Auch auf einer hessischen Mittelstandscomputermesse darf der Social Workplace, die digitale Arbeitsumgebung der Zukunft, nicht fehlen. Ein Ortstermin mit Daniel Kraft und Kai Fitzner. Die Globalisierung hat zur diesjährigen Fibit auch Fulda im Würgegriff – zumindest klimatisch. Bei 38 ° Celsius und einer gefühlten Luftfeuchtigkeit von über 100 % wäre ich nicht überrascht, wenn bunte Zierfische in Augenhöhe an mir vorbeischwimmen würden, während wir die Straße überqueren, um uns in das – hoffentlich – kl...

Source: www.netmedia.de Posted by netmedianer 252 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes ago

I’ve spent most of my career working with IT people making IT decisions on behalf of people who use technology for work. What I love about IT people is their utter devotion to the idea that technology can profoundly change how people work.

To improve their productivity, to remove barriers to collaboration, to spark groundswell innovation, and more. Just the other day, I spoke to one named Fred who said to me: “We’re introducing new technologies to change the culture of our organization.”

What a courageous and inspirational idea coming from an IT leader. We’ll just assume he meant to add “…for the better.”

Source: blogs.forrester.com Posted by bee 416 days, 4 hours, 54 minutes ago

In the fall of 1996 I was one half of the two-man technical team behind macromedia.com. My colleague Eric Thompson kept the servers humming and I was the token programmer.

I spent my days and nights in Perl, Javascript (brand-new at the time), and Lingo (the language of Macromedia Director), with an occasional foray into C for Netscape web server plugin development. The site was one of the web's busiest then due to the popularity of Shockwave, the Director browser plugin that predated Flash. It seems strange in retrospect that such a busy site would have such a skeleton crew, but we didn't know that then. The web was still in its infancy, and no one really knew what they were doing, least of all me.

Source: sutrosoftware.com Posted by support 482 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes ago

Governments around the world are struggling to manage the dual challenges of maintaining IT security while also enabling their staff to do their jobs in a digital world.

The Australian government has endorsed social media engagement by staff in its Open Government Declaration, stating that;

Agencies are to reduce barriers to online engagement, undertake social networking, crowd sourcing and online collaboration projects and support online engagement by employees, in accordance with the Australian Public Service Commission Guidelines.

Meeting this remains a challenge in many agencies. It takes time to assess services, mitigate risks, adjust processes and policies and train staff.

Source: egovau.blogspot.com Posted by admin 542 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes ago

Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche Players quadrants thinned out.

IBM, Jive and Microsoft remained the "Leaders" and Atlassian and OpenText remained the "Challengers." S

everal vendors dropped off the list completely.

XWiki, a "Niche Player," was the only completely new vendor to make the cut.

Source: www.readwriteweb.com Posted by support 569 days, 5 hours, 37 minutes ago

When I was a pup in the enterprise technology industry, I noticed that some of the best solutions came from smaller vendors. Upon hearing this, my elders would pull me aside and say, "sure, but how much longer will that vendor be around?"

That's a hard argument to counter, because of course everyone harbors fears about their vendors' viability. Statistically, most small businesses fail. Software vendors are no different, and who wants to get stuck with an unsupported product? In the wake of the dot-com bust, the old canard, "no_ one ever got fired for recommending IBM"_ got replaced with, "at* least we know IBM isn't going away any time soon."*

Source: www.realstorygroup.com Posted by bee 592 days, 5 hours, 42 minutes ago

The Information Governance is a serious business and probably too serious to be left solely in the hands of .......

1) IT Since the early 2000, IT people and teams have lost their supremacy and the exclusivity on information processing and business solutions.

IT people are responsible for the proper operation of systems and solutions agreed upon in the companies. Their role is essential and goes beyond the strictly technical concerns to ensure the highest level of services. The main challenges for IT managers, architects and developers are to constantly bring the most appropriate technology and the safest but also the most agile organization, the best ROI, an acceptable TCO, etc.,

And you want more than they deal with information governance! No, IT teams have first to support the business growth and more globally the company in its transformation.

Source: aiimcommunities.org Posted by bee 599 days, 14 hours, 29 minutes ago

Organisations usually have an idea about what they want when it comes to their online strategy. However, execution within this seemingly easy but typically complicated part of the value chain is not always that straightforward.

Many stakeholders are involved and the ways that systems interlock with processes makes that many decisions need to be made throughout the organisation, taking into account peculiarities of that same organisation, its IT systems, its value systems, its short term and long term goals, etc.

Source: www.crossphase.nl Posted by support 624 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes ago

Do the top developers for Google’s Android operating system use Blackberries? Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs? Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs?

These are purposely ridiculous questions – wouldn’t the best developers use the actual tools they’re responsible for building? Wouldn’t they do their job more effectively if they were actually a user of the product they’re developing? Doesn’t the product have more credibility if the people behind it are believers in the product’s features? Out of everyone, shouldn’t the development team, at least, be the biggest advocates of the very software they’re implementing? Shouldn’t they be the ones drinking the Kool-Aid?

Source: steveradick.com Posted by bee 634 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes ago

This post describes a proposed solution design for providing an intranet collaboration farm capable to scale out to support a publishing portal and extranet collaboration with partners and suppliers.

The design is based on a set of diverese sites types identified in an Information Architecture analysis, and the general planning recommendations for these types. In addition, several non-functional requirements is accounted for in the design, such as farm robustness and availability.

Source: kjellsj.blogspot.com Posted by support 690 days, 17 hours, 27 minutes ago