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Open source thrives in downturn

Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...

Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-03

From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...

I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first focuses on the history of American public utilities and makes a very plausible case for...

Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas, Collaboration Initiative, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-28

IBM Labs unveils collaboration initiative

IBM Labs unveils collaboration initiativeill-literacyCome on - and hardly the first on ZDNet. Hardly journalism. You break attention to ideas, you lose all meaning you thought you had.Malibu, [...], _bares_ functional resemblance to...

Tags: Groupware, collaboration initiative, IBM Labs, collaboration, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-29

Additional Resources

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

Spot onHi Oliver -Thanks for adding your perspective to this and for referencing our Community Maturity Model. I think you are spot on in calling out the fact that current initiatives and strategic intent are fairly unbalanced right now in terms of resources and ownership. Companies are recognizing...

Tags: COMPANIES, Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Zoho's Next Big Thing

Moving the Point of AssemblyKudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the early days of the Microsoft Productivity Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste, data binding, merged content and data, VBA scripting and the infamous recorder, and a developer API that...

Tags: Channel management, Collaboration, Groupware, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., productivity environment

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

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

14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail

Shift of emphasisProjects of every type fail due to issues that arise when people collaborate. Agendas, information silos, politics and so on are part of every sphere of collaboration.From that standpoint, there's nothing new under the sun here. At the same time, the specific mechanisms in how these problems manifest...

Tags: E2.0, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Microsoft adds some multi-touch glitz to Windows 7

Microsoft adds some multi-touch glitz to Windows 7another blog about ithere's another blog about it:http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/rss.aspx..Another stab at Tablet PCsI hope MS does crucial design and engineering work to ensure that Tablet PCs take off this time. I think multitouch and the multitouch onscreen keyboard will be key to making this...

Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, Notebooks, multitouch, Microsoft Windows, tablet, multi-touch, backend service, keyboard, tablet PC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

Now this is stimulus

As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps...

Tags: School, Australia, 6MBps, E-learning, Training And Certification, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Next big land rush: believe it or not, is knowledge management

This sounds silly for anyone who has ever been involved in the typical hapless library exercise of a digital "knowledge management" initiative.  The lasting image for most of these efforts is of a black hole - everything goes in, nothing comes out.  But get ready for a change of tune....

Tags: Supply Chain, Collaboration, Knowledge, IP, Entertainment, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Knowledge Management, Strategy, Network Technology, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-04-10

National Bank Boosts Staff Training With Online Collaboration Solution

Based in Melbourne, the National Australia Bank NAB has more than 25,000 employees working in 800 branches, 180 business banking centers, 110 regional agribusiness locations, and three major contact centers. NAB needed a collaboration infrastructure to support a new self-directed, employee development initiative called The Academy that would provide social...

Tags: Bank, Online Collaboration, National Australia Bank, Training, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?

This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-03-30

ETech: Programming future habitats

This morning at ETech, Jennifer Magnolfi, the senior integration architect for programmable environments at Herman Miller presented an approach that allows for physical buildings to dynamically evolve and support change. Herman Miller is known for creating the widely popular Aeron Chair. The initiative, Programmable Environment, is a spatial system...

Tags: Environment, Infrastructure, Programming, Programmable Environment, Georgia Tech Library, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Weasels in the Woodwork

Dennis Howlett makes some terrific points in comparing the new Jive Software 'Social Business Software' that refreshes the Clearspace 2.5 product line today with existing enterprise incumbents. Dennis and his cohorts in the enterprise irregulars have seen a few laps of the enterprise software game...

Tags: Sony Corp., Middle Management, Dennis Howlett, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Cisco makes big connection for its green cities vision

Talk about circumventing the whole RFP process. Cisco Systems says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU to work with the Metropolis urban planning organization to define technology that could support its Vision 2030 for sustainable cities. Metropolis includes 106 of the largest...

Tags: City, Vision, Cisco Systems Inc., Metropolis, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Proven Strategies for Optimizing Data Warehouse Deployments With EMC and Oracle

Most organizations face a similar challenge with their data warehouse deployments - achieving the best possible performance and efficiency at an affordable price. Working with the top industry vendor is key. EMC was the first storage partner to join the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative. EMC and Oracle's deep engineering collaboration...

Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Business Intelligence, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-02-12

From Command & Control to Collaboration & Teamwork

Cisco's John Chambers explains their approach I think this is a wonderfully succinct interview with Cisco CEO John Chambers by Harvard Business School Publishing, which is well worth 6.5 minutes of your life if you're interested in modern 'lead from the middle or...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration, John Chambers, Leader, Leadership, Linda, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Why Is Change So Hard for Some People (Especially Older Ones?)

So it seems it is broadly true, young people really are more open and older ones more set in their ways, according to a fascinating article in the Scientific American. • Studies of personality development often focus on traits such as extroversion, conscientiousness,...

Tags: Trait, Intranet, Launch Material, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Why Microsoft

Why MicrosoftIt was just an analogyI had a good idea how it worked, it was just a a simplistic example.But at the same time, I am sure that Apple would not sign a contract with Microsoft that would allow for them to walk away, leaving Apple without one of the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Strategy, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-01

Web 2.0 at Work: Departmental Use Cases

The introduction of Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise greatly increases the value of your company's most important assets: employees' knowledge, relationships, and initiative. Making knowledge more visible increases innovation and shortens turnaround times. Increased collaboration accelerates productivity. Your company transforms into a more-socially connected organization that reacts faster and...

Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Knowledge, Use Case, Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management

White papers 2009-01-01