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Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint

I'm at the Open Source Business Conference where Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America and Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation have just keynoted. This is my third OSBC, a conference primarily framed...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Budgeting Reality, Business Goal, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-25

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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be FreeMS can't do it, they are a monopolyMonopolies are not allowed to release products for free. Intuit would have them in front of an EC judge within seconds and 3 years later, MS would be fined billions of euros for this move.It's not a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Money Just Wants, Be Free, Intuit Inc., Jason

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Collaboration Return-On-Investment

"Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-29

A BI Agenda for Midsize Organizations: Six Strategies for Success

Midsize companies see Business Intelligence BI as too unwieldy and expensive for them, and use spreadsheets for planning, budgeting, and forecasting. In reality, the spreadsheets are the real expense and time-consumers. However, BI is well within reach of midsize organization through an incremental approach, matching project rollout with resources, benefiting...

Tags: Strategies Ltd., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA

Dave Linthicum recently offered a somewhat dour assessment of the SOA market, determining that there at least five things killing SOA as we know it these days: Venture capitalists by micromanaging SOA vendors; Sarbanes-Oxley by scaring away SOA vendors; Big consulting firms (by mismanaging SOA...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Why is security usually an afterthought?

Why is security usually an afterthought?Well, completely agreeIn the early 1980's, truly object-orientated programming languages became available for general use. With these, it is duck soup to code up and test very useful modules that you can just plug in to provide safety actions.An example - a controlled String...

Tags: security, SOP

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Key to HP's credibility in hands of new lawyers

Key to HP's credibility in hands of new lawyersThe one with credibility is DUNNIt's been pretty obvious all along that Dunn did nothing wrong. She was the scapegoat because HP mismanaged the whole affair and the media went ape shit over a lot of nothing. Most in the media couldn't...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Social Security, PRODUCTIVITY, Advertising & Promotion, Operational accounting, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ann Baskins

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

Stop coddling the computer illiterate

I was listening to NPR on the way home yesterday when they aired a story regarding teenagers coming of age in this digital world, and how this is the first generation of children to have mastered current technology before their parents did. It went on to describe all the horrible...

Tags: proudly, competence, technology-ignorance

Blog posts 2006-08-09

My dream job

My dream jobIt's only a dreamI agree with most of what you say. However, I think the main reason it is not the way you would like it is that the customer base is not cognizant of things they could do to make the software development process better, which I...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, workplace, developer

Discussion threads 2006-07-08

Encourage professional growth with this development plan template

This simple template can serve as a tool for promoting the professional development of your employees by outlining their developmental objectives and defining specific measures to achieve them. Professional growth involves collaboration between you and your employees. You're responsible for providing training and development opportunities--but they're responsible...

Tags: Employee, Training, Professional Growth, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Human Resources, Career

Tools & templates 2005-08-01

Customers cool on subscription software

Customers cool on subscription softwareBrings home reality of software costsFor small businesses, say under 100 users, it really makes you think about how software licensing works, and how much it costs. Subscriptions are going to take awhile to take hold in smalled outfits, but larger, enterprise-level outfits should convert faster...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, subscription software

Discussion threads 2004-10-19