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"If you build it, they will come" appears to be Microsoft's approach as it shows off the Windows Store for a product that won't be available until mid-2012.

If you had any doubts that the cloud has gone mainstream, the latest news from Hewlett Packard (HP) and Box might change your mind. The companies announced that several models of HP business PCs will have access to a free Box account.

Word on the street is the humble app, which turned the cell phone into an all-purpose Super Smart Phone device, is getting close to the 1 million milestone. That includes everything from mobile games like Angry Bird and Civilization to retail banking links like Chase and Bank of America, to full-blown enterprise apps.  Mobile analytics firm Mobilewala said Apple, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile 7 combined have collectively hit almost 992,000 and are due to hit the 1 million mark sometime next week. And the growth is just getting started -- the group said that number more than doubled this year with only 484,000 apps developed by the end of 2010.

Unless it comes with a radical new iOS interface design, there is little reason for anyone to need a new iPhone. No one needs the power, the bigger screen, only perhaps storage. But, that won't stop Apple launching an iPhone 5 anyway -- next spring according to latest reports.

This is article six in the epic saga exploring my Art of SharePoint Success framework for achieving long-term business benefits from investments in SharePoint based initiatives, (eagle eyed readers will note that last month’s article claimed to be number 6, it was in fact number 5).
There are four elements to the framework:

1. Governance
2. Strategy
3. Architecture
4. Transition

Last month we began our discussion of the Strategy element by posing the tricky question, “What is SharePoint?” I offered my answer which is,  

SharePoint is a set of integrated technologies which provides a platform upon which an organization can build a flexible, long-term information and knowledge management infrastructure.”

We discussed the concepts of SharePoint as a set of integrated technologies, and as a shared infrastructure. This month we explore the idea of SharePoint as an application development platform and examine the implications of deciding to fire up Visual Studio and cut SharePoint code.

With the popularity of smartphones and tablets in both enterprise and consumer settings, mobile phones, tablets and other portable devices have become a big part in the professional's job search arsenal.

CrownPeak doesn't call its web content management platform a customer experience platform (CXM), instead it chooses to focus on what it does best -- web content management. With a new user experience coming your way, it may be just the right solution for your needs

We compare in order to make the best decision. To do that we need to consider the opinion of both experts and crowds.

Adobe has recently launched a SaaS offering that helps businesses conduct A/B testing for rich media advertisements, which take into consideration various network- and hardware-based factors, such as CPU usage and user experience.

In my last post, I walked through some of the reasons why compliant social business is so challenging. In this post, I want to take a look at the four steps organizations need to take in order to give themselves the best chance of solving the compliance challenges of going social.

Lots of negativity in the world of Google this week. In addition to the big disappointment that was the Gmail app for the iPhone, there's plenty of trash being talked about the new look of Gmail and Google Reader. 

On the second day of the Liferay West Coast Symposium, held in Anaheim, Calif., hundreds of attendees had a busy day, from dozens of sessions focused on strategy and implementation with the open-source enterprise portal.

In the new world order of technology and the web, we often associate social media or social networking with Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. However, just because you have a Facebook page or Tweet on Twitter doesn’t mean you’re a social business. Just because you microblog on some cloud-based CRM system doesn’t mean you’re a social business. And social business is not just about the marketing hype of the cloud itself. A social business is one that views its entire value chain as a set of collaborative networks called communities and embraces technology that focuses on the relationships, conversations and business activities that occur in these networks.

So where were we? In the first article of this series, What You Need To Know About iOS and Android, we decided that the wise publisher currently targets iOS first and Android second. In a second article, Data Formats for Fixed and Flowable Content, we agreed that HTML is the sensible way to expose a publisher’s content to the world. Today we’ll talk about how we take this content and create wonderful tablet apps.

Many organizations, enterprise software vendors not the least, have treated employees and consumers as discrete categories of people, almost as if they were different species. The truth is, of course, that we are both employees and consumers depending on the context.

During recent years, we have seen how our changed attitudes and behaviors as individuals when it comes to information seeking, sharing, communication and socializing with people are also affecting our attitudes and behaviors at work. Although we often find ourselves being held back by legacy IT and existing power structures, as well as by old habits and the dominating communication culture, we expect to be treated in the same way and have access to the same IT superpowers at work as we have as consumers.