A Tool, A Tool, My Enterprise for a Tool
This week I’m at the CITE (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise) conference in San Francisco where I’ve been able to have some interesting conversations with collaboration and IT leaders at various organizations around the world. I always learn something new from these events and it’s always great to see friends such as Kevin Jones [...]
Collaboration is a Business Requirement
I find it interesting that when it comes to collaboration; oftentimes it still need to be sold as a line item. I mean, doesn’t that seem a bit ridiculous that a company needs to have someone explain why they need something that can connect their employees together? Some companies have some type of tool in [...]
Collaboration and the Zombie Apocalypse
Tools are never enough for anything and never will be. If I handed you a cyclotron, a spectrometer, or an atom smasher (yes, all physics tools) you would probably end up hurting yourself (as would I). The same goes if gave you a bulldozer, some wood, bricks, and concrete and asked you to build me [...]
Putting It In Qontext
When I was at Suiteworld 2011, Netsuite’s user conference, I came across a company called Qontext (previous CloudAve coverage). I got attracted towards the company initially out of my curiosity to find out how they are going to navigate the Netsuite-Yammer partnership while they themselves are partnering with them. I have spoken with them couple [...]
Google Wave Enters Apache Foundation Incubator
I am an unabashed sucker of Google Wave (see previous CloudAve coverage) and the two reasons for its demise are Mainstream users had difficulty seeing the value in Google Wave as a collaboration and communication platform Google didn’t flex its muscle enough to push it down the throat of users and make them see the [...]
Deploy Kaltura 3.0 On AWS In 15 Minutes
Kaltura, the open source video platform, recently announced the release of Ver 3.0 of its community edition bringing parity with their commercial offerings. The key highlights of this version is the availability of the same feature set of the commercial offering and an easy way to deploy their software on the cloud. More than 100,000 [...]
Mindtouch Wants To Be The Nerve Center Enabling Social Business
Last week I attended Enterprise 2.0 conference and I saw the enthusiasm among businesses to leverage the Social Business tools to greatly increase the productivity within the organization. In my opinion, these social business tools should have the following three essential characteristics (well, there are few others but these are the ones I consider to [...]
Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically
With Enterprise 2.0 just over, I am still talking about social and collaboration with others. I came across an interesting data about the collaboration space and thought I will highlight it here. We all know how the modern collaboration tools increase the productivity in an organization by manyfold. There are many studies that put a [...]
