, Google, Salesforce.com, SmartThings, InfoBright, Prelert, InfoBionic, Echelon, En-Gauge, Code On Technologies, New … Read More »

The corporate sponsors and industry partners supporting the Connected Cloud Summit are offering an additional $100 discount, or $200 total savings on current registration rates, to attend the executive forum which will examine the unprecedented market opportunities and key technology challenges associated with the rapidly evolving ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) September 18 in Boston.

Seating is limited at the State Room where we are hosting the Connected Cloud Summit, so register now to save your seat by using promo code CCSIoT14! Click here to see who has already registered to attend the Summit and add your name to the list.

The Summit will show how the Cloud is enabling enterprises to pursue new IoT business opportunities to better serve their customers, create new product/service offerings, and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The executive forum will showcase the latest solutions, best practices and innovations being generated by leading IoT providers, start-ups and enterprises.

The Summit sponsors include Aria Systems, Axeda, … Read More »

Just as organizations begin to catch their breath and get a grip on current big data challenges, a new wave is coming at us. I’m talking about the rapidly evolving ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) marketplace and its attendant new business opportunities. As always, the burden will fall on IT to solve the data storage, integration, and analytics dilemmas created by the IoT. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ views in InformationWeek about how IT should address today’s rapidly evolving IoT big data opportunities and challenges.