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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Demand this from software vendors
- I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- HR specialist asks Oracle: where's the 'fusion'?
- In an analysis of last week's announcement at Oracle OpenWorld that Oracle would finally be releasing its Fusion Applications next year, HR technology specialist Bill Kutik wondered out loud where and when we'll see Fusion HCM Human Capital Management emerge in an SOA-ready configuration. Despite Larry...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., SOA, Larry Ellison, HR Specialist, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Capital, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head
- I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld. The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees? Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- HTC Imagio (Verizon Wireless)
- Verizon Wireless' V Cast video and music service bundle has long been a staple feature of its high-profile feature phones, like the LG enV Touch and the Samsung Rogue for example. But it is typically lacking in Verizon's smartphone offerings, so as not to detract from the smartphone's more business-friendly...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Corporate communications, Smart phones, Cellular phones, screen real estate, Verizon Wireless, HTC Imagio, High Tech Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
- There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....
- Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- Using green IT to meet corporate sustainability goals. Deloitte offers tips in Webinar.
- Wondering how to get your chief executive to buy more into technology's role in helping reduce energy consumption or in managing environmental initiatives? Deloitte Consulting recently hosted a seminar called "Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy: The Essential Dialogue Between the CIO and the C-Suite. Its goal was...
- Tags: Sustainability, Deloitte LLP, Webinar, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- With virtualization, a way to wrangle mobile data costs in the enterprise
- Are you an IT pro who's tired of rising mobile bills? Does incorporating personal smartphones under the enterprise security umbrella keep you up at night? Bob Tinker may have a solution. Tinker, chief executive of mobile enterprise solutions provider MobileIron, is...
- Tags: Virtualization, Mobile, Information Technology, Smart Phone, Enterprise, MobileIron, single-OS Strategy, Employee Self-service, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 28,000 User Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Running Solaris 10
- Business Intelligence BI is no longer the domain of a few power analysts or a point application used by a small target audience of middle and upper management. BI has evolved into a mission critical application that is being used by many thousands of users across the broad expanse of...
- Tags: Benchmark Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, Oracle Business Intelligence, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Sun Solaris, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operating Systems, Management
- White papers 2009-08-01
- FCC eyes AT&T, Apple rejection of Google Voice apps (full text of letters)
- The Federal Communications Commission has launched an inquiry over AT&T and Apple's rejection of Google Voice and related applications. The FCC sent letters to all three companies (Techmeme, FCC site). The crux of the inquiry revolves around whether and how AT&T was consulted on the matter. The...
- Tags: FCC, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Section, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Letter, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Google, Microsoft and Zoho
- The Battle for the Desktop and Beyond Microsoft is in the news lately with its Office 2010 announcements. It contains, no surprise, a number of tidbits to make more of the application suite more cloud friendly and less costly. Implicit in this strategy...
- Tags: Google Inc., Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Software Purchase, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Management, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Dubai Becomes First Government Agency to Adopt Unified Communications Tools
- The Executive Council of Dubai is responsible for supporting implementation of the Government of Dubai's strategic plans. As a champion of e-government, the council sets the pace for other departments to follow. In 2008, the organisation became the first government body in the United Arab Emirates UAE to implement unified...
- Tags: Dubai, Agency, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, E-government, Government
- Case studies 2009-07-21
- A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma
- This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...
- Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- PANDUIT Ensures Efficient, Consistent Service and Global Business Agility With Consolidated IT Solution
- PANDUIT wanted to standardize and synchronize processes globally to ensure a consistent, world-class customer experience and improve efficiency of financial processes and increase executive visibility into enterprisewide information. The challenge was to transition to lean manufacturing processes and optimize inventory management to enable competitive advantages and minimize the time required...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, PANDUIT, Manufacturing, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Apple's secret society
- Apple's secret societyI think people......have the right to know if he was bumped ahead on a waiting list just because he has money or if he legitimately waited his turn.They do not give livers, or other healthy organsto a person who has one removed due to cancer, so chances are...
- Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., secret society
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value
- Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration Framework, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in
- Palm on Wednesday named Jon Rubinstein as chairman and CEO. Ed Colligan, Palm's chief for 16 years, is stepping down. With the move, Palm gets some Apple DNA in its executive suite. Rubinstein takes over June 12 and Colligan will join Elevation Partners, which has bankrolled Palm's...
- Tags: DNA, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Jon Rubinstein, Biotechnology, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- SAP's John Wookey: the task ahead
- Phil Wainewright has provided a first take on John Wookey, SAP executive VP's saas strategy session at SIIA Europe. As Wookey outlined the strategy, I could not help but feel 'about time.' SAP has been dancing around the whole saas/on-demand topic for some time. On the one hand it came...
- Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Frictionless Commerce, Phil Wainewright, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
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