My weekly video recap of the week ending October 17th 2014 - enjoy:
 


Here is what I am talking about in the recap:
 
  • Time to look what analytics really means - a manifesto - read here
  • Alan Lepofsky's (@alanlepo) presentation at Dreamforce - see it on slideshare here
  • IBM and SAP partner, put the HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) on top of IBM Cloud (CMS & SoftLayer) - read here
  • My event report of Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, all about customer success, Analytics (no real ones - see above) Cloud and Lighting framework - read here
  • The Dreamforce Takeaways Hangout with Natalie Petouhoff (@drnatalie), Alan Lepofsky and Ray Wang (@rwang0 - via email) - see it here
  • My HR Tech 2014 takeaways Hangout - see it here (with my highlights of 29 vendor briefings + reminders on where I see Oracle, SAP & Workday).

Other key events / I have missed to attend / blog about:
  • EMC acquires Cloudscaling by Ben Kepes (@benkepes) (and congrats to 100 half marathons in 2014!)

And a few press clippings
  • Wall Street Journal - IBM, SAP Team up to deliver SaaS over the internet - read here
  • New York Times - IBM and SAP: A cloud pact that solves problems and holds promise - read here
  • CIO - Expect more 'mega partnerships' among technology vendors - read here
  • firstbiz - SAP and IBM join hands to take on Oracle and Amazon - read here
  • Business Spectator - SAP turns to IBM to expand cloud reach - read here
  • HR Executive Online - Predictitve Analytics dominates my first HR Tech Conference - read here

Fashion Observation of the week

  • Brian Sommer in Jeans (again!), and more remarkably no tie (!) 

Next week I will be Las Vegas for SAP Teched && dCode and then in Amsterdam for HR Tech Europe, it will be a busy but fun week. 
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