A Quick Cloud Prod What exactly is the mental/cultural/political barrier for adoption of cloud computing and SaaS-based solutions? It should no longer be technical barriers – nor cost – nor reliability – so what’s the disconnect? Think about it… Most companies do not own and manage (without third party suppliers/partners – the “analog” to cloud […]
It was recently recommended to me that I pick up a copy of “Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years” published in 2008 by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui. Fascinating book so far – as usual, bought the book wirelessly while I was having […]
Vancouver-based ThoughtFarmer recently announced ThoughtFarmer 4.0 – one highlight I’d like to call attention to is their “Desktop Connector” application/feature. Enterprise 2.0 is not just about browser-based interactions, and wholly executed content creation/lifecycles within the browser… More than the Web The rise of wikis and similar web-based tools that make up the Enterprise 2.0 toolset have largely […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): On July 28th, 2010, Adobe announced it’s intention to acquire Switzerland-based Day Software for approximately $240 Million USD. (see press release from Adobe) The Past, Present and Future of Adobe With the acquisition of Day Software (highly scalable, standards and open source-oriented [not as deployment/sales model, but as underpinnings]), […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): Invention Machine (headquartered in Boston) announced yesterday the availability of Invention Machine Goldfire 6.0 with integrated collaboration and expert identification technologies to further accelerate product innovation. (see press release from Invention Machine) Beyond Individual Innovators Historically, Invention Machine’s Goldfire has been oriented towards providing an individually focused innovation “workbench” […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): Iron Mountain announced yesterday that it had acquired Mimosa Systems, Inc., an enterprise-class content archiving solutions provider, for approximately $112 million in cash. (see press release via Iron Mountain or coverage on TechCrunch) Colliding the Cloud and Premise Iron Mountain is a curious company with a very large installed […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): Intridea announced today a new open source, free Web Part (an add-on for SharePoint) to embed Present.ly (Intridea’s enterprise microblogging offering) within SharePoint. (see press release and Intridea site) Enter Microblogging With the rise of Twitter in the consumer-facing world, has come the enterprise-facing versions of microblogging, with solutions […]
