IBM has had a cloud based social product in Lotus Live / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business for several years. It’s had problems with lack of integration and lack of feature parity with it’s Connections sibling. I’ve heard multiple times this week that those problems are about to be resolved with a “Cloud First” strategy. […]
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IBM Connect: IBM's Social Cloud Strategy
IBM has had a cloud based social product in Lotus Live / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business for several years. It’s had problems with lack of integration and lack of feature parity with it’s Connections sibling. I’ve heard multiple times this week that those problems are about to be resolved with a “Cloud First” strategy. […]
Why Amazon and Salesforce are pulling away from the Cloud Pack
GigaOM has an interesting article about why they think Amazon and Salesforce are blowing away the competition when it comes to cloud offerings. Keep in mind that author James Urquhart is saying that these two are leaving companies like Google and Microsoft in the dust. Here’s a couple quotes before my thoughts. I almost feel silly […]
Hard to Argue with Forbes When They State…
… that the “Key To Great Web Software Is A Consistent, Intuitive User Experience“ Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, according to last week’s Forbes article, will need to focus on the user’s experience across all products. The author, Alexander Pasik, Ph.D., CIO for IEEE, points to Google’s cloud computer services as “providing best-in-class user experiences that are consistent across […]
Cloud Computing Applications Part 2 of 3
In the previous part we discussed about Cloud Computing definition. In this part let us discuss various applications in Cloud Computing. I am going to discuss these applications under three major categories: Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Software as a Service (SAAS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IT Managers employing IaaS need […]
Selecting a Gamification Vendor for Enterprise
A discriminating Fortune 100 company recently approached us wanting to add reputation management and gamification across their entire experience. Initially they expected us to build them a custom solution. However after evaluating the options, we recommended taking a look at the emerging ‘gamification’ SAAS vendor space. This would take advantage of the rapid installation, lower […]
Making sense of the Cloud hype Part 2: Infrastructure as Service
In part one of this series I discussed about Software as a service (Saas) and some findings in that area. This post is about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In essence it’s just like the SaaS model instead of buying a server and putting it into your data center and then hire people to administrate […]
Making BI sense of the Cloud hype: Part 1 Software as a Service
If the hype is to be believed, the Cloud is the most amazing thing ever. Something that you’ll want to wad up into your IT life and roll up to be a singular star in you IT sky. I’ve seen taciturn CIOs turn into giggling fanboys at the very mention of the Cloud. I’ve even […]
Windows Azure Marketplace
The Windows Azure Marketplace why would I want to use that? There are several reasons why you may want to use this Marketplace. If the core value of my business was the data I capture an API or an application in which I want to setup a subscription based offering why wouldn’t I want a […]
Lotus Live and Saleforce.com
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 […]