The Risks of “Gamification” for the Enterprise
This post was inspired by a discussion I had with Bert Sandie who is the Director of Technical Excellence at Electronic Arts. It seems as though nowadays everyone is talking about “gamification” for the enterprise. For those of you not familiar with the concept, gamification is all around taking game mechanics and concepts and applying [...]
Why API’s suck, and what they lack
The Social Media Movement is slowly moving towards monetisation. Social Business, yes even Social Enterprise, is neigh. Infographics bite the dust in an ever-increasing frenzy to prove that social is here to stay, to rule, to conquer the world! And as yet another evidence of that, API’s are brought forward – by the hundreds, no [...]
Wrapped Up @ The Fort of Awesome, on to the Iron Foundry, and new Tiers…
New update and bits coming up in the near term. I wrapped up my work with AppFog’s Fort of Awesome and am now putting together blog articles & technical material for New Relic these days. They’re an extremely great company with an absolutely stellar team. However you may be asking, “Adron, YOU WRITE CODE ALL [...]
Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?
Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. In a post discussing this AccMan says that; As things stand today, [...]
Google Apps Introduces Vault–Enterprise Will Love This
One of the barriers that people put up against using Google Apps within enterprise is the apparent lack of robust functionality that the largest enterprises require. A big part of this lacking functionality lies in the e-discovery of documents, the ability to apply governance to information assets and to archive and manage those assets. Especially [...]
With Box OneCloud, Organizations Can Embrace Both BYOD And BYOA
Box (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise software company formerly known as Box.net, yesterday announced Box OneCloud, their enterprise grade cloud platform to unify business information. With this announcement, they solved a major pain point experienced by the business users. They have also added some social features which will hep them fend off the competition from [...]
SnapLogic Adds Monitoring to Integration
Application integration in a cloudy world is an important and often forgotten area that I am predicting will see significant movement in the months ahead. One of the long standing providers in the field who still remains independent (after Dell’s purchase of Boomi and IBM’s purchase of CastIron) is SnapLogic (more on them here) who [...]
