Michael Porter

Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) made me aware of this post by Symon Garfield on CMWire’s site.  Symon has been posting a variety of article about SharePoint success and in this post he turns to SharePoint as a Development Platform.   I like a lot of what he says but the following quote is my favorite as […]

I just read an interesting article about Google Plus as a search ranking tool by Kelvin Newman. He posted it back in July but for it’s age it’s still very interesting.  I’ve wondered myself why Google decided to join the fray and compete against a facebook behemoth that already has the advantage of millions of […]

I just read an interesting article about Google Plus as a search ranking tool by Kelvin Newman. He posted it back in July but for it’s age it’s still very interesting.  I’ve wondered myself why Google decided to join the fray and compete against a facebook behemoth that already has the advantage of millions of […]

IBM just announced Sametime 8.5.2 IFR 1 with a number of new features.  Some of them look pretty interesting.  I’m most interested in the native applications on Android and iOS.  Here’s what they say: IBM® Sametime® provides a core set of real-time communication services designed to help make your social business actionable. Sametime can help […]

Integrating to any large system can pose a number of challenges.  Over time, we’ve had to integrate to SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, and a variety of other systems.  One thing we’ve learned is that it’s always possible but also brings with it a number of challenges.  Today I wanted to focus on integration to Peoplesoft.   Part […]

Liza Sisler pointed to this in a tweet and I thought I would spend a little more time on the topic.  Anyway, Chelsi Nakano has an article about SEO Lead Generation Outshining Paid Search & Social Media.  From my own experience I find this to be true as well. Here’s a quick graphic.     […]

Liza Sisler pointed to this in a tweet and I thought I would spend a little more time on the topic.  Anyway, Chelsi Nakano has an article about SEO Lead Generation Outshining Paid Search & Social Media.  From my own experience I find this to be true as well. Here’s a quick graphic.     […]

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

Baseline Magazine has an article about the four fastest growing areas of IT.  They don’t say much about the trends but I’m not surprised by what I see and obviously about where an enterprising person can attain some career advancement…………                   Keep an eye out on Baseline […]

Mark Polly recently posted an overview on SharePoint custom development with some interesting views from Forrester about the risks of custom development.  While I don’t completely disagree with what Forrester says, I think I’m a little less afraid of custom development than those at Forrester.  Here’s what I believe regarding custom development on any platform: […]

So I’ve worked on a large number of portal and collaboration projects.  Some of the biggest usability pain points I’ve seen had less to do with the UI and more to do with the process of setting the users up correctly so they can see all the content to which they are entitled. Let me […]