It seems to me that institutional knowledge (IK) is like common sense. Much as there is rarely anything ‘common’ about common sense so is there rarely anything remotely ‘institutional’ about institutional knowledge. Most often, IK is the province of your more rabid ivory-tower, b-school types who use IK as an excuse to justify chairing more…
Contact Management is the heart of CRM
Saleforce is smart to jump in with their "gateway-drug" pricing for core Contact Management. Their new offering targets a universal issue - organizing your rolodex - and markets to those who might not think they want the bells, whistles and complexities of Salesforce's full product. http://www.flickr.com/photos/84923476@N00/2682784069/ photo credit: slack12 SugarCRM, and others in the space…
Smart companies will focus on improving processes during slowdown
Software Development Predictions For 2009 McAllister writes, adding that smart companies will realize that 'process automation is one of the best ways to reduce costs in any business,' making 2009 the ideal time to 'revisit old software schemes that got shelved back when staffing budgets w ere flush.'" Shi Yali Some rights reserved Focusing inward,…
Good Crowd in the Cloud
A collegue forwarded this note about a new Aptana product release. Joyent is a competitor to Amazon Web Services. They're significantly smaller, but recently, Aptana released beta software that makes deployments to Joyent's cloud pretty simple. photo credit: ecstaticist They currently support standard LAMP deployments; plans include Rails and Python. Aptana's got a good history…