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Box Announces Notes – Moves Into the Content Creation Business

September 16, 2013

Business

Bret Taylor, Business, Chris Yeh, Facebook, google, Google Doc, google docs, Quip, Sam Schillace, user interface

I’ve been covering Box for many years now but one thing I’ve always wondered about is their focus on being a content storage and collaboration vendor without enabling the creation of that content. Today we start to see a…

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The Risk of Knee Jerk Comments and The Perils of Google Drive (Or Not)

May 28, 2013

Business

Critical thinking, Francisco Dao, google, google docs, Google Drive, McDonalds, Uniform Resource Locator, wordpress

As someone who has had more than his fair share of annoying people due to ill-advised and off-the-cuff remarks, a post I read recently on PandoDaily made me wince. Now I have to say that I absolutely love PandoDaily…

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Enterprises Moving Away from Microsoft Office–But Will They Continue to Do So?

March 14, 2013

Business

google, Google apps, google docs, Microsoft, microsoft office, MS Office, Office, Office suite

Recently I was sent a link to some survey results from BetterCloud. BetterCloud is a company making management and security tools for Google Apps – they recently raised $5M in venture funding and have tools deployed across 15000 companies…

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Dropbox Listens to the Criticism–Starts to Mature Corporate Product

February 12, 2013

Business

dropbox, Filesharing, google docs

I’ve been a harsh critic of Dropbox in the past – mostly because I feel they lack maturity – both as a company and as a product – and this lack of maturity is a real risk for enterprise…

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On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox

February 9, 2012

Business

Cloud storage, dropbox, google, google docs, sugarsync, syncplicity, Wall Street Journal

News today (admittedly for the umpteenth time in the last few years) that Google looks likely to finally roll out its cloud storage product, G Drive. According to the WSJ; Drive allows people to store photos, documents and videos…

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Google Apps Security Tool from BetterCloud

February 8, 2012

Business

Cloud Sherpas, google, Google apps, google docs, Google Site, SherpaTools

One of the key issues for organizations moving to Google for office productivity applications is the ability to enforce policy on end users around sharing outside of the organization. This issue is a good example of the tension that…

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IBM Goes Deep with Cloud and Social

January 16, 2012

Business

google, google docs, IBM, Lotusphere, Microsoft SharePoint, Salesforce Chatter, Social business, yammer

At Lotusphere IBM is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of announcements but the highlights include; New social analytics software that integrates…

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Don’t Wait for the Pros, Experiment!

December 22, 2011

Business

Case study, cloud, cloud computing, google docs, Small business

In a recent CloudU report we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with…

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Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

November 15, 2011

Business

backup, box.net, dropbox, google docs, sugarsync, syncplicity

I use a bunch of document and file synchronization, backup and collaboration tools. From SugarSync to Box.net, from Dropbox to Syncplicity I’ve pretty much used, and currently use, them all. One of the things that interests me from a…

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About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local

October 13, 2011

Business

adobe, cloud computing, google docs, microsoft office, Photoshop, Prezi, sliderocket, Software as a Service, Zoho Docs

I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads)…

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