Team Collaboration

• Business Objects Acquired Inxight Software … Wow, my favorite text visualization and navigation firm, Inxight Software, just got acquired by Business Objects. “The combination of Business Objects and Inxight Software will provide organizations with a comprehensive BI solution to address all of their data assets. With the combined technology, companies will now have streamlined access to both structured information within databases and data warehouses, and unstructured information such as emails, documents, notes fields, and web content that is estimated to comprise more than 80 percent of all organizational data. Inxight brings a compelling combination of text analytics, federated search, and visualization capabilities to the BusinessObjects XI platform to enable customers to easily discover, manage, and analyze unstructured content inside and outside of their organization.” Financial details were not disclosed. Business Objects. One competitor, TEMIS, was quick to launch a competitive migration program to entice InXight customers to shift over, and Dave Kellogg, previously the SVP of Marketing at Business Objects and now CEO of Mark Logic Corporation shares his take.
• Client Needs from IT? … Peter reflects on the dominant way of ascertaining client needs from an IT solution (meetings leading to documentation), and argues that a different approach is needed with collaborative technologies like SharePoint. Peter Ward
• Setting Collaboration Strategy … Bob outlines some ideas on how an enterprise should set and establish a collaboration strategy. Some of the ideas are valid, some I question. Business Innovation
• Quest Development Studio for SharePoint … Quest Software released Quest Development Studio for SharePoint, an application development tool for SharePoint. “Development Studio for SharePoint makes SharePoint data readily available to employees by building applications in SharePoint with configurable Web parts. The drag-drop-configure Web parts technology allows these customized applications to be built and maintained by business analysts, dramatically reducing development costs and creating a better integrated collaboration environment for users.” Quest Software purchased Workplace Architects to get the tool. Available immediately. BusinessWire
• Mindjet MindManager 7 Webinar … Mindjet is hosting a free webinar on May 30 at 8.45am Pacific to demonstrate the differences between MindManager 6 and the new version, 7. Registration required. Mindjet

Mobility

• Worldwide PDA Figures for 1Q2007 … Gartner published its figures for the worldwide sales of 5.1 million PDAs during 1Q 2007: Windows Mobile (3.2 million units, 60% market share), BlackBerry (0.92 million units, 18% market share), and Samsung, Sharp and Nokia holding the majority of the rest. Techlogg.com
• O2 6 Upgrade … O2 Asia released a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 for its Xda Atom Life device. Available immediately. the::unwired

Productivity

• 6 Month Goals … Almost half of 2007 has zipped past … what do you want to achieve by the end of the year? Plan now. Jason Womack
• It Will Take Time … Game-changing or life-changing ideas take time to implement. Don’t rush it. Let the idea percolate for a while. And don’t be afraid of taking on something that is bigger than you normally would go after. Behance
• Productive Work at Home … Scott lists 20 ideas for staying productive when you are working from home. Scott Young