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File Sync and Share and the Data Hierarchy of Needs

June 3, 2013

Business

Abraham Maslow, backup, Computer data storage, Jesse Lipson, Maslow, Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, microsoft office, sharefile

I recently took the opportunity to sit down with Jesse Lipson, previously head of ShareFile and, since its acquisition, GM of Data Sharing at Citrix. Lipson wanted to talk to me about the ShareFile solution but we also spent…

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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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Issues Around Cloud Adoption – Part Two

May 17, 2012

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, Google apps, microsoft office, Strategic business unit

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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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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On Free Products, Open Standards and Why Google Apps Beats OpenOffice

November 1, 2010

Business

google docs, Microsoft, microsoft office, Office suite, openoffice, OpenOffice.org

Andy posted a link to this Microsoft video. Now most people would agree that this is a strange thing for Microsoft to do – OpenOffice can hardly be threat to the MS Office franchise and this just looks like…

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Office productivity apps analysis

July 18, 2008

Business, Design, IT, SaaS

google docs, microsoft office, Zoho

Raju posted about an InfoWorld analysis of alternatives to MS office. What makes the analysis interesting is that for the first time (that I’ve seen) cloud based and Open Source products have been evaluated side by side. As is…

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Another word-esque development from Google docs

May 10, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS

google docs, microsoft office

Announced today that Google docs now supports customisation of style sheets. This change opens up the templating and styling options that have always been available in word, but does so obviously in an easy to collaborate, available anywhere, in…

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File Sync and Share and the Data Hierarchy of Needs

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

Issues Around Cloud Adoption – Part Two

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

On Free Products, Open Standards and Why Google Apps Beats OpenOffice

Office productivity apps analysis

Another word-esque development from Google docs