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Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo dance

Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo danceSoftware Industry's Lance ArmstrongYou are _way_ too nice. "Software Industry's Lance Armstrong"? OK... I'll take it Dennis Babes. Thanks man.RE: Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo danceThe native wiki provided with SP2007 is very basic. This opens a new door for those who need better. It...

Tags: Atlassian, Microsoft Does, Wiki, Lance Armstrong, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo dance

Continuing from Dan Farber's news post regarding Atlassian, the enterprise wiki space just changed. Speaking with Jeffrey Walker, president of Atlassian and the software industry's Lance Armstrong, it is clear today's partnership between Atlassian and Microsoft is a big deal: The curious thing is they...

Tags: Partnership, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Atlassian, James, Business Structures, Web 2.0, Wiki, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Better build those barricades real high

Josh Greebaum's thoroughly enjoyable explanation of his epihany at Office 2.0 is wrong. Or at least I hope so. Like Josh, I am from the PC generation. The first machine I bought was an Apricot Xi back in...for £1,799. A lot of money in those days. Like Josh, I remember...

Tags: Microsoft Excel, Office 2.0, IBM Corp., Like Josh, Atlassian, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Cancer 2.0: Intent on winning!

This post is not about failed IT projects; it's an inspiring story from someone absolutely determined to win his battle against cancer. Jeffrey Walker, CEO of Atlassian Software and fellow Enterprise Irregular, has written an eloquent, powerful, and highly personal account of his fight against a rare form of this...

Tags: Surgery, Cancer, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Old meets new: Lotus Domino and Atlassian

Old meets new: Lotus Domino and AtlassianAdoption and implementationAlthough wikis can replace shared drives [who likes them?] and reduce email, wikis are not about replacing enterprise apps with important datasets. The question is: can I get at that data from the wiki, or can I integrate somehow?I agree with your...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Enterprise software, GUESS IT, Wiki, IBM Lotus Domino, Atlassian, Intranet, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-18

Old meets new: Lotus Domino and Atlassian

A couple of weeks ago, I caught the end of a presentation by Alek Lotoczko who runs the intranet for NYK Logistics & Megacarrier. Earlier this week, I called Alek to get more detail. As background, NYK is one of the world's biggest shipping companies but when Alek reviewed use...

Tags: Open Source, IBM Lotus Domino, Wiki, IBM Corp., Intranet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Atlassian acquires Cenqua, drops .NET

Atlassian, makers of the JIRA issue tracker and Confluence enterprise wiki, has acquired Cenqua, makers of the popular Clover code coverage tool and FishEye source repository viewer. Cenqua's products will remain separate products in the Atlassian family, developed by the same team, but now with additional resources and support...

Tags: Programming, Java, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-08-01

New Web 2.0 services of note

I receive a lot of emails about new services and products, so I thought I'd share some of the recent ones. Drag Drop Site Creator is being billed as "first AJAX based site builder". It is intended primarily for web hosting companies, to offer Drag Drop...

Tags: Drag-Drop Site Creator, search engine

Blog posts 2005-12-05

Additional Resources

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]

Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service SaaS development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...

Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-11

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...

Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-30

The end of software...

The end of software...Mike Krigman's words made me gasp - sorta...Do you have any idea of how many times I have heard "But he's [i]just[/i] technical." when I tried to convince somebody in the "decision-making culture of the business" to do something better - or at least not do something...

Tags: Groupware, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology, software, Web 2.0, ConnectBeam, collaboration

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?

Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?DuhhSo here is the key sentence that shows what's wrong here:"The report indicated that application integration and management and SOA and master data management are top priorities for IT investments."Do small and medium sized companies even run these tools through IT or consider them IT...

Tags: SMB/SME, Wiki, Strategy, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, small and medium enterprise, Forrester Report, Web, information technology, IT investment

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007

Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-12-27

News to know: Office Live Workspace; Leopard; Web 2.0 Summit; Digital media ethics

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Get a sneak peek of Microsoft's Office Live Workspace service. Gallery right. Ryan Stewart: Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's services. Ryan Naraine: Memory randomization ALSR coming to Mac OS X Leopard. Dan Farber @ Web...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Digital Media, Microsoft Office Live, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Ethics, Business Ethics, Web 2.0, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Management, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Atlassian, NewsGator hook into SharePoint

Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server 2007 is getting an assist from Atlassian Software's Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki, and NewsGator, a leading RSS management platform. At the 2007 Web 2.0 Summit today, Atlassian will announce the SharePoint Connector for Confluence, which integrates Confluence with the Office SharePoint Server...

Tags: NewsGator, Microsoft SharePoint, Connector, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Confluence, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-17

ROI is so Business 1.0: not

As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...

Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Enterprise software marketing: time for a rethink

It's always nice to see two representatives from the same company writing independently of one another yet looking for much the same answer. In this instance I'm referring to SAPpers and fellow Irregulars Charles Zedlewski and Thomas Otter. Both are highly articulate and quick to defend their company's position (as...

Tags: Marketing, Enterprise Software, Sales, Thomas Otter, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-10

KPMG on Entertprise 2.0: a dud

KPMG's report Enterprise 2.0: Fad or Future? The Business Role for Social Software Platforms is a disappointment. Here we have one of the world's leading consultancies publishing a 19 page glossy brochure that is short on substance and long on consulting sales bait. Perhaps it's a reflection of KPMG's belief...

Tags: Outsourcing, Strategy, McAfee Inc., irony, Dennis Howlett, KPMG Consulting Inc., E2.0, Olivier, consulting

Blog posts 2007-09-03

Failure 2.0

Recently, I described failures in several Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 systems, including Ning (and Salesforce.com), Netflix, Google, and Gnomedex.Comments on these posts have suggested that:1. I don't understand Enterprise 2.02. I should cut them some slack, because they are somehow specialWell, here's my position on this touchy subject: Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-18