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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Roman Stanek is a technology visionary who has spent the past fifteen years building world-class technology companies. Currently Founder & CEO of Good Data, which provides collaborative analytics on demand, he previously co-founded first NetBeans, now a part of Sun Microsystems and one of the leading Java IDEs, and then and Systinet, now owned by Hewlett-Packard and the leading SOA Governance platform on the market.
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