Protected: Is SharePoint the End All Content Management Solution?
December 5, 2011
Amazon, Apple, and Google: The American Automobile Industry Approach to Innovation
December 3, 2011
I have been amused by two things:
First, Amazon watched and implemented Google ideas with remarkable consistency. Now maybe it was chance or the old college dorm discussion about simultaneous insights as a result of zeitgeist and beer. Regardless of the cause, Google described the cloud as a computer and Amazon implemented it. Google was in the game, but Amazon’s remarkable sense of timing meant that Google arrived in a niche plastered with Amazon’s arrow logos.
A sign of decay in innovation? Image credit: http://detroitfilms.com/blog/news/proposals-to-draw-more-filmmaking-to-michigan/
Second, Google fell into a pattern of reacting, not innovating, particularly in high value services. Forget the cloud stuff, Google was a late entrant to shopping, online payments, and street view search. Why these examples? Amazon arrived first.
I read “Google Wants to Create an Amazon Prime for the Entire Internet.” The main idea is that Google wants to pull an iPhone; that is, implement another company’s idea with a few wrinkles to demonstrate “real” innovation. You may be aware of my sensitivity to “real” consultants, “real” experts, and “real” innovation.
Here’s the key passage in my opinion:
Google is teaming with online retailers to cook up a standardized way to ship things to customers super fast (for a fee, of course). Sound familiar? Yeah, Google’s going after Amazon Prime. The WSJ’s sources say that Google has started this ‘Amazon Prime for other retailers’ initiative because people have began searching for products directly on Amazon rather than Google. And Google needs to protect its corners! The current rumored plan is to use Google’s existing product search in Google Shopping and combine it with a behind-the-scenes system that’ll figure out what stores have what in stock and how fast customers can get it.
Several observations:
First, I find it interesting that in the spirit of competition, a small number of companies are competing by rolling out me too products. In my view, I would like to see a bit more effort put into a service. A couple of wrinkles alters the suit in a superficial manner, but how about something fresh, interesting, and useful?
Protected: Are Enterprise CMS Suites Going Extinct?
December 2, 2011
A Tough Nut: Engineering Management Now Multi-Faceted and Multi-Tasked
December 1, 2011
If you are an engineer you probably are well acquainted with Cadac Organice – the engineering document management solution based on SharePoint. This software has been one of the leading engineering management systems for quite some time, but Inforbix is looking to improve on areas where Cadac Organice falls short.
Cadac Organice controls project documents such as emails, Office documents and CAD drawings. It also “automates document control and tracking using transmittals and workflows.” (see: http://www.cadac.com/organice/Pages/default.aspx). This is all great, but the computer-aided drawings still need to be searchable and linked to supporting documents such as vendors, quality control data, email and other important information. This is where Inforbix excels. Inforbix offers a system which performs this federating operation which makes all the information available and seamless.
The name of the game is better organization which leads to increased productivity. Those words are music to CEO’s ears and Inforbix is doing just that. They are surging ahead of the competition by accessing and tracking related CAD documents from multiple PDM systems within the company (see: Inforbix Solutions). Check them out because they are offering an engineering document management system for the next generation.
Jennifer Wensink, December 1, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Defining SharePoint Roles and Playing with Kittens: Good Ideas
December 1, 2011
The State of the Library Debated
December 1, 2011
Joho the Blog recently reported on a meeting regarding the history and future of libraries in the November 22 post “Physical Libraries in a Digital World” by using the Harvard Library as a case study.
According to the article, As more and more books accumulated at Harvard there became a need to find other places to store them. One, initially unpopular, option became to store unused books in an off site repository known as the Harvard Depository (HD).
The article states:
“Now more than 40% of the physical collections are at HD. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences started out hostile to the idea, but soon became converted. The notion faculty had of browsing the shelves was based on a fantasy: Harvard had never had all the books on a subject on a shelf in a single facility… Shelf browsing is a waste of time if you’re trying to do thorough research. It’s a little better in the smaller libraries, but the future is not in shelf browsing. Open and closed stacks isn’t the question any more. It’s just not possible any longer to do shelf browsing, unless we develop tools for browsing in a non-physical fashion.”
The task force predicted that within 40 years over 70% of physical books would be off site. Several of the people in the meeting suggested moving the majority of the physical books to be accessed digitally as a way to save money.
As unfortunate as it may be to lose the books that have been salvaged for up to 500 years, we also need to come to terms with the fact that libraries are no longer being used the way they have in the past so why take the extra time and money to salvage them?
Jasmine Ashton December 1, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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November 30, 2011
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November 29, 2011
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November 28, 2011
Inteltrax: Top Stories, November 21 to November 25
November 28, 2011
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, the highs and lows of recent analytics news.
On the high side, was our story “Speech Analytics Market Approaches Billions” that chronicled the success of applying unstructured big data analytic techniques to recorded speech, such as in call centers.
On the low side, we found “Mobile BI Takes a Surprising Misstep” explores how the once bustling mobile BI market recently took a hit.
And somewhere in the middle, we found “In-Memory Databases Cause a Stir” attempted to draw the line between traditionalist and futurists of analytics.
It’s a wild ride every week in the world of big data analytics. Sure things go bust, underdogs appear from nowhere and divisions are drawn. Stay tuned to see where it all leads.
Follow the Inteltrax news stream by visiting www.inteltrax.com
Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
November 28, 2011
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