The New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions
Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big Thing Social has given us the tools to connect. Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere. Cloud delivers access points to us with a rich array of content and information. Big data provides us with the context [...]
Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business
Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant [...]
Google Plus: Is privacy an issue?
Many web users do not recognize the importance of privacy and security, a problem destined to become much worse before it gets better. If you thought the Dropbox terms of service were problematic (here and here), then look at Google’s (emphasis added): You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Tony Zingale, Jive Software
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Tony Zingale – CEO, Jive Software Biography As CEO of Jive Software, Tony’s responsible for overseeing [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing
Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business. The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. The transcript of the 30 minute [...]
Social Business 2011, An Update
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post that updated our current understanding of social business and in a concept that is evolving very rapidly, it’s important to frequently share what we’ve learned. Lately I’ve worked on an infographic…
Who will Oracle acquire next? (The Answers)
Who will Oracle acquire next? Our respondents say Oracle will acquire Informatica, Salesforce.com, VMware, TIBCO, Red Hat, Teradata, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Computer Associates, Cloudera, Vertica, Jive Software, and Mark Hurd.
News Analysis: Jive Fills Warchest, Ready to Battle Enterprise Software Giants And IPO?
Community Platforms Evolve Into Social Business Category
Having tracked the social business category for some years now, and having watched the category grow, many players have expanded into other niches. At first, the community platform space (e.g. InGage, Jive, KickApps, Lithium, Mzinga, etc.) was insular, focused only on enterprise communities. However, the space has evolved into…
Enterprise 2.0: Maturing into the mainstream
<p>The Enterprise 2.0 conference, held in Boston this week, reminds us that tools and techniques around collaboration only matter when they deliver concrete business value to corporate processes.</p>
Jive, Portland, and RetroChic
Every now and then I start thinking about things that may not fall within the formal purview of Social CRM or enterprise software. But what makes Social CRM such an interesting field is the width and breadth of scope that those of us involved in it get to exercise. Because there is so much social [...]
