Earlier today I posted an article on Microsoft and Web 2.0 in the enterprise. The focus of this post was the way in which Microsoft enables end-users and process/data owners at the edge of the business to take advantage of Web 2.0 concepts. However there is another more rigorous approach than the...
During the last couple of months I have been discussing some of the business implications of Web 2.0 with Doug Neal, you can read the result in this document – Management Messages on Web 2.0 – What you need to know about the next generation of the Internet. The discussion got...
About 8 years ago I was a member of a group charged with selecting a new Email system, we looked at our requirements and were rapidly swayed by visions of the strategic role that Lotus Notes could play in our business unit. Exchange and Outlook by contrast could only demonstrate...
At every opportunity I complained to my contacts at Microsoft about the fact that restricting full Office 2003 XML support to Office 2003 Pro was a big mistake, and would not stimulate Office Pro sales, instead it would slow the adoption of the suite and the use of XML in...
Despite the fact that there are many specialist collaboration products that are far superior to Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint – IBM and Microsoft continue to be the mainstream players and certainly dominate if you consider collaboration from the “buy a platform and build on top of it” standpoint. IBM’s...
I have just posted about how impressed I am by the OneNote team, and I especially like it when they share details of how the team uses the product themselves to push the boundaries of their processes. In this extract of a long post, Chris describes how they use the...
Brian Jones’ blog is fast becoming an essential read for anyone interesting in Office 12’s file formats and import and export formats. In this important post be describes the fact that Office 12 will be able to SAVE AS PDF, a very useful feature that is of course already present...
This web page gives a list of PDC Slide decks, Microsoft web sites and Blogs that talk about Windows Workflow Foundation, work checking out.
David Chappell is an authoritative commentator on middle-ware, in this post he explains why workflow is important and confirms that the addition of workflow services to Windows will also be important: Yet one application of workflow technology is by far the most important in a service-oriented world: providing logic that...
Windows Workflow Foundation sounds like it’s going to be important. One of the first things of note is that there will be a client and a server version. Here is the summary from the MSDN web site on the subject: Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools...