‘Cross-Industry’ posts
Drupal Alfresco Integration
Posted by Chris Fuller on 09 Jun 2010
Why and When? Choosing to use Drupal and Alfresco together makes the most sense in situations where companies can fully leverage the strengths of both platforms and have the resources to manage each effectively. This may be a result of one of the two systems already being in place in an organization. Maybe the enterprise | View post »
Drupal/Alfresco Webinar Redux
Posted by Chris Fuller on 21 Oct 2009
People want intranets that are fun and easy to use, full of compelling content relevant to their job, and enabled with social and community features to help them discover connections with other teams, projects, and colleagues. IT wants something that’s lightweight and flexible enough to respond to the needs of the business that won’t cost | View post »
Drupal and Alfresco – a Recipe for Intranet Success
Posted by Chris Fuller on 02 Sep 2009
Drupal has been recognized for some time as a flexible platform for building lightweight social applications that go beyond “typical” consumer-facing websites, such as intranets for collaborative teams. There have been several projects over the past few years that have been aimed at making this type of Drupal deployment easier and more user-friendly, most notably, | View post »
REFEN, an enterprise SugarCRM implementation
Posted by Optaros on 17 Sep 2008
REFEN is a component based assembly application, using SugarCRM as core component that has been designed, developed and Q/A tested in 10 weeks following OptAM methodology with a development team of 3-4 people. REFEN provides a web 2.0 interface for the work office department of the State of Vaud (Switzerland). The REFEN system: manages firms | View post »
Post Merger Integration – Technology Strategy & Planning – Part 2
Posted by Optaros on 08 Jul 2008
Once a detailed transition or integration plan is created, efforts at this point should consider: Efficiency of Architecture: What is needed to bridge a particular gap between the baseline and vision? Are architectural changes necessary and, if so, how will those changes be executed with little to no disruption to the business? If integration is | View post »
Post Merger Integration – Technology Strategy & Planning – Part 1
Posted by Optaros on 08 Jul 2008
In general, when a company is acquired, there are two primary directions in which the new owners want to lead complementary or parallel technology: Either one company’s systems are deemed superior and the other company’s users are migrated to the superior system, or the systems are deemed complementary and integration is prioritized. With either approach, | View post »
Corporate Website 2.0 – Modernista – 1st Postmodern Website
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 01 Apr 2008
Modernista has launched a radical new website to visually demonstrate that your brand/company is now everywhere on the web and beyond your complete control. I applaud them for their radical approach at hammering home this key point. The concept is pretty simple. They use Flickr, Facebook and Wikipedia as content containers for their work, company | View post »
Web 2.0 Corporate Website Solution
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 11 Dec 2007
Many companies are struggling with the best way to upgrade their corporate website presence to Web 2.0. The desire is to re-design the site to reflect a Web 2.0 aesthetic and incorporate new functionality such as RSS, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, widgets and Rich Internat Application (RIA) functionality. We faced the same challenge and scoured the | View post »
Who should be the sponsor for Enterprise 2.0?
Posted by Optaros on 11 Dec 2007
Enterprise 2.0 is a hot topic in the press but also in discussions with CIOs and Executives. Gartner instisted in its recent IT Symposium that it’s unavoidable, driven by demographics and the consumerization of IT. Technology wise it’s not greatly complex. But the key point is who the owner of enterprise 2.0 initiatives should be. | View post »


