Enterprise Alley
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Seesmic gets a new set of threads
Seesmic’s black, orange and red colors are now part of the company’s history. As is its attempt to make a full Flash-based interface. As of this morning, the company has launched a re-designed HTML interface that is both cleaner and simpler. Mike Arrington sums it up neatly:
Even though I’m an investor, one thing that has [...] -
LeWeb sold out
Much to my surprise but relief LeWeb 2008 has sold out. That’s what Loic LeMeur told me the other evening. Given the economic downturn, that has to count as an extraordinary result. Perhaps things in Paris are not as bad as they are elsewhere. Several of those attending have been struggling to find hotels in [...]
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Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward
Zoho just can’t stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the first time, a commercial software vendor is providing an [...]
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Enterprise 2.0 solution reduces email abuse
We now live in a day and age where we can expect to get dozens, if not hundreds of emails a day. Most of these you’ll find are replies and forwarded emails - emails which you have already responded to and are following up, or emails which have been passed onto you because you’re more [...]
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JobBlogs: Facebook for business
I’ve been a little busy over the last few weeks, but it hasn’t all been drinking and partying. I’ve been looking into JobBlogs, which has a highly innovative SaaS appliance, which blends together customer relation management and project management, with social media within business as a main selling point, into one central application. As they [...]
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Would you flip to Microsoft?
The announcement of BizSpark didn’t get a huge amount of attention and I’m not surprised. After 24 years of running Wintel based systems I flipped to Mac and have never missed anything Microsoft offered. OK - I’m an edge case that wants to run as much as I can in the Internet cloud but as [...]
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Trade show horrors
The global sales VP of an enterprise software company once told me that 70% of his salesforce are D-graders the company had to constantly winnow. Tip up at a trade conference and you’ll see them in abundance.
A guest column over at Sandhill by Elizabeth Cook points up some of the horrors she saw at the [...] -
No recession in Joyent's cloud
Rod Boothby at Joyent (disclosure: Rod is also a fellow Irregular) sent me the above graph showing how Joyent is profiting from the downturn in the economy. The reasons are not hard to fathom.
Despite the economic downturn, organizations still need to get things done and still need data center scalability. However they are turning their [...] -
LinkedIn's apps: good idea but...
Larry Dignan offers his view on the announcement that LinkedIn has added in a bundle of applications designed to enhance the platform. Larry is mildly dismissive, suggesting that:
I wouldn’t call these applications exactly enterprise class, but could be useful in the corporate environment.
If we’re equating ‘enterprise’ to the 1,000 person up business then yes, Larry [...] -
SlideRocket presents from the cloud
Something that I can’t seem to avoid when writing a post on here are the words, “collaboration”, “interoperability” and “productivity”. These are, however, essential parts in the enterprise industry and a step closer to a fully fledged Enterprise 2.0 application.
SlideRocket is a Web 2.0 application which integrates enterprise relating features, to [...]
