by Craig Roth | January 31, 2013 | Comments Off
While our fonts and templates may look nicer than they did ten or twenty years ago, do we really feel more productive in business terms? Microsoft certainly hopes so, as they released Office 365 Home Premium on Tuesday (the consumer version), but I’m not so sure. My group here in Gartner for Technical Professionals covers [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
The interest in Big Data at our recent Catalyst conference shows that enterprises have recognized the need for a new approach to exploiting massive and rapidly changing data streams. When will that same interest coalesce for Big Content? Big Content is a term that helps highlight the subset of Big Data related to the less-structured [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 16, 2012 | 2 Comments
Many areas of SharePoint planning suffer from SharePoint centricity – in other words focusing on SharePoint alone rather than the broader collaboration environment. This centricity shows up in developing collaboration processes, business cases, ROI, and governance. But perhaps the most notable case of SharePoint centricity is in end user training for a SharePoint rollout. Clearly [...]
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by Craig Roth | April 27, 2012 | Comments Off
This blog post is being written by a flesh-and-blood industry analyst who had toast for breakfast and is consuming hot tea while writing this. That is now important to clarify since robo-writers (“robot” software that uses artificial intelligence and algorithms to write articles that mimic the style of human writers) are now getting a lot [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Many of the ease of use, form factor, and responsiveness promises made by mobile devices and software providers depends on an important underlying assumption: that you are consuming textual information way more than you are creating it. Sure, you may snap some photos, like/thumbs-up/+1 some stuff, and email or IM a sentence or two, but [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 21, 2010 | 4 Comments
My teammates Jeff Mann and Guy Creese have commented on the silly-but-serious implications of Microsoft’s naming choice for their new cloud productivity offering: Microsoft Office 365. I certainly agree with the name being tone-deaf to the issues of work/life balance and information overload. I’d add it is also counter to the promise of increased productivity, [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Google Wave is done. Or “dead” or “cancelled?” What is the right metaphor for not continuing a lab project that was hyped like a real product? In any case, what does the demise of Google Wave mean to synchronous co-authoring? Not that much – despite the hype, it didn’t really do that much to raise [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 4, 2010 | Comments Off
IBM announced Project Northstar at their 2010 Exceptional Web Experience conference this week. I blogged on the details and my first impressions previously (see here), but wanted to save a side thought about the potential for assisting with information overload for a separate entry. IBM defined their vision in a good diagram with 3 main [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been doing research for my upcoming document on synchronous co-authoring, and have been collecting the reasons why collaborative authoring (of all kinds) is so tricky. There are many to choose from, not least that collaborative authoring is a “numb point “, not a pain point for most authors. But the reason I keep coming [...]
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by Craig Roth | May 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
Google has added twitch-level sync co-authoring, a drawing tool, rulers, and other features to Google Docs. They actually did this a while ago, but you’d be forgiven for not noticing since Google decided to take their innovative (whether you like it or not) silent release process and push it into strange new territory. Essentially, they [...]
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