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  • Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

    April 30, 2013

    Business
    Application programming interface, blackberry, enterprise, IOS, oracle, Tibbr, Tibco, yammer
     

    I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into…

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  • On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

    March 29, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Cloud storage, Collaboration, dropbox, enStratus, google, Huddle, project management, ReadWrite, RightScale, yammer
     

    Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any…

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  • Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

    January 17, 2013

    Business
    Business, cloudcomputing, enStratus, Information technology, Salesforce.com, Solution, Strategic business unit, yammer
     

    People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set…

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  • Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

    August 28, 2012

    Business
    AppExchange, Business intelligence, Databases, Indicee, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, yammer
     

    I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always…

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  • Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

    June 25, 2012

    Business
    Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SharePoint, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, Steve Ballmer, yammer
     

    So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big…

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  • Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?

    June 12, 2012

    Business
    Burberry, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, Salesforce.com, San Francisco, Social enterprise, social media, yammer
     

    On a recent trip to San Francisco I spent talking with both salesforce and NetSuite people about their approach and general view of “social” as it relates to enterprise software [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend…

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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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  • Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

    May 22, 2011

    Business
    chatter, enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social network, Toyota, yammer
     

    News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to…

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  • SuiteWorld Reflections

    May 13, 2011

    Business
    Enterprise resource planning, larry ellison, Mark Hurd, netsuite, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com, yammer
     

    I spent this last week at SuiteWorld, NetSuite’s first ever global user conference, a melting pot of accents, customer stories and NetSuite partners shopping their wares. I’ve got a few posts to write about different things I saw and…

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  • Joining the microblogging legions….

    September 20, 2008

    Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, The Cloud, Web x.0
    microblogging, twitter, yammer
     

    Legions of different applications that is… At the recent Techcrunch50, Twitter-for-enterprise startup Yammer took out the top prize. I was interested to read a post by Bernard a couple of days later where he uncharacteristically lashed the decision. Basically…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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