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To compete with efforts by Oracle, Apple and Microsoft to create software for developers for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Google announced “Project Brillo” at their I/O Conference in San Francisco on May 28. In their statement, they said that, “Brillo extends the Android platform to all your connected devices, so they are easy […]

  If you look at the numbers, it’s evident that Google is the leader when it comes to web search. There’s no contest. So, it should be no surprise they also happen to be the champion of enterprise search, enabling companies to quickly and accurately scour their multitude of databases all at once across the […]

  The U.S. government recently disclosed the amount of time it takes to comply with the FDA’s requirements for the reporting and recordkeeping of human drugs and biologics, related to Investigational New Drug (IND) applications. It probably won’t come as a surprise that it takes an exhausting 22,801,297 total hours. Yes, you read that correctly. 

This is more of a follow up to my post yesterday on Digital Marketing costing a lot and being worth it. CMO.com has an article on marketers finally getting Google to the point where click through rates are up 19% year over year. “Marketers are optimized almost fully on Google,” said Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst […]

Brendan Callum, a director and whiz extraordinaire in our Salesforce practice, has a video out about what they did with Google Search and Salesforce. The video doesn’t go into a lot of detail but I find it extremely interesting that an appliance (older trend) searches the cloud (ongoing trend) in a secure fashion.  Of course, […]

I came across the article Google: Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App in my favorite iPhone app Zite.  The article is about a presentation given by Tomer Sharon, a user researcher at Google, at Google’s I/O Conference. I embedded the video here for you to view. Tomer identifies reasons why nobody uses your app.  I want to extend […]

The “Google Search Appliance (GSA) combines the search expertise of Google with features that meet today’s business requirements.” When the GSA is integrated with the Salesforce ServiceCloud, users are able to quickly find people, businesses, products and random assorted words they were never able to find before. Here’s our Service Cloud and Community Practice lead, […]

This morning one of my portal colleagues published a post that I wanted to share with our healthcare community. As you can see from the Twitter log below, we are quite passionate about portals and, more importantly, all of the business problems portals can solve within the healthcare industry. The article in question was written […]

I’ve been keen to watch the cloud options evolve because of the huge impact they can have on my portal, social, web content, and digital marketing world.  The bits blog has a good article on Google’s continuing evolution with the cloud offering.  It should be no surprise Google is cheaper.  It may be a surprise […]

Maximiliano Firtman, author of the O’Reilly book, “jQuery Mobile” presented on some basics around development.  It was less a look at the development tools and more a look at the options for development and the paradigm you take into account.   He’s a a “Google Explorer” and has a chance to muck around with the […]

This isn’t new news given that this article was published back in July.  But hey, if you missed it like I did then it’s new to you.  CRN has an article with some quotes from a business partner and some stats.  Basically, Google continues to expand it’s enterprise play with Google Search Appliance, Google Apps, […]

This isn’t new news given that this article was published back in July.  But hey, if you missed it like I did then it’s new to you.  CRN has an article with some quotes from a business partner and some stats.  Basically, Google continues to expand it’s enterprise play with Google Search Appliance, Google Apps, […]