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Small Business IT Turning to Social for Renovation over Innovation
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: • Like their big business brethren, small businesses are flocking to enterprise social networking solutions as a means of cutting travel costs and improving productivity....
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Microsoft Jumps on the Development Fasttrack with SharePoint, but Risks...
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: The future of software development lies in the cloud, where rapid release cycles and easy upgrades are possible. The present reality for many premises-centric customers,...
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Google Finally Gets Serious with Private Channel for Play Store
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: • Enterprise customers serious about supporting a BYOD policy no longer have to sideload corporate apps in order to support Android devices, now that Google has...
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It’s E-mail, Jim, but Not as We Know It
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Reports foretelling the death of e-mail are greatly exaggerated. Thanks to its ubiquity and compatibility, e-mail communication is poised to outlive the Facebook...
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What Comes After Enterprise Social Networking? Business Networking
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Enterprise social networking is nothing more than a passing fancy, at least in terms of describing the idea of collaboration. For a view into what will follow, we need...
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Putting Software Updates Out of Our Misery
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Thanks to the dominance of the cloud and mobile devices, the collaboration marketplace is beginning to see faster, more transparent software update cycles for desktop...
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When Worlds Collide: Augmented Reality Meets the Enterprise
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Sony and other manufacturers are actively building wearable computers that will supposedly usher in the next step in human-computer interaction....
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SMS Texting About to Go the Way of the Dodo Bird
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Research firm Informa has found that traditional SMS text messaging traffic was eclipsed by chat app traffic for the first time during 2012. Mobile chat apps from...
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Where Does HTML5 Fit into the Mobile User Experience?
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Emerging Web browser standards such as HTML5 promise mobile Web apps the features they and we so richly deserve. But have high powered browsers leveled the playing field...
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Microsoft Isn’t Just Connecting Lync with Skype, it’s Re-humanizing...
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: • Microsoft has begun to pull together its consumer and enterprise communications platforms with direct points of integration for presence, chat and audio. • Such...
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The Event Stream Is Dead; Long Live Employee Engagement
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: If this year’s E2 Conference is any indicator of things to come, the idea of a universal ‘Facebook for the Enterprise’ is dead. Instead, industry leaders from the likes of...
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Do Social Networks Really Understand Relationships?
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Despite a gaggle of tools such as liking, following, and friending, enterprise social networks still struggle to derive meaning from the ever evolving nature of actual,...
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The New Analytics: Do Android Devices Dream of Electric Sheep?
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: We are already living in the midst of some very smart mobile devices which are capable of capturing the physical, situational, operational and even emotional facets of the...
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VMware and Collaboration: What a Long Strange Trip it’s About to Become
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: First VMware pulls back from an early file sharing and sync tool; then it sells its email platform to Telligent. So, what’s left for collaboration at VMware? In a unique...
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Big Data and Predictive Analytics Need More People, Not More Data
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Machine learning, data mining, and advanced analytics coupled with big data seems poised to reshape the way we make business decisions, automating them and making them...
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Mobile Analytics Form a Two-Way Street Between the Past and the Future
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: There are great advantages to disseminating analytics smarts to mobile users such as sales persons. Real innovation, however, comes when you combine that dissemination...
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When Building for Big Data, Remember to Think Small
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: With a continued focus on top down, company-wide all-encompassing projects, big data is in danger of turning into the next service oriented architecture (SOA) – a good...
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Unleashing the Data Scientist Within, Cautiously
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: We’re all becoming data scientists, steeped in the meaning and value of data along with data visualization and discovery. Applying self-service expectations to big data...
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Mixing the Perfect Big Data Elixir for IT Professionals in 2014
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: • How should enterprise IT go about supporting and maybe even driving data and analytics projects in 2014? • Familiarity with the likes of YARN, NoSQL, Python, ETL among...
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Analytics, Analytics Everywhere, but Whither to Take a Drink
Brad Shimmin Summary Bullets: Just as with social networking workflows, technology vendors are actively building analytics into line-of-business applications in an effort to make data not only...
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