After attending the SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando this week, I leave feeling slightly puzzled, but also slightly bullish on SAP’s future in digital experience (DX). Given it is SAP’s flagship conference, SAPPHIRE covers a wide range of technology topics. And, while meaningful to me, DX is hardly the primary topic on most attendees’ minds given… read more >
E-Commerce Round-Up covers major recent events and news from the past month in the commerce world, and provides a brief analysis of what they mean. This month’s Round-Up covers new funding for online marketplace provider Mirakl, new ecommerce service provider acquisitions and partners, and the prospects for celebrity ecommerce. The rise of the Saas online… read more >
October 19-21, 2015. Fort Worth, TX, USA. Keynote: Customer Engagement like never before by Connie Moore Event website: Hybris Americas Customer Days 2015 read more >
It’s that time of year where it seems like everyone in the known universe and beyond is either organizing conferences, preparing to exhibit or speak at them, or attending them. Accompanying the raft of conferences are announcements and press releases galore, and one in particular from the #IRCE15 event taking place in Chicago this week caught… read more >
Automattic, the company behind open-source publishing platform WordPress as well as other web publishing companies, has until recently kept a pretty low profile. Prior to its most recent financing round in 2014, where it raised $160 million, the company’s leadership ran it as a break-even business. Nearly a quarter of all websites now use WordPress (full… read more >
February 11-13, 2015. Munich, Germany. Meet Scott Liewehr, Connie Moore, Jill Finger Gibson and Tim Walters at hybris Customer Days 2015. Event website: hybris Partner Summit 2015 read more >
February 9-11, 2015. Munich, Germany. Meet Scott Liewehr, Connie Moore and Jill Finger Gibson at hybris Global Customer Days 2015. Event website: hybris Customer Days 2015 read more >
Give up? Yeah, me too. We’ve been known to critique technology rankings such as the Wave and Magic Quadrant here at DCG, since we don’t think they provide much actionable insight, and we usually add a little color commentary to spice things up. However, in the case of Forrester’s new Digital Experience Delivery [DEaD?] Platforms Wave, I… read more >
At this past week’s TechEd 2013 event in Las Vegas, SAP signaled loud and clear that it’s betting big on big data and positioning its HANA technology as a platform for growing the company’s ecosystem of app providers and developers. In addition to the announcement of new design services, cloud offerings, and enhanced access to… read more >
Although it’s software rather than services this time, yesterday’s announced acquisition of hybris by SAP is just as much about customer experience management (CEM) as the recent fusion of Accenture and Acquity. (Which I blogged about here.) That claim doesn’t require deep analysis, since it’s the fundamental justification for the purchase (terms not disclosed) offered… read more >
