Archive for the 'Software as a Service' Category

Snippets from Office 2.0: Opening panel on the use of Office 2.0 suite of products.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

What is the Future of Work using Enterprise 2.0 technologies?
It’s the wrong vision to take today’s apps from the desktop and put them out to the web. Instead, innovation will be from finding new simple apps that do new, different things.
You have to look at the value proposition: reduce costs, improve productivity. Look back at […]

Propensity of SaaS adoption and the Pitfalls of Traditional Desktop Management

Monday, March 5th, 2007

I just finished listening to Software as a Service (SaaS) for SMBs
Two slides were particularly prominent for me:
This one - which talked about the propensity of a function to be served from outside the walls of the business (Yellow marking adoption this year). What struck me about this is no functions were left untouched, and […]

TIBCO: could these padded jackets reduce M&A insanity?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

I worked for Arthur Andersen a few years ago, specializing in systems integration using Middleware platforms such as TIBCO, IBM WebSphere MQSeries, Vitria and SeeBeyond. Since 2001 I shifted my focus from systems integration technologies to Knowledge Management integration strategy (more on that shift in a later post), but I do keep an eye on […]

Amazon S3 + S3Drive + SmartSyncPro

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Update for: Martin Cleaver, masterfully. » Blog Archive » Amazon S3 + JungleDisk + IBID + Windows + …
SmartSyncPro requires a local drive (like f:) in order to do a incremental backup. It can JungleDrive provides mapping as an http: address (like http://localhost:2667/). They don’t sit nicely together.