Over the past few weeks, I'm pretty sure that I was the only analyst who attended two particular Cisco events. One was Connect 2014, their annual Canadian event for partners and customers in Toronto, and more recently, their Customer Collaboration Analyst Day, held in Phoenix.
Wow - what a week! With lots of announcements, demos, and parties, Enterprise Connect 2014 did not disappoint. While I didn't have much time to walk the floor or attend sessions, I met with lots and lots of vendors - some whom I've known for many years, and some who I just met.
Lots going on at IBM's Connect 2014 conference last week in Orlando. From Seth Meyers (SNL, moving to "Late Night") and Scott Adams (Dilbert) to much evidence of IBM's continued concerted push into social business as the future way to organize work.
Key to much of the conference was some important rebranding-"IBM Connections" has emerged as the new umbrella brand encompassing mail, meetings, chat, office tools, collaboration, social business, analytics, and content management.