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Supplier Report: 5/9/2015

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IBM made headlines this week with the news that they are selling off Rivermine to Tangoe, allowing the company to focus on big data and strengthening Tangoe’s market-share in the TEM space. Big data and analysis continues to be the major theme with IBM at the moment with news of a partnership with Facebook to improve targeted ads to users. More importantly, it was announced that cancer centers will be using Watson to scan genetic reports for cancer trends.

EMC is starting to think about a post physical storage world while HP can’t move past their Autonomy purchase.

IBM

  • More on the IBM selling Rivermine to Tangoe:

    From an IBM perspective, it will be curious to see if the divestiture allows a refocusing of developing on the other Emptoris assets, including what Spend Matters believes would be a helpful re-platforming of the Emptoris product line to more effectively compete with where other competitive upstream suite solutions (e.g., BravoSolution, Iasta/Selectica, SciQuest, Ivalua, GEP) have headed or are going. For generic sourcing suites, single stack – and ideally a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model – is the future; spanning sourcing, supplier management, contract management, analytics and more.

    http://spendmatters.com/2015/05/08/ibmemptoris-divests-rivermine-tangoe-picks-up-10m-tem-business-vendor-and-market-analysis/

    PS: There is another important point in the post:

    Now, it appears that a single provider will have the upper hand in terms of market share if not breadth of solution (it will also likely create less pricing pressure on TEM solutions generally, although IBM was never in the business of lowering prices).

  • IBM and Facebook just partnered up:

    Marketers and brand managers will be able to leverage Facebook’s customer insights from its rich user base and Custom Audience (an ad targeting feature) along with IBM’s marketing cloud and analytics capabilities to offer more personalized and targeted advertisements for users. Furthermore, the combined capabilities of Facebook and IBM will allow brands to strategically select users that are more likely to respond to advertisements thereby allowing them to communicate more effectively.

    http://www.investing.com/analysis/facebook—ibm-join-forces-to-develop-marketing-solutions-251078

  • 14 Centers to Use IBM Watson for Cancer Genetics

    Oncologists will upload the DNA fingerprint of a patient’s tumor, which indicates which genes are mutated and possibly driving the malignancy. Watson will then look for actionable targets, matching them to approved and experimental cancer drugs and even non-cancer drugs (if Watson decides the latter interface with a biological pathway driving a malignancy). The centers will pay a subscription fee for Watson, which IBM did not disclose.

    http://hitconsultant.net/2015/05/08/14-centers-use-ibm-watson-cancer-genetics/

    Also in Watson news, IBM is planning more cloud capabilities for the system:

    Watson Hybrid Cloud will use Watson Explorer—a cognitive computing exploration capability for the enterprise—as the on-premises platform for the application development, combining enterprise data sources into the application through a scalable environment that keeps utilized data local, private and secure, IBM said.

    http://www.eweek.com/cloud/ibm-gives-watson-new-hybrid-cloud-capabilities.html

  • SAP, IBM to integrate their HR solutions

    With availability planned for mid-2015, the first offering from this alliance includes a planned integration between the SuccessFactors Employee Central solution and IBM Kenexa’s cloud-based HR software Talent Acquisition Suite. This integration is expected to enable IBM customers to move their HR information systems (HRIS) to the cloud with the leading core HR solution from SuccessFactors, an SAP company, while helping to protect their recruiting investments, and provide customers of SuccessFactors Employee Central with a broader set of options for recruiting, assessment and onboarding of candidates.

    http://www.firstpost.com/business/sap-ibm-integrate-hr-solutions-2234852.html

  • How IBM is monetizing Watson:

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/102643778

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HP

Here is a funny footnote about HP the last few weeks: I build this report on saved Google alerts dumped to RSS feeds.  For HP, Carly Fiorina’s presidential hopes have dominated the news cycle (thousands of articles), completely choking out actual business news. 

  • Thought this story was going away?  Wrong.  HP sues Autonomy founder for $5bn

    What’s striking about all of this is that when news of HP’s Autonomy quest surfaced—the plan leaked before the announcement—the near-universal reaction was that HP, which was struggling with a low-margin PC business and trying to bulk up its software and systems portfolios, was overpaying for interesting but perhaps not world-beating technology. Autonomy’s multi-media search technology worked across audio, and video, not just text, for example. It also had an augmented reality business.

    http://fortune.com/2015/05/05/hp-autonomy-legal-war/?xid=timehp-popular

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Supplier Report: 4/25/2015

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Amazon Web Service’s announcement of their value and performance is forcing the other suppliers to react.  There was a substantial amount of articles for each supplier this week comparing their performance and strategy against Amazon’s.

Cloud growth and SaaS expansion is the loose theme of the week. Oracle is looking to have 95% of their products available via SaaS by October.  IBM continues to grow SoftLayer internationally and focus on methods of connecting (and gathering data from) everything.

IBM

  • IBM “pushing boundaries” of IoT with Peugeot tie up

    As part of the new partnership – which will last for seven years – IBM and PSA will work with partners to develop connected solutions and services, which they hope to take out to their business customers and consumers.”The number of cars connected worldwide is expected to grow significantly to a quarter billion by 2020,” IBM said. “Until now, however, most of the innovations available have primarily focused on smartphone apps, navigation and roadside assistance. IBM and PSA will share the responsibilities of developing, selling and marketing, as well as delivering and implementing connected services with new and existing clients.”

    http://www.channelnomics.com/channelnomics-us/news/2405305/ibm-pushing-boundaries-of-iot-with-peugeot-tie-up

  • Hortonworks, IBM and Pivotal to Support Open Data Platform in Their Big Data Solutions

