Announcing The Future of Work Survey; Take it and Share it!
Today Chess Media Group is launching a new survey; The Future of Work: Collaboration and Flexible Work Solutions for Today and Tomorrow. The goal of the survey to is to uncover a few things around: the usage of social and collaborative tools within the enterprise the state of flexible work arrangements BYOD policies and approaches [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 – A Commemorative Post
So today is launch day, the day that Microsoft Office 2010 is released out and the world gets to see what a Microsoft take on a Software plus Services fuelled office productivity suite looks like. The world has already been inundated with reflections on the product itself so it seemed a good time to hold [...]
Getting Office 2010 without Office 2010 From Central Desktop (Well Kind Of, and Conditions Apply)
I had a briefing recently from CentralDesktop CEO Isaac Garcia who was super-excited about their new product offering, Central Desktop for Office. The product is built on top of technology licensed from OffiSync and, quite simply, it gives Microsoft Office users online collaboration and a “SharePoint” experience” without Office 2010 and without SharePoint. With the [...]
Central Desktop Rolls Out Big Changes to their UI
Central Desktop (more on them here) is today unveiling version 2.0 of its offering that is delivering an entire new user interface for it’s customers. A quick update on the past year for Central Desktop: 44% year-over-year growth in revenue (gross bookings) Employee growth from 20 to 30 employees Hundreds of new Enterprise Edition customers [...]
The Wave – and Why Central Desktop is Happy but Nonchalant
Image via CrunchBase The other day I got an email from Isaac Garcia at Central Desktop to let me know that they’d been included in the August 2009 Forrester Wave for Collaboration Platforms which, not surprisingly, lives behind a paywall (and will cost readers USD1749 – for a 14 page document!) but which I’ve been [...]
If You Let PR Take Over Your Blog, It’s No Longer a Blog
Presenting a crappy blog: Central Desktop Presenting an excellent blog: Central Desktop But wait, they are one and the same. How is that possible? Central Desktop, the startup that makes a pretty good SMB-focused (so far) SaaS Collaboration platform announced it’s expansion into the Enterprise market today. I don’t want to analyze the actual business [...]
