Product Review: Google+, Consumerization of IT, and Crossing The Chasm For Enterprise Social Business
Timing of Google+ Bodes Well For Enterprise Users And Google Lately, one could say Google’s been a bit absent from the social business party. The premature launch of Google Wave exposed a canvas looking for a masterpiece painting. Failing fast and learning from the Google Wave lesson, Google’s latest offering, Google+ shows promise in bringing [...]
Good Bye, Google Wave – Though I Never Knew You At All
Goodbye Google Wave - Though I never knew you at all … Ok, I admit, it was probably my fault, never having figured it out… The smarter ones around here think otherwise.. perhaps they’ll chime in. ( update: I’ve told you .) Until then… Au Revoir. (Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
News Analysis: Salesforce.com Announces Private Beta Of Chatter
Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform
Announced at the 2009 Dreamforce conference in November, Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform. Software built on the Force.com platform will gain the collaboration capabilities. Solutions in AppExchange will be able to use profiles, real time streams, and other API’s. Some key features include:
Aggregating streams [...]
Beyond Buzz
Is Google Buzz just a Twitter wanna-be, or is it a key component of a much larger strategy to take on Facebook and own the infrastructure of the social web?
Google Buzz in Google Buzz – Quick Analysis
Google Buzz looks cool for sure, but it’s not going to crush anything just yet.
SAP’s 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon
I spent some time this morning working with SAP’s new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it’s a cloud-based service that’s a cross between Basecamp and Google Wave and is ostensibly designed for team collaboration. Not incidentally, 12Sprints is also clearly a social application and it includes viral invitation, extensive commenting and discussion capabilities, and interesting new twists on measuring community opinion such as real time consensus tracking. Here’s my analysis and breakdown.
Next-Gen Business Teams Make Sense of Google Wave
Driven by the spread of the Web and advances in Web capabilities over the past ten years, a new way of working in distributed teams has become commonplace for a broad range of project-based activities. In media and advertising, software development, construction, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing product design and financial services, it’s now routine to bring together [...]
Etherpad is now Open Source
This is worth taking note of in the enterprisey world: Etherpad has gone open source and it immediately becomes one of the best Enterprise 2.0 tools available. It is built on a Java/Scala/Mysql stack.
Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editing tool. In short: you can work directly on editing text with other people and be [...]
How Social is the Future of SAP?
I have spent the last few days here at SAP TechEd 2009 trying to learn about SAPs vision for the future of social in the enterprise. I have been to both TechED and SAPPHIRE before, and I usually came away with the sense the SAP isn’t thinking about social. All of that has changed now [...]
Enterprise UIs – SAP Tech Ed 2009 – RIA Weekly 64
Enterprise uses of Google Wave, HTML 5, and so on, all at SAP TechEd 2009.
