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Atlassian Embraces Open Social, Shows Strong Momentum at Summit

The Atlassian Summit 09 has just concluded in San Francisco, kicking off a busy week for coders, with Sun's Java One also happening. The 6 minute video above, shot in dynamic wobble vision from my Flip UltraHD, is of a portion of CEO...

Tags: Plug-in, Atlassian Summit 09, Mike Cannon-Brooke, Collaboration Component, Confluence 3 Confluence, Kap IT, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-03

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Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?

I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir now part of NetSuite. One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP. ...

Tags: Staffing, ERP, Services Firm, Service Firm, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-27

When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death...

For those who think collaboration technology simply breaks down rigid command and control management hierarchies, consider the origins of the term: the military. The US military have had a significant online presence with various online forums for rank and file, commanders and other...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Network, Leader, Forum, CC, Case History, Software As A Service (SaaS), Collaboration, Groupware, Managed Hosting, Social Networking, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Sex, geeks and Blackbox Republic

The first time you meet Sam Lawrence, ex-CMO of Jive Software you just know he's a specially talented marketing person. He's a creative which for geeks should be an immediate affinity thing. Today, he, along with co-founder April Donato came out of stealth mode with Blackbox...

Tags: Community, Oliver, Collaboration, Groupware, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Sex Positive Socializing Online Arrives

If you're 'textually active' online looking for relationships on social networking and dating sites, finally you have a new option. Despite all the hoopla around the brave new world of Facebook, match.com et al, it's actually the same old industrial scale meat market for most people....

Tags: Facebook, Collaboration, Network, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value

The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud

What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...

Tags: Web, Service, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud

The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...

Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Google Wave: It's still a work in progress.

At a press conference at Google I/O, the development team behind the new Google Wave product was bombarded with a bunch of forward-looking questions: Is this an e-mail killer? How does it integrate with other Google services? Who are the competitors? What about advertising? Consumers or businesses? ...

Tags: Google Inc., E-mail, Team Management, Online Communications, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-28

How to Avoid Collaboration Traps, Create Unity and Get Results

Collaboration - How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business Press ISBN 978-1-4221-1515-2 The great power of Morten Hansen's book 'Collaboration', the result of fifteen years of research into internal collaboration in...

Tags: Hansen, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War

Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...

Tags: Firewall, Collaboration, Information Technology, IT Department Budget, Strategy, E-mail, Security, Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-30

eDiscovery Legal Minefield Migraines

With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption. Legal...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Electronically Stored Information, E-mail, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-28

SLA's and the Real World

There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...

Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-20

PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?

Microsoft's XBox 360's core technology was essentially funded and developed by Sony without them knowing, as detailed in the excellent book 'The Race for a New Games Machine' by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps. Sony partnered with Toshiba and IBM in 2001 to...

Tags: Game, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Cell, IBM Corp., Chip, Game Players, Semiconductors, Processors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-18

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16