Adobe + Day Software Coming Together: Cautious Optimism
The Enterprise Software space is undergoing big change. No, I am not talking about just the shift to SaaS, Cloud, Potentially increasing spend etc. Its seeing momentum of a different kind – form a moment of pause, it is getting rediscovered as being se…
Facebook Questions
Facebook launched a really interesting Questions product a few days ago and after trying it out I have a couple of thoughts on it that I would like to share. Simply put, this service builds on a well documented user behavior exhibited by millions of Facebook users who on a daily basis poll their “friends” [...]
Unlearn or Challenge?
What’s the diff? David Heinemeir Hansson of 37signals and Ruby on Rails fame spoke at Stanford the other day – Unlearn your MBA! Good concept of course, provocative title for a talk for business students, and old stuff is old…
Metastorm M3 Demonstration
I had a briefing on Metastorm’s M3 collaborative modeling and Smart Business Workspace two weeks ago, and last week we had a follow-up demo. This is the start of a push towards a full BPM suite in the cloud, providing collaborative process modeling and the end user runtime hosted on Azure, but Microsoft still needs [...]
Webinar on Process Intelligence and Predictive Analytics
Summer is the time when no one holds conferences, because vacation schedules make it difficult to get the attendance, so webinars tend to expand to fill the gap. I’ll be presenting on another BP Logix webinar on August 10th, discussing process intelligence and predictive analytics; you can register (and see my smiling face in a [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010
Photo credit Lauren Manning And here are this week’s Green Numbers: GE: Good citizen, but where’s the payoff? Inside GE, Ecomagination is deemed a success, so much so that it has spawned a sister initiative (if you can spawn a sister) called Healthymagination, focused on profitably creating better health for more people. GE says that [...]
Not Social
When Pfizer launched the first social media channel on SlideShare for a regulated industry, it was met with industry applause, but also some controversy. Case in point, and article Pharma News: Pfizer Channel criticized as ‘not social.’ Various criticisms have been raised against the channel, however, including the fact that it does not allow comments [...]
JavaScript everywhere – make all #7
Bill Higgins and I and discuss the state of web application development, mostly JavaScript, HTML 5, and REST(ful) protocoling.
Optimizing the Wrong Metric may be the root of All Evil in Marketing
Bootstrappers have to figure out how to market via the web. It’s the lowest cost, lowest friction, highest leverage medium available to get the word out. And, it is the easiest place to collect metrics so your decision making can be informed rather than just seat of the pants. But there are many dangers with [...]
Adobe buying Day – Quick Analysis
Adobe announced it was buying Day Software today, filling in a portfolio hole with Day’s web-driven content management technology and looking towards web-driven business.
