| No More Hand Holding: Why Consultants Need to Build Apps Dachis Group is a consulting firm. RedMonk is an analyst firm. Both are in the services world, which is dominated by companies that hire lots of people to be account executives, project managers and fill a host of other roles. What makes these companies a bit different? Both are developing or collaborating on applications with developers and software companies. RedMonk has recently released an analytics tool. This... Continue Reading »    Companies to Watch at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara: The Launchpad Four At each Enterprise 2.0 conference, participants select one of four new or upcoming applications as the Launchpad winner of the event. Baydin, a quirky e-mail-centric startup, won at the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last summer (see our coverage) and enterprise collaboration suite CubeTree won at the event before that. Read on for our take on each of this event's four nominees, and to vote in our own poll on the... Continue Reading » Socialtext Integrates with Salesforce.com, Adds New Browsing and Filtering Tools Socialtext will announce the new version of its enterprise social media suite, Socialtext 4.5, today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. The new release includes a connector for Salesforce.com, which will pipe activity streams from Salesforce.com into Socialtext. While Salesforce.com has been working to give Chatter users the ability to follow lots of information streams within the... Continue Reading » IBM Bakes Analytics Into Lotus Connections 3.0 IBM's obsession with analytics made its way into social networking today with the announcement of Lotus Connections 3.0. New analytics driven features include recommendations of other users to connect with based on shared interests and content recommendations based on past actions. IBM also announced support for Android to compliment its existing iOS and Nokia S60 support. Lotus Connections is IBM's internal social... Continue Reading » 3 Challenges for Enterprise 2.0 Now That It's Gone Mainstream Andrew McAfee, who coined the term "enterprise 2.0," wrote yesterday that he found himself "preaching to the converted" for the first time in a group of CIOs from "old economy" companies. The CIOs at his session weren't coming to him expressing their reservations about enterprise 2.0, but instead were complaining that their companies were not moving fast enough to implement these technologies. In other words -... Continue Reading » Data Visualization for Non-Programmers: Impure Impure is a new programming language designed to give non-programmers access to professional tools for data visualization. Users can use it to process and display data from social media feeds, financial information and more. Unlike Processing, a simple programming language for data visualization and art, Impure is a completely visual language - there's no need to learn any code. The programming language is also... Continue Reading » | 
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