Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Every time I’m forced to use a collaboration tool I don’t like as much as my favorite one, I realize how important they are to my productivity. Once you use a product that was designed to be as simple as possible and to do the most important things well, you really don’t want to go back to the one that makes you take 5 or 6 steps to do something you can do in one click. I won’t name names of those that I don’t like, but here’s a roundup of collaboration tools that make my life easier.

Every time I’m forced to use a collaboration tool I don’t like as much as my favorite one, I realize how important they are to my productivity. Once you use a product that was designed to be as simple as possible and to do the most important things well, you really don’t want to go back to the one that makes you take 5 or 6 steps to do something you can do in one click. I won’t name names of those that I don’t like, but here’s a roundup of collaboration tools that make my life easier.

Aaron Levie of box.net fame posted a really interesting article on that disruptive technology called the cloud. It’s on Techcrunch.  I’m starting to see this a lot in the portal and collaboration world.  You should read the entire article. It’s well worth it.  Also, I couldn’t resist the Dilbert cartoon. Cloud in the enterprise is […]

In the past few years, we have seen a lot of our new and existing customers show interest in having someone else run their WebSphere Portal infrastructure.  They’re happy with their investment in Portal, but may have any number of reasons why they don’t want to manage it themselves anymore. As you start to talk […]

As many of you know Perficient was honored to be selected as Microsoft’s Health Provider Partner of the year for 2010. Recently I was thrilled to be included among Microsoft Partners invited to share their thoughts on Microsoft technologies in Healthcare. HealthVault, Cloud, partnering with Microsoft and the consumer to enterprise nature of Microsoft products […]

Erin Eschen put me on to an interesting article Krishnan Subrumanian cloudcave.  The premise of the article is that things like open source and the cloud started out small and at the lower end of organizations and then built up a very respectable set of users………many times taking management by surprise. Here’s two cents on […]

So can you take two cloud or SaaS applications and make them work together? The short answer is yes.  I find it interesting because of all the social collaboration, email, web conferencing and other capabilities you get in LotusLive can be merged with the CRM capabilities of Saleforce.com. Even more intriguing is the possibility of […]

Mike Porter, Principal of Portal Solutions and frequent blogger on this portal solutions blog, was interviewed at IBM Impact 2010 last month. He attended many sessions on cloud, collaboration and portals and presents some of most compelling projects and trends discussed at the influential IBM conference this year. Perficient also produced quite a bit of […]

I just got a white paper on  cloud computing payback o by Richard Mayo and Charles Peng of IBM.  They put some thought into it so it’s worth reading.

So cloud has different meanings for different people. Not surprisingly, consumers have a different perspective than IT. What is driving the cloud?  It’s all coming out of web 2.0.  Web 2.o continues to improve and mature.  Technology like REST and Ajax help it.  The user or community based paradigms get better. Portal and the Cloud […]

Gartner is holding their Portal and Collaboration Conference this year in Baltimore.  Since this is one of the few conferences I attend where I am simply here to listen, I should be able to make a number of posts.  The first keynote is always interesting.   Tom Austin of Gartner always leads off and gives some […]