
Pre BoxWorks Thoughts: Box To Play Best Of Breed Game?
I am on the plane to attend BoxWorks 2012, the annual user conference of Box. Before hearing anything from Box, I am trying to make sense of Box’s strategy based on what I heard in the past 3 weeks during Salesforce and Tibco events. It will be interesting to hear from Box in the next […]

Tucon 2012: Initial Thoughts
I am on my way back from Tucon 2012, Tibco’s annual user conference at Las Vegas. During the event I had a chance to talk with Tibco execs, partners, customers and fellow analysts. I thought I will do a quick post talking about my initial thoughts on what I heard there. Tibco’s rise to fame […]

Tibbr Leaps Forward With GEO Feature And HTML5
Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage), Tibco’s social tool competing with the likes of Chatter, released a new version, Tibbr 3.5 with two new features which makes the product pretty hot in the market. In fact, I have been pretty impressed with Tibbr by the time it came into the market. Unlike many companies who were totally clueless […]

Putting It In Qontext
When I was at Suiteworld 2011, Netsuite’s user conference, I came across a company called Qontext (previous CloudAve coverage). I got attracted towards the company initially out of my curiosity to find out how they are going to navigate the Netsuite-Yammer partnership while they themselves are partnering with them. I have spoken with them couple […]

Apples and oranges: Socialcast and tibbr
The other day one of my commenters asked: What’s the difference between Socialcast and tibbr? I had a rough idea but not much of a clue, and decided to do a quick one. I commented back but there has been some considerable dustblowing going on, so I’ll repeat that here and elaborate on it Socialcast […]

1.0, 2.0, 3.0 – Tibbr shows the way
For those who are familiar with me and my posts, you’ll now that I’m passionate about Integration. My Integration eBook, my posts – even though I cover a wide range of topics – all are about diversity, evolutionary growth and change, while standing with both feet on the ground and keeping a pragmatic view I […]

Tibbr 3.0: Making The Activity Streams Actionable
Tibco, the enterprise infrastructure software company, today announced an upgrade for their enterprise social networking product Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage). I was very impressed with Tibbr when they launched in January because they brought together people, process and context in a way to drive efficiency in the enterprise workflow. With this release, they are taking […]

Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something […]

Social Business Case Study: Enterasys Networks’ Use of Chatter
Social Business is a hot topic these days in the enterprise market. We are seeing innovative new products coming out regularly and we are also seeing some consolidation in this space, indicating strong currents in the Social Business marketplace. In this report we discuss how an enterprise is using Salesforce Chatter inside their organization. Even […]

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 […]

More than just another microblogging tool – tibbr
Earlier this week I attended the UK launch event for just another Twitter style microblogging tool for the enterprise like Chatter or Yammer or Signals inside SocialText. This one’s called tibbr. Some people would have been underwhelmed and said “so what?”, but I got excited – I can see some huge potential here, and I’d […]

TIBCO Nails It With Tibbr
TIBCO, the enterprise infrastructure software company, this week announced their foray into Social Computing when they announced the GA of Tibbr, their attempt to crack the enterprise social collaboration market. Tibbr is a social computing tool for enterprises which will let employees, customers and partners to interact with each other and, also, with information and […]