The freemium model, that is everyday more popular on the web, is now entering the world of enterprise software. What is it about ? Allowing people to use a software for free, with basic functiunalities that are enough for a minimal use, while proposing a premium version, richer, paying, and try to make most users [...]
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Freemium and enterprise software : frustrate the right person !
February 26th, 2010 · View Comments · IT
Tags: busness model·enterprise software·marketing·premium·software
What’s new at Lotus ? Coherence, openness and value
February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
I rencently had the chance to attend Lotusphere in order to gauge the feeling of what what happening at IBM/Lotus. I took some time to write this post because I was not sure of the point of view I had to take.
It was obvious that “I saw tools doing this and this” was not relevant. [...]
Tags: adoption·collaboration·collaboration agenda·enterprise-social-software·IBM·integration·Lotus·Lotus connections·lotusphere·ls10·project vulcain·valeur
The factory, the beach and the Bermuda Triangle. Or the challenges of integration
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, social computing
In the comments following this great piece by Hutch Carpenter about 2010 trends, someone relevantly drawn our attention on the importance of integration. I agree and would like to sum up some ideas about all the integration challenges which are much wider than we can usually think.
Notice : when talking about integration we usually think [...]
Tags: activity-specific social software·alignment·behaviors·collaboration·Communication·enterprise-social-software·governance·hosting·IT·saas·sense·social sofwtare·social-software
Hey ! I’m your ERP and I’m talking to you !
January 19th, 2010 · View Comments · IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing
I’d like to share some thoughts about what our work environment may look like in a close future if what I think being two main trends manage to reach maturity.
The first is “ambient awareness”. a word I find more relevant than microblogging which is only its embodying in terms of toosls. That’s the ability to [...]
Tags: activity-specific social software·ambient awareness·crm·enterprise 2.0·erp·information·microblogging·problem solving·real time·real time web·search
Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?
January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a too low workload means resources are wasted. I don’t even mention last minute assignments to face imponderables. In brief, bad adjustments have an heavy price.
In a manufacturing economy things are more [...]
Tags: email·enterprise social networks·human reources·indicators·information overload·management·marketplaces·productivity·quality·real time·social networks·workload
What future for enterprise social networks ?
December 18th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Social networks are often the key part of every “2.0″ internal projects ? Why ? Because when the purspose is not to find people or informations anymore but to link people through information and information through people, that’s the essential link between tacit and informal knowledge, those who have it and those who need it.
Social [...]
Tags: directories·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·enterprise-social-software·profiles·social computing·social media·Social Networking·social networks·social sofwtare
Why haven’t I use this app earlier ?
November 27th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, social computing
A few weeks ago I was in a meeting, taking notes. A glance at a colleague’s screen aroused my curiosity and I asked her : “what’s the application you’re using ?”. Then she showed me this wonderful app she just discovered weeks ago. As for me, I only had to blame myself : it’s not [...]
Tags: application·enterprise 2.0·evernote·experimentation·pilot·routine
From Google Wave to Social Networks : the social napoleon
November 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
For a long time, and because many thought they could import the social web’s behaviors in the enterprise as is, the projects aiming at bringing the social dimension within employee’s work tried to structure the enterprise the way the web was. That means people will looking for “communities” that were supposed to fill “social spaces”, [...]
Tags: blogs·collaboration·Communities·enterprise 2.0·google·google wave·social networks
Enterprise 2.0 case studies says “it’s possible”…and nothing more
November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
As usual, when a hange that’s both organizational and technological happens, everyone is looking for case studies to be convinced. But as the first solid cases come about social media, it looks like doubt remains, that cases are not close enough to people’s concerns to convince them. How many times can we hear “they don’t [...]
Tags: adoption·case studies·culture·enterprise 2.0·implementation·social media·social-software
IT interests : good news but too much compartmentalization
October 30th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing
I recently came across this this chart about what IT departments are currently thinking about. What inspires me some thoughts.
First point, as mentioned in the post where I found this document, there’s nothing really new. Many of these issues have been discussed for years, some are more recent but even when names change, the topics [...]
Tags: BI·blogs·bpm·business intelligence·cloud computing·IT·social networks
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