Cloud Computing News & Articles

It’s been in the air for a while, but it looks like now its set in stone. Open source document management vendor Alfresco is going for an IPO in the US and has appointed a new CEO -- former SuccessFactors boss Doug Dennerline to replace Alfresco founder and current CEO, John Powell, who will help the new CEO transition the company and then take a seat on the board in some kind of operational capacity.

In December, IBM finally released one of the missing pieces of its SmartCloud social business platform in the shape of SmartCloud Docs on the public cloud. There was quite a bit of excitement, as it appeared that IBM had entered the cloud-based productivity suite market. But as Ed Brill, Director of Product Management for IBM Social Business, told us, this wasn't really the case.

The first real look at Big Data analytics of the year comes in the shape of a new Forrester Wave report. The space may still be dominated by IBM and SAS but it appears that 2013 is going to be a year with some serious competition with a substantial number of strong performers jostling for a place in the Leaders category.

Most organizations use financial incentives to drive performance among their sales staff. However, money alone is not enough to guarantee good performance (even among salespeople). Here's how one vendor can help.

Financial and enterprise resource planning firm Netsuite has bought Retail Anywhere in hopes to unify online and in store customer experiences.

Mobile, BYOD and cloud have converged into a perfect storm of raised user expectation -- and nary a corporate IT manager can escape the downpour. 

This year is a big one for SharePoint 2013.

While 2012 was a memorable year for Web content management, 2013 will prove to be the year WCM makes its greatest impact, becoming the bedrock of the digital entity of any public institution, business or brand powerhouse. At least the ones that will remain relevant in the 21st century.

New Year and new resolutions. Any enterprise that hasn't made its content mobile must surely be looking at this as one of their resolutions for 2013. But if you’re main enterprise content management system is SharePoint, or even if it’s just one of your systems, how do you make it secure when making it mobile?

The concept of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) has evolved from a proof of concept to a technology platform that every IT department must take into account. Nucleus Research looked at key business pressures and the constant technology changes that every company struggles to manage, and we are betting on the following trends to SMAC companies upside the head in 2013.

Hosted CMS technology vendor SetSeed, whose service is designed to allow website providers to retain design control, is introducing a new cloud-based solution in conjunction with Standing Cloud, a cloud services provider. 

Last year witnessed some real progress being made in the social business sector and this year promises more of the same.

As the year draws to a close, we tend to reflect on technological changes and trends over the past 12 months. This articles puts the focus on enterprise collaboration, how far we've come and where we have left to go. 

Need to add more websites to your growing company or just testing out a few systems to make a short list of new Web CMS candidates? We've gathered up a few highlights from the past year to help nail down a few contenders.

What would a year in information management be without SharePoint -- any kind of SharePoint? We have to be careful to clarify now as talking about SharePoint could involve any one of four groups of products. In other words, we could be talking about the 2003 version -- and yes it is still being used -- the 2007 and 2010 version, and SharePoint 2013.