Yesterday I was briefed by Salesforce.com on their latest SaaS-based product in the collaboration space, Do.com. A result of their acquisition of Manymoon back in February, Do.com is a social project collaboration tool for small groups of up to 15 people, providing features such as task management, notes and discussions. Do.com is still currently in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Angela AshendenYesterday saw the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, and the replacement for its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The product, which has been in public beta since April (and in private beta since November), includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Web Apps, as well [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Angela AshendenMicrosoft and HP recently firmed up their commitment to the data warehouse and BI space by announcing a portfolio of appliances that pull together the infrastructure of HP with the information management and BI tools of Microsoft. At first glance this announcement might seem like Microsoft and HP are playing catch-up with others in the [...]
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkThis is the fourth in our Software Delivery InFocus series of podcast episodes, starring Bola Rotibi – the Principal Analyst of MWD’s Software Delivery competency area. In this episode, she discusses the thorny issue of software quality. This is something the IT industry has talked about for decades – so why is it still so [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Over the last few months I have heard and read commentary after commentary about how to weather out the recession. Whilst there is no silver bullet, there are plenty of good tips to follow that, valuable during good times, are essential in the bad. The global financial meltdown means that IT vendors are facing the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 by adminUncategorized
There were always going to be high expectations for Microsoft’s 2008 Professional Developer Conference (PDC). This was the first PDC without Bill Gates at the helm, and let’s also not forget that the PDC event scheduled for 2007 was unceremoniously cancelled at the last minute – fuelling speculation that Microsoft’s product roadmap was in the [...]
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by adminAlmost 12 months to the day after Microsoft launched its realtime messaging, presence and conferencing server, Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), the company today announced the follow-up release of the product, referred to as “R2″. Currently in private beta testing (and due for public release in February 2009) , OCS R2 enhancements focus largely on [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Tony Baer’s one of the analysts who’s picked up on Microsoft’s recent announcement that it’s joining the OMG and backing UML and BPMN. His post is pretty interesting and outlines some of the relevant history – particularly relating to DSLs and the OMG’s UML. But I’d like to add to that, and talk a bit [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 13, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) – a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being submitted to the open standards consortium OASIS yesterday, will create a common interface for accessing content stored in compliant repositories, simplifying the process of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 by adminCisco 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
