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SaaS – Can it be everything we need?

Over the past several months I have been working with more products that are moving into the “Cloud”. It appears that there is a strong push toward Software as a Service for almost all aspects the computing world. We have the online CRM packages like Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Zoho (which is actually a whole suite [...]

Business Aspects of Social Networking

There was some very interesting points made in the Social Networking for Business meeting that I attended last week. One of the main items of interest was that Social Networking is in some cases starting to encroach on the search engine as a means of locating a product or service of interest. This means that as [...]

Information Management & Social Networking the Topics of the Week

Attended two conferences this week, both of which had some very interesting content. The first was the AIIM Conference where the main topic was centered around the use of SharePoint for information managment. The second, the Social Networking for Business (SNFB) discussed the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites for getting out the [...]

Are successful projects easily repeatable – Maybe not!

I was reading Donna Fitzgerald’s blog on Gartner today and ran across a posting that made me think of the repeatability of successful projects.

http://blogs.gartner.com/donna_fitzgerald/2009/05/11/the-fourth-great-lie/

In addressing the repeatability of the success of a project based on previously successful projects, there are several factors that come to mind, not the least of which is the depending on the [...]

Linux not for everyone – but maybe for some!

Over the years I have seen many operating systems, development languages, applications, etc. come and go – I have tried many of them – not all – don’t think there is enough time in the world anymore to to that. I have never been a true zealot as many become for the Mac or this or [...]