The MadWolf Blog

It's 2010 - Let's Collaborate!

madwolf@madwolf.com — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:31:00 GMT

SharePoint provides everything that a company needs to collaborate – the only thing that is missing is the collaboration. SharePoint allows teams to share files in a secure and flexible environment. Organizations are able to streamline their workflow methodologies so as to enable their workforce to operate in the most intuitive way possible. But file sharing is only the means of enabling collaboration to take place, and true collaboration has been impossible – until now.

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Too many clouds in the sky? What are we doing to stay aloft in the increasingly “cloudy” skies of IT?

madwolf@madwolf.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:50:00 GMT

My friend’s 8-year old twin boys have a little cloud in their bedroom. My 21-year old daughter has a cloud in her dorm room. At a recent reception for a technology event, every single company had a cloud platform, in their closet, in somebody else’s closet, in their data center, or in somebody else’s data center. My news feed, with amazing regularity, brings stories how yet another large technology concern is now offering a cloud platform which is dramatically different from all previous offerings. Has our technology horizon become too “clouded” for us to see the clarity of a well designed and consistently managed IT infrastructure? How can we achieve this clarity?

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It's time to engage and not be damned!

madwolf@madwolf.com — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:29:00 GMT

The concept of Web 2.0 as we understand it today has been with us in the web community for at least five years. During this time we have seen a considerable change in the digital landscape with the dominance of collaborative networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But despite the popularity of these sites, particularly with a younger audience, the business revolution that Web 2.0 appeared to signify has still not really materialised.

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