The enterprise social network segment of the collaboration market is now a mature one. There is a generally accepted basket of functions that define the products in this space such as activity feeds, content sharing, profiles, and various communications capabilities...
On October 28, 2015, IBM announced that it is acquiring the digital assets of The Weather Company. The digital assets are everything but the cable TV channel, The Weather Channel. This signals IBM’s continued movement toward becoming a data merchant that can...
I had the privilege to attend the IBM Watson Analytics “Analytics for All: Empowering Everyone to Know ” event on October 14th. I like these events better than the massive conferences. They are more intimate and allow for more meaningful conversations....
Twenty-five years ago, I suggested to my dear mentor in life and business that before too long, we will be paperless in the office. His response in his usual tactic full way, “we will have a paperless office, when we have a paperless toilet.” For a quarter of a...
Once again, I didn’t go to Dreamforce. It is just too hard. They had over 150,000 registered attendees this year which means getting a hotel room is either expensive or impossible. Everything is difficult when you have a convention that size in any city. While not...
