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Archive for June, 2006

Enterprise 2.0 versus SOA - it’s not Alien Versus Predator

by @ Thursday, June 22nd, 2006. Filed under Business 2.0, Blogging, Collaboration, Wikis

I just received an IT Business Edge bulletin headlined “Where is SOA Going?” with an editor’s note that starts: “SOA is either on a roll or stalled due to a combination of technology and political problems, depending on what you read.”That’s the kind of confusing, mixed message I hear regularly.  […]

“Wikis? Never heard of them” - the future of collaboration

by @ Thursday, June 15th, 2006. Filed under Web 2.0, Collaboration, Wikis, Intranets

We’ve just been sub-contracted to help run the project office for a technology development project.  The project involves creating a new platform to address supply chain issues in a media company, with challenging timescales and various contractors and stake holders here and Internationally.  Of course we are adopting a sensible, browser based collaboration technology as […]

WikiCalc and SocialText announcement much more significant than Google

by @ Tuesday, June 13th, 2006. Filed under SaaS, Business 2.0, Web 2.0, Open Source, Collaboration, Wikis

Last week Google previewed their collaborative online spreadsheet.  The sneak peak shows how you can share, edit, collaborate and chat in real time.  Some people suggested “this represents a major attack on Microsoft’s desktop dominance“.  Others see the Google announcement as just a “bit of a yawn“.  Some months back, a few of us highlighted […]

Lessons for Europe in SaaS survey in Asia

by @ Sunday, June 4th, 2006. Filed under SaaS, Web 2.0, Asia, Ideas

On Sandhill Chris Perrine, the vice president of business development at Springboard Research, has written about his latest survey of the Software as a Service (SaaS) market in Asia.  He tells us that this is an exciting corner of the IT market, with rapid growth rates and strategic experimentation that he describes as astounding.  The […]

eBay - largest corporate move into Web 2.0

by @ Saturday, June 3rd, 2006. Filed under Business 2.0, Web 2.0, Blogging, Wikis, Social Tagging

Auction Bytes and B.L. Ochman have tipped me off to eBay’s move in to Web 2.0.  They will be introducing eBay Blogs as well as an eBay Community Wiki. eBay is holding sessions on the new tools at the upcoming eBay Live conference in Las Vegas June 13 - 15.  Auction Bytes says: “The […]

Goodman Jones goes online

by @ Thursday, June 1st, 2006. Filed under SaaS, Marketing, Open Source, Blogging, Accounting, Collaboration, CMS

  Here’s a bit of an advert.  Today the website we designed and built for London accountants Goodman Jones has gone live.  We’re quite proud of the way Glenn, our designer, captured what we intended in the design brief and gave them what they wanted.  They were aiming to have a site that jumped them […]

Standard apps, wikis and workflow - a perfect threesome

by @ Thursday, June 1st, 2006. Filed under Business 2.0, Marketing, Accounting, CRM, Wikis, ERP, Workflow, BPM

I’ve been buried in a couple of projects over the last few weeks, and now that I’m in catch up mode I can see lots of great ideas and posts I need to comment on.  Zoli had a great piece on JotSpot and Salesforce last week.  He talks about the marriage of structured, off the […]

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