Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

As shown in a recent Forrester report, the health insurance industry faces a great deal of discontent from consumers. Of the 13 industries tracked by Forrester, health plans rank dead last in consumer experience. At the same time, the market for individual insurance coverage is growing. Reform will continue to accelerate this growth. In this […]

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

Rick Taylor, one of our well published and sought after Sharepoint gurus, has a two minute video out on Sharepoint governance.  He’s usually so busy working and presenting he doesn’t get much time to blog.  I thought I’d point this out.

Over in CNNMoney.com, Kevin Kellehar is trying to argue that Google is a really a web portal (see Face it Google, You’re a Portal).  The logic is that if you aggregate content on the web, then yes, you are a portal.  Yahoo and MSN are web portals too, but we kinda knew that.  But Google?  […]

Configuring a SharePoint 2010 Farm is a non-trivial undertaking. Each of the servers in the farm must have the correct software installed. In addition, a myriad of accounts, databases, applications, and services must be correctly installed, created, and configured on each server. Typically, a project team requires three or four different farms (development, integration, validation/test, […]

Over at CMS Wire, Scott Jamison (@sjam) has posted an article about SharePoint 2010 titled: The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010.  Aimed at those companies looking to implement SharePoint 2010, Scott explains the following 7 things to consider: Go All-in or don’t bother.  I echo that.  I’ve seen too […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]

There’s a new buzzword floating about town. That word is “gamification”. So, what is it, and why do I think it has everything to do with the fastest moving trend in healthcare technology? In their great piece on gamification, Mashable defines the term as “the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications. The term also […]