Tweet Blender Wins Over Twitter’s Own List Widget – For Now
CloudAve readers can now follow the contributing bloggers’ twitter stream in a sidebar, thanks to a cool widget called Tweet Blender. Finding it was not easy: I combed through at least 100 plugins / widgets, all doing essentially the same: follow a person, or do keyword search. Either or.. not both. And definitely not a [...]
Five definitions toward the maturing of Enterprise 2.0
In this guest post, Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Chief Strategist of Software AG, takes an insightful look at the meaning of “enterprise.”
Regularly Updated SaaS vs The Big Dig
Last week we talked about the idea of the SaaS to SaaS integration and how this network phenomenon could not be duplicated by on-premise software vendors where the same integration has to be built over and over again. Today, we turn our attention to application upgrades and updates, bug fixes, additional new functions, both large and [...]
From Enterprise 2.0 Adoption to Business Value
In 2006, Enterprise 2.0 gained a definitional framework with Andrew McAfee’s seminal article. But then the conversation quickly shifted to adoption frameworks. In part this was needed for something that was both new and powered by people. But unfortunately it…
What Will CIT’s Bankruptcy Mean for the Retail Supply Chain? (Part 2)
In the first column in this series on CIT’s bankruptcy and the retail supply chain, Kurt Cavano, Chairman and CEO of TradeCard, provided background perspective on CIT’s historic role and fit within the industry. In this post, we’ll continue the analy…
Best Practices: Lessons Learned In What SMB’s Want From Their ERP Provider
Competition Intensifies For The Small And Medium Organization’s Software Budget
Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP can no longer rely on their large enterprise customers for double digit year-over-year growth. In fact, their customers have not only reached a saturation point in being able to consume new solutions, but have also faced demands to cut [...]
Chutzpah of the Week: Monty Widenius
According to Wikipedia, chutzpah is “the quality of audacity, for good or for bad”. The award for “chutzpah of the week” has a clear winner, and it’s only Monday! The winner is Monty Widenius. Here’s a guy who was significantly responsible for mySQL, but so were several others, not to mention the thousands of other [...]
What Will CIT’s Bankruptcy Mean for the Retail Supply Chain? (Part 1)
Over the weekend, CIT Group, a large specialty lender / factor, filed for for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to the Times Online, “The collapse of the 101-year-old Utah-based lender, which trails behind only those of Lehman Brothers, Was…
Taking the Next Hill
The technology industry is maturing, and as a result the ‘Crossing the Chasm’ thinking has served the industry well needs to adapt. These days, companies need to think beyond the Chasm, and think of ‘the Next Hill’. This means getting beyond the ‘single-product, single-market’ focus needed to cross the chasm, and thinking about building a portfolio of products, services and markets.
This suggests that tech M&A will make a comeback, and also that companies which do not expand into new products and markets will be outflanked by their competitors.
Taking the Next Hill is a post from: The SiliconANGLE
Seeking IT failure experts on Twitter
I’m assembling the definitive Twitter list of folks who have demonstrated deep insight and commitment into analyzing the causes and prevention of IT failures and need your help.
