Brendon Jones

This morning at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summint, Gartner analyst Jim Murphy, presenting 7 Portal Pitfalls. He’s also written numerous papers on the topic. It’s also interesting to note that our own Michael Porter and Glen Kline also maintain a list of Portal misdemeanors. This was the most popular event I’ve attended this far. […]

A trio of presenters at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summit in Las Vegas gave a talk on “Delivering on the Digital Experience Promise”. I found this to be insightful as a case study, but not revolutionary, more evolutionary. It was a great study in increasing loyalty and revenue from customers. The trio included: […]

Today at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summit, Pam Chandor (VP Global Software Sales for IBM Collaboration Solutions) announced IBM Digital Experiences v8.5. Here is the summary of updated capabilities, you can read about it in more detail at the link above. One important point Pam did make, was that it’s useful to use […]

Guy Kawasaki, author of several books, and chief evangelist at Canva, gave an engaging talk on influence, or it could be called, presentation skills for today’s world. He referenced the works of several authors including: Influence, by Robert Cialdini Drive, by – Daniel Pink Guy began by describing the difference between the “Pan Am” smile and the […]

Gartner analysts, Tom Austin and Mike Gotta, presented some cool tools, that have a social angle, primarily Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA) Welltok – a virtual personal assistant for health care, see CafeWell as an initial application – community for health and wellness – provides advice to individuals MindMeld – conversational application, connect through Facebook, conversational assistant – […]

Tom Austin presented on the rise of smart machines and their application in the work place, and society at large. I think this is pretty cool technology, and will revolutionize the way man and machine interact over the coming decades. It will probably come faster than we keep up with and Uncle Sam will probably […]

At the Gartner Portal conference, John Stepper, Managing Director at Deutsche Bank told his story of implementing a social network within a large German bank. Most (large) companies are stuck in finding the right people and data Early adopters – usually the same people Little lasting change occurred Introduced MyDB – Social Network – basically rebranded […]

Matt Cain, research VP of Gartner, discussed the emergence of the B2E digital workplace. Major Workplace Changes Are Happening, Drving the Pivot to a Digital Workplace 60% of US jobs are non-routine, up from 40% in 1975 Structured processes are no longer the primary way work is organized Millennials will make up 75% of USA workforce […]

This week I’m at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit, in Los Angeles. Jeffrey Mann and Susan Landry of Gartner delivered the opening keynote: DELIVER EXCELLENT ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MOBILE, SOCIAL AND ANALYTICS “The prowess with which you engage your customers, employees, partners and constituents is the single most important determinant of your organization’s success. Yet it […]

Oracle recently upgraded their Virtual Compute Appliance (OVCA) to X4-2. It was launched earlier in 2013, with adoption accelerating. It’s particularly useful for consolidating non-workload specific applications into a single managed environment. Applications may be installed on Windows, Linux, or Solaris. OVCA is part of Oracle’s portfolio of Converged Infrastructure, also known as Engineered Systems. […]

Rob Byrd the Chief Architect at the City of Austin, gave his insights into running an enterprise architecture practice at a largish, and rapidly growing, US city. Information Technology departments are unable to keep pace with the business needs (demand) for enterprise-wide capabilities. Capability: People, processes and technology The City of Austin wants to be […]

At last weeks Texas EnterpriseArchitecture Summit in Austin, Kirk Da Costa, Assistant VP of Enterprise and Solution Architecture at PNC Financial Services discussed his views on optimizing business value from shared Technology platforms and projects. Key points include: taking a different perspective focusing our limited effort and resources on achieving optimal real world results Focus on realizing […]