Microsoft said Tuesday that it will offer $1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), a big player in the enterprise search market.
The move is sure to shake up the enterprise search market, which thus far has been dominated by a series of smaller players like FAST, Autonomy and Vivisimo. Google has made […]
Customer relationship management software, particularly from Salesforce.com, has come the closest to being an “anywhere application,” but other enterprise tools still need work, according to a report by the Yankee Group.
Even though anywhere enterprise applications need work, technology managers need to prepare for them even though most executives don’t deem this software “absolutely critical” for […]
Dion Hinchcliffe offers 12 predictions for enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008, citing the following as a foundation for reshaping corporate IT:
The driving forces for change this year will be the aging of existing IT systems, the rise of up-and-coming new approaches such as highly capable new Web-based applications, mashups, collective intelligence powered business software, Web-oriented […]
One of the big takeaways from IBM’s powwow over collaboration tools was that Web 2.0 technology is easing its way into the enterprise.
First, companies like IBM and Cisco will adopt mashups that combine enterprise applications with external applications. Then CIOs will slowly adopt Web 2.0 approaches. These executives will experiment from the inside out. First, […]
This is our last Dan & David Show for 2007, and we look back at some of the major stories and trends of the year. We discuss the impact of the iPhone, cloud-based applications, social networking, software-as-a-service, green IT, industry consolidation and Web 2.0.
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Guest post: Fresh from a sojourn to UK where he grew up, Chris Matyszczyk considers the latest trend in London home buying–speed-dating via Facebook to find co-buyers for real estate purchases.
When I think of England, I think of poverty.
Poverty of weather, poverty of emotional expression (save for humor and violence) and, now it seems, poverty […]
Our engineering team put ZDNet blogs through a cloud tag blender to render a weighted list of top topics for 2008. In an age when the consumer and enterprise worlds are colliding (but no exploding), Google, iPhone, Apple and Microsoft captured the big buzz of the year in our blogs. It was also a year […]
IBM demoed its enterprise 2.0 experiments Tuesday including its On Demand Workplace–an application that’s part intranet, part Facebook and part Web service that becomes an interface to legacy systems.
IBM executives held court with a handful of bloggers, writers and analysts at its New York offices. The presentations, currently underway, are led by CIO Mark Hennessy […]
Amazon has announced the limited beta of its SimpleDB, a database Web service designed to ride shotgun with Amazon’s S3 storage service and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Amazon’s Simple DB provides real-time lookup and querying of structured data, which will presumably be stored on the S3 service. According to Amazon customers will save money because they […]
Google has launched a tool called Knol, which is a service that aggregates knowledge from individuals.
Google says:
The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily […]
Adobe on Thursday said it will open source a data access technology called BlazeDS. The goal: Speed up the adoption of enterprise rich Internet applications.
BlazeDS connects data, which can be housed in the enterprise or pushed out, to Adobe Flex and AIR applications. Adobe says the data access technologies were previously available as part of […]
Email attachments are becoming increasingly passe and that may open some security concerns.
Today, I gave the just launched Zoho Viewer a spin and liked it overall. I also happened to put it through a stress test uploading a 123 page CIA security assessment for the year 2020 (yes I have these things on my hard […]