RIM Creates BlackBerry App to Address Needs of Changing Workforce
October 11, 2011
Wireless innovation company Research in Motion (RIM), The creator of the BlackBerry Solution in 1999, has now revealed a BlackBerry Client for Microsoft Sharepoint.
In addition to being budget friendly, the BlackBerry Client app has many user benefits for individuals and businesses. User benefits include, among other things, app integration with core BlackBerry features and functions and content searches across multiple SharePoint sites.
The complete solution is also great and easy to use for IT departments with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Many fortune 500 companies plan on using the product in the coming weeks.
According to RIM Mobilizes Microsoft SharePoint on BlackBerry, Victor Garcia, chief technology officer at HP Canada, said of the product:
In a world of continuous connectivity, businesses and governments require products, services and information faster and more reliably than ever before. The BlackBerry Client for Microsoft SharePoint helps to address the needs of today’s mobile workforce with new tools and mobile applications to enable collaboration and productivity.
Mobile computing remains a challenge for enterprises. The applications such as this one from RIM offer tantalizing promises. Is the hardware up to delivering the functionality promised by such apps? Searching Sharepoint on the go a necessary function, perhaps, a delivered solution, it remains to be seen.
Jasmine Ashton, Oct 11, 2011
Google Predicts Video Games’ Successes
October 11, 2011
An increase in searches for game titles on Google and YouTube signal an awareness of the titles and the desire to acquire them, providing insight into sales. Google analyzed search activity for title terms of the top 15 games of 2010 and 2009, such as “Call of Duty,” “Black Ops,” and “COD Black Ops,” on Google and YouTube. The average search activity per title in 2010 rose 24% on Google and 28% on YouTube, jumping 25% in overall search activity.
X1 and Newsgator Venture Into RSS
October 11, 2011
In a new angle for search vendors, X1, a productivity enhancement and information management software tools company, partners with Newsgator, developer of content aggregator solutions, to bring search to aggregated RSS (really simple syndication) news and information. “X1 and NewsGator
Partner to Provide Instant Search Capabilities of Aggregated RSS News and
Information,” tells more.
The fast-as-you-can-type search capabilities of X1™ Search, which lets users find the content of email, files, attachments, and contacts, has been coupled with NewsGator’s ability to deliver news and information directly into Microsoft Outlook to give customers a simple, integrated solution for obtaining and finding information.
Our experience is that news archives are not particularly deep, so regardless of search engine, much time sensitive content disappears or gets a “buy this story” link banner. The concept is interesting and might be useful for very short-term access. However, other solutions must be used to ensure long-term archiving.
Emily Rae Aldridge, October 11, 2011
HP and Autonomy to Effect Change on Each Other
October 11, 2011
Unstructured information growth is so high now, and it’s becoming such a core part of what we have to do within the enterprise, that it’s time for the database to be eclipsed by something that can handle both rather than just one type of information.
Key Issues for SharePoint’s Future
October 11, 2011
What does SharePoint do well out-of-the-box? What doesn’t it do? It is great at basic document management and basic collaboration. Need a team site or a project site, SharePoint does that well. You want Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, Records Management, or Web Content Management; get ready to roll up your sleeves.
About.com Staff Lay Off: Slow Ad Sales Lead to Changes
October 10, 2011
Google’s search algorithm changes are hurting more than just the average search user.
About.com posted weak revenues in the most recent quarter and attributed the lag to changes in Google search and slow ad sales. The site’s revenues dropped 10.2 percent in the last quarter. In hopes for some stability, The New York Times’-owned company recently laid off 15 editorial staffers and will be hiring 10 replacements as they reconstruct the site’s mission.
Yahoo News’ article, “About.com lays off staffers; hires replacements” shares more about the changes.
[Kristin Mason, a spokeswoman for the internet company, said] 10 new full-time positions will be created, with outgoing staff members to be given “first-priority” to apply for the new posts. She said many are expected to be rehired. The organization will be broken into four groups: uide Operations & Recruitment, About Editorial & Quality Review, Site Review and Community Tools. This is intended to improve the site’s focus and quality.”