    The ODP initiative is an industry effort focused on simplifying the adoption of Apache Hadoop for the enterprise, and enabling big data solutions. It will also provide a set of tools and methods for the group members to create and test their offerings based on the ODP Core platform.

    http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/hortonworks-odp

  • IBM is Canada’s Most Attractive Employer

    Recruitment and HR services company Randstad Canada awarded IBM with the title at a ceremony held at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.

    http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canadas-most-attractive-employer-2015-04-24

  • IBM sentenced to pay 6.5 million as contractual damages for failed CRM solution (thought this would be interesting to share)

    In 2004, IBM won a call to tender launched by MAIF in relation to the rebuilding of its Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) by integrating new software. On December 14, 2004, a contract was concluded between IBM and MAIF, pursuant to which IBM was to provide, for a fixed price of €7,302,822, software that was compliant with the scope determined by the parties and a strict schedule. These commitments were defined as an obligation of result, whose breach can only be justified by an external cause such as force majeure or the other party’s default. However, the project fell behind shortly afterwards.

    http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ibm-sentenced-to-pay-65-million-as-cont-90381/

  • IBM is helping Chinese company make company and patent acquisitions:

    IBM has announced plans “to help a little-known Chinese company (Teamsun) absorb and build upon key technologies” that IBM licenses, according to the New York Times. The buyer knows what to do with that intellectual property: its advisor, Shen Changxiang, is the former supervisor of the cybersecurity of China’s strategic missile arsenal, was in charge of computer security research for China’s increasingly potent navy, and is a long-time critic of his nation’s reliance on U.S. technology. Teamsun makes no secret of its goal: eliminating the need to buy American products. IBM wants access to China’s market for its “rope”, and the price it is willing to pay is teaching China how to make its own.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/lenin-was-right_928054.html

  • IBM opens a SoftLayer center in the Netherlands

    The company said the new datacentre, located in Almere just outside Amsterdam, will double SoftLayer capacity in the region and provide customers with more in-country options for data storage and geographically isolated services.

    http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2015/04/23/ibm-adds-second-softlayer-datacentre-in-the-netherlands/

Oracle

  • Oracle CEO Hurd Plans to Lift Almost All Products Into Cloud

    Around 65 percent of Oracle’s products are available on the cloud today, Hurd said in the interview, held on Thursday. That will climb to 95 percent by the time the company holds its annual Oracle OpenWorld conference in October, he said.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-24/oracle-ceo-hurd-plans-to-lift-almost-all-products-into-cloud

  • Oracle CEO Mark Hurd cuts loose at Boston College executive event

    On SalesForce: “It’s just a fact: Their earnings, the reason they have a very high earnings ratio, is because they don’t make any money…. There’s no cash flow. So when you look for a category that says ‘cash flow multiplier,’ it says ‘n/a.’ What are they worth right now? $35 billion? Who cares? It’s absurd. But they’re quote-unquote, ‘cool.’ And people ask me for real numbers, they ask, ‘Well, what’s your cash flow?’… What are we worth right now, $190 billion, $180, something like that? And we have to do it with real numbers. It’s crazy, just crazy.”

    http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/2015/04/oracle-ceo-mark-hurd-cuts-loose-at-boston-college.html

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Supplier Report: 2/14/2015

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IBM

  •  IBM establishes “One Channel” team…

    The team is designed to align channel operations from across the company in an effort to provide a broader, more competitive partner experience, according to Big Blue, while also increasing IBM’s focus on the recruitment of new partners, developers and independent software vendors.

    http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2395350/ibm-unveils-one-channel-team

  • IBM Cloud Chief: “We are in a marathon”

    But LeBlanc believes he’s got a good story to tell. IBM has set up “40 different data centers in 15 different countries,” he said, with an eye toward being in the right place in accord with customers’ needs.

    http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/13/ibm-cloud-chief-were-in-a-marathon/

  • IBM finds security flaw in dating apps…
    Something to consider as the internet of things tracks more of our personal health data…

    The study revealed a fearful fact for the businesses too. According to the study, employees of almost 50% companies use the dating apps which were found vulnerable. This makes the corporate data endangered too.

    http://techfrag.com/2015/02/13/ibms-research-cautions-mobile-dating-app-users/

  • IBM & Apple partnership to expand…

    The first apps to be released solved specific problems in specific industries. In tech talk, they were for vertical industries. Each of the apps had a catch name. There was one for flight planning for airlines named Passenger+, and insurance company customer service app was named Retention. Now, the two have begun work on their horizontal apps, says a spokesperson for IBM. One of those apps supply-chain, which helps to match how much product, is expected to be sold with how many materials need to be ordered.

    http://www.dailymailtimes.com/apple-and-ibm-partnership-to-expand/443/

  • Another brutal article on IBM current performance:

    Here’s the outcome of all this in a nutshell: recently, IBM failed to win a $600 million contract with the CIA to handle all of that agency’s cloud computing, even though its offer was actually 30 percent less costly than Amazon’s winning bid. Let that sink in: book-seller Amazon beat IBM for a major technological, government job. IBM is a giant with enormous background in mainframe computing and government contracts. Here’s what’s most frightening. IBM’s bid was rejected on “technical grounds.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-a-georgescu/ibm-a-lesson-for-american_b_6659702.html

  • IBM drops patent bomb on Priceline.com

    The patents span 10 years, starting in 1999. They cover a setting up a user account with single-sign-on in a federate computing environment; a way to present applications as an interactive service; a method for presenting advertising as an interactive service; and a way to preserve state information between a client and server.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/10/ibm_sues_priceline/

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HP

  •  HP acquires Voltage Security with a view to data encryption

    Voltage provides solutions focused around data encryption and tokenization, and its services are intended to bolster HP’s existing Atalla cloud encryption and data security product.

    http://thestack.com/hp-volta-acquisition-130215

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