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ClickSoftware Seeks a Course to Software Magic: A ClickConnect 2016 Review

Posted by sumairdutta on Nov 15, 2016 5:58:45 PM

One of my favorite presentations at ClickSoftware’s recent ClickConnect conference was from J. Randall Hunt at Amazon Web Services. While he spoke about Amazon’s cloud infrastructure and how it is empowering organizations such as NASA and SpaceX, he also spoke about innovation for the enterprise. In his presentation, he also introduced two extremely pertinent and powerful quotes, both of which are worthy of their status as inspirational posters/memes etc.

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Topics: augmented reality, Field Service, customer engagement, Perspective, clicksoftware, fieldbit, fleetmatics, greenroad

Six Takeaways from ClickConnect 2015

Posted by sumairdutta on Nov 11, 2015 4:14:50 PM

ClickSoftware held its annual user event in Miami a few weeks ago. Given that ClickSoftwareis one of the biggest providers in the field service space (over 700k resources optimized), it was vital that we were present to track updates and announcements. This was also the first ClickConnect user event held as a private company (Our commentary) and under the helm of new CEO, Tom Heiser.

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Topics: mobile, News, Field Service, IoT, clicksoftware, clickconnect, utilities

Field Service Still Undervalued as a Discipline

Posted by Sumair Dutta on Apr 30, 2015 7:03:22 PM

Today we heard the news that ClickSoftware was being acquired and taken private by Francisco Partners. Personally, I have covered ClickSoftware and worked with their team over the course of the previous 10 years and wish them the best as they enter this new journey. ClickSoftware has been, and continues to be, a key player in the field service automation space, and I look forward to tracking their progress moving forward. Over the course of the previous 12 months, two major software providers focused on field service, in TOA Technologies (by Oracle) and ClickSoftware, have been acquired. Most of the field service providers that started off as scheduling optimizers have now been accounted for. There aren’t many independent enterprise-focused field service software companies left.

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Topics: field workforce, mobile field service, News, Field Service, Perspective, IoT, clicksoftware

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