Thomas Otter

(photo mine, use with cc attribution licence) Hotel Fusion, San Francisco.
I’m just back home from a trip to California. I attended Oracle Open World, and had several other meetings in the bay area. 
I saw the Keynote presentation, and on the next day  I spent an hour or so with the leaders of HCM [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer [...]

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On the 2nd and 3rd of December Gartner is running a conference for the German market at the Frankfurt Airport Sheraton.  Details here. You can flick through a funky online brochure here. 
The German IT market has its own quirks and nuances. SAP looms even larger than it does in other markets, so I expect lots [...]

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Photo from the excellent cc stream of pupski.thanks.
I’ve not posted much recently, I’d been meaning to post on HR tech, but several other blogs have done an excellent job of summarising the event(See Brian, Larry,Jim, Bill, Jason, HRmarketer and Zach for starters).
I have been thinking a lot about integration recently. I’m back from [...]

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(photo taken by me, use with cc attribution with pleasure)
I snapped this photo at the Ladenburg Altstadtfest this weekend. (Ladenburg is a small town near Heidelberg, Germany, where I live.)  I will be spending the first part of next week at the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco.  I cover the HR technology space [...]

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