Fracking for Value in the Enterprise
This year in 2012, now that Jive customers are relatively comfortable working in this new way, Jive is pushing customers further and helping them discover the business value buried in their organization that can be extracted. It’s kind of like fracking in the bedrock of the enterprise for stored value.
Weaving the Unifying Fabric: The Warp and Weft of Microsoft, Windows 8, and the Enterprise
The backstory to the launch of Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone, the Surface and all the other recent announcements from Microsoft is more than just a little interesting for Microsoft Dynamics, the enterprise software sub-division of Microsoft and one of the smallest pieces in the software and hardware company’s vast portfolio. Indeed, the backstory for [...]
What Makes Your Business Different?
Wanted to vector you onto a business strategy post from my other blog, CNCCookbook. It goes like this: Having founded 4 Silicon Valley startups and participated in success and failure at 3 others, I’ve learned a little bit about making a business successful. I write another blog called Smoothspan that specifically discusses business strategy for entrepreneurs, but I [...]
Microsoft Struts It’s New Stuff
Microsoft is flying high, certainly internally, after four important announcements in the last couple of weeks. The company introduced Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the all important new tablet for them, the Surface last week and announced the MarketingPilot acquisition the week before. They have also made some important announcements around Dynamics CRM. I [...]
Vormittag ERP – Conference Highlights/Customer Insights
I recently attended the VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.) user conference in Las Vegas. It was my first opportunity to attend their show and to speak with their customers. Copyright 2012 – TechVentive, Inc. – All Rights Reserved By way of background, VAI makes a line of ERP software that is built and optimized for the [...]
InFullBloom’s 3rd Birthday — Here’s Where It All Started!
Happy Birthday InFullBloom I launched my blog exactly 3 years ago, 11-8-2009. In my wildest dreams, I never expected to attract so many loyal readers — there are now 10K+ of you — nor did I realize how much I would enjoy blogging. So, with a huge shout-out to those of you who have encouraged [...]
