March 2008 Archives

Over the weekend, there was a press release about a Cisco study that looked at how Web 2.0 technologies and online video affect business, and to no one's great surprise, new social media technologies appear to be improving collaboration. Companies... Read More..

"Cloud computing" is increasingly becoming one of those buzz words of the moment, and as tends to happen with buzz words (or phrases, in this case), it can be confusing to understand exactly what everything is and how the various... Read More..

The annual SaaSCon event sponsored by Computerworld is going on right now in Santa Clara, California. Already, a zillion and one SaaS companies have made important announcements. Have a look at a few here -- and stay tuned for more... Read More..

Over at Michael Krigsman's IT Project Failures blog is a popular post called "Is IT becoming extinct?" In it, Michael Krigsman predicts that, for several reasons, traditional IT departments are on their way out. Krigsman lists reasons like social media's... Read More..

San Francisco's WaveMaker Software recently conducted a survey on companies' plans for Web 2.0 in the enterprise. This 5:41 minute podcast with WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene includes a discussion of those survey results. Be sure not to miss our upcoming... Read More..

CMS Wire has a great post about how people often don't understand the meaning of Web 2.0 technologies beyond having heard buzz words. Marisa Peacock points to how clients often request Web 2.0 technologies to be built into a website... Read More..

Colleen Smith, vice president of SaaS for Progress Software recently joined me for a discussion on the trend of SaaS for vertical business networks. Read the transcript or listen to the podcast below. Remember also that you don't want to... Read More..

In an article in Times Online, a UK-based tech publication, Tim Berners Lee is quoted as saying that Google could eventually be displaced as the leading brand of the Internet by Web 3.0 style technologies. Specifically, Berners-Lee believes that the... Read More..

Most companies need a number of spreadsheets for a variety of reasons, and they can then end up with something of a sprawl problem, says Adaptive Planning. Adaptive Planning is a company that offers on-demand budgeting, forecasting and reporting solutions... Read More..

Zoho's been busy lately. Last week they announced new mobile support for Zoho Writer on their blog and just today they also launched Zoho People, an app for HR management. In Zoho's blog, Zoho's Raju Vegesna posts about Zoho People... Read More..

With much of the hullabaloo over SaaS targeting small businesses, it was interesting to read a viewpoint in BusinessWeek this week, written by small business owner Gene Marks, in which Marks named SaaS and several Web 2.0 technologies as being... Read More..

I think most of us would agree with a blog post by Sean Voisen the other day at Sys-Con Media in which Voisen wondered whether or not "RIA" was a ploy to keep dictionary makers in business. The new TLA,... Read More..

After announcing plans to offer three solutions in SaaS delivery format, Silicon Valley-based Serena Software says it is also committed to using SaaS internally whenever it makes sense -- and the company has already gone a long way toward that... Read More..

Microsoft has made an important announcement from its annual SharePoint conference: it is expanding the online versions of Exchange and SharePoint applications and will today unveil the new offerings. The IT media is ablaze with discussion of the importance of... Read More..

This morning, WaveMaker announced results of a survey it had conducted about businesses' plans for deployment of web-based applications. In the survey, WaveMaker found some interesting results. Of more than 200 businesses surveyed, 71% of respondents answered that they were... Read More..