
TIBCO’s Silver Fabric – a golden lining
I attended TIBCO’s PaaS workshop, where they showed and demoed Silver Fabric – the product that has come forth from the DataSynapse acquisition in September 2009. Erik Hageman, Mario Invernizzi and Steven van der Kroftlead the session. The location was the Radisson Blu near Schiphol, a fine location with excellent service and food & drinks. After we had […]

Twitter is what you make it
Following up on a challenging post by Luis Suarez, let me jot down my thoughts on what Twitter is, has become, and will be. The word “dead” is cunningly avoided after all these years that certain things have come to be claimed dead, dying, or extinguishing – and rightfully so. If anything, any new thing […]

Twitter is NOT where the party is at
You couldn’t possible have missed the messy story around NBC and Twitter, resulting in suspension of Guy Adams’ Twitter account. Guy’s latest reaction on that is here, and contains the concise version. I do have to say that “which is widely listed online” is an exaggeration for sure, as it’s only to be found on […]

Google you are so sad, you drive me mad
Google has tried a new trick to lure in people to their destined-to-die Social Network, aka Google+ Why the harsh words? Because I’m appalled by the method they choose. If you’re not getting enough attention for your product or service, you should try to make it more attractive (financially, operationally, which ever way) – not […]

Need a mindset for adaptation? Team up
My latest post told my story of a week of hiking. In essence, it was a classical story of engaging a new venture, preparing for it as best as you can, being confronted with (utter) failure and adapt to the changed circumstances by listening to yourself, your peers, experts in the field – and then […]

Will adopting social tools leverage adaptation?
After a week of hiking in Ireland (hence the picture), it’s hard to pick up blogging again. Thankfully, Michael Brito got me going and an interesting conversation, with an old theme, unfolded: RT @martijnlinssen: @Britopian I think the need to adapt rather than adopt is what stalls #socbiz. Takes a few times longer than usual […]

Oh Google, why did you stop being sexy?
[Image by Exey Panteleev] Born out of a tweet from Tom Raftery, who pointed me to Google’s Terms of Services concerning their latest love child: Google Drive I waved at Google Wave, Buzz didn’t thrill me other than enabling the opt-out in Google Mail, and I jumped onto Google+ as soon as I could but […]

Why management rocks, and leadership sucks
[Image by _MG_5503] The past 24 hours I had a fierce conversation on leadership and management, and I love how just everyone joined in on Twitter; especially those that disagree with me because they teach me most in the shortest amount of time I started it with Every one wants to be a leader, […]

SAP gets the Future of Integration
OK, I’ll admit it: this title is heavily (heavenly?) influenced by the previous Easter weekend – yet has no relation to it whatsoever. Or has it? Let’s skip the usual introduction, here is the message from Vishal Sikka that absolutely thrilled me @MartijnLinssen @steinermatt we do.The Gateway. It will simply be services in HANA.Also PI, […]

The benefits and concerns of Social
This post is the last in a series of six that deals with Social Business and Social Enterprise. The goal of the series: to explore the pros and cons of Social Business and Social Enterprise, given the current odds, and fast-forwarding to business opportunities now and in the near future Well, this is it. 1. […]

The concerns of Social Enterprise
This post is the fifth in a series of six that deals with Social Business and Social Enterprise. The goal of the series: to explore the pros and cons of Social Business and Social Enterprise, given the current odds, and fast-forwarding to business opportunities now and in the near future This post is about the […]

The concerns of Social Business
[Image by Diego Cupolo] This post is the fourth in a series of six that deals with Social Business and Social Enterprise. The goal of the series: to explore the pros and cons of Social Business and Social Enterprise, given the current odds, and fast-forwarding to business opportunities now and in the near future This […]

The benefits of Social Enterprise
This post is the third in a series of six that deals with Social Business and Social Enterprise. The goal of the series: to explore the pros and cons of Social Business and Social Enterprise, given the current odds, and fast-forwarding to business opportunities now and in the near future This post is about the […]

The benefits of Social Business 2/2
This post is the second in a series of six that deals with Social Business and Social Enterprise. The goal of the series: to explore the pros and cons of Social Business and Social Enterprise, given the current odds, and fast-forwarding to business opportunities now and in the near future This post is about the […]

The benefits of Social Business 1/2
This post is the first in a series of six that deals with Social Business and Social Enterprise. The goal of the series: to explore the pros and cons of Social Business and Social Enterprise, given the current odds, and fast-forwarding to business opportunities now and in the near future This post is about the […]