Archive for the ‘Enterprise Collaboration’ Category
Microsoft Office 2010 vs. Google Docs conversations aren’t just happening in the break room. Microsoft and Google themselves have taken some careful shots at one another over the last few months – the most explicit of which include Google’s claim that Google Docs makes Office 2003 and 2007 better (don’t adopt Office 2010) and Microsoft’s [...]
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Tags: Business Value, Efficiency, Enterprise Collaboration, Enterprise Platforming, Google Apps, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Office 2010, Process Management, SharePoint 2010
SharePoint ROI: It’s Up to You.
ROIs matter most in high-effort, high-impact business decisions. Today, we put SharePoint ROI to the test. Typically, the ROI from SharePoint depends on how it’s used. As Robert McDowell said in his book In Search of Business Value: “Technology provides no benefits of its own; it is the application of technology to business opportunities that [...]
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Tags: BPM, Enterprise Collaboration, Process Management, Project Management, SaaS, SharePoint
Richard Veryard’s thought-provoking powerpoint “Technologies for Organizational Intelligence” claims that intelligent organizations: recognize that business opportunities are complex respond to them coherently pay attention to weak and strong signs of inefficiencies for the purpose of collective learning and innovation Veryard stresses later that intelligence is vital to a business’ survival. That idea should not sound [...]
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Tags: Business Intelligence, Business Process, Business Value, Operations Improvements, Process, Process Management
In a business world clouded with buzzwords, it’s easy to lose track of the actual meanings of terms relevant to the IT industry. Take cloud computing, for example – one of the tech industry’s biggest buzzwords at present. A number of software vendors have been using the phrase “cloud computing” to market their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) [...]
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Tags: Cloud Computing, IT, SaaS, Service Management
As we’ve noted in previous posts, BPM enables businesses to map, analyze, and test business processes in order to make them more predictable, repeatable, and efficient. An enterprise can assume they’ll accomplish those goals by leveraging BPM software from EMC, Lombardi, or Savvion…but with Microsoft SharePoint? Isn’t that for enterprise collaboration and document management? A [...]
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Tags: Business Process, Business Value, Efficiency, Enterprise Collaboration, Predicatability, Process, process automation, Process LifeCycle Management, Process Management, SharePoint
