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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 press", 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

Additional Resources

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

Demo Jam Live: SAP meets enterprise 2.0; The ROI of spell check

Welcome to Demo Jam Live--SAP's developer fest meets American Idol. Here's how it works: Techies submitted proposals for their newfangled enterprise creations and the list was whittled down to a few key finalists. These finalists will then duke it out for the best demo of the night--as judged by the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Data Integrity, ROI, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, SAP Data, Applause-o-meter, Panaya, Roi/Tco, Programming Languages, Asset Management, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Why I liked SAP's TechEd Community Day

SAP's Community Day, with ESME as its symbolic poster child, reminds us that collaborative and supportive networks of participation can create successful IT projects. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: TechEd, SAP AG, Community Day, Software Development, Blogging, Strategy, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Yammer - another nice T4E but no cigar

In time honored Gartner fashion, I'm now using T4E as a TLA Three Letter Acronym to describe 'Twitter 4 Enterprise' style services that are coming out the woodwork at a rapid rate of knots. This time around it's Yammer, which provides a private form of messaging for use inside the...

Tags: Business Process, Cigar, Twitter, Service, Yammer, Operational Planning, Instant Messaging, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-09

News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook

Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Vyatta, Mauku, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Net neutrality debate re-ignites

The recent blocking of BitTorrent by Comcast has re-ignited the network neutrality debate. Rep. Rick Boucher has called Comcast on the carpet, but AT&T has responded forcefully. They not only deny the need for network neutrality, they call it a positive harm, adding there is no...

Tags: Phone, Network, Comcast Corp., Duopoly, Net Neutrality, MuniWireless, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-25

In defense of muni Wi-Fi

Esme Vos wrote a long post today taking apart an AP story that says Lompoc, CA, has wasted taxpayer money on a Wi-Fi networks no one wants.The AP article could have used some fact checking. It states: Most communities, including Lompoc, paid for their projects. Elsewhere, private companies agreed to...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Boston Wi-Fi: We can build this ourselves

From the state that kicked Microsoft off of government computers, comes a Wi-Fi plan that puts the "public" in "public broadband." Boston plans to cover the compact colonial city with Wi-Fi, not by partnering with a corporate partner but by setting up an independent nonprofit to manage the project, the...

Tags: wireless

Blog posts 2006-07-31

You get muni broadband by demanding it

At the Freedom2Connect conference this morning there was a long panel about municipal broadband builds, and general agreement on how to get faster connections than the phone-cable duopoly will provide.Demand it.It is user demands for a faster, open Internet that has gotten Tropos 300 municipal customers in two years, with...

Tags: Ron Sege, Tropos

Blog posts 2006-04-04

MuniWireless Atlanta starts March 7

MuniWireless 2006 Atlanta - a conference and tradeshow focused on municipal wireless networks - takes place March 6 and 7. Speakers include Atlanta CIO Abe Kani, leading muni wireless lawyer Jim Baller, Harold Feld of the free speech advocacy group Media Access Project, and consultants Civitium and MRI. It's organized...

Tags: wireless

Blog posts 2006-02-28

Muni wireless a $700 million business

What's the size of the municipal wireless market? Esme Vos, who runs the great MuniWireless site, has released a study that project U.S. cities, towns and counties will spend nearly $700 million over the next three years. The market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 134 percent...

Tags: wireless, municipality, municipal Wireless

Blog posts 2005-09-28

Rewrite of Telecom Act introduced, addresses muni Wi-Fi

Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com has perspective on the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005, essentially a rewrite of the current law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, introduced on July 27 by Sen. John Ensigh (R-Nevada). The bill directly deals with local governments' ability to deploy municipal wireless. Here...

Tags: Here is Esme, government, local government

Blog posts 2005-07-29