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AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...

Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Microsoft's Project Natal for business: In your dreams

Natural user interfaces will be big. Anyone that sees Microsoft's Project Natal demo comes away impressed. Once Microsoft execs try to extend that to the business world you can't help but snicker. That clunky transition from the Xbox to the business world was in plain view at...

Tags: Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Business World, Mundie, Game Players, Microsoft Project, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

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

The Advantage of Using Unified Communications in Today's Business World

Effective communication is essential to the success of any business. For those who are unable to get the message across, their company will suffer. Likewise, for those who are unable to forge strong connections and relationships, their business goals will remain out of reach. The essential nature of good communication...

Tags: Unified Communications, InterCall, Business World, Collaboration

White papers 2009-01-01

Working With Business Partners From Around the World Has Never Been Easier

Business world is a global community, one where clients and associates can be located anywhere in the world. Consequently, geographical distances have become less significant, as have national borders and boundaries. This global quality of the business world has developed over recent decades as a result of technological advancements and...

Tags: InterCall, Business World

White papers 2009-01-01

Policy-Based Collaboration: Moving to an Enterprisewide Framework for Working and Communicating With Confidence

The business world is changing rapidly. As it moves from many isolated regional economies to one global, interconnected economy, speed and agility are crucial. Organizations are rapidly transitioning from physical meetings to virtual ones, using rich online tools that enable workers to reach across geographies and time zones. People are...

Tags: Compliance, Cisco Systems Inc., Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-11-01

IBM System Storage: Planning for Heterogeneous IT Business Continuity

Business world involves acquisitions, mergers, and a very fast pace of change in an on demand world. As customer environments continue to proliferate, a major future trend in customer Business Continuity requirements is heterogeneous platform Business Continuity. This paper examines the concepts of effectively planning Business Continuity for a heterogeneous...

Tags: Information Technology, Storage, Business Continuity, IBM Corp., Business World, It Services

White papers 2007-03-22

10 obscure Excel tricks that can expedite common chores

The business world is full of users who have neither the opportunity nor the inclination to figure out Excel's timesaving shortcuts. They end up wasting a lot of time and adding to your support burden because they just don't know the smartest ways to work with spreadsheet data. IT...

Tags: Spreadsheet, Jeff Davis, Business World, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Download resources 2007-01-05

Business world requires a two-sided brain

Business world requires a two-sided brainDUH!!A Whole New MindThe new Daniel Pink Book talks about this topic as moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age and how the left brained people dominated the Information Age and now in the Conceptual Age, more right brained skills are required.What we...

Tags: Conceptual Age, Business World, Information Age

Discussion threads 2005-06-15

Buyers don earplugs at upgrade time

Buyers don earplugs at upgrade timeIt should be more like hip wadersOne has to wade through some serious s**t to get to what they want at times. I have a lot of users that get by just fine on Open Office and freeware. Yet the industry keeps telling the consumer...

Tags: Strategy, business world, information technology

Discussion threads 2004-07-09

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

iPhone - is it a good tool for traveling business people?

yes- hmmmm....You're right Dan. Droid? Then you can have google navigation and we'll be able to find a better restaurant in NYC than the worlds busiest Korean :p Maybe those nice people @ 451 will buy you one ;)Thanks for the thoughtOne issue with the current Android V2 phones is...

Tags: Smart phones, calendar issue, tool, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Cisco launches iPhone security app

I wonder if the reporter asked them whether they had plans for Blackberries or Android?Considering the number of senior people who use Blackberry's, I would have thought Cisco would have thought of that first?No kidding.....Wouldn't a more enterprise type of device be the first place for Cisco to focus on....

Tags: Smart phones, security, Apple iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup

To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!

Spot OnThis Chatter thing is just a manifestation of a bigger thing going on in business at the moment - the escape from reality into a child-like world of 'consumers' - or more accurately, the idea of business people behaving in the same mindless way on the Web that characterises...

Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Salesforce Chatter

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory

IBM should thank M$for activating its agents in the EC and stalling the Oracle-Sun deal.MySQL/MariaDB may be where most of the data residesYes, Oracle and DB2 have a significant market share of large DB installations, but most of the data in the world isn't aggregated by a few large companies,...

Tags: Corporate law, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-11-18