Philly Tech News Quotes & Tweets of the Week: Who needs CNN?; Verizon (through FiOS) destroying its own capital?

Les Moonves: CBSN Channel Will Replace Need for CNN http://t.co/DpTM7U6PKl pic.twitter.com/1FE0uLBvMd

— tom keene (@tomkeene) November 6, 2014

Dish Chief Charlie Ergen says CNN doesn't pack its former clout. "It's not a Top 10 network any more...unless they find the plane." #MH370

— Meg James (@MegJamesLAT) November 4, 2014

Dolan: Verizon on a path of pursuing destructon of its own capital. "We don't believe they are profitable on any level in our service area."

— Michael Farrell (@MikeFCable) November 6, 2014

"So what happened? While we were deploying an upgrade to the X1 platform, we discovered an issue in the way the software that updates X1 was configured. We immediately stopped the deployment, and our engineers began working to identify the root cause and fix the issue," Comcast said.
-Comcast, apologizing for last week's nationwide X1 outages.



"[Consultancies] are entering our territory with some offerings which are respectable," said Mr. Levy. "We are competing and sometimes we are also collaborating." He referred to an example in which Publicis' DigitasLBi pitched for business against Accenture, and then shared another "funny case" in which Accenture is helping Publicis implement an SAP product. "There are a lot of areas where the lines are blurred. We don't know -- is it a supplier, client or competitor?"
-Publicis CEO Maurice Levy, during media call discussing Publicis' deal to acquire Sapient.

“You can’t build a company for 60 days; build for 60 years.”
-SAP CEO Bill McDermott, speaking on SAP’s recent performance to Technically Philly’s Christopher Wink during IMPACT '14 Conference in Philadelphia.

This http://t.co/ogftriK0eG sticker is still on the wall at PHL since 1999 https://t.co/UnMuSGiLLz

— Chris Fralic (@chrisfralic) November 7, 2014

Tweet by early Half.com associate Chris Fralic, now a partner with First Round Capital.

Phiily Tech People News 11/9/2014: Neat, Rosetta name new CEOs; SAP grabs new CTO from Microsoft

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The Neat Company Names Jeff Dickerson Chief Executive Officer (PR Newswire)


Rosetta Names Eric Healy CEO (MediaPost)
Joined Rosetta from Sapient, which just agreed to be acquired by Rosetta parent Publicis, a few months ago. Rosetta is based in Hamilton, NJ.

Philly.com Hires Next City Editor
Diana Lind will be director of digital audience development. (Philadelphia Magazine)
Headline confused me a bit; thought Philly.com might be hiring its next city editor.

NBC Owned Stations Names Sarah Glover Head of Social Media (MediaBistro)
Comes from WCAU.

People moves: DreamIt Ventures CEO Kerry Rupp to step down and focus on fund
(Med City News)

BenefitVault Co-Founder Eric Raymond Stepping Down as Chairman and CEO; Cary W. Toner CLU, ChFC Named as Replacement (Press Release)

Cloudamize Adds to Executive Team With Experienced Leaders from Hewlett Packard and Amazon Web Services (PR Web)


SAP Hires Former Microsoft VP To Be Its New CTO (Redmond Channel Partner)

Comcast Hires Garcia To Multicultural Services Post
Last Served As GM Of Yahoo’s U.S. Hispanic Business (Multichannel News)

QVC host Lisa Robertson rocks shoppers by announcing she's quitting (USA Today)

QVC Promotes Ken O'Brien to Senior Vice President, Merchandising (MarketWatch)

Next week is my last @comcast. Very excited to join the @ford team! #GoFurther http://t.co/OmyoIXyAYZ

— J T. Ramsay (@jtramsay) October 31, 2014

I'm very excited to be joining with the @CRMScience team today! @amiassayag is building an @salesforce consulting powerhouse in Philly!

— Alex Sutherland (@apexsutherland) November 3, 2014

New York PSC to vote on Comcast merger Thursday (Albany Times-Union)

The future of SAP Business Applications (John Appleby/SAP Community Network)

Why Retailers Should Stop Selling Loyalty ( Andy O’Dell, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Clutch/SAP Blogs)

New Uber Funding Round Could Value the Company at $25 Billion (Re/code)

SAP acquisition of Concur expected to close on Dec. 4 (GeekWire)

Veeva Vault eTMF selected by Princeton-based inVentiv Health Clinical for clinical trial master files

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inVentiv Health Clinical, a leading global supplier of drug development services, announced last month it will replace its electronic trial master file (eTMF) with Veeva Vault eTMF. Cloud-based, multitenant Vault eTMF, Veeva says, "delivers secure, instant access to inspection-ready documentation and enables seamless collaboration between inVentiv, trial sponsors, and trial sites worldwide - ultimately helping to speed time to submission and product approval."

inVentiv Health Clinical, Princeton, one of the world's largest CROs (contract research organizations), is a unit of Massachusetts-based inVentiv Health.

