It's almost time for another Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which means it's time for another Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad contest. The conference will be held June 20 to 23, and winners will be announced on the last day. Past contest winners have included Baydin, CubeTree and Meetzi.The four finalists for...
Last week Huddle announced an intriguing guarantee: The Huddle Adoption Guarantee. According to the company's announcement, it now guarantees 100% user adoption across the enterprise or your money back.That's a bold promise. We've covered the troubles involved in enterprise 2.0 adoption before. And new social and collaborative technologies are not...
If you are looking to bring some sense to your social networking life, take a closer look at the free tool from Nimble.com. (We last spoke to Nimble's CEO Jon Ferrara here.)Nimble imports your contacts from Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook and brings them together in new and interesting ways. Once...
The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP's CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great - suave and smooth. He pointed to Max and his band. "Mighty Max!," he said. He told Max that what he loves about him is...
This white paper shows how EMC IT migrated its Oracle 11i CRM E-Business Suite database servers from a Sun E25K/Solaris infrastructure to Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) platform. In addition it highlights the methodology developed by IT while migrating the database from RISC/SPARC to the target UCS (Intel and Linux)...
Buddy Media, the Facebook content management company we profiled earlier this year, announced that it will acquire social media sharing and analytics company Spinback.And earlier this week Tap11 was acquired by AVOS, the new company from YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.These moves follow Salesforce.com's high profile acquisition of...
IT salaries are up after a two year decline, according to CIO.com. That's good news, considering the level of dissatisfaction IT professionals are experiencing.Meanwhile, hiring is up as well. Dennis B. Moore has analyzed listings from Dice.com and found an overall increase of 6.1% in the past three months, and...
Yammer surged in popularity last year. According to former Yammer Vice President of Marketing Steve Apfelberg, the company experienced triple-digit growth. It also expanded its features beyond just microblogging by adding features such as document editing, idea management and its own app store-like collection of third-party applications. But integration in...
Before I write the recap of today's roundtable, I want to share with you a couple of thoughts that have been playing in my head, and I have given at least four talks on this topic over the last 30 days. One of them is: Ownership Matters. A second is:...
VMware surprised a lot of people this past week with the unveiling of Cloud Foundry. Shrouded in secrecy, the announcement left competitors a bit flat footed as they soaked in the news.It's a significant development. Cloud Foundry has the potential to disrupt the platform market. Why? If nothing else, the...
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics...
The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Every week we take a look at the latest developments in its use in the enterprise.This week we look at a new iPad app for cardiologists, new apps from SugarCRM, Radian6 and Zoho...
Ever since the term "Web 2.0" started to catch-on, people have been speculating as to what "Web 3.0" will be. Briefly stated, Web 1.0 was the Static Web and Web 2.0 is the Social Web (for more a more nuanced view of this history, see here). One popular theory is...
BitNami Cloud Hosting is a service that provides the capability to port apps to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. That's a good business to be in these days, especially in a world where the market is trying to figure out how to become more cloud-centric.BitNami, a service of BitRock,...
The integration of software and services companies is starting to show how the social business market is consolidating into a network of companies that are like big mother ships that provide a platform for smaller service providers to operate within its frameworks.Companies such as Jive Software and Salesforce.com are acting...
The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Every week we take a look at the latest developments in its use in the enterprise.This week we look at iPad-only applications for sales people, a company bringing Microsoft SharePoint to the iPad...
Six months ago we did an overview of trends in the idea management market. At the time, most of the action was going on in the internal idea/innovation management area. This time around, the new trends are emerging around externally focused idea management solutions.Each of the three trends we identified...
This morning, Salesforce.com announced its intent to acquire social media monitoring company Radian6, a market leader in the social analytics space, for $276 million. Radian6 boasts half the Fortune 100 as customers, including AAA, Dell, GE, Kodak, Molson Coors, Pepsico, and UPS. Last month Salesforce.com announced Radian6 for Salesforce, a...
Paul Greenberg described Apple as a product and engineering centric company, as opposed to a customer and social media centric company, in the interview with Dennis Howlett we posted yesterday. But today, Mindtouch Executive Vice President of Sales Mark Fidelman, writing for Cloudave, identifies Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide...
"Yammer and Salesforce Chatter are gonna have some significant new competition starting Monday," Robert Scoble tweeted over the weekend. It turns out he was talking about Convofy, a new product from the Adobe and LMKR funded startup Scrybe.In response to Scoble, Spigit VP of Product Hutch Carpenter tweeted: "Given incumbents,...
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