Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011, July and August
July and August Enterprise Software and Solutions news. Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the months of July and August: Apple became the world’s most valuable company, but Steve Jobs resigned due to health issues. Meanwhile, Google bought Motorola’s cell phone business. Salesforce.com promoted its message of Cloud, [...]
Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2011: Some insights from The Greatest (Cloud Computing) Show on Earth!
Ringling Brothers bills itself as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” but Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2011 could easily claim the title of “The Greatest Cloud Computing Show on Earth.” With over 40,000 attendees, dozens of exhibitors, great concerts and parties, and presentations galore, the event was an unqualified success for Salesforce.com, but it also heralded a real [...]
Singin’ springtime for enterprise at Dreamforce
I’ve been pondering my take on this whole ‘enterprise spring’ meme that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff was pushing at Dreamforce [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client and funded my accommodation to be at Dreamforce]. Can we really compare the popular uprisings in the Arab world to the way enterprise users feel about their business systems? Is [...]
Dreamforce 2011: Collaboration Hardwired into Context.
Almost two and a half years ago in March of 2009, I suggested the following: “Don’t confuse Enterprise 2.0 with social computing concepts”. Ignoring the dated terminology for a second, my premise was that social in the enterprise doesn’t mean throwing all sorts of features at the end user in an attempt to get them [...]
