| 5 Companies Thriving on the Rise of Shadow IT The Read/Write enterprise isn't just about using social media in the enterprise - increasingly, it's about employees actively choosing the technologies they use to get their jobs done, instead of relying on decrees from on high about what sorts of technology to use. The term "Shadow IT" refers to "IT systems and IT solutions built and used inside organizations without organizational approval." In the past few years,... Continue Reading » Enterprise Mobility Heats Up as Salesforce.com Announces Chatter Mobile Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy writes in a new report that "The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined." Facebook users who access the social networking site through a mobile device are twice as active as users who don't. It's no surprise then to see the announcement of Salesforce.com's Chatter Mobile, a mobile client for the company's increasingly popular Chatter social networking and... Continue Reading » How to Make Objects Come Alive for Your Enterprise The Internet of Things took a step closer to mainstream adoption today with the announcement of Pachube's first enterprise offering. Pachube (pronounced "patch bay") shares real-time sensor data and enables users to analyze data or trigger actions in a variety of ways through its SaaS. For example, temperature sensors could trigger an alarm if a temperature gets too high or low in your server room. See our coverage... Continue Reading » Remote Work: Pitfalls and How to Avoid them One big theme to emerge out of our conversation last week about the future of the workplace was remote working. I thought it would be beneficial to start this week off by thinking about the disadvantages of remote work and the technologies and policies that may be able to mitigate some of those problems. Sponsor Productivity remains a concern for managers unwilling to give their employees a chance, but according... Continue Reading » Java - It's not Dead, Folks - It's Doing Just Fine Java gets a bad rap. It's considered old-school. People say that young developers prefer Ruby-on-Rails and other Web-based hot stuff. True - but these are not bad times for Java at all. James Governor of RedMonk wrote a post that provides several good reasons why Java is really doing quite well. Elance shows the current demand for people with Google App Engine skills is greater than those knowledgeable about... Continue Reading » Readers on the Workplace of the Future: Telecommuting, Swarming and "the FunPlace" On Monday we asked you about the workplace of the future - today, it's time to take a look at your comments. The biggest theme was remote work - several of you expect the workplace to be increasingly virtualized. Others suggested a few problems with this idea. "Swarming," as Gartner called it, was also seen as important - for better or worse. And could the workplace start to be more of a... Continue Reading » | 
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