I’m privileged to be doing a keynote discussion with ZDNet columnist and Asuret CEO Michael Krigsman at a pre-conference event at ASUG / SAP SAPPHIRE event tomorrow (Sunday). The larger topic is consumerization of IT and the move to the Cloud, but...
To the tune of over 500 customers and prospects, Lithium kicked off LiNC on May 2nd, 2012, at the always stunning Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. Compared to previous years, the audience was not only bigger, but also more experienced and ...
The carbon footprint of a beef burrito is 5 times that of a chicken burrito. That’s per Eugene Cordero, Professor at San Jose State University, and came my way via my pal, Frank Scavo, a few weeks ago. You want to take massive causes or opportunit...
After three consolidation plays in the fragmented human capital management (HCM) market, private equity-backed rollup Peoplefluent has expanded into enterprise collaboration with the acquisition of Socialtext. Although 10-year-old Socialtext was o...
Sunnyvale, CA based KANA announced on April 24, 2012 it’s acquisition of Netherlands based Trinicom, a multichannel, customer contact software provider serving over 200 companies in the BeNeLux market. Trinicom’s flagship T5 all-in solutions addre...
CEO, Sid Banderjee, opened up Clarabridge‘s 4th annual user conference to 350 customers at the Doral Golf & Spa in Miami, FL on March 5th, 2012. Clarabridge, a sentiment and text analytics software provider helps companies discern insight from the...
Forrester fields hundreds of client inquiries each year on the topic of social business and collaboration. And the trend doesn't appear to be slowing. Often the first question is, "How far behind are we?" Well here's the data. You judge for yourse...
Speaking at a bunch of events this year. Here’s my calendar as it stands right now. And of course, I’ll be doing something at SAPPHIRE NOW / ASUG Annual Conference 2012. There’s a few more in the works and I’ll update as they firm up. So looking f...
Earlier today I released an analysis note for my customers based on the recent announcement from Moxie Software that it has consolidated their internal collaboration and customer service solutions into one. The following were the key points: Moxie...
Edit: There are too many inaccuracies in what’s below. While the general ideas are correct, I need to go back to the well and get greater clarity on specifics. My client DataStax is announcing DataStax Enterprise 2.0. The big point of the release ...
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On March 14th, Yammer introduced an analytics dashboard to track internal activity across people, groups, files, and pages. In Aberdeen’s Social Business research, we have seen that Best-in-Class collaborators were 78% more likely to be able to me...
