Good for HP (with a but!)
Last week the IT industry had a major bombshell. HP announced it’s intention to get out of the PC business, drop it’s WebOS smartphone and TouchPad products and buy enterprise software company Autonomy. If you don’t recognize Autonomy they are a major success story born out of research at Cambridge University. Founded in 1996 they [...]
THE SOCIAL PHD: 9 Sure Fire Ways to Become a Social Business (Video)
We were able to assemble a powerful cast of experts to give the rest of us advice on becoming a Social Business. But we did it with one catch. We asked these 9 experts to do it in under 60 seconds. Thank you Robert Lavigne for essentially doing all of the video, post production and [...]
Want to See the Future of Social Business?
TweetThere are executives who are social and there are executives who are anti-social. There are executives who do social well and executives that don’t. Some claim to be leading social organizations, and there are those that boast that they are not. There are executives who have thousands of followers, and there are executives that have [...]
Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. Specifically, Amazon has changed our entire industry in profound ways often not attributed strongly enough [...]
Thoughts from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference- June 2011
I just came back from the E2.0 conference in Boston which as usual was a fantastic gathering of really great and smart people. I arrived late Monday evening and had meetings pretty much all day on Tuesday. I had the opportunity to attend a few sessions on Wednesday and made sure to get plenty of [...]
IBM Releases New Rational Solution With An Eye On The Cloudy Future
Yesterday at IBM Innovate 2011, IBM announced a new Rational Solution with an eye towards a cloud dominated future. IBM Innovate is the annual user conference for their Rational Software users. During the event, they also showcased Suntrust Bank, a large US bank, using Rational Software which reduced the software deployment issues by 93%, help [...]
IBM Survey: CIOs Expect A Cloud Boom
IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this [...]
Cloud-in-a-Van
Yes, you can have your Private Cloud. By mail-order? @reillyusaChristian Reilly IBM Smart TV commercial "computing has left the box"…yes, it’s on a USPS truck on the way to me. Yay ! Mail order cloud ! Nah, the best solution is Cloud-in-a-Van: @DEVOPS_BORATDevOps Borat We launch new product ‘Cloud in Van’. Azamat drive van around [...]
Blue Murder ?
I guess it used to be called “Stormchasing” – where groups of seemingly heroic, but clearly just plain stupid, raincoat-clad student types armed with an entry-level standard def video camera caught clips of each other laughing and shouting such ludicrous lines as “oh crap, Bob, it’s coming straight at us” as a 125mph wind got [...]
Gartner’s HCM Magic
Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management is here! The most influential of all analyst reports in the HCM arena, Gartner ranks SuccessFactos as an absolute leader, moves Taleo into the Leaders Quadrant and leaves Workday off …
Why IBM’s Watson Computer is Still a Moron
“The computer is a moron” – Peter Drucker Computer programming technology is still dominated by “if – then” logic. That means computers are still using logic (human programmed) to determine the answer to a question which must be part of a pool of answers. If the answers are not in the pool, the computer will [...]
Google’s Disruption Of Enterprise Email Market And Their “Social Challenges”
Ever since Gmail captured the imagination of consumers, Google has been trying to push Google Apps to enterprise customers. In spite of some news about problems in their implementation for big customers, it has been gaining traction steadily. The biggest attraction towards Google Apps Email over other systems is the cost. Even though other players [...]
IBM LotusLive Symphony: Google Needs To Watch Out
During IBM Lotusphere 2011 earlier this month, I had a chance to see the demo of IBM LotusLive Symphony and interact with the team behind Symphony. LotusLive Symphony is IBM’s new online office suite much along the lines of Google Docs, Zoho Office Suite or Microsoft’s Office Web Apps. Microsoft is a non-starter at this [...]
IBM Still Searching for the Flying Car I Grew Up With…
Oliver Marks makes fun of IBM’s rather pointless Flying Car ad: He takes this opportunity to run a quick overview of Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Business, then finally compares the IBM dud to a SABA video “that at least demonstrates how enterprise business networking and real time collaboration could work, which is far more useful [...]
IBM Lotusphere 2011 – Social Is In The Air
I am attending IBM Lotusphere 2011 in Orlando and, as it is expected in this conference, Social Business is a big theme this year. You can feel “Social vibes” not just from IBM executives but from their partners and customers as well. Clearly, social has taken up big time and I would say that it [...]
