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Software that Makes Your Company More Entrepenuerial

A class of social software is helping companies become more entrepreneurial and none a moment too soon. In a survey of 300 business executives, Interminds LLC, a management consultancy, found that nearly three quarters (71 percent) of business executives indicated that...

Tags: Innovation, Software, Entrepreneurial, Intermind Corp., Business Executive, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Management, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Network and Voice Management Software

Enterprise networks are evolving rapidly. Once they had only to accommodate data transmission with a completely separate system for telephony. Then came integration with the internet and the rise of Virtual Private Networks VPNs that exist conceptually above the physical infrastructure, followed by web services and all manner of transmissions...

Tags: Software, Network, IP, Bloor Research, Integration, Business Executive, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Network Technology

White papers 2008-02-01

83% of business executives do something else while reading a paper

According to a survey of US business executives conducted by Mobium Creative Group, an average 83% of respondents regularly or occasionally use other media while reading a newspaper. In comparison, an average 45% use other media while working online. Mobium points to a recent BIGresearch survey on simultaneous media usage...

Tags: Mobium Creative Group, business executive

Blog posts 2004-04-09

Additional Resources

Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?

A few weeks after Cisco's Tandberg acquisition, peripheral manufacturer Logitech has announced that it was acquiring LifeSize for $405 million in cash. LifeSize provides high definition HD video communication solutions. The video acquistion positions Logitech with a comnplete range of video conferencing equipment. Last year, the company acquired...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Logitech, Video, Polycom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-10

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

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Moffat no longer with IBM as fallout from insider trading scandal continues

ORLY?![pre]In 2002, he was on Fortune?s list of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America.[/pre]Mmmm.... I don't think so. Rodney C. Adkins is on Fortune's list of [b]Black[/b] Executives.Glancing is dangerousAfter showing a coworker what a hilarious gaff I'd found, I realized I had skimmed over the fact that...

Tags: Glancing, Moffat, IBM Corp., fallout

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?

Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...

Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress

Wrong URLThe Copress website is wrong, it points to copress.com but the correct is copress.org.Great post, anyway.No official "deal" with WordPressTo clarify, CoPress has no official "deal" or partnership with WordPress. We've adopted the platform because of its features, ease of use, and flexibility, and thinks it performs wonderfully for...

Tags: CoPress, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Was Windows 7 totally your idea?

W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...

Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Application performance can't be maximized in the dark

When optimizing and managing how applications perform ? from the eyes of the user ? IT teams need light shed onto the actual trouble spots says OpTier's Motti Tal. Commentary - Sometimes, when end users experience application trouble, response times degrade slowly. Other times, applications seem to turn off...

Tags: Performance, Monitoring, Application Performance, Response Time, Storage, Hardware, applications, database, Motti Tal OpTier, Special to ZDNet, Motti Tal OpTier, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-20

Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment

With all the President has on his plate ....... why would he ever waste one nueron on FOSS. The proper place for FOSS to be considered is the level it is being considered. The Executive Branch should never be involved.Obama should pony up some billions for FOSS from...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

HR specialist asks Oracle: where's the 'fusion'?

In an analysis of last week's announcement at Oracle OpenWorld that Oracle would finally be releasing its Fusion Applications next year, HR technology specialist Bill Kutik wondered out loud where and when we'll see Fusion HCM Human Capital Management emerge in an SOA-ready configuration. Despite Larry...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., SOA, Larry Ellison, HR Specialist, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Capital, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

SMART Selling in the SaaS world

What we all could learn from Sonar6 Post #3 from the HR Technology show SaaS software as a service is supposed to cost less. At least that’s what all the vendors tell me. It’s also supposed to be easier to use and easier to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Katherine Jones, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-09