Enterprise apps reborn in the cloud

enterprise-cloud-apps-carousel Phil Wainewright | On May 31, 2013 Mention the word ‘cloud’ and people who work in IT instantly start getting excited about hypervisors, devops, network virtualization and other arcane technologies. Business people know better. They realize that cloud is important not for what’s under the covers, but because […]

Who Should “Own” Integration?

Who Should “Own” Integration?

Friday Nov 22nd 2013 by Loraine Lawson Should IT own integration work? Or should it empower citizen developers to deal with today’s never-ending data integration needs? Slide Show Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed If anything should belong to IT, you would think it would be something as […]

A Primer on Federated Communications

A Primer on Federated Communications Tight integration and federated user identities across IT and communications are key to building powerful solutions that help users be more productive and efficient. Tight integration and federated user identities across IT and communications are key to building powerful solutions that help users be […]

Avaya cozies up to developers

Avaya cozies up to developers

Avaya is making it easier to drop its unified communications capabilities into business applications, removing a layer of complexity that may be holding developers back from writing communications-enabled apps for businesses. The company is announcing Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which is made up of both a set of developer […]

Social Networking: Set Internal Collaboration Goals Early

Social Networking: Set Internal Collaboration Goals Early

While Facebook, Twitter, and other public social networks still generate more buzz, more and more organizations are starting to leverage social media for internal collaboration. An analogy might explain it best: Internal social networks are to […]

No matter what your organization’s goals for internal social networking (and, not for nothing, articulating clear, measurable goals is key to a successful social deployment), the chief criteria for social networking technology should be the ease with which a platform can be used and its ability to integrate with other core enterprise software investments, said Koplowitz.

“It’s all about driving adoption and defining business value at this point,” said Koplowitz. “Organizations need to not focus on technology. That’s getting the cart in front of the horse. Driving adoption and business value will be difficult, time consuming, and ultimately worth the investment and effort.”

Social networks and business applications integration : what the hell are vendors doing ?

In short : social network and business applications are the two complementary sides of anyone’s work and the tools that support each one should break down the artificial wall that separates them. Vendors are working on it but some approaches of social/business integration show a real misunderstanding of what […]

“By 2020, we won’t be talking about social applications because all applications have to be social,” (Michael Fauscette)