IBM Tells Reluctant Enterprises "Just Do It"
When you talk to Enterprise folks or to evangelists from companies currently supporting the enterprise IT, they will be glad to point out to reasons why cloud computing is not a fit in their enterprises. Their usual argument will end like “we may put our test and dev environment on the clouds but not the [...]
Don’t Worry it’s Only Enterprise 2.0
It’s been quite an event at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week. Plenty to share with non-attendees. Dr. Wave of Google Wave fame made an appearance, based on customer feedback Enterprise 2.0 is not a crock, and claims that when the recession is over we’ll be working differently due to Enterprise 2.0 solutions. I’ve also [...]
SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wave
Alexander Dreiling of SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia, has posted on a great prototype called Gravity that uses Google Wave to collaborate around business process. Gravity is a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client. It lets participants in a wave use the business process modeling functionality of SAP Business [...]
YouCalc for Zendesk, Analytical View of Helpdesk Data
I’ve written many times in the past about Zendesk (see here) and have also written about YouCalc. These two companies have much in common, YouCalc founder Rasmus Madsen was actually part of an early “friends and family” funding round for Zendesk, they’re both from Denmark (although Zendesk is now based in San Francisco) and they [...]
Video Interview with SAP’s John Schwartz
host Scott McGrew, TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy and Fortune’s Jon Fortt interview SAP Executive Board Member John Schwartz in this two-part video. Schwartz came to SAP through their acquisition of Business Objects, and unlike many acquisitions where the “assimilated” CEO gets slowly marginalized, this one seems to have worked well. In fact John Schwartz is becoming [...]
MeltWaterBuzz – First Up to the Plate
A few days ago I posted about the seeming lack of mid-level social media monitoring tools that span the divide between standard searches and the big boys of social monitoring. To their credit, one of the first to respond to my post, and associated tweets, was MeltWaterBuzz, the monitoring service provided by MeltWater group, a [...]
SlideRocket – More Than Just Presentations
I had a briefing yesterday with SlideRocket, the company that “provides premium communication tools through innovative and compelling software-as-a-service to let you present the right message, to the right audience, at the right time. SlideRocket gives everyone the power to make great presentations, communicate effectively with colleagues, impress customers and captivate audiences.” I spoke to [...]
Analysis – The Choice of a New Generation
Image via CrunchBase As part of this weeks Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston a launchpad series was run where four finalists were invited to pitch to the audience who would then vote for a winner. I posted about the four finalists before the event and made my prediction for the eventual winner. I’m pleased to [...]
Sonoa Systems – The Gatekeeper To Your Cloud Services
From time to time, we profile companies in the Cloud Computing space. In this edition, let us check out Sonoa Systems, a provider of software/virtual appliance to manage SaaS APIs and other webservices. Sonoa Systems, founded in 2004, is based in Santa Clara, California with offices in Bangalore, India. The company is backed by some high profile investors including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay [...]
The Benefits of Using a Reputable Vendor…
This might come across as a cheap shot but, having witnessed on lots of occasions Microsoft dismiss Google and other Web 2.0 companies perpetual beta products as risky and fickle, it was somewhat amusing to read that Microsoft is pulling the plug on its own adCenter analytics product. The Microsoft product, which sits squarely in [...]
Is Google Being Evil? Ajax Search
It seems Google is testing a new AJAX powered search on US Google searches. So what? Well it seems a standard Google search returns the url http://www.google.com/search?q=cloudave when searching for CloudAve. The new search returns http://www.google.com/#q=cloudave. The difference being that standard referral tracking and analytics services don’t see anything after the “#”. The search community [...]
