Collaboration – 3 Steps for selecting the right tools
I often get asked for recommendations for team collaboration tools. The advice I give seems overly simplistic to me, but since I get enough compliments about it, I’ll share it here.
I could expound ad nausea on this topic, but I’ll attempt to be brief and offer 3 key steps in selecting a tool or tools:
There’s a plethora of options, most of which overlap (but few play well together), which unfortunately makes things more complicated.
Objectives
First, determine what problem(s) you’re trying to solve. Do you want to improve communications between […]
10 Reasons Why You Should Not Upgrade To Windows 10
After upgrading to Windows 10, I discovered a bunch of shortcomings…
10. OneDrive placeholders no longer supported. What? How do you now use that 1 TB cloud storage you planned on using as virtual storage for your MS Surface?
9. Search in Windows 10 Start is slower
8. Battery system tray icon no longer lets you switch power plans. It’s now embedded several clicks in the UI.
7. All of a sudden, my monitor overscanning stopped working.
6. If you set OneDrive to not start upon Windows 10 startup, good luck figuring out how to start OneDrive manually (hint: look for OneDrive.exe in Programs)
5. Edge […]
Docker Adoption in the Enterprise
Docker is hot!
Docker was the #2 “best overall open source cloud project” according to a survey by The Linux Foundation and The New Stack in July 2014. Google Trends sheds some light, though, on the relatively new entrance and rapid acceleration of Docker versus OpenStack and “Virtualization”.
Google Trends - March 5, 2015
So, why is Docker so hot?
Software used to have a major delivery drag – it had to be delivered on some physical medium like tape, disk or download and then installed. Since software could only be consumed so quickly, […]
Apple “iWatch”
It’s hard to know with what to be more impressed — the watch, the technology, the design, the demo video, even the product videography that went into the video is amazing. Apple still has it after Jobs — albeit, clearly, this product has been in development for years. What I find myself wondering, is how many things will this disrupt? I cringe for watchmakers (which have taken a beating from smartphones already) and fitness specialty watches. Will this cannibalize, a bit, even smart phone usage? With payment, what will I do with my Coin, […]
Webcast: Docker aPaaS for Enterprise Innovation: Are You Ready?
Here’s a link to the webcast I did on BrightTalk this morning. Docker is hot. APIs are ubiquitous. aPaaS is finally gaining momentum. And Enterprises are facing increasing business challenges and complexity. How can these trends and technologies help? How does RAADD (Rapid API Application Development and Deployment) foster innovation and agility? How does Docker and Containerization really help optimize app workloads? Find out with Samir Ghosh, CEO of WaveMaker, as he gives you the end-to-end view of Docker aPaaS and […]
Social Fills Gap In Business Process Spectrum
Within a business, the collective processes can be viewed as a spectrum. The more repetitive, team-oriented and generic, the more likely there will be a packaged line of business (LOB) application, like CRM, ERP, etc. More proprietary processes, those linked to the business’s competitive advantage, will likely need BPM solutions or custom applications. However, if a proprietary process is not highly repeatable, or does not involve many people, individuals tend to choose the tools used – email, spreadsheets, chat, etc.
[…]