So ubiquitous has email become that many people cannot imagine working without it. Indeed, it has become such an integral part of everyday corporate life that it has now become widely regarded as business-critical (witness the increasing use of Blackberries and similar devices by those who simply cannot bear to be out of email contact). …
Category: Internet
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Feb 14 2006
What makes on-demand better?
Phil Wainewright’s latest post outlines six characteristics of on-demand applications that make them superior to conventional packaged software: Ready to run Pay as you go Short learning curve Codeless customisation Loosely coupled integration Constant monitoring and feedback
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Feb 08 2006
Collaboration consolidation in US: Autodesk to acquire Constructware
At this morning’s NCCTP marketing meeting, Nathan Doughty (Asite/Free Collaboration) and I talked about today’s news regarding Autodesk’s $46m acquisition of US on-demand extranet provider Constructware (see news release; something also picked up by AEC bloggers Ralph Grabowski and Randall Newton). Since the merger-mania of the post-dot.com bust era, this is perhaps the first major …
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Feb 07 2006
Fon
The BBC reports Global wi-fi plan gets $22m boost, describing investment in a three-month-old Spanish – Fon – start-up aiming to build a network of broadband users to share connections wirelessly when away from home. The article talks of ‘Foneros’, ‘Linuses’, ‘Bills’ and ‘Aliens’ in explaining the founder’s vision: "a truly broadband wireless internet everywhere". …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/02/fon/
Feb 06 2006
SAP: “a load of old SoSaaS”
"A load of old SoSaaS" is how Phil Wainewright describes SAP’s latest offering in the CRM sphere. The fundamental flaw is that SAP does not fully embrace the on-demand model at all; instead it sees the on-demand model as a way to get people to try out SAP’s application at a small-scale and then migrate …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/02/sap_a_load_of_o/
Feb 02 2006
Another salesforce.com outage
The ‘blogosphere’ has been blasting salesforce.com, which suffered another service outage earlier this week (read, for example, Salesforce.com Customers Grouse About Outages, Salesforce.com Crashes Again and Almost the last word on salesforce.com’s outage). There has been much talk about service level agreements (SLAs) – which salesforce.com doesnt’ offer while several of its competitors (eg: Netsuite, …
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Feb 01 2006
Search engines challenged on ‘theft’
It seems some newspaper and magazine publishers are getting annoyed at internet search engines and news aggregators for "unfairly exploiting their content", according to this Financial Times article – which I found thanks to Newsgator. In this instance, therefore, far from exploiting the FT‘s content, Newsgator has enabled me to view an FT article (and …
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Jan 25 2006
Kids today
Peter Cochrane’s blog at Silicon.com often delivers some interesting insights. I liked his latest piece – Kids today – in which he describes how new generations of IT users have little or no understanding of older technologies (he gives an example of a wi-fi-savvy eight-year-old with no experience of connecting to a network). I reckon …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/peter_cochranes/
Jan 23 2006
Interest in home working schemes rockets
While some managers may be reluctant to let their staff work from home, the number of companies offering Home Computing Initiatives (HCI) schemes to employees has more than tripled in the past year (says a Silicon.com article). More than 1,250 organisations have implemented schemes, up from 380 at the same time last year, with increasing …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/interest_in_hom/
Jan 19 2006
Wi-fi use not widespread
OK, so I’m in the minority…. A BBC news item, Wi-fi slow to enthuse consumers, says only a handful of people use a laptop to go online when they are away from home: "Just 11% used laptops in hotels, 7% on trains and 3% in coffee shops…. 15% thought there were not enough wireless locations …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/wifi_use_not_wi/
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