Office Jotter - Blog Archive for February (2007)

There were 10 blog postings during February (2007):

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Skype aims at the corporate market
Telecommunications Online — E-Bay’s Skype Ups Its Game, Goes After Business Market Stephen Heiser — 26 January 2007 Skype, the telecommunications service owned by E-Bay, has announced that it has extended its Skype for Business...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 1st February '07

How to be topp! BI favrit with IT beaks
ComputerWeekly - Business intelligence remains top priority for CIOs Cliff Saran — 31 January 2007 Businesses will spend 1.5bn euros on business intelligence software during 2007, Gartner has predicted. Research by the analyst firm has found...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 1st February '07

US ecommerce continues to grow, but for how long?
eMarketer.com — Is E-Commerce About to Plateau? 5 February 2007 According to comScore Networks, 2006 online retail spending reached a record $102 billion, a 24% increase over 2005. [Snip] However, Patti Freeman Evans, a JupiterResearch...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 7th February '07

Living in the virtual organization
Collaboration Loop — Integrating Virtual Employees into the Fold: Defining the Problem Melanie Turek — 6 February 2007 As someone who recently joined a very large, global organization, I know first hand how difficult it can be to...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 15th February '07

Will the real BI please stand up?
18 February 2007 Like a celebrity whose star is fading, business intelligence (BI) keeps trying to reinvent itself. And, like any human performer, it is unable to change its underlying nature. Looking at the history of this class of software is like...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 18th February '07

Data protection queries and small orgs - Don't Panic!
Outllaw.com — Small companies given data protection guidance 15 February 2007 Small companies should try to answer data protection queries in the normal course of business rather than treat them as formal requests, according to advice...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 20th February '07

Oh, so that's Enterprise 1.0
Enterprise 2.0 2007 - What is Enterprise 2.0? Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 28th February '07

Google Office leaps on to the corporate desktop
ZDNet.co.uk — Google Apps Go Pro Nicholas Carlson — 22 February 2007 Google took its Web-based applications to the big leagues today with Google Apps Premier Edition, a suite of hosted applications targeted at the same enterprise market...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 23rd February '07

The lakes are alive, with the sound of disc drives
Finextra — Credit Suisse to shift Swiss IT jobs offshore - report 26 February 2007 Investment bank Credit Suisse is looking to outsource over half of the 5000 IT jobs at its operations in Switzerland to cheaper offshore centres, according to...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 27th February '07

So what was Enterprise 1.0?
InformationWeek — Most Business Tech Pros Wary About Web 2.0 Tools In Business J. Nicholas Hoover — 24 February 2007 For all the mind-numbing buzz about Web. 2.0, most business collaboration and information sharing remains mired in...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 27th February '07