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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

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Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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