Posts Tagged ‘forrester’

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 […]

Microsoft ships SharePoint with a lot of out-of-the-box features.  However, no out-of-the-box portal is going to give you everything you want out-of-the-box.   So at some point in your implementation of SharePoint you are going to need to do some custom development.  Have you thought about your development strategies for SharePoint? If not, Forrester has […]

I just read an article passed on by Erin Eschen Moloney.  It’s a great article by Paul Hagen of Forrester. In the article, he notes his belief that the customer experience is just as important to insurance companies and others whose customers are businesses as for the likes of Disney.   It’s important enough to translate […]

Erin Eschen Maloney already blogged about this but it’s worth mentioning again.  I host a webinar tomorrow on seven trends in CXM.   It’s going to be interesting as Forrester notes the trends and I add what Perficient sees in the marketplace.  Register here.

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

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 […]

John Rymer at Forrester has a very interesting blog post from back in January about the future of Java.  Oracle will definitely have an impact on the evolution of Java.  I agree with Mr. Rymer that the impacts will be felt more in the long term and that Java is on the path to becoming […]

Alan Weintraub tweeted about this blog post by Nate Elliott at Forrester. He takes a look at how social media metrics should be different depending on who is looking at the data.   Keeping in mind that his is focused on social media and not what I would term social networking (see previous blog post), I […]

I’m a strategist on mobile and social technology. I won’t claim to be one of the best, nor even a shining example of innovation (I’ll leave that to greater egos than mine) but I know two things hold true for corporate strategy at all levels. The more you know, the stronger your strategy will be. […]

I’m a strategist on mobile and social technology. I won’t claim to be one of the best, nor even a shining example of innovation (I’ll leave that to greater egos than mine) but I know two things hold true for corporate strategy at all levels. The more you know, the stronger your strategy will be. […]