Who Spiked the Enterprise Activity Stream?
As someone who leads products and even before I did, I’ve never understood the obsession with feeds and activity streams in the context of enterprise social software applications or for that matter, enterprise software applications. The bedrock of the fabled “Facebook for the Enterprise” meme was the feed and enterprise software applications rushed to re-produce […]
Projects made Social: Kona by Deltek
I spent the better part of last week in Nashville attending Deltek Insight, its annual user conference (more on Insight in a follow on post). I had a chance to catch up on a new product development project that I’ve…
Ctrl – Alt – Social
In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word…
tibbr 3.0 launches, is this something?
First, the disclaimers: TIBCO is not a present or past client (well, I cannot disclose whether they were a Gartner client, so I am talking about my bitnez now), nor did I get anything for posting this. Since I was somewhat critical of their early foray into Social X, they decided to reach out to […]
Driving Adoption of Social Collaboration Tools
I was having a discussion yesterday with a vendor client on adoption of its activity stream product and wanted to share some of our thoughts. Adoption for social collaboration tools is extremely important, it’s a network effect issue, the more…
Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something […]
Communication and Collaboration in a Social Business World
There’s a pretty good argument that a big part of the social business transformation is simply using new and more effective ways to communicate. In fact that’s really one of the fundamental advances that accompanied the adoption of the Internet….
SAP Sales OnDemand: Got It, Got It, Need It?
For an inconceivably long time, I have been a fan of SAP’s without being anywhere close to a fan of their on demand a.k.a. SaaS a.k.a. sorta cloud, efforts. In fact, if you remember I ripped Business By Design a new one even as recently as Sapphire 2010 last May. But, at an invite-only Influencers Day […]
Activity Stream Meets Embedded Social: Socialcast Reach
I think there is a strong potential for activity streams to become the new user interface / experience for most workers. The concept of bringing together people, content, data and applications in a people-centric, user configurable stream is very powerful….
Barriers to Change: Silos
The shiny object that I see a lot of activity around these days is engaging or having a conversation with your customers. Now don’t get me wrong, that’s an important part of the change to a social business, but I…
