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Roman Stanek

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Twitter’s latest iteration of its site is great, but  it’s abundantly clear that the newly dumbed down design is aimed exclusively at the consumer.  But what about the enterprise?  Does the new Twitter design mean that ultimately, there will be a second conception of the beloved social networking tool, an enterprise edition? Now, keep in mind, in this context “enterprise edition” does not mean a Twitter app built in ABAP that would require the user to navigate eleven screens in order to Tweet.  That would be the SAP version.  (They could call it “Sapper”, as in sapping the users’ energy and patience.) No, an enterprise edition as it relates to Twitter would include the following, while maintaining its user-friendliness: Corporate policies and policy management.  Unlike regular Twitter, it wouldn’t do to have employees lobbing grenades at one another. Comprehensive ... (more)

Forecast Bleak for Bad UIs

The days of developing enterprise applications wherein the User Interface is an afterthought are rapidly coming to an end, and enterprise software companies had better adjust. Steve Jobs and Apple started the shift, and while Apple’s products were oriented toward the consumer, the business world is now driving the need for user friendly applications. (Open your eyes and you’ll see quite a few Vice Presidents of major corporations showing up for meetings with iPads, not PCs. ) Meanwhile, business users, for the most part, remain resigned (or sentenced) to the tedium of navigating... (more)

Only Google…

No other major SaaS company in the world could get away with this approach to paying customers. Not only Google offers no user-friendly tools to add shared contact to the paid version of Google Apps. They offer no tools. Period. Here is the only information available to email administrators: Administrative management of non-employee contacts now available Premier Edition administrators can now add contacts that aren’t employees of their own company to the contact list that each user can access in the new standalone contact manager. First, create an XML representation of the shared ... (more)

Can Cloud IP Address Be Damaged Goods?

Elasticity of the cloud computing is a wonderful idea. You can get an instance of networked computer exactly when you need it and you only pay for the time when you actually use it. But while the virtual memory and hard disk is a “clean slate” created specifically for you, the IP address assigned to your instance may have been previously used by a spammer and it could be already on a “spam blacklist”. In an extreme case the whole IP address range can be marked as a source of spam. And this is exactly what happened to Amazon’s EC2: “Go Daddy blocks links to EC2 “. The problem is ... (more)

Looking for SOA in All the Wrong Places?

Systinet’s founding CTO and my friend Anne Thomas Manes pronounced the demise of SOA a few weeks ago. Honestly, SOA lost its meaning for me on the day when good, old Solaris became the “SOA operating system”. But is SOA dead or not? I don’t believe so but I think that Anne and others are looking for SOA in the wrong places. Here is why: Part of our Systinet SOA pitch was this truism: “SOA is not something you can buy”. We believed that SOA didn’t come in a box and companies have to invest time and money to build it. And maybe this is the crux of the problem. What if the act of b... (more)