The SaaS applications wiki – open for business
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the [...]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 2 of 2
Yesterday I blogged part 1 of my report on the Social Media in the Enterprise event that Alan Patrick and I cooked up (at Tuttle) to inject some enterprise related content in to this week’s “London Social Media Week“. We had 8 speakers (originally 10, but Will McInnes of NixonMcInnes had travel problems, and Dr [...]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 1 of 2
I blogged that Alan Patrick and I were running the only enterprise related event as part of this week’s “London Social Media Week“. Considering we only had the idea a week last Friday at Tuttle, and only promoted the thing with a few tweets, I’m both impressed and surprised that we had around 50 attendees [...]
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
What is it? As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for [...]
Thingamy with ESME points to where enterprise 2.0 is heading
Yesterday I got the “lowdown” on how Thingamy, which Sigurd Rinde describes as a “Work Processor”, has just been connected to ESME, the microsharing and collaboration platform. I believe the combination is a big step forward for Sig’s solution, as well as representing one of several approaches that signpost the direction of enterprise 2.0, or [...]
Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration – but have they got the branding right?
A month ago on Monday 7 December I was sitting in the London version of the CloudForce2 Partner Summit, and then stricken by a virus overnight, I watched Marc Benioff livestreamed for the 2 hours and 15 minutes of his keynote in the general customer session on the following day. It sounds like he did [...]
Twitter in the Enterprise – Round 56745327
In the last minute I had to cancel my trip to the SAP Influencer Summit, but I am following it almost as if I was there – by following the Tweet Stream. SAP has also provided a Virtual Environment, where analysts, media, bloggers can interactively participate – right now I am watching a live video [...]
Swiss Re – One of the Smart Companies
On Monday In Zurich during SOMESSO‘s Web 2.0 University™ based masterclass delivered by Jim Benson, one of the attendees related her company’s adoption of Social Media. I was soaking up the material and offering Jim a little help, as we have just started to represent Hinchcliffe and Web 2.0 University™ in the UK. One of [...]
Enterprise Cloud Management from Conformity
Recently I had a briefing from Conformity, a cloud application management platform vendor. Conformity seeks to be the hub, managing service provision for cloud/SaaS applications for enterprise. The rationale for this, as told by Scott Bils, co-founder and CMO for Conformity, is that SaaS applications are thus far relatively siloed in terms of provisioning, user [...]
Takeaways from the AWS Enterprise NYC Event
Last week I attended an event organized by Amazon in NYC with a focus on enterprise customers. Enterprise messaging is an area that AWS has a lot of work still to do. They need to work hard to lose the tag of being relevant only for start ups or the typical web2.0 type stuff. The events [...]
Will EuroCloud Provide Some Clarity and Direction?
One of my recent “quotes of the week” was Lord Puttnam’s excellent: “Technology can only serve as a bridge, never as a destination.” In recent weeks there has been plenty of activity around the Cloud Computing bridge with way too much emphasis on jargon and technicalities. The Intellect SaaS Group has started and is just [...]
Google Sites Targets Enterprises With Its New API
Google has taken a big step towards luring enterprises to use Google Sites instead of Microsoft Sharepoint. Yesterday Google Enterprise Blog announced the release of Google Sites API. This move not only ensures the potential enterprise adoption of Google Sites, it also helps Google elevate their entire Google Apps product to be more attractive for [...]
Cloud Security Needs A Rethink But The Evolution Will Be Slow
Image via Wikipedia Recently, Andreas M. Antonopoulos wrote an informative piece on Computer World about Cloud Security. In his post, he clearly outlines the mental shift needed on Cloud Security so that auditors and regulators are convinced about the issues of security and compliance. The crucial takeaway from his post is the following we are rapidly moving [...]
Traditional Analysis Firms, It's All About Dollars. But Are Blogs Heading the Same Way?
The other day as I was perusing the web (as I tend to do), I came across an interesting research paper from IDC Australia. Later in the year I’ll be presenting at the Cloud Computing Summit and some of what the author of the paper said sounded interesting. Being a collaborative sort of a guy, [...]
Magic Software Tweaks Their uniPaaS Platform To Target Enterprise SaaS Usage
Magic Software, a leading provider of enterprise application platform, today announced a new release of their uniPaaS platform with a tighter integration to .NET. They are trying to uniquely position themselves with the industry’s first RIA and SaaS-enabled Application Platform (SEAP) thatuses a single development paradigm to automatically handle all Clientand Server partitioning. They use [...]
