News Analysis: Gainsight Spring 2014 Release Targets Large Enterprises Making The Transition To #DigitalBiz
Customer Success Management Pioneer Adds Key Functionality For March 2014 Release On March 18th, Mountain View, CA based Gainsight announced the Spring 2014 release of its customers success management platform. Led by CEO Nick Mehta, the cloud software vendor has received over $29M in funding from key investors such as Bain Capital, Battery Ventures, Capital […]
CeBIT 2014: The Next Phase Of Social Collaboration
We are at a critical point in the evolution of enterprise software and enterprise computing in general. I make that distinction because when we say software, we tend to think transactional software that powers functions such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Capital Management (HCM), and the like. And that sub-consciously limits our thinking and […]
The 5 Things You can do Today to Build a More Collaborative Workplace
I got a little frustrated last week, with several ongoing projects with multiple deliverables and supporting content I found myself constantly playing "who’s got the most current version of the file" and "where is that doc I need to read…
Delivering technology that conforms to how you want to work
This week marks two very significant milestones for SAP in the category of Business and Collaborative networks. Exactly a year ago, we launched SAP Jam – a purpose-built collaboration platform designed to work across business processes and to affect real business outcomes. Four quarters later, we are privileged to count well over 10 million subscribers on the […]
Deltek Update Fall 2013
Last week in Dallas Deltek’s customers and partners gathered for its annual user conference. As usual it was well attended and the audience was very enthusiastic. Deltek’s customers are some of the most loyal and vocal I’ve seen in the enterprise software business. While there were many product announcements with lot’s of new features and […]
Event Report: The Evolution And Maturation of @Tibbr at #Tucon2013, the Tibco User Conference
tibbr Continues To Show Momentum In Customer Adoption And Addition Of Key Enterprise Social Features On October 14th to 17th 2013, the Tibbr enterprise social crowd mingled with the core Tibco faithful at this year’s TUCON 2013 user conference in Las Vegas. (An analysis of the broader Tibco announcements can be found from my colleague […]
Event Report: Day 1 At Oracle Open World 2013: The Quest For Innovation #oow13
Past Oracle Open Worlds Have Disappointed Customers and Partners Let’s be frank. The past five years at Oracle Open World have disappointed even the faithful. The over emphasis on hardware marketing and revisionist history on cloud adoption bored audiences. The $1M paid advertorial keynotes had people walking out on the presenters 15 minutes into the […]
VoloMetrix Knows What You’re Doing at Work
There’s been a gaping hole in the enterprise market for someone to come along and start identifying what’s actually happening within the corporate “people” network. Once the company can see its aggregate collaboration data, it can make intelligent tweaks to improve productivity and apply strategic management thinking on what to do – and more importantly […]
Today’s enterprise collaboration landscape: Cloudy, social, mobile
If you looked back at my lists five — or even closer to 10 years ago — you’d see a few of the same players, but a lot less maturity and certainly a different focus when it comes to enterprise collaboration. On-premise used to rule, and social features were bolted on — often awkwardly — […]
Enterprise Social Networks – 2013 Part 1
Enterprise social networks (ESN) are one of the oldest enterprise social technologies and have evolved into an important backbone of enterprise social activities. While some of the current ESN vendors, generally ones that started in some adjacent markets like blogs and wikis, have been around for over 10 years, the current set of key functions […]
