‘Analysis’ posts

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Website Application Design – Milkshake Usability Part 1

Posted by Optaros on 08 Jul 2008

Usability and milkshakes: Need to sell more widgets? To answer this question the first challenge is to know why your customers want to buy them. Don’t assume you already know. In the book, The Innovator’s Solution, the brilliant team of Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor recount the illuminating story of a | View post »

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2008

Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, both of Forrester Research, have an article in the Spring issue of the MITSloan Management Review titled "Harnessing the Power of Social Applications," which, for now at least, is available in free full text to non-subscribers, as part of an Online Preview. It's a very smart article, worth reading in | View post »

Time to update your Online Banking site?

Posted by Optaros on 10 Jan 2008

Overview: The exciting news is that the world of banking and investing has made some lots of exciting developments over the past few years. Competition is hot in gaining market share in the retail banking space but even more so in long-term investments space. Whether your customers are active traders, long-term investors or even just | View post »

Alfresco Architecture at City of Lausanne

Posted by Optaros on 09 Jan 2008

In November 2007, we delivered the final presentation of our work for City of Lausanne (Switzerland). The objective of our work was to analyze their needs and to recommend a high level architecture for implementing Alfresco as their core DMS solution. Context Ville de Lausanne is an Alfresco Customer who had a previous experience in | View post »