Enterprise Social Media, And Why We Just Don’t Get It

Posted by admin on May 16, 2013 No comments

Enterprise social media is currently one of the most hyped technologies in business, which has led to a wide range of companies and organisations jumping on the bandwagon but also to a lot of denial of the disruption it brings to the enterprise. Today I want to take away the hype and seriously look at where the true value of enterprise social media lies, and why it is disruptive in ways that many organisations haven’t really understood yet.

Social media – never mind the enterprise flavour – is actually widely miscommunicated, even by its biggest proponents: social media, just like …

What the Boston Bombings Taught Us About (Mobile) Technology

Posted by admin on May 8, 2013 No comments

Following the recent tragedy in Boston, the response widely came to be seen as a test of new technologies and ways of working in action, in particular with Reddit’s attempt to use crowdsourcing to find the perpetrators. While very high-profile, this was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of how mobile technology was used, so now a few weeks on, what have we learned?

Reddit Crowdsourcing

The most widely talked-about technological development was the attempt to crowdsource identification of the perpetrators.

The concept behind this is that by collecting images from sources including mobiles and security cameras, …

Welcome to the Future of Mobile Search – With Siri, Yahoo and Summly?

Posted by admin on April 15, 2013 No comments

Now the dust is settling from Yahoo’s recent purchase of the news aggregator app Summly, the real picture is becoming clear: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is making a big play on the future of search, and it looks very different to Google. In fact, it seems to be based on the next wave of natural language processing from SRI, the creators of Apple’s SIRI.

Let’s be clear about a few things: Marissa Mayer knows a lot about search, having previously been Google’s VP of Search Products and User Experience before becoming VP of Local , Maps and Location Services. …

The State of Mobile

Posted by admin on April 5, 2013 No comments

The release of the latest quarter’s mobile OS market share numbers got me wondering about where the mobile industry is right now and what we can expect. Are we seeing one platform becoming dominant or is the future fragmented?

The raw numbers aren’t all that helpful: moderate growth from a high starting point for Android, and a small slide from a similar point for Apple. While Blackberry sales are very low and Windows sales up, the starting points for these are low and their sales are skewed by their current product lifecycles. The news however, points to a very clear …

Is Samsung deliberately hindering Windows Phone 8 to win with Tizen?

Posted by admin on March 26, 2013 No comments

Following slow adoption of Samsung’s Windows Phone 8 devices and the recent news that the Korean giant will launch a phone using its Tizen OS later this year, it appears that Samsung may be deliberately slowing Windows Phone 8 adoption. That’s certainly the view of Jeff Johnston, analyst at Detwiler Fenton, who sees Samsung’s lack of action to boost WP8 sales as evidence of a strategy to consume Microsoft’s resources while Tizen is readied for launch.

Tizen phone

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While Johnston’s assessment is controversial, Samsung’s roadmap for WP8 devices is small and unexciting, especially compared to its often innovative …

The next wave of computing brought to you by HP…… no really

Posted by admin on March 21, 2013 No comments

Working, as I do, in the world of enterprise software and mobility I have gotten very used to writing about innovation and the next big thing that will shake the tree. In that respect I can safely say it’s been quite a long time since I mentioned the company HP but yesterday, as news from their shareholders meeting started to trickle out, I have to say I realised that something groundbreaking may be coming our way from HP and sooner rather than later. Here I wanted to run through what this may be and how it could cause the …

The Salesforce show comes to town

Posted by admin on March 14, 2013 No comments

Ok so they have changed the name to the Salesforce Customer Company Tour but Cloudforce is coming to London once more and of course Magic Software UK were one of the first exhibitors to sign up. Fresh from our recent joint presentations with Salesforce at CeBIT in Germany we are keen to share with the UK market all that we have learned in our very many years of working within the Salesforce eco system.

If you would like to join us to learn how to quickly and cost effectively integrate  Salesforce with a wide range of IT business applications such …

BlackBerry 10 was it worth the wait??

Posted by admin on February 22, 2013 No comments

If one believes the hype around the new Blackberry 10, this is going to be the device that either makes or breaks the company formerly known as Research In Motion.  After a poor 2012, the company’s hopes have been pinned on this new OS but it now seems that sales figures are not living up to expectations.  While Canaccord Gennity slashed their sales estimates from 1.75 million units to 300k, the tech site N4BB claim that the first BB10 handsets have sold out around the world.  So will BB10 get BlackBerry back to the top, or is it fighting …

Are rumours of the demise of the high street greatly exaggerated?

Posted by admin on February 12, 2013 No comments

If one believes everything one sees in the news the world as we know it, from the family unit to the very papers the stories are written in, is changing beyond recognition. Rumours of demise this month seem to be focusing on the high street and the humble shop. The demise of HMV, a well known well established “household” name in the UK, has set tongues wagging about who is next and what the future of the high street might hold. The causes of the decline in this case are many and complex but what does the future hold …

JD Edwards and SharePoint Integration it is possible and easy!

Posted by admin on February 6, 2013 No comments

Most IT environments are heterogeneous. OK so there may be the odd IT department which is wall to wall IBM or Oracle but take a closer look and you will usually find a number of applications from a number of vendors. The cause of this heterogeneity may that the company adopted the best of breed for the job at hand, it may be because the enterprise has grown by acquisition or it may have just happened as organic growth with Sales acquiring a CRM they liked that was then handed over to IT. Whatever the reason the vast majority of us exists in …

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