Cloud Expo Trademarks Infringed Again

Cloud Expo and Cloud Expo Europe, registered trademarks of parent company SYS-CON Media, Inc., are being infringed by an event in London that is using the Cloud Expo Europe name.
Cloud Expo is not affiliated with the London event that is using its Cloud Expo Europe name, it is not Cloud Expo’s company, and it is not Cloud Expo’s show. Cloud Expo provides the best events in the business and will continue to do so.
Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo New York, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc.

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What are the top 3 myths about cloud ERP software?

The growth of cloud computing has caused a paradigm shift in all sorts of business applications, but perhaps most notably in ERP software.

As noted in a previous article, cloud ERP is growing like wildfire as more and more businesses move to their ERP system to the cloud.

But as cloud ERP becomes more popular, misconceptions about it also spread and it becomes more difficult to separate fact from fiction. In an effort to do just so, here are the top 3 myths about cloud ERP:

Myth #1: Cloud ERP is the same as hosted ERP

This is somewhat analogous to saying that renting a house is the same as leasing a house, which obviously is false. There are numerous differences between cloud ERP and hosted ERP involving software maintenance, network traffic, security, and statelessness.

Hosted ERP requires users to install and maintain software; cloud ERP does not. This saves …

How cloud computing is accelerating contextual advertising

Retailers and marketers often face the challenge of getting coupons, offers and promotions delivered at the perfect time and in the right context to their customers.

The rapid advances in cyber foraging, contextual computing and cloud computing platforms are succeeding at revolutionising this aspect of the retail shopping experience. Context-aware advertising platforms and strategies can also provide precise audience and segment-based messaging directly to customers while they are in the store or retail outlet.

What makes context-aware advertising so unique and well adapted to the cloud is the real-time data integration and contextual intelligence they use for tailoring and transmitting offers to customers. 

When a customer opts in to a retailer’s contextually-based advertising system, they are periodically sent alerts, coupons, and offers on products of interest once they are in or near the store.  Real-time offer engines choose which alerts, coupons or offers to send, when, and in which …

Classifying Today’s “Big Data Innovators”

Recently InformationWeek published a piece, authored by Doug Henschen, that listed 13 innovative Big Data vendors.
These 13 vendors distribute 16 unique data management products (since both Amazon and Cloudera offer multiple distinct data management/processing systems), all of which push the boundary on Big Data management.
In this post I will attempt to subcategorize these 16 products into a competitive grouping, where products placed inside the same group can be considered replacements for each other (and hence are competitive), and each group is complementary to every other group.

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