By Michael Fauscette on January 12, 2011
This post is built from our annual IDC group effort to lay out ten predictions. The actual document should be up on IDC.com in a couple of weeks, for those of you who have a subscription anyway, so if you want to learn more about any of the predictions I’d point you there, it has […]
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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 R "Ray" Wang on January 2, 2011
Themes In 2010 Reflected The Buy Side Demand For Both Optimization and Innovation Technology buyers in 2010 focused most of their priorities on finding cost savings through legacy optimization, navigating a flurry of disruptive technologies, and designing/experimenting with new business model innovations. Consequently, the top 25 posts for 2010 reflected these 3 major themes: Legacy […]
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By Bob Warfield on December 21, 2010
I’m a firm believer that maximizing the ROI of your Social efforts in the Enterprise requires deeply integrating your Social Platforms with your Enterprise Software Platforms. The major Enterprise Software players are well aware of the importance of Social Software as well as the advantages of deep integration for ROI. This is why we have […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged CubeTree, enterprise software, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, Web 2.0
By Michael Fauscette on December 12, 2010
I spent the past week in the clouds attending Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Salesforce likes to categorize its products into different "clouds", like sales cloud (sales force automation), service cloud (customer service system), data cloud (crowdsourced contact data), etc. In fact…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Mechanical Turk, Cloud Computing, collaboration, e2.0, Elance, human cloud, oDesk, SaaS, salesforce.com, Service Cloud, Web 2.0, work
By Michael Fauscette on November 27, 2010
According to the latest IDC Social Business survey approximately 41% of businesses surveyed have already implemented an enterprise social software solution. In a market (social platforms) that is growing ~38% CAGR over the next 5 years, quite a few of…
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By Michael Fauscette on November 22, 2010
I was reading the reports of Rupert Murdock’s upcoming online “newspaper” product and it started a mental thread that I think I need to pull a bit. I guess calling it an online newspaper isn’t exactly correct, if reports are correct, it’s a tablet app based (initially an iPad based) newspaper. Apparently Murdock / News […]
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By Bob Warfield on November 16, 2010
There’s quite a bit of back and forth about the Facebook Messaging announcement. Since a little time has passed, people have settled in and we’re slightly past the hype. Time for my two cents: Facebook has an opening based on at least two value propositions that I can see. There is value in a single inbox, though at […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged strategy, user interface, Web 2.0
By Bob Warfield on November 11, 2010
After reading Dennis Howlett’s piece, “Enterprise 2.0 is beyond a crock. It’s dead,” and Andrew McAfee’s counterpoint, “Social Business is Past Retirement Age,” I found myself in the surprising position of agreeing with Dennis that E2.0 is dead. I’m not suprised because of any issue with Dennis, I’ve been reading and enjoying his work for […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged enterprise software, marketing, strategy, user interface, Web 2.0 |
