Image: Jason A. Howie/Flickr Deloitte predicted that by the end of 2013 90% of Fortune 500 companies will have partially or fully deployed an enterprise social network, a 70% increase over 2011. Here we are at the end of 2013, and I think that number has been nailed many […]
Moving from Records Management to Engagement
Christian Buckley As more and more software and services companies roll out social tools and features, jumping onto the bandwagon of the move to the social organization, managers at every level are being asked to investigate social — and find out how it can benefit the organization. For what […]
How Do Enterprise Buyers Research New Software?
research A few weeks ago, I wanted to know what role “social” plays in researching enterprise software. Every one of the billion dollar companies that responded to my inquiry said that blogs, social networks (from Twitter to LinkedIn), and online forums weighed heavily in their initial research and […]
Can’t change, won’t change – lessons from banking
If you listen to or read the rhetoric from the new breed of vendors, you’ll often hear them say something that was encapsulated well in something Stuart Lauchlan reported upon when discussing business intelligence . A quote from Brad Peters, Birst’s CEO serves […]
The Consulting-as-a-Service model (CONaaS)
In a comment to my recent blog post Belgium: An example of Cloud changing the SAP HCM consulting market , Steve Hunt , Senior Director, Customer Value Research at SuccessFactors mentioned Consulting-as-a-Service as a consulting delivery model. Of course, consulting is all about delivering services, but as technology and […]
Approaching UC&C via the Channel | Comms Business
John Howard, executive director, EMEA Unified Communications & Collaboration at Logitech for Business Comments on the recent IDC report on Unified Communications and Collaboration. “The recent IDC MarketScape report on unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) made interesting reading for anyone in the channel involved in this area. While […]
A Primer on Federated Communications
A Primer on Federated Communications Tight integration and federated user identities across IT and communications are key to building powerful solutions that help users be more productive and efficient. Tight integration and federated user identities across IT and communications are key to building powerful solutions that help users be […]
Social Zombieism – not really dead, but for sure not part of the living either
We’ve seen it before — many times — people start social media initiatives with good intentions, but a large number of them die out due to lack of engagement and participation, among other things. Blogs, wikis, communities — you name it, there are so many examples, and it is […]
Prepare now for a 7-year famine in IT services
The IT services industry is sticking its collective head in the sand over the impact that the shift to the cloud will have on its future revenues and staffing levels. Is it complacency, ignorance or downright deer-in-the-headlamps syndrome? French blogger […]
Boxworks: rethinking documents, reframing the enterprise
Cloud collaboration vendor Box has launched a new phase in its campaign to target enterprise buyers at its annual user conference Boxworks 13, which opened in San Francisco on Monday. A set of announcements bolstered the Box platform […]