Open Source Alternatives – An Enterprise Decision Makers Guide
The Open Source vs. Proprietary competitive landscape is constantly changing and current information is hard to come by. We decided to create this matrix for those looking for an open source alternative to proprietary solutions. So to try and help, we have looked at search data from Google which produced some surprising results. Our Methodology […]
Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010
Enterprise 2.0 continued its growth and maturation in 2009. We saw the rise of the Enterprise 2.0 consultancies, including Dachis Group, Altimeter Group and Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0. Andrew McAfee published his book about Enterprise 2.0. We saw the rise of the 2.0 Adoption Council. And based on what can be gleaned from vendors, more enterprises […]
SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms
(Editor’s note: we typically ask guest bloggers to refrain from promoting their own products and services. However we feel that this is not a promotional piece but a well-written comparative review which should be valuable to our readers, but with the caveat that Mark works for MindTouch. We encourage anyone and especially Microsoft to comment […]
Sharepoint Watch Out – Mindtouch Goes SaaS
My Favorite Collaboration Tool, Mindtouch (Check out my previous coverage of Mindtouch here), has embraced SaaS wholeheartedly. In fact, in my previous post about Mindtouch, I characterized their platform as a glue to the clouds but, now, they have really embraced cloud computing by offering their collaboration tool as a service. No, they are not […]
SharePoint 2010 – Unwrapping the Release
A live blog of the presentation…. Christian Finn, Director of SharePoint Product Management, and Alina Fu, Product Manager, Social Computing talk about the SharePoint 2010 offering. An interesting approach – Christian and Alina ran a “speed dating” session trying to message the major thrust of 2010. Christian pushed the big customers who use SharePoint to […]
The Quest For a Personalized Enterprise Dashboard
Most executives and managers digest multiple streams of information on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Tying this information together quickly and acting on it is challenging and the end result is usually an executive or manager that is reacting instead of being proactive. One reason is that the majority of those executives […]
Box.net – Another Frontal Assault on Microsoft
You’ve got to hand it to box.net (read about ‘em here), fresh from their last campaign which squarely put them head to head with Microsoft (see the evidence here) Box is today announcing that it is launching an application on the salesforce.com app exchange. While this may be a seemingly boring announcements, digging deeper into […]
SharePoint 2010 Conference Review – Dashboards, Social and User Configuration
7000+ people showed up for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The conference was overbooked and many more people wanted to attend but couldn’t. Why all this demand for what amounts to be a large product pitch? Because the enterprise collaboration space is white hot right now with many companies looking to leverage collaboration suites […]
The 10 Best, Must Watch Enterprise 2.0 Videos/Presentations of the Month
Enterprise 2.0 is creating a blizzard of opportunities for internal corporate E2.0 champions, but many are facing huge roadblocks in executive support and financial approval. The best way to get support and approval (besides a clear and certain ROI) is to point to the success of others. Witness Adidas, for they have changed the corporate […]
Google Can’t Save Your Local Newspaper – But This Business Model Can
Newspapers are Dead. Ok, not quite dead but on life support. According to Silicon Alley Insider so far this year: 105 newspapers have been shuttered. 10,000 newspaper jobs have been lost. Print ad sales fell 30% in Q1 ’09. 23 of the top 25 newspapers reported circulation declines between 7% and 20% Therefore when […]
Aptimize Speeds Up Microsoft
I’ve posted before about Aptimize, the startup trying to singlehandedly speed up the web. Their Website Accelerator product has just been given a strong endorsement by Microsoft who are using it to speed up their SharePoint public site. Aptimize have published some statistics of the benefits Microsoft is seeing with the solution; Original Aptimized […]
When Enterprise 2.0 Intranet Strategies Collide
Intranet 2.0 is a new term coined recently to describe the Intranet as an Enterprise 2.0 tool. On the one hand we still have a lot of first generation intranets that are not much more than electronic billboards. Many of them are run by one guy in IT, which means you need approval just to […]
What would Einstein’s Intranet look like?
If you are a marketing executive or like to think of yourself as one (as I attempt to do on occasion), the I recommend the blog Branding Strategy Insider. Today, when reading about his latest post, I came across the following which prompted the creation of this article: When asked what single event was most […]
All’s Fair in Love, War and Collaboration
I’m not normally a fan of marketing campaigns that seek to gain traction by running down a competitor’s offering, but a campaign by box is kind of fun. Box is a place for sharing content and ideas in an online workspace (CloudAve review here). I caught up with the team from box at the recent […]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it […]
