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 [...]
Event Report: Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2012 #wpc12
Microsoft Provides The Passion And Products For Partners To Compete In A Post PC Era Microsoft kicked off its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada amidst 16,000 partners (See Figure 1). Attendees caught the latest news and product announcements while sharing new business models and products for a post PC era. Key announcements for Day [...]
Hybrid Models and Being All Things to All People
Microsoft is out with Office365 and, well, it’s typical Microsoft. Why can’t I simply point to a URL and get going in the same way I can with Google? Regardless of what you or I might think about Google’s attitude towards our privacy, you have to give them credit for keeping things simple while Microsoft [...]
Event Report: The Sentiment At Microsoft Convergence 2011
Refresh Cycle Reflects Bullish Outlook By Partners and Customers Microsoft Convergence kicked off over the weekend in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. With an anticipated increase in attendance, many new product announcements, and a technology refresh cycle in play, attendees seemed upbeat. The event kicked off in true tradition including the must [...]
Soccer as a Service
This past weekend I ran the largest Memorial Day youth soccer tournament in the country – and ran it almost entirely online. This post describes some of the tools and technologies which helped our event to be a HUGE success.
The Microsoft Office 2010 launch excerpt
I was excited to see this video around the Microsoft Office and Sharepoint 2010 launch from the NBC Saturday Night Live studio. Not so much around the tactical feature discussions and demos but to see Mark Mastrianni talk about how it fits within GE’s larger goals (that section starts around minute 16, and goes through [...]
Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business [...]
Outlook Gets Social, About Time Too
Considering that I use Outlook to interact with people (or used to — I went Gmail last year), it seems absurd that the application has never allowed a people-centric view of email communication — until now, that is. Last night, the Microsoft Outlook team announced the Outlook Social Connector (OSC), an add-on that’s available now [...]
Best Practices: Lessons Learned In What SMB’s Want From Their ERP Provider
Competition Intensifies For The Small And Medium Organization’s Software Budget
Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP can no longer rely on their large enterprise customers for double digit year-over-year growth. In fact, their customers have not only reached a saturation point in being able to consume new solutions, but have also faced demands to cut [...]
Goodbye, OpenOffice, Back to MS Office? For All the Wrong Reasons.
No, the World has not come to an end, it’s not me who switched back to The Borg Microsoft. ZDNet author Dan Kusnetzky did, after 3 years of using OpenOffice: The open source software had Office 2003 compatibility down pat. The interchange of documents (.doc formatted files) and presentation decks (.ppt formatted files) was easy [...]
