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Microsoft hits the books in Britain

Microsoft hits the books in Britain"Microsoft hits the books in Britain". With what? With stick?NTAnother one of Microsoft'sNTTry AgainAnother one of Microsoft's "Innovations".Stop digitizing books; Encode and Deliver KnowledgeThe competitive rush to merely "digitize books" by technology and business leaders is surprising. Making those digitized books searchable is just...

Tags: Strategy, Semantic Web, knowledge, Knowledge Repository, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-04

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

SharePoint 2010 SKUs multiply like rabbits

Sharepoint remains a corporate roach motelCorporate data used to be stored in email. Once that got hard to manage & share, Microsoft recommended moving to share point. The thought being you move the interesting data into a special garden. Do that enough times, and Sharepoint docs becomes hard to manage...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Google Enterprise Apps, Docs, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

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

Open-Xchange and Social Networking

Before heading off to the OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld conference, I had a chance to speak with Jürgen Geck, CTO Open‐Xchange, and Bill Baker, CEO of Baker Communications Group. They wanted to bring me up to date on their progress. This time, the focus was on tying Open-Xchange's collaborative application, cleverly named...

Tags: Network, Open-Xchange, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Organizational knowledge

Organizations have many moving parts. There are groups focused on finance, sales, production, research and the like. Over time each of them face issues and develop responses.  How effective the responses are tend to define how successful they are in addressing their mission. Unfortunately, in many organizations that knowledge is...

Tags: Knowledge, Productivity, Strategy, E-mail, Management, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-03

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"Did not many people sayincluding the creator of wikipedia (?) that much of the material and sublect matter retained within wikipedia is not to be regarded as 100 percent factual?RE: While I'm away...I kind of liked that Encarta was at least somewhat verified as factual. ...

Tags: Wiki, Keyword Searches, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Oracle closes in on 'any'-ware with debut of middleware behemoth 11g suites family

Oracle closes in on 'any'-ware with debut of middleware behemoth 11g suites familyOne ring to rule them allI talk about 11g herehttp://www.soacenter.com/?p=188My analysis of the Oracle 11g launch is1) The Chuck Phillips "One Technology Stack to simplify IT" is a completely faulty premise2) The hardest part of integrating BEA is...

Tags: Web services, suites family, Oracle Corp., middleware

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

ClassLibrary 11.3.1 (Windows)

ClassLibrary is the ultimate code library for developers, teams, and enterprises. It provides the best collection of ready-to-use code snippets, classes, how-to`s, and articles. It also allows you to manage your own code and share knowledge within a team by using the fully searchable code repository. ClassLibrary provides both a...

Tags: Team, HTML, Microsoft ASP.NET, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, ClassLibrary, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, Team Management, Scripting Languages, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Management, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-06-25

Do you have a knowledge store? You should

So I'm transferring domains in preparation for a switch to a new Internet Service Provider. GoDaddy and countless other domain hosts and web hosts make it really easy for you to switch to them. Obviously, it's in their best interest to do so. It's only easy, though,...

Tags: Knowledge, Admin Account, Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-24

EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data

How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...

Tags: Mark Lewis, EMC Corp., Tool, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-19

How to Navigate Risk Management and Compliance Complexity

PwC's extensive industry and systems knowledge positions itself to enhance and streamline process control's complete functionality. It leverages a global repository of SAP and industry leading practices as part of the value that it brings to clients. In short, it has been down this road and can help clients navigate...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Compliance, Risk Management, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-05-08

Day 2 of the X2 Aspen Community Conference

Here I am again at the X2 Aspen Community Conference. While X2 Aspen information is obviously of most interest to X2 Aspen users, users of the countless SIS products out there should feel free to chime in and let us know where their SIS is ahead, behind, or otherwise...

Tags: Asset, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, X2, Pando, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Windows 7 setup secrets

Windows 7 setup secretsGood tip on the File Repository...You learn something new every day :)Gee...more secrets and tweaks....Did we not see too many of these on Vista.Was W7 not supposed to be easy to use WITHOUT all the secrets and tweaking and secrets and tweaking?How about an OS that does...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 7 setup secret, setup secret, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Seven stages of SOA maturity: from silos to services

Many of you who have visited this site over the years may have noticed somewhat of a bias toward small-scale SOA as the best way to get things rolling within the enterprise -- particularly if there is resistance or benign neglect on the part of management to new ways of...

Tags: Business Process, SOA, Service, Chris Harding, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Microsoft to close the book on Encarta

Microsoft to close the book on EncartaEncarta still exists?Have the people at Microsoft not heard of Wikipedia? Or, did they just discover it this week?Encarta is so 1999.This made me laugh:[i]20:04, 30 March 2009 David Gerard (talk | contribs) (18,455 bytes) [b](it's dead, jim)[/b] undo[/i]is the history item on the...

Tags: Wiki, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

SaaS News: NetSuite, Northgate Arinso, Taleo

Lots of coolness in the SaaS world... I took a number of interesting briefings this last week or so. All of them were positive, interesting and solidly focused on the SaaS Software as a Service market. So, in no particular order, let’s get...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., NetSuite Inc., Northgate Arinso, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-20

All that Jive: Putting the 'social' into business software

Jive Software announced the latest iteration of their Clearspace product today, and it has expanded significantly in size and scope. From origins as a forums and instant messenger vendor, Jive in 2006 launched 'Clearspace', a single application with wikis, blogs, discussions, instant messaging,...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Collaboration, Business Software, SBS 3.0, Jive SBS 3.0, Tools & Techniques, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-09