For most organisations, email remains the primary tool for enabling online collaboration, to the extent where we use it not just for messaging, but also for group discussions, document collaboration and managing tasks, among other things. However, despite our dependence on email, there is a growing sense that we are spending too much on managing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Angela Ashenden
Since the launch of Google Apps Premium Edition (now called Google Apps for Business) in 2007, Google has been blazing a trail in the SaaS-based enterprise collaboration market focusing on making small, regular software updates, in place of the more traditional 12 month+ release cycles which we are used to with on-premise software. However, for many large organisations, this approach is simply too “realtime”, and doesn’t give them the opportunity they need to manage and prepare for the introduction of such new features, particularly when they are released on a weekly basis…
Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Angela Ashenden
Last week, Google announced that it was killing off Google Wave, the communications and collaboration tool which sparked an explosion of both enthusiasm and skepticism when it first previewed in May last year. The tool, which has remained a trial product in Google Labs during the last 15 months, was designed to break away from [...]
Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
I was (very slowly) getting wound up to splurge an in-depth post on Google’s partnership with VMware around the Google App Engine, but then I read William Vambenepe’s blog: From VMWare + SalesForce.com (VMForce) to VMWare + Google: VMWare’s PaaS milestones. I think he’s done a lot of the work for me… What I will [...]
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Cisco today announced its acquisition (which is expected to close by the end of October) of email and calendaring startup, PostPath, for the princely sum of approximately $215 million. The PostPath offering is Linux-based, and has been designed to drop into a Microsoft network as an alternative to Exchange, with the company claiming to offer [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by admin
Hot on the heels of last week’s acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity. Sxip was early to spot the potential opportunity in providing organisations with a simple, easy-to-deploy single sign-on [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by admin
Google is once again treading on Microsoft toes with the launch of its newest product, Google Sites. The new offering allows users to create and manage their own websites, and is based on the wiki technology the company acquired from JotSpot in October 2006. Google Sites is clearly targeted at the market currently dominated by [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 by admin
…at least when it comes to discussion on the web. Google announced its OpenSocial social networking API project just 5 days ago – and now the company’s own search engine reports over 7,700,000 hits for “OpenSocial”. And it’s still alpha code! A day earlier, Microsoft announced Project Oslo. And despite the announcement being what Gavin [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 by admin
I thought that those of you who aren’t recipients of our monthly newsletter might be interested in this commentary (penned by the other Neil) dissecting some of the problems with the definition (or lack thereof) of software-as-a-service. Over the past few days we’ve been having an interesting debate here at MWD, in conjunction with the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 by admin
