Can Huddle be the next Autonomy?
UK-based software success stories have been a rare commodity and one of the most successful until its $10 billion acquisition by HP has been Autonomy. Now London-based enterprise cloud collaboration provider Huddle is aiming to follow in its footsteps. Here are some pointers to how that could work. The cloud collaboration and content management space in which [...]
Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy
Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.
Social Media Week London – more out than in
Earlier this month, starting February 7, Social Media Week ran in 9 cities, with plenty of events running in London. I watched some of the live streams from Likeminds based events that sounded very good in terms of content although they hit some broadcast problems, kept in touch via the Twitter hashtag and then I [...]
London Wiki Wednesday – enterprise taster for Social Media Week
London Wiki Wednesday, the evening meetup for wiki geeks, business geeks and anyone wanting to discuss the use of social media technology inside their organisation is restarting for 2011 this Wednesday February 2nd – 18:15 onwards for a 19:00 start at NYK Shipping near Moorgate. Back in 2007 and 2008 we had almost monthly sessions [...]
Time to reveal cloud’s silver upside
Vendors should focus more on promoting the business benefits of cloud. We should not be spending all of our time on the defensive, letting objections about security, reliability and governance dominate the conversation.
Trading Partners: Does Restructuring Portend Changes in the Reverse Auction Market? (Part 1)
Last week, my soon-to-be partner in crime in a new Spend Matters UK/Europe site, Peter Smith, broke the story that Trading Partners is going through what appears to be a period of turmoil involving staff redundancies (layoffs) and…
Upcoming: London Tweetup on Saturday July 10
Please join me for a casual gathering on Saturday, July 10 in London
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
What is it?As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for the [...]
