The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0
The Enterprise 2.0 sector draws heavy inspiration from innovations in the Web 2.0 world. Indeed, the name itself, Enterprise “2.0” reflects this influence. From a product management perspective, Web 2.0, and its derivations social networking and social media are great proving grounds for features before coding them into your application. A fruitful area to review [...]
Cloud Connect – Cloud Is In The Air
Cloud Connect is in full scale today. Yesterday, there was the Cloud Business Summit where top industry executives spoke about the impact of Cloud Computing on today’s business. I had a chance to talk to many leaders in the industry and I could feel the cloud in the air. People are pretty excited about how [...]
Why Google Apps Marketplace Could Become A True and Vibrant Marketplace?
When Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace, I was pretty excited about the prospects of this marketplace. While Ben wrote about how it will positively impact the SMB segment, I was getting ecstatic about its potential on the enterprise side. I think few years from now, when we look back in this space, we may [...]
White House expands Gov 2.0 with landmark crowdsourcing directive
On March 8, 2010, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued guidance to Federal agencies strongly encouraging the use of…crowdsourcing (link to pdf). Specifically, using crowdsourcing to further the objectives of "creating a more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government." Yeah, that thing that Cisco, Pepsi and Unilever are doing. This is big. [...]
The Apps In The Google Apps Marketplace
Last evening Google unveiled Google Apps Marketplace, an one-stop shop for SaaS business applications that are tightly integrated with Google Apps. Zoli covered the launch from Google Event and Ben did some analysis from the SMB perspective. I am going to take a different approach and cover some of the launch partners from the cloud [...]
Google Launches Apps Marketplace
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace [...]
Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then here @ CloudAve we respect that. And it’s all a big IF. So no, I am simply dusting off an old [...]
Attempting To Open Source Data Center Design
Image via Wikipedia Being an unabashed proponent of Open Source, I can avoid the news about a new industry group trying to start an initiative to open source data center design. The Open Source Data Center Initiative, announced last week, will act as a repository of technologies associated [...]
Dissecting Steve Ballmer’s Cloud Talk
Yesterday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk on Cloud Computing at the University of Washington, Seattle. Check out the video of the entire talk here. Let me briefly highlight the key points from his talk and then offer my perspectives on it. He was highlighting five key dimensions of the cloud Cloud creates opportunities [...]
Social CRM – the new rules
There are changes underway across the worlds of social media marketing, social media applied inside business (what some people would call enterprise 2.0) and where these tools connect (or not) to the business processes in (Cloud based) CRM and ERP systems. Products like Salesforce are adding Chatter, and Twitter connectivity. Enterprise 2.0 tools that started [...]
Dear Open Source Fellas: Let Us Start Acting
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday Dries Buytaert, original creator of open source content management software Drupal, wrote a blog post highlighting how open source can play a major role in enterprise SaaS. In his post, he points out to SaaS being dominated by proprietary players and talks about how open source can [...]
ScaleUp Technologies, Powering The Cloud For German Users
For a long time, I am debunking the idea that the cloud infrastructure market will consolidate and we will end up with a handful of monopoly players. In my opinion this is short sighted idea and it is due to the lack of understanding of the diverse needs of users around the world. One way [...]
Google Acquires Picnik
Google has acquired Picnik, the Seattle based online photo editor. I am a big fan of Picnik and I love the app so much that I have been paying the annual subscription to use the pro features. This news is exciting and my congratulations to the team members of Picnik. In a blog pos t [...]
The Impact Of CA’s Acquisition Of 3Tera
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday CA Inc., the enterprise IT company formerly known as Computer Associates, announced its intent to acquire the cloud computing provider 3Tera. Even though the details of the deal are not available, there are some unconfirmed reports going around the blogosphere and twitterverse saying it could be 30x the current 3Tera revenue. [...]
Study – Distributed Idea Generation Outperforms Team Brainstorming
This has significant managerial implications: if the interactive build-up [of team brainstorming] is not leading to better ideas, an organization might be better off relying on asynchronous idea generation by individuals using, for example, web-based idea management systems. That quote is from a report by three researchers from the INSEAD and Wharton business schools. They [...]
