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The Magic Quadrant: Team collaboration and social software

The Magic Quadrant: Team collaboration and social softwareSuprise SupriseIt is no surprise to me that the cowards at Gartner didn't put any of the true disrupter's in social software in the upper right hand corner of their silly quadrant. My guess is that the real leaders in social software have...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Team management, social Software, Team Collaboration, Magic Quadrant, software, team

Discussion threads 2007-10-28

The Magic Quadrant: Team collaboration and social software

Gartner just released its Magic Quadrant for team collaboration and social software. What's interesting is that there aren't any leaders and only two visionaries, Socialtext and SuiteTwo, products from Socialtext, NewsGator, SimpleFeed and MovableType, bundled by SpikeSource and distributed through Intel. Blogs, wikis, forums, RSS and even social graph ...

Tags: Software, Team, Quadrant, Collaboration, Socialtext, Blog, Six Apart Ltd., SiteScape, Magic Quadrant, Wiki, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Internet, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-27

If the URL exists, you must acquit: The Sequel

The last time I wrote "if the URL exists, you must acquit," it had to do with the way John Udell had basically published the URL to an audio file on a Web-based XML page. In his case, the end result was a podcast feed for NPR's This American...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Additional Resources

News to know: Yahoo CFO; Oracle's Java; iPhone 3G S specs; EC2 outage

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Larry Dignan: Can Oracle give Java a boost (and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant

Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic QuadrantSAP Business All-in-OneI take serious exception to your comments about SAP Business All-in-One. While you?re obviously entitled to your opinion, these comments are misleading and factually inaccurate. On what do you base your comment about where Business All-in-One was a few years ago?...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP Business All-in-One, SAP Business, SAP AG, ERP, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant

'Tis the season for round robins. On this occasion Frank Scavo pokes a sharp stick in the eye of Gartner's Mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant. Vinnie Mirchandani goes next having a poke at his alma mater...Guess what? It's my turn: First...

Tags: Quadrant, Gartner Inc., ERP, Frank Scavo, Vinnie Mirchandani, SaaS Player, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Sales, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Poll: Analyst Org. You Trust in Enterprise Software - Traditional & Social

Poll: Analyst Org. You Trust in Enterprise Software - Traditional & SocialAnalyst PollPaul Greenberg of course !!Big time conflict of interest in modelI am always skeptical when analysts write evaluations on products from firms that they get large fees. In fact, many firms only cover companies that are pushing...

Tags: Org, revenue, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7

Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 Unix Pimp: Skip Gartner and ask some real expertsOnce again Gartner group releases some "No Shite Sherlock" information.Only brain dead CIO's and pointy haired bosses listen to Gartner group.Gartner will say...whatever you pay them to say. Gartner's greed or laziness has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Xerox lands P&G print managed services contract

Xerox said Tuesday that it will manage Procter & Gamble's global print operations with the aim to cut costs by 20 percent to 25 percent.  Managed print services are becoming popular as companies look for ways to squeeze costs. All of those stray printers residing in offices...

Tags: Managed Services, Xerox Corp., Procter & Gamble Co., Managed Hosting, It Services, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Sharepoint Collaboration Q&A

SharePoint has always been in the 'leader quadrant' of Gartner's Magic Square and is one of the dominant players in the enterprise collaboration space. And, perhaps because of its sheer size, SharePoint poses many questions to organisations seeking to implement. So, what better way to round up series of white...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-02-06

Lonely, Scared & Bitter

Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and other insightful books, is also a prolific blogger who is well worth reading. He has posted the fascinating graphic above, attributed to Jessica Hagy - no accompanying text except the title 'Lonely, scared & Bitter' and the chart. ...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-24

Download the Free Strategic Mobile Deployments Special Report from Sybase

By enabling strategic mobile deployments, organizations can realize significant benefits including reduced cost of ownership, easier application development and deployment, simple back-end integration and centralized management and security. This Special Report explains how to adopt a mobile enterprise application platform and highlights how two innovative companies, Delta Technology and Energy...

Tags: Mobile, iAnywhere Solutions Inc., Sybase Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2008-12-18

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

CREDANT Technologies Delivers Data Security for 3,000 Laptops in a Major Government Department

Off late, an outsourced IT team at one of the largest departments in the UK government received an urgent directive - data security for the department's laptops would have to be significantly increased. The team immediately began a review of IT software solutions for mobile data security. Over a dozen...

Tags: Information Technology, Laptop Computer, Data Security, CREDANT Technologies, Security

White papers 2008-10-23

A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger

While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner’s VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....

Tags: Analyst, Blog, Gartner Inc., Blogger, Thomas, Tele-management, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-18

At Open Group: business and government face similar SOA growth pains

At Open Group: business and government face similar SOA growth painsWhat's in a name?Thanks for the pointer, Joe, but its the Gardner Magic Quadrant. ;)SOA positioned as a technology?"Enterprise 2.0 ***technology applications*** at CGI, spanning social networks, user generated content, mashups, SaaS, rich internet applications RIAs ***and SOA***."And will the...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, government face, SOA, growth pain, Open Group

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe

Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale â€" 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-07

SOA management, SOA governance -- keep them separated

What's the difference between "SOA governance" and "SOA management?" Aren't they essentially the same thing? Not so, says Eric Roch, who claims some analysts wrongly are lumping the two into a single solution category. Governance is about the business, management is about technical monitoring ...

Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, SOA Governance Tool, SOA Management Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-25

HP takes aim at Teradata with Neoview mousetrap

Last week I chatted with Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager of the HP's Business Intelligence Group. The former general manager of IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions Division was hand-picked by HP CEO Mark Hurd to take an old friend--Teradata, the leader in enterprise data warehousing. ...

Tags: Teradata, Hewlett-Packard Co., Neoview, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Data Mining, Research & Development, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search help

Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search helpValue Add?The perceived dichotomy between 'financial problems' and Microsoft's buying FAST is balanced by a sound architecture, a solid foreign presence and a growing adoption curve.At some point, a solid offering can struggle with growth and/or broadening a core competency. In such...

Tags: SEARCH, Convera, Fast Search, Microsoft Corp., Internet search, Web

Discussion threads 2008-01-08