Vault eTMF is a component of Veeva Vault, a cloud-based platform and suite of integrated content management applications for the life sciences industry. Veeva Vault is a product of Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV), the cloud-based life sciences company that is based in Silicon Valley but maintains its east coast office in Radnor. While Veeva's CRM software, its initial and most established offering, is built on Salesforce's Salesforce1 platform, Veeva built Veeva Vault on an entirely proprietary platform.

Vault eTMF is preconfigured with the Drug Information Association (DIA) TMF Reference Model for a repeatable framework across the enterprise. It supports inspection-readiness with workflow, reports, and dashboards, plus features robust audit trails and an auditor role that supports remote inspection capabilities for sponsors and health authorities.

People who follow Veeva Systems have been watching its ability to gain traction for its new offerings as a key indicator of future growth. In Q1 FY 2015 ending April 30,2014, Veeva Vault and Veeva Network (a cloud-based customer master solution) together accounted for more than 10% of revenue, the company reported, after total non-CRM revenue accounted for about 5% in FY '14. Veeva says it now has more than 100 customers on Veeva Vault.

Veeva introduced Veeva Vault more than two years ago, and Veeva Vault eTMF followed somewhat later.

Veeva replaced a major competitor in the eTMF market, EMC Documentum, at InVentiv Health Clinical. Several Philly-area vendors also offer eTMF solutions to varying degrees, including NextDocs, Wingspan, PhlexGlobal, and ePharma Solutions, though Veeva says few others offer both the content management system platform with the clinical healthcare-specific capabilities integrated with it as Vault does.

Many organizations have outmoded systems for eTMF or use combinations of spreadsheets and paper. More than 32% of TMF owners surveyed in the Veeva 2014 Paperless TMF Survey: An Industry Benchmark report released in September report they will grant auditors remote access to their eTMF by early 2015, versus the 16% who provide them access today - a jump of 100%.

When I asked in an interview about future product development plans for Vault, Jennifer Goldsmith, vice president of Veeva Vault, couldn't be specific, but stressed the seamless integration planned within all Veeva Vault offerings, and with other Veeva modules. Also, Veeva Vault is very much a global offering, and its multitenant cloud architecture makes it easier to make local revisions (for language or regulatory information) for specific nations or regions.

In its most recent quarter (Q2 2015 ending July 31), Veeva's total revenues were $75.7 million, up from $49.6 million one year ago, an increase of 53% year-over-year. Net income was $9.6 million, compared to $6.0 million one year ago.

Links 11/7/2014: Comcast blames national TV outage on update; SAP severs ties with ALEC

Protests at Comcast part of brewing battle over net neutrality (Newsworks)


City that called Comcast “terrible” strikes deal for Comcast service (Ars Technica)

Comcast blames national TV outage on update; apologizes to customers (Denver Post)

Where's the Love for the City of Brotherly Love? (Michael Kopelman/Edison Partners)


Ken Doctor: The envelopes open on the sale of Digital First Media newspapers (Nieman Journalism Lab)

SHOPRUNNER ALIPAY PARTNERSHIP BRINGS ECOMMERCE TO CHINESE CONSUMERS
(Pymnts.com)
Leaning towards Silicon Valley; ShopRunner headcount on LinkedIn now shows 50 in Bay area, 25 in Philly area, out of 100 total.

SAP Bears Wary of Waiting Amid Promised Shift to Cloud (Bloomberg)

Major Tech Company [SAP] Severs Ties With ALEC (National Journal)

At a struggling SAP, CEO Bill McDermott is building for the long term (Technical.ly Philly)

Links 11/6/2014: iPipeline ponders IPO, sale; More X1 problems yesterday

iPipeline Said to Mull IPO, Sale With $500 Million Value (Bloomberg)

Bentley Makes Some Major Announcements at their Year in Infrastructure Event #YII2014 (Informed Infrastructure)

Bentley Launches New Generation of Software Lines (Engineering News-Record)


Comcast's X1 TV Platform Sees Two Massive Outages in Three Days (Broadband Reports)

Aereo shutting down operations, closing Boston office (BetaBoston)

Aereo Firing Boston, N.Y. Employees to Preserve Company
(Bloomberg)


Time Warner strikes back at Dish (Bloomberg via Philly.com)

BSkyB to Acquire 87.45% of Sky Deutschland (NY Times: DealBook)

Weak Q3 for Cablevision (Multichannel News)

Cable Under Fire: Plunge in Ratings Could Spell Trouble for Top Nets (Variety)


Alibaba Launches ShopRunner U.S. Retail Partnership (Investor's Business Daily)

SAP Hires Former Microsoft VP To Be Its New CTO (Redmond Channel Partner)

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.

