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IBM UC2 and Lotus Sametime Webcast Featuring Colgate-Palmolive

Join host Tom Wroblewski, Vice President, IBM Lotus Software to learn about IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) strategy and the power it can bring to YOUR organization. The Webcast features a presentation by Mitch Cohen, Messaging and Collaboration Systems Manager, Colgate-Palmolive Company. Mitch shares how Colgate-Palmolive...

Tags: Collaboration, Webcast, IBM Lotus SameTime, Colgate-Palmolive Co., IBM Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2007-06-20

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Colgate University Students Connect Anywhere, Anytime on Campus or Around Town

Colgate, one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the country wanted to provide students and faculty with wireless access for a range of mobile devices both on and off campus and reliable solution in harsh, cold environments. As a solution the outdoor wireless network was constructed using Tropos MetroMesh...

Tags: Colgate University, Tropos Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Case studies 2008-07-01

Is SAP's weakness its real strength?

Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...

Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Want Surface but not the cost? Try wii'ing

Courtesy of Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow and another of my Irregular colleagues, I stumbled across this awesome demonstration of using Wiimotes and light pens as an alternative to the $10,000 Surface device. There is none of the hoop-la that accompanies Surface demonstrations but a simple, matter...

Tags: Demonstration, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Forget predictions, get a wishlist

At this time of the year, pundits of all stripes seek to grab attention by appearing sage and wise by making predictions for the coming year. Heck, I've done it myself - and lived to regret such pretensions. This year I prefer to pen an enterprise wishlist because that's...

Tags: Innovation, Twitter, Enterprise, Fashion Victim, Hugh, Seesmic Twitter, Leadership, Social Networking, Strategy, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-26

Enterprise apps not sexy?

Robert Scoble wonders why enterprise applications aren't sexy but in the process makes the fundamental mistake of assuming you can compare consumer to business in the blog model: Instead, let's look at the business of journalism or even of blogging. We're paid to deliver page views. Advertisers call it...

Tags: Enterprise Application, Enterprise Software, Operational Planning, Software, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Oracle's double standards

Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...

Tags: Conversation, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Standards, Blogger, Justin, Mike Krigsman, Jeff, Back Story, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-15

OpenID for unlocking enterprise value

Neville Hobson's views on OpenID struck a chord:It seems to me that OpenID is still a very early-adoption technology, the domain of serious geeks and tech enthusiasts.Well, I'm as enthusiastic as the next geek but I just don't really get OpenID yet.Since reading Neville's piece, I've been trying to contextualize...

Tags: Groupware, Dennis Howlett, OpenID, Plaxo Inc.

Blog posts 2007-08-22

Facebook infltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs

My colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars are not your typical Facebook demographic. Heck, I can't even make the top end 40-49 age group. But that doesn't stop us from arguing whether Facebook and other forms of social media are appropriate for enterprise usage and if so, where they fit.Some of us...

Tags: Social networking, Social software, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-29

Oracle blogs--an attention free zone

Guest Post: My fellow Enterprise Irregular, drama critic of the enterprise software industry, advisor to the software developers and marketers and inveterate blogger Dennis Howlett responds to a post by Oracle Technology Networks editor-in-chief complaining that his company doesnt get enough love from the blogosphere crowd. Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology...

Tags: SAP, Oracle, General, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Cisco/Apple: The dog that did not bark in the night

Cisco/Apple: The dog that did not bark in the nightNo conflict - change name - iMOBILEtoo many grey areas in this case - long legal battle - a company from Canada already using iPHONE - just change the name already - go mobile with iMOBILE (but maybe it's not available)Keep...

Tags: Apple Inc., slogan, Apple iPhone, Salem, iPhone Trademark, Cisco Systems Inc., PepsiCo

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

Colgate installs Tropos mesh network but units aren't meshing

Colgate University in New York state is broadening its Wi-Fi horizons by launching a campus-wide outdoor network using Tropos Networks MetroMesh equipment— but none of the units are meshing, reports Wi-Fi Planet The university decided that it needed to expand its reach after a student survey found that...

Tags: Tropos Networks, Colgate University, Education Technology, Higher Ed

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Media Rating Council: Click audits support advertiser 'Bill of Rights'

The Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB believes “industry driven auditing and certification” of the measurement and counting of clicks, including the identification of invalid clicks and/or fraudulent clicks, is essential for industry transparency and accountability, according to Greg Stuart, IAB CEO & President.Stuart discussed the IAB’s recent formation of an industry-wide...

Tags: Media Rating Council

Blog posts 2006-10-06

Parents use Facebook to vet roommates

Meeting a college roommate for the first time is often an awkward experience not only for first-timers but especially for their parents. Through Facebook parents can now check out their kids' future roommates online. But that often brings more worry than relief to some parents. And colleges are feeling the...

Tags: Facebook

Blog posts 2006-09-14

Google alliances do not come with 'non-compete' clauses

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has become a member of Apple’s Board of Directors to help “guide Apple in the years ahead.”Apple describes the function of its Board of Directors:It is the paramount duty of the Board of Directors to oversee the CEO and other senior management in the competent and...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-31

Google and eBay CEOs agree: growth through more partnerships

Google and Dell, eBay and Yahoo…Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, and Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, concur on the attractiveness of partnerships for growth and both give thumbs up to the new era of collaborative competition. Plus, Whitman speaks to Schmidt a Princeton classmate "several times a month."Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, 5/31/06,...

Tags: partnership, eBay Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Colgate drives innovation through strategic focus on IT optimization

In order to respond more quickly and cost effectively to new opportunities, Colgate-Palmolive needed to grow its service offerings without a corresponding escalation in IT infrastructure and costs. Major fast moving consumer goods enterprises such as Colgate operate in complex, dynamic markets, competing against both local and global rivals. Recognizing...

Case studies 2006-06-01

New competitors in Microsoft's crosshairs

New competitors in Microsoft's crosshairsHaven't seen this beforeMicrosoft trying to invade the space of competitors that precede it. My hopes are people are more intelligent in their decisions concerning Web Portals. Google and Yahoo can make the difference and take down Microsoft, but people have to learn to...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating systems, brand loyalty, Microsoft Corp., Live Era, rep

Discussion threads 2005-11-02

Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?

Kendall Clark from XML.com posted an interesting article called Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web. In it he talks about a new technology called SPARQL, which is an RDF query language and protocol. It's apparently an SQL for the Semantic Web. Kendall's post proposes that Web 2.0 be "wrapped, morphed,...

Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Semantic Web

Blog posts 2005-09-18

Ballmer: IT does matter

Ballmer: IT does matterDance Monkey Boy, Dance!!!!Everytime I see an interview with Steve Ballmer I get to thinking of those wonderful videos of a jumping fat bald man screaming on stage. Such a turn-on.[i]Ballmer: If you look at Windows XP or any major Windows phenomenon, the first major step is...

Tags: Operating systems, SteveB, information technology, Steve Ballmer, open source, Microsoft Windows, rep, acquisition, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-06-07