Social Media App Review: Biz360

Over the last 6 months I have evaluated a lot of applications for Social Media Monitoring, Contribution and Measurement (M-C-M) on behalf of clients. Starting with this blog post on Biz360, I will be publishing the results of these evaluations each month. Each evaluation covers the functionality in the application at the time of the review and uses a standard set of criteria to enable “apples-to-apples”...

Wow – what a shift in SaaS/Cloud adoption

When starting Celarix in 1998, the term ”SaaS” hadn’t been coined yet and we called ourselves an “ASP” or application service provider. But like the old saying goes, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Celarix was a SaaS provider through and through and one of the very first enterprise SaaS providers in the the Logistics / SCM...

Google Wave – The Opportunities Are Tremendous

I just previewed Google Wave and the opportunities for extension & integration are tremendous. I am excited to see the apps from B2C developers (Lonely Planet already has a cool tool) while B2B SW companies have an awesome new platform / capability to integrate and extend their functionality (and value props) with. Starting out, SAP and Salesforce.com have developed two elegant apps for BPM and Customer...

Cloud Computing is THE SaaS killer…with a little help from some friends.

Did the title make you go “HUH”? Let me explain. First a couple of definitions: SaaS or Software as a Services [from Wikipedia] – “is a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand.” Key characteristics:  network-based access to, and management of, commercially available software activities managed from...

Inspired By Excellence

In my last post I mentioned Kiva and Mint, two organizations that I have recently chanced upon and have been impressed by. Let me add another one called Project Jing - it is a screen capture software product by the makers of Camtasia. Basically it adds a “small sunburst circle” to the top of your screen that you can click on when you want to take a picture or record something on your screen. When you are...