The Widgetized Enterprise
I think the delivery and pricing models for vendors is going to change, actually I think it has to change. Right now if you want deploy a collaboration vendor you get licenses for your employees and get access to their suite of features. If you have another vendor you like you do the same thing. But what [...]
Podio, Citrix, Collab, and UC
Last week, Citrix announced it struck an arrangement to acquire Podio. I thinks this is interesting, and here’s why. The UC space is moving toward “Collaboration” – you can see it in all the vendor literature and websites. The conferencing space is also moving toward Collaboration as a means to convey more than just audio or [...]
Podio Acquired by Citrix
Short and sweet since I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours. News just to hand that Citrix has acquired Podio (much more on them here) for an undisclosed sum. Citrix is promising that nothing will change for this most innovative of companies and I certainly hope that’s true – Podio has been one of my [...]
There’s a World Outside the US–Podio Delivers
Living on the other side of the world from the bay area, it’s sometimes little frustrating just how inward looking Silicon Valley can be. Sometimes it feels like some technology vendors discount the 5 billion or so people who don’t live in that tiny West Coast sliver. Apart from being an arrogant attitude it’s also [...]
Application Integration in the Wild–Can Discrete Apps Work for SRP?
Last week I posted news of Intacct’s new SRP offering that ties together Clarizen, Salesforce and Intacct’s own system. It was timely given that only the week before I moderated a panel at CloudBeat that brought together a bunch of folks who think deeply about the application integration space – those who have a suite [...]
Podio Brings On the Fly App Creation to Mobile
I spent some time recently talking to Ryan Nichols, former VP at Appirio and now heading up the apps division at Podio, a company that set out to allow people to build lightweight social apps for everyday tasks – the sort of long tail type applications that no software vendor is likely to think about. [...]
