Michael Porter

While it’s no surprise to anyone that PC shipments are on the downturn, it appears to be a larger downturn than expected.  CRN has an article about the recent IDC study showing a 9.7% decrease in desktop and laptop shipments worldwide.   The CRN article had a couple good quotes that I liked because they […]

You may have noticed that I’m on a SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro kick of late. It has more to do with me wanting to understand and use the tools to their fullest extent.  While SkyDrive has a well known and documented API, SkyDrive Pro hasn’t reached that point yet.  However, the SharePoint Developer Team over […]

As you may know, I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with SkyDrive Pro and have a Mac users viewpoint.  Some of those thoughts came in a previous post.  I somehow let slide by that Microsoft made some changes to their SkyDrive Pro size. PC World has a quick news article on the recent changes. […]

I see more and more people taking advantage of SkyDrive and now SkyDrive Pro.  I think there’s a lot of potential here, especially for heavy users of SharePoint. But first a video that’s 51 minutes long but gives a great overview of features and what’s coming.  Thanks to Ignite for the video. Let me tell […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for point this out to me.  Frederic Paul at CIO.com has a nice slideshow on 11 Things Microsoft is Doing Right.  Like Frederic, I prefer to focus on the positive and mention areas where there is room for improvement. Frankly, no major company lacks opportunity to improve in many different ways so […]

Over on Perficient’s Microsoft blog is a good post on pushing lead and other data to Salesforce.  Conversely, you can run campaigns and offerings from Salesforce into the digital experience on your Sitecore driven site.   Parshiva Vora goes into a little detail and points to further instructions.  So if these two technologies are relevant […]

Just last week Rich Wood blogged about recent Forrester Analysis about Yammer and SharePoint.  Rich’s short post focused the fact that neither Yammer, nor SharePoint, nor the cloud was going away anytime soon and that Yammer is the enterprise play.  I want to focus on two key items in the Forrester report, “Is Yammer + […]

I continue to hear a lot of discussion on the true value of social.  I think we are past the hype of social doing everything and more into the fact that social can provide value provided it’s used correctly.  I was speaking with some people at Perficient who referenced a self-service customer site.  As part […]

Thanks for Erin Moloney (@ErinE) for pointing this out to me.  Jacob Morgan has a good article out at Forbes.com entitled, “The 12 Habits of Highly Collaborative Organizations“.  It’s worth a thorough read.  Here’s the accompanying diagram. What I like about his 12 principles are that fact that it’s pragmatic and technology agnostic. At it’s […]

ZDNet has a very high level overview of various social and collaboration options. It’s a 19 slide review of tools like IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Yammer, Chatter, Box, Dropbox, etc.  That means it cuts across a wide range of collaboration options that meet a wide range of tools. For those just getting into social, this is […]

You have all recently seen a bevy of cloud partnership announcements from Oracle.  That of course produced a flurry of stories about it, some more informative than others. Perficient Oracle Blog: Oracle announces Salesforce partnership Perficient Microsoft Blog: Microsoft/Oracle Announcement Highlights Azure as Cloud Leader CRN: Oracle, Microsoft To Announce Cloud Alliance Built On Oracle’s Database Microsoft: Microsoft […]

IBM announced yesterday their Cloud Suites for the C-Suite.  CRN also ran an article on it where they dive into the implications of it rather than the detail of “more than 100 offerings in the Cloud” that IBM delivers.  I like the following quotes: While CIOs and IT managers are often making cloud technology decisions, […]