Competitors Rush to bring the Latest Timesinks to the Enterprise
It’s nice to see competitors come together to bring the most popular timesinks productivity boosters to the Enterprise. We’ve long been predicting Foursquare would soon hit the Enterprise, and no the wait is over, with Atlassian releasing Fourwalls. There’s a lot we can learn from this app – otherwise how would I know that @barconati [...]
How Dumb are They?
Does Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) not realize that islands are land masses… they don’t float? The best part of the video is when the Admiral Willard moves his finger into his eye in an attempt to prevent laughing out load at the absurdity of Johnson’s statement. This country is clearly in the finest hands… (Cross-posted [...]
Intelligent Middleware in the Realtime Enterprise
Image via CrunchBase Enterprise microblogging has been gaining in popularity in the last year. Companies like Socialtext, Socialcast, Status.net and others have developed some absolutely stunning and low cost enterprise platforms. Each of these platforms has a rich set of APIs and can be customized with varying degrees of flexibility. Some take their cues from [...]
Vendor Analysis and Shortlist: “Strategic Sourcing” or E-Sourcing (Part 1)
My first analysis in this series of posts breaking out the areas that Gartner recently evaluated collectively in its “Strategic Sourcing” Magic Quadrant will focus on e-sourcing suites. I’ve divided this analysis into two parts. Today, I’ll examine what I term “full-capability e-sourcing suites.” In Part 2, I’ll look at specialists (e.g., those providers who [...]
When will we have full Smart Grid deployments?
Photo credit mckaysavage Despite a lot of talk and some high profile trials the day we have ubiquitous full Smart Grids is still a long way off. I attended the Smart Grids Europe conference in Amsterdam this week. It was a great conference, I met a ton of interesting people and had some fascinating conversations. [...]