Links 11/5/2014: Tableau posts 71% growth, closing on QLIK; Neat names new CEO

Dell Becomes Latest Software Company to Chase Marketer Dollars (AD Age)

Dell Bolsters Analytics Software, Taps Microsoft Azure ML (Information Week)

Dell launches into cloud brokerage market with Cloud Marketplace (ZDNet)

Tableau Jumps 6%: Q3 Revenue, EPS Beat (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)
Tableau qtr rev $104.5mm on 71% growth, vs QLIK $131.3mm, 26% growth. Not the only means of comparison, but..


Man and Uber Man (Kara Swisher/Vanity Fair)

Cogent Now Admits They Slowed Down Netflix’s Traffic, Creating A Fast Lane & Slow Lane
(Dan Rayburn/Streaming Media Blog)


8 Innovative Health IT Startups (Information Week)


Cerner Corp., Siemens negotiations center on medical imaging (SearchHealthIt)


The Neat Company Names Jeff Dickerson Chief Executive Officer
(PR Newswire)

GOP Win Means Big Change for Senate Commerce (Multichannel News)

Links 11/4: TruePosition included in Liberty Broadband tracking stock; Comcast suffers X1 outages

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EPAM Systems Reports Results for Third Quarter 2014 (MarketWatch)

Liberty Broadband Begins When Issued Trading Nov. 4 (Multichannel News)
Will include Berwyn-based TruePosition, as well as Liberty's stake in Charter Communications.

Greatland Connections Inc. would arise from Comcast-TWC merger (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast’s X1 Hit By Connectivity Issues (Multichannel News)

Discovery CEO Questions Ad Prospects, And Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal (Deadline)



Alibaba Posts Strong Earnings in First Report Since I.P.O. (New York Times)

Alibaba's next purchase could be big (SNL: Rumor Mill)
PayPal or eBay (after split)? Content company?

Google Partners with SAP to Get More Devs & Apps in Glass At Work Program (Glass Almanac)

Workday Streamlines Mobile Apps, Unveils Big Data Plans (Information
Week)


Microsoft Teams Up With Dropbox (TechCrunch)

5 THINGS I LEARNED FROM STARTING A BUSINESS AND A MARRIAGE AT THE SAME TIME (Fast Company)
By SevOne's Vess Bakalov.

Fisker gears up for hybrid relaunch (The News Journal)
Some stories never die.

Links 11/3/2014: Publicis to acquire Sapient for $3.7 billion; Princeton CRO Covance sold for $6.1 billion

Publicis to buy US digital ad firm Sapient for $3.7 billion (Reuters)
Sapient has no Philly office, though Publicis has several offices in the area. Will be interesting to see how Sapient works with Publicis' Rosetta, which is based in Hamilton NJ.

Why Buy Sapient? Publicis Wants to Compete with Digital Media and Consultancies (AD Age)


LabCorp to Buy Covance for $6.1 Billion (New York Times: DealBook)
Covance will remain headquartered in Princeton.

Samsung in talks with SAP, MS about healthcare (Korea Times)

Rovi Buys Fanhattan to Pitch Startup’s Fan TV Box to Cable Operators
(Variety)
Rovi has a group based in Radnor, though I don't think Fanhattan will be part of that group.

NYC Mayor Slams Proposed Comcast/TWC Merger (Multichannel News)

OTT is Dead * * Long Live OTT
(Mike Farrell/Multichannel News)

Unisys to create up to 700 jobs in Richmond County (WRDW Augusta)
Always good for a governor to have an announcement like this to make the day before he's up for reelection.

Announcements at the Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2014 and Trimble Dimensions 2014 Conferences Underscore Joint Undertakings and Benefits (Marketwatch)

DirecTV, Comcast installer UniTek is bankrupt (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

TIBCO TAKES ON ORACLE, QLIK AND TABLEAU IN BIG DATA WAR (Computer Business Review)

Oracle Stokes 'Hostile' Customer Relations, Study Says
(Information Week)