Posts Tagged ‘Gartner’

I’ve spent the last two days at Gartner’s Portals, Content and Collaboration Conference soaking up the wisdom of some very sharp analysts (and a very open customer base) about enterprise social.  There’s other tracks here, but with all of the focus Microsoft has placed on Yammer and its potential for transforming how we do business, […]

Whatever industry you work in, whatever your department or area of expertise, cloud computing has established its presence. From retail to banking, from travel & hospitality to healthcare, organizations are using the cloud. And businesses are implementing cloud applications in functional areas from sales & marketing, to human resources, accounting, and enterprise resource management. Growth […]

Back in 2012, Gartner included Salesforce.com in their Horizontal Portal Magic Quadrant as a Visionary.  Since that time, many people have scratched their head wondering how is a CRM system a horizontal portal?   In fact, Michael Porter recently blogged about Virgin Airline’s new employee portal built on Salesforce.  But the real story behind Salesforce […]

Second in the 3 part series. The first post  covered a brief overview of search technology and the need for data discovery. This article covers some use cases and problems that DD would help solve. Data Discovery would be a useful in. Data discovery would be useful whenever an analyst wants to perform adhoc analysis without […]

Now that we’ve had a couple of weeks of 2013 to catch up on our RSS feeds from the holidays, let’s review three of the most influencial trend forecasts from the greater digital industrial-complex and finalize our preparations for year to come. Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends The Queen of digital forecasting is indisputably Mary Meeker […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

Congratulations to our partner, Sitecore. They were recently named as a Leader by Gartner in the recently published Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management. As a user of Sitecore, I believe this award is well deserved! This 2012 Magic Quadrant positions Sitecore among the Leaders, recognizing those firms that demonstrate both completeness of vision and […]

Gartner recently issued their 2012 version of the Web Content Management Magic Quadrant.  This year’s version looks similar to last year’s version with Oracle, SDL, SiteCore, Adobe, HP (Autonomy), Extron, and OpenText all making the Leaders quadrant.  IBM and Microsoft are in the Challengers quadrant once again. You can see the entire report on Gartner’s […]

This afternoon Carol Rozwell presented a session titled The Social Scenario: Business gets Social.  In this session, she points out the drivers behind social media and described scenario planning as a tool to develop a social strategy. I thought her most interesting points were in  in how to go about setting your strategy for Social […]

Jim Murphy held a standing room only session this morning covering the 6 pitfalls with portals.  I’m curious, was it standing room only because lots of people have encountered pitfalls, or are all these people just starting out with portal and want to avoid these pitfalls?  My guess is that many of these people already […]

Jane McGonigal was our keynote speaker this morning at Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaboration conference.  Dr. McGonigal recently wrote a book called “Reality is Broken” in which she discusses gaming and its impact on industry. I’ll admit upfront, I’m not much of an online gamer.  Occasionally I play games such as Angry Birds and others, […]

The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals.  Originally, most portals were aimed at employees.  More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals.  But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]