Securing Social Media in the Enterprise
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2012-
As corporations continue to struggle over the decision to ban or allow unrestricted access to social media, the medium continues to build momentum as a modern business tool. Further, employees are increasingly mobile, accessing social applications from their own devices on the corporate network. It's a runaway train, so businesses are on the hook to enable social media in a way that balances security and privacy concerns with productivity and business enablement.
The ...
What's Next: Goal-Oriented Social Software
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
November 2011-
In an emerging trend, social software and social business principles are increasingly being applied to accomplish specific objectives. Measurable objectives. This is a change from the roles traditionally associated to social software: knowledge management, conversations, transparency, ermergence. These social principles have in many ways been the "end" themselves, or the means to a squishy, ill-defined end (e.g. "more collaborative"). What's changing is these principles are now the catalyst to achieving a tangible, defined end.
Designing Social Applications
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
November 2011-
Part of becoming a social enterprise is understanding what makes social applications work, both for purposes of selecting commercial applications and for designing their own. Most organizations will adopt a commercial or open source enterprise social platform rather than trying to create their own, but they still will face the challenge of adapting it to their environment and integrating applications that predate the social software era.
Driving Organizational Change with Social and Collaborative Technologies
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Organizations are investing in Enterprise 2.0 as a means to improve employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. While social tools can play a critical role, driving organizational change requires IT strategists to look beyond technology deployment. This session will help IT architecture and infrastructure personnel understand E2.0 adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives.
Top 10 Checklist for Hotel E-mail Marketing Success
[ Source: Toddle Email Newsletters ]
June 2010-
This report provides a 10-step program on using e-mail marketing within your business. The report discusses strategies to capture subscribers, a description of what content to use and where to get it, how often to send your marketing, opportunities where you can up sell customers, and case studies of business doing it right and wrong.
Cloud Computing: The Federal Government Viewpoint
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Cloud computing is big news in both government and private enterprise, with its promises of unlimited capacity and pay-as-you-go economics, plus connections to an always-on world. Rod Fontecilla provides an overview of the federal government's computing landscape and discusses how cloud computing fits into it. He discusses the opportunities and challenges that implementing cloud computing in the public sector presents.
Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop features panels of thought leaders, candid conversations with ...
What Does Elastic Computing Really Mean?
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Cloud computing is big news, promising unlimited capacity and pay-as-you-go economics, plus connections to an always-on world. With the level of excitement enterprises are showing for it, Ian Rae, CEO of Syntenic, hosts a panel discussion about elastic computing and how it can provide solutions to some of the hurdles presented by enterprise cloud computing. These hurdles can include security risks, complicated licensing, privacy concerns, and the need to rewrite many enterprise applications so they ...
Different Strokes For Different Folks: A Taxonomy of Cloud Offerings
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Enterprises are excited about cloud computing, but little of it is ready to use yet. Peter Laird, platform architect at Tendril Networks, tackles the question by examining popular working definitions, and then addresses the creation of cloud taxonomies and the approaches taken to do so. Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop is the industry's only event focused on how traditional enterprises can adopt cloud computing models. Featuring panels of thought leaders, candid conversations with industry luminaries ...
The Downside -- Less Control, Lots To Rewrite: Do We Really Need Clouds?
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Cloud computing is big news, promising unlimited capacity and pay-as-you-go economics, plus connections to an always-on world. Enterprises are excited about cloud computing. However, little of it is ready to use yet. Forrester Research's James Staten addresses the hurdles that clouds present to the enterprise, including the disconnect between business users, who want access, and IT staffers, who don't. Staten further discusses the security risks and the need to rewrite many enterprise applications so they ...
The Business Of Clouds And The Risks Of Being There
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Cloud computing is big news, promising unlimited capacity and pay-as-you-go economics, plus connections to an always-on world. Enterprises are excited about cloud computing but little of it is ready to use yet. Clouds present security risks, and many enterprise applications have to be completely rewritten to run on scalable clouds. Licensing is complicated, and privacy's a concern.
The Hartford’s Drew Bartkiewicz, presenting at the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop, discusses the potential ...