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Earlier today Novell demoed it's Google Wave-like product to the enterprise world. Pulse is the latest workplace collaboration platform to announce at this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference and ReadWriteWeb was

Microblogging represents the first wave in the enterprise. Now the questions is what represents the second wave and how adoption will occur. The issue of the second wave came back

From small-business support company Grasshopper comes Chargify, a billing and subscription system for web 2.0 and SaaS companies that eliminates the need to build bespoke applications. Their RESTful API and

Enterprise content management (ECM) is big business these days. There are scads of companies turning a tidy profit promising to do a competent job of managing every conceivable type of

Just days after Amazon launched its Virtual Private Cloud to try and attract enterprises to EC2, OpSource has announced what it's calling "the first true enterprise cloud." OpSource is essentially

Amazon has launched a new endeavor that integrates traditional IT infrastructure with its EC2 cloud service. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows IT to connect to an isolated set of AWS

Syncing with BlackBerry Enterprise server has long been one of the most requested features among Google Apps customers. Especially within the BlackBerry-dominated enterprise space, the fact that there was no

When Google Apps left beta back in July, Google announced that it would be adding a set of enterprise-specific features to make Premier Edition more attractive to businesses. Today Google

Timing is everything. That's a saying that enterprise software giant Oracle has apparently not taken to heart, because today, in the middle of hysteria by both sides of the reform

Gartner has published its Magic Quadrant for Web content management in 2009, to help CIOs and IT decide just what will meet the needs of the enterprise. Web software is

Maybe it's odd to be recommending iPhone apps right now, with the house of cards that is the confused App Store policy falling down on Apple's head. But business users,

After 18 months in development, MobileIron's virtual smartphone platform is ready for the spotlight. It's one of the few startups that focuses solely on mobile technology for the enterprise, and

Enterprise software giant SAP can now be your OpenID provider, according to a blog post from the company this morning. Through their pilot program, you can use an openid.sap.com subdomain

Webtrends has launched the ninth version of its Web analytics platform for the enterprise, and it's impressive indeed. In addition to a standards-based interface that's data-driven and accessible, three new

Moan and groan all you like about SharePoint, Outlook and other Microsoft products. We'll happily listen to your troubles and agree. But this time around we have to say it:

Today, IBM announced two acquisitions: source code and application security company Ounce Labs, and SPSS, a provider of predictive analytics. Both purchases arrive on the heels of IBM picking up

Intuit launched code.intuit.com today, an open source community that functions as an extension of their partner platform. The new site is designed to give partner companies a free resource with

Are you backing up your Google Docs? If not, it's better to be safe than sorry, especially when it comes to the cloud. For customers of the enterprise and education

This month, two painful but impossible to ignore facts have emerged about mobile use by business. First, research from Forrester suggests IT support for business use of personal mobile devices

Today, Oracle has acquired GoldenGate Software. GoldenGate is a vendor of real-time data integration software, designed to do fast, log-based transactions of data in the enterprise. For a company best

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, one question I asked all vendors was about their sales model. Were they relying on grassroots adoption, one click at a time, letting the software

We recently spoke with Bruce Cleveland at InterWest Partners. Bruce has been part of InterWest's IT team since 2006, focusing on investments in the software and services sector, with an

John Hagel, perhaps best known for his book The Only Sustainable Edge, has been one of the leading strategic thinkers for decades. Recently, as Co-Chair of the Deloitte Center for

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, "SaaS or on-premise?" The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say,