By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 12, 2014
The rich history of digital collaboration in the last 30 years has been a long and winding one. Fortunately, it’s also been a highly rewarding story that has led to literally historic advances in workforce productivity and efficiency for most organizations. Along the way, many of these advances have led to and made possible entirely […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analysis, collaboration, communication, Convergence, events, social business, social collaboration, Social Media, strategy, The Enterprise, Trends and Statistics, ucaas, Unified Communications |
By Dion Hinchcliffe on September 8, 2011
I was in San Francisco last week for Dreamforce, the yearly confab for Salesforce that has had a major focus on social business the last couple of years. There’s little doubt that Marc Benioff clearly sees the very near future of business, and it’s something he calls the social enterprise. While you can read my […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #DF11, B2B, B2C, Blog Post, C2C, CIO, Convergence, corporate spring, Digital Strategy, Dreamforce, dreamforce11, E2B, E2E, Governance, IT, Marc Benioff, Organization, salesforce, social business, Social Media, strategy, workflow
By Denis Pombriant on April 13, 2011
ATLANTA—This might be remembered as the Convergence where Microsoft finally began to converge. More specifically, it is the convergence where accounting and CRM met in the cloud. The big news coming from Convergence is the announcement that Microsoft AX, one of the company’s three ERP systems is moving to the cloud. You could look at […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Convergence, CRM, Dun & Bradstreet, microsoft, ms dynamics, netsuite, salesforce.com, Steve Ballmer
By Michael Fauscette on January 28, 2011
I read that Facebook just started testing a new feature called “Buy With Friends”. It seems that the feature, which only works today with virtual goods inside games, let’s users get discounts on items that their friends buy. When a user makes an in-app purchase of a virtual product using Facebook Credits they are offer […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged commerce, Convergence, Facebook, Facebook Credits, Foursquare, Internet of Things, livingsocial, location based, mobile, PayPal, shopping, Social, Social network, social shopping, Virtual good |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 4, 2011
Organizations Seek Measurable Results In Disruptive Tech, Next Gen Business, And Legacy Optimization Projects For 2011 Credits: Hugh MacLeod Enterprise leaders seek pragmatic, creative, and disruptive solutions that achieve both profitability and market differentiation. Cutting through the hype and buzz of the latest consumer tech innovations and disruptive technologies, Constellation Research expects business value to […]
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By Brian Sommer on April 25, 2010
I’m in Atlanta with the MSFT Convergence show. Here are some of the highlights of Microsoft’s Dynamics announcements. Hint: lots of news regarding Dynamics GP, some cloud news and a peek at their new phone OS.
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Convergence, Great Plains, microsoft, ms dynamics
By David Terrar on January 30, 2010
The first thing I’ve got to say is the title of this post was supplied in a tweet from Alan Patrick (@freecloud), but it perfectly encapsulates the controversy going on in the geek world around the new Apple tablet device announced on Wednesday. Is it going to be as successful and “game changing” like the […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, appstore, Convergence, darwin, design, divergence, ebook, epub, ibook, iPad, iPhone, ipod, Mac, newton, Productivity, tablet |
By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 21, 2010
Amazon announced today that it was opening up its Kindle reader device to 3rd party applications to be distributed later this year in the Kindle Store.
This news was just one more in a string of announcements from platform vendors large and small that they’re getting the message: The app store model that Apple has proved so successfully with the iPhone is becoming the next frontier when it comes to next-generation software distribution that creates clear value for both customers and companies alike.
What will then mean for software distribution models of the future? You can bet they will look a lot like the Apple App Store…
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, App Store, apple, Business Models, Convergence, Digital Strategy, iPhone, kindle, Mobile Internet, Mobile Web, Network effects, Products, SaaS, The Long Tail, Web as Platform |