Awesome press
I am honored so many bloggers and technology writers who asked for advance copies of the book have written or allowed me to write columns/posts for their sites. The more mainstream and business press typically waits for hard copies and they have st…
Event Alert: Capgemini differentiates its BPO services on global delivery, but can it compete on price?
Capgemini is one of the largest and most well-known European IT/BPO service providers and consulting firms, with revenues of $9bn, but has struggled in the past become a household name in the US. However, its recent aggression in the BPO market, resul…
E-Commerce Pioneer Brings Social Web to the Enterprise
Listen to my conversation with Giovanni Rodriguez, chief marketing officer of e-business pioneer BroadVision, which recently launched a new enterprise social networking platform called Clearvale. In this podcast, find out how business-to-business websites have evolved over the past decade-and-a-half to…
Research Report: Rethink Your Next Generation Business Intelligence Strategy
BI Solutions Must Address The Information Management Matrix A confluence of changing business requirements and on-going vendor consolidation leads many organizations to rethink their business intelligence (BI) strategies. Many buyers face decisions to move beyond departmental solutions or to stay with an integrated apps based BI solution. Meanwhile, some buyers must decide whether or not [...]
Community Management and Community Managers
The community manager position in marketing organizations across all industries is one of the hottest gigs and it’s been that way for a few years now. The role is attracting people because of the opportunity to drive new processes and build professional brand equity for the individual as much as the company, and it doesn’t [...]
Know When Your Server Will Fail Before it Actually Happens
When your server goes down, it’s bad enough –even worse if you have to keep on trying to reach support in vain, then if you finally get through, you’ll have to convince them there’s trouble. If you have such a host, run! (and I can even tell you where to). So whenever I ran into [...]
Fred Brooks : The Design Of Design
After a long time, I got the opportunity to read a new book, that I would have loved to read several years back aptly named – The Design Of Design. Several decades back, the onset of a discipline called software engineering started with a big problem…
Quality suffers even more on iPhone 4 videos uploaded to MobileMe
Following up on yesterday’s post I just tried uploading a 720p video from my iPhone 4 to Apple’s own MobileMe service. Disappointingly, the uploaded video was downsized to 568×320 from its original 1280×720 resolution and compressed from 12.9MB to 983KB. The resulting loss of quality was, needless to say, significant. What I want is a [...]
Zuora and the Subscription Economy
Every now and then a vendor does something that genuinely surprises and even delights me. They come up with a new feature at the least but at the most, they define a concept, which while it certainly pushes the vendor’s agenda, it also adds a new way of thinking to the overall discussion and even [...]
Basware and Lavante: Where Invoicing, Supplier Management and Audit Recover Meet? (Part 3)
In the first two posts in this series looking at the recently announced relationship between Basware and Lavante (Part 1 and Part 2), I provided context behind the partnership announcement, including a 30,000 foot fly-by of the audit recovery market and how Lavante has introduced a solution originally designed to automate and improve upon traditional [...]
