BravoSolution and SciQuest — A Spend Partnership Match Made in Healthcare Heaven?
Earlier in the week, BravoSolution and Sciquest announced a partnership to pursue the healthcare Spend Management market, offering an integrated sourcing and procurement offering aimed at providers. The solution clearly appears tailored to healthcare…
The great unbundling: remaking the economy
Too big to fail? The obvious way to remove systemic risk is to distribute risk by taking single points of failure out of the equation. Small is beautiful. How did we kickstart the economy after the 1980s fall? Pulling apart huge conglomerates like Hanson, for one. The same needs to happen now to really get [...]
Windows 7: Winning Battle, Losing War?
“But here’s a funny thing. By the end of the week, I looked at what I was doing on the tiny screen – and found that just about everything involved software not made by Microsoft. So I’d installed the Firefox…
Towards a Permission-based Web. Wherefore Net Neutrality? Or: Maybe Open Source Wins After All
As we rush to purchase Apple products and services on Cupertino’s monochrome treadmill of shiny shiny I can’t help thinking the open web community is losing something vital - a commitment to net neutrality and platform openness.
If a single company can decide what plays on the network and what does not, in arbitrary fashion, how can that be [...]
US Smart Grid Future Looking Bright?
Photo credit Barack Obama
President Barack Obama was in Florida on Tuesday this week for the official opening of Florida Power and Light’s new solar energy power plant. The 90,000+ solar panel plant, which has been installed across 180 acres of the 5,000 acre FPL property, is expected to generate 25MW of clean electricity (enough [...]
Are you an E20 expert? Prove it!
The 2.0 Adoption Council has begun work on a new initiative – an Adoption Index that will measure the adoption of 2.0 technologies within large enterprises. We’ll be announcing the results of our member survey at the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week, and we want to get all the friends and fans (and Twitter lists) [...]
Friday Rant — Thoughts, Language and Burning the Candle at Both Ends
It’s been a crazy week. Let me rephrase that — it’s been a crazy fall and an even crazier year. From attempting to crank up the volume on Spend Matters to the proverbial “11″ to diving into other interesting opportunities left and right with other m…
IBM’s Smarter Utility play: Solutions Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE)
Jeff Smith is an old buddy of mine, so its good to see him leading an IBM vertical play that aims to make asset and service management an awful lot more efficient in the utilities industries. Jeff has a solid background in automation from his time at Tivoli, IBM’s management systems management arm, so [...]
