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- The future of Twitter: SocialBRP
- As I said elsewhere, I missed most of the weekend fun following Robert Scoble's sputter of posts on the Facebook/Twitter thing that starts here and spilled into Techmeme. My concern has centered around the concentration of thinking on all things marketing. That's an easy thing to do. After all, on...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Twitter, ESME, Goodness, Branding, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Oracle collaborates with Beehive
- From bumble bee-shaped chocolates to signs placed through the conference hall, Oracle is showcasing its Beehive collaboration platform at OpenWorld. Oracle's collaboration vision underscores the growing importance of enterprise 2.0-style communication products. By highlighting Beehive prominently in president Charles Phillip's keynote, the company...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, ESME, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- The enterprise startup conundrum
- Larry Dignan's article about enterprise startups is an excellent primer for those wanting to pitch Zack and I but there are other issues I'd like to surface. Especially that which talks to the Silicon Valley echo chamber. This week, Yammer took top honors at TC50. I have...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, SAP AG, Twitter, ESME, Enterprise Developer, Operational Planning, Team Management, Roi/Tco, Business Operations, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- A Myriad of Microblogging Options...
- The Microblogging world just got more complicated with Yammer winning the Pop Idol/American Idol style knock out ‘TechCrunch 50†competition, in which “52 of the best startups launched their products in front of the industry's most influential venture capitalists, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, and pressâ€, along with a substantial...
- Tags: Twitter, Yammer, ESME, Blogging, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Groupware, Web Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- 'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment
- 'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environmentTalk is CheapGreat stuff, but we all know how significant 'trust' is in this space. How can anyone take SAP seriously when they're the worst offender of wasted productivity through bad design?Let the unleash their UI's to social design first -- then we'll...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Enterprise software, Esme, SAP AG, SOA environment, SOA, messaging
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- 'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment
- There are interesting community driven enterprise developments around SAP's 'Netweaver' SOA ('service-oriented application') and integration platform, with a sophisticated Twitter - style tool created by a diverse group of international users taking shape. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to...
- Tags: Environment, SOA, Messaging, Twitter, ESME, Company Usage, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Team Management, Productivity, Groupware, Middleware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
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- Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!
- Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- FaceFeed: the enterprise perspective
- Having seen some of yesterday's jocular references to the marriage between FriendFeed and Facebook hence FaceFeed in the title it got me thinking about the enterprise perspective - if there is one. Earlier in the day and before the announcement, I was listening to an old buddy of mine. We...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Channel Management, Leadership, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Twitter is Dangerous: revista
- I'm probably miles behind some tech complaint curve everyone else knows about, but having spent four hours trying to gain control of my Twitter account I'm at the point of pulling what's left of my hair out. Here's what's happened. The last few days I noticed the...
- Tags: Twitter, Scoble, Autoresponders, E-mail, Sales Force Management, Security, Online Communications, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Workday update: deep not wide
- I've just come off an update briefing with Workday along with fellow Irregulars Susan Scrupski, Jason Corsello and David Terrar. Now on Update 7, due to be rolled out over the summer, Workday is going deep rather than wide. That means functionality may not seem that...
- Tags: Workday, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Planning, Marketing, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Social silly season
- Social silly seasonit's the audience, sillyI was at an event last week with over a 100 CIOs and I was getting agitated because the wi-fi was intermittent. Most of the audience did not seem to care. they were raptly focused on the speakers (which I appreciated when it came my...
- Tags: Twitter, silly season, social media
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Social silly season
- I'm often asked whether getting into the fashion for all things social is something enterprises should contemplate. Given the volume of noise coming from the likes of Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester analyst and other social media/brand mavens, it's hardly a surprise. Enterprise reality though is an altogether different thing from the...
- Tags: SAP AG, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First
- Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well. I guess they aren't really all that surprising. But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...
- Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1
- We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post. Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Lessons from Twitterank launch
- Lessons from Twitterank launchOpenMicroBlogging & LaconicaIn addition to ESME, Laconica, or any tool implementing the openmicroblogging protocol should also fit the bill for enterprise purposes.Laconica's goal is to make microblogging or whatever its categorized as something as open as email is currently as opposed to the early days of email...
- Tags: E-mail, OpenMicroBlogging & Laconica, Twitterank
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Lessons from Twitterank launch
- The Twitterank experience this week is a sobering example of how equilibrium around an online application can quickly change. Twitter is a powerful tool used by a huge number of people worldwide (Japan enjoys the greatest usage and the most sophisticated usage model - only...
- Tags: Twitter, Ryo, Productivity, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Web 2.0 reality check
- A Tweet here, a blog post there and anyone would think the world had caved in. A few days I go I idly Tweeted that the Web 2.0 Expo currently underway in Berlin had me yawning with boredom. Chris Brogan picked up the beat and asked if...
- Tags: Web, Blog, Social Media, ROI, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Roi/Tco, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Might the SAP Mentors inherit the earth?
- Rather than attending last week's SAP TechEd in Berlin as a 'pure' blogger, I was also wearing my SAP Mentor hat. Unlike SAPPHIRE, where the exec team gets down and dirty with the press, analyst and blogger contingent from the business perspective, TechEd is all about the 'make guys.'...
- Tags: SAP AG, Hervé, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- How SocialText is breaking the collaboration mold
- Last evening, Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText held a conference call with some of the Irregulars to run through the latest incarnation of the company's flagship product. The surprise he held up his sleeve was Signals, the Twitter for enterprise clone and the topic of much debate today. Unusually for...
- Tags: Collaboration, Socialtext, Twitter, Signals, Processes, SocialText 3, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operational Planning, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- The enterprise startup conundrum
- The enterprise startup conundrumnot all negativeDennis, given that these were almost amateur teams doing stuff part time things, shame on me if I do not acknowledge what they showcased was innovative - like the Canadian Pacific use of GPS to guide workers to specific points on their thousands of miles....
- Tags: Channel management, Firewalls, Web 2.0 Consumer, Web, Web 2.0, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
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