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Comment on Why RFP’s dont work by Ravi Ravichandran

Ravi Ravichandran — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:38:59 +0000

Cool repor Andrew..unfortunately demos are still necessary, though POCs are far more compelling, the challenge is who will foot the bill..? A confrence room pilot may be !!

Comment on Why RFP’s dont work by santiago

santiago — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:20:03 +0000

nice rerpot. congrat.

Comment on Assembly Oriented Architecture by Guido Oswald

Guido Oswald — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:03:24 +0000

Hi Andrew,

very interesting concept – makes total sense!

I guess the future will also bring some methodologies / standards in between SOA and AOA. OSGi for example is a candidate that could perfectly fill in here…

The big question is if that concept will be adopted not only by the open source followers, but also by the commercial (suite) vendors like Oracle, SAP or IBM. They could make the (AOA) life harder if they want to.

Would be interesting to hear about some real life examples of AOA out of your daily life.

Cheers,
Guido

Comment on VRM – controlling your own data by Graham Sadd

Graham Sadd — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:44:05 +0000

This is a key point from Andrew and often misunderstood.
VRM is not anti-organisation – well, not those who care about their customers and recognise that ‘People Are Our Greatest Asset’.
Embracing VRM will provide organisations with more accurate and relevant data about their customers at less cost and risk of non-compliance than the current one-way traffic of CRM.
It contributes to a trusted relationship between buyer and seller, and TRUST will be a key differentiator in the future.

Comment on VRM – controlling your own data by Andrew Webb

Andrew Webb — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:22:36 +0000

Allowing people to manage their own personal data would enable them to share more information about themselves with companies whom they trust. For example i might allow Amazon to see my complete order history of items not just items i have ordered from them. By providing companies a more complete view of a person should allow them to improve and personalise the experience more not less.

Note VRM is not saying that companies will no longer have any information about their customers. It is just allowing customers firstly to have access to all of their own personal data so they can view and visualise it better and secondly about allowing them to decide what additional data they might choose to share with an organisation.

Comment on VRM – controlling your own data by Maurice

Maurice — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:30:36 +0000

Good article….you should put a Twitter, Facebook etc. repost link on your blog.

Comment on VRM – controlling your own data by Guido Oswald

Guido Oswald — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:49:23 +0000

The questions that comes to my mind here is: Where is the experience?

I am unsure if VRM will ever reach the critical mass. The concept makes perfect sense – but world peace also does…
I guess the future will show if such concepts can be successful or are doomed to fail due to missing participation.

Good post!

Cheers,
Guido

P.S: Companies should not underestimate the power of consumers – but consumers should not underestimate the power of companies (and their brands)

Comment on 5 barriers to entry for corporate social media by Lauren Vargas

Lauren Vargas — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:10:14 +0000

Great outline of the challenges companies/brands face when jumping into social media and thorough list of approach to alleviate some of the social media woes. Thank you for including us in your list of monitoring tools.

Lauren Vargas
Community Manager at Radian6
@VargasL

Comment on Content as a Service by Web Content Management evolved « Open for business

Web Content Management evolved « Open for business — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:20:27 +0000

[...] and being able to present that using one or more front-end platforms. Developments such as CMIS are going to help facilitate accessing content from various sources from the front-end platform. [...]

Comment on Architecting to scale in the cloud by Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:57:28 +0000

Thanks for the resource. I've also been looking at MongoDB lately, for what it's worth - another open source key-value store. Your post has made me want to revisit Project Voldemort, too.