Even with promises of “first-priority” for outgoing staff members, there will still be five positions completely cut from the company. To me, this doesn’t look like simple reconstruction with hopes for stability. This looks like brute force cost reduction in its purest form.
Andrea Hayden, October 10, 2011
Open Text Releases LCM for SharePoint
October 10, 2011
With OpenText s Legal Content Management, attorneys and staff can work in the SharePoint 2010 environment, while managing their matters according to strict business processes, said Todd Partridge, General Manager, OpenText eDOCS and Legal Solutions. The OpenText solution for SharePoint 2010 provides firms with matter and practice-centric views of content, virtual file cabinets and seamless integration with a firm s core business processes.
Battle in the Grandstand: Analyst Flails at CEO
October 10, 2011
An azure chip consultant grandstanded and fell from the bleachers. Don’t worry, nothing vital was injured; he landed on his head.
Yes, as TechEye.net reports in “Analyst wades into Oracle’s Ellison,” Carter Lusher of the analyst firm Ovum criticized Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s keynote address at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld as being too dull. Columnist Nick Ferrell writes that Lusher was:
apparently bored out of his mind as Ellison showed off a confusing number of diagrams and specs of Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic appliances. . . . Lusher said that during the Oracle Open World Keynote Ellison missed the opportunity to deliver [Oracle’s] vision beefed up with exciting customer stories, his world famous Belly Savalas party trick , some HP light bulb changing one-liners and perhaps a couple of knob gags.
Here’s a thought: if technical information confuses and bores you that much, maybe you should attend something more your speed. Doodlebops, perhaps?
Really, one should stand on firmer ground before casting aspersions. Oracle may not be perfect, but it is performing in a perfectly acceptable manner. The company is a “mega-vendor,” in Ovum’s own words, leading purveyors of hardware, software, services, and infrastructure.
Besides, it has billions of dollars and quite a few Fortune 1000 firms in a choke-hold. Ovum should be so lucky.
Cynthia Murrell October 10, 2011
ZyLAB Deposits Bank in Client List
October 10, 2011
ZyLAB adds to its success as its software is adopted for litigation and investigations with a leading commercial bank. “Large Global Banking and
Financial Services Company Selects ZyLAB eDiscovery System,” tells more.
ZyLAB, a leading eDiscovery and information management technology company, today disclosed that another top financial institution serving the US and abroad has selected the ZyLAB eDiscovery & Production System to manage the identification, preservation, legal hold, collection, analysis, review and production phases of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model
(EDRM). The on premise software deployment within one of the world’s largest financial services companies will facilitate internal forensic data investigations and eDiscoveries.
ZyLAB is widely used throughout the legal, corporate, and governmental
world. The Workflow module and Back Office system seem to both be
integral pieces to their success; a success which we predict will continue
to grow.
Emily Rae Aldridge, October 10, 2011
AOL Management Lessons
October 10, 2011
I skimmed “Former AOLer: ‘Seed Was A Flop From The Beginning’” and thought it was another AOL shoots itself in the foot write up. Enough already. I thought about the example of Seed and its “boss”. I realized that the story was a great example of the “we’re almost like Google” approach to running a high profile department, business unit, or service.
I noted this passage:
Additionally, Saul Hansell — the the “real” journalist in charge of Seed — was more of a big news guy. (Our source reported that Hansell had a copy of the article he wrote about the AOL/Time Warner merger on his desk.) The Seed purview didn’t fit his interest or his skill set.
On the reread, three questions:
- Where was senior management as the top dog sniffed for big news?
- Is it not insubordinate to undermine an employer’s goal?
- Why would one keep old “dead tree” clippings on one desk when there is Facebook to memorialize certain important moments?
In short, the Googley approach does not work particularly well in certain corporate settings. Maybe there is some value in knowing how to manage?
Stephen E Arnold, October 10, 2011
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