Links 12/8/2014: Did you know Lincoln Financial owned radio stations? (now they won't); Comcast revives @Home name in a way

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SAP Readies a Big Business Marketplace (New York Times: Bits)

SAP CEO sees company staying independent in long term -paper (Reuters)

EnosiX Raises $4.25 Million to ‘Mobilize’ Data From SAP Software

‘Things’ Are Heating Up: What’s New in the Internet of Things (Knowledge@Wharton)

Senate Bill Exempts Low-Risk Medical Software, Apps from Regulation (Health Data Management)

In Wake of Delhi Ban and Rape Allegations, Uber to Make Changes Abroad (Wired)


Entercom to Acquire Lincoln Financial Media for $105 Million (Radio World)
Had forgotten Lincoln Financial was in the radio business. Think it picked it up as part of some other financial transaction. Entercom is based in Bala Cynwyd. (As I thought, it came along from the acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot in 2006.)

A token farewell: SEPTA, Philly transit embraces tech, paying by phone (AP via Lansdale Reporter)

Meet the Inventor: Comcast chief software architect Sree Kotay (Steve Donohue/The Donohue Report)

Comcast Business Reinvents Telework with New Ethernet @Home Service (Business Wire)
Interesting choice of name. Comcast's original internet service carried the @Home name, until the JV of the same name (later Excite @Home) it operated under went bust around 2000 and Comcast operated its own service.

Qlik Takes On Tableau In Data Visualization (Information Week)
Qlik is headquartered in Radnor.

Gartner, IDC: Hyperscale Data Centers Drive Server Sales (Data Center Knowledge)

Microsoft and Accenture partner to build new hybrid cloud system (TechFlash)


Why CenturyLink just bought disaster-recovery company DataGardens (VentureBeat)

BizTech@Wharton conference on Friday at Pennsylvania Convention Center

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The 2014 BizTech@Wharton Conference will be held this Friday, November 7th, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Now in its 19th year, BizTech@Wharton is a premier industry conference representing the latest thinking on the business of technology.

Subjects to be featured include Bitcoin, Cloud computing, Internet of Things, and Customer Analytics, among others.

Keynotes will be presented by Ben Galbraith, Vice President, Global Products, Walmart; Dennis Hoffman, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Programs, EMC Corporation; Ben Relles, Head of Comedy, YouTube Originals; and Jonathan Zabusky, President, GrubHub, Inc. The last two are Wharton grads.

In addition to the six panel discussions, there will be a Startup Pavilion featuring apps developed at Penn and a Shark Tank-like competition (QuakerTank), and you'll have a chance to meet some companies that hold informal 30 minute coffee chats.

Here are the Top 10 reasons to attend the BizTech@Wharton Conference (via BizTech@Wharton).

Tickets, which are very reasonable, are still available.

The conference is organized by Wharton students.

Update from Dreamforce 10/16: Peoplelinx' new Salesforce1 app: City of Philadelphia on IoT

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PeopleLinx' Michael Idinopulos takes an expansive and interesting look
at Dreamforce in this blog post, particularly noticing the confusing glut of analytical products.

BTW, PeopleLinx partially introduced its new app on the Salesforce1 platform at Dreamforce, and Idinopulos tells me they will be officially announcing it once it's live in the AppExchange later this fall. On the Dreamforce website, PeopleLinx' session at the event is described as follows:

"This session will look at real-world examples of how large B2B sales organizations are bridging the gap between social selling and CRM integration, and improving sales team effectiveness in the process. The session will also provide the first public demo of PeopleLinx’s “Social To-Do List”, a new Salesforce1 app that automatically guides sales professionals to integrate social connections into pipeline management across desktop and mobile devices."

Apparently, this is what the City of Philadelphia talked about at Dreamforce yesterday: "Cities of the future are here now and are leveraging Salesforce. The city of Philadelphia is building their city on IoCP and their session can be found here: We Built this City on IoCP: Connecting Citizen to the Cloud."


See full post: Philadelphia Salesforce.com ecosystem on display at Dreamforce '14