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Apple is improving its business ecosystem, adding the possibilty for application to sell themselve new items within their application.

Very interesting article about designing applications

Very important for a better integration with in house IT systems. So it is now possible to develop in house applications running like marketplace apps. Great, and we have the skills to do it!

A new category of usages is rising for the enterprise. This will help for more mobility and more collaboration, because ipad will work connected and will be helpful with cloud based applications. I think this is very good for enterprise 2.0 adoption, if services will be adapted to the interface.

l'introduction de Google Apps pour les gouvernements.

Think you know what work might look like in the future? Zoho's evangelist (and guy who setup their data center) Raju Vegesna shows me how he can gather data from the Internet, process it in a spreadsheet, and build a report -- all within minutes using Zoho's free services. Oh, and all while he could be collaborating with coworkers from around the world on live data. This is a new way to work and it's pretty exciting to think about how cloud-based technologies like Zoho's suite of applications will change how we'll work

A new competitor for RunMyProcess.

"les premières applications disponibles (plus de 120) couvrent des domaines fonctionnels variés : finance et comptabilité, organisation et calendrier, gestion client, gestion documentaire, sécurité..."

Evident : 1) avec les données et les applications dans le cloud, on peut laisser les gens s'équiper de n'importe quel matériel 2) les salariés devenant mobiles, ils n'auront en général qu'un seul portable perso+pro. Donc il vaut mieux que ce soit leur propre portable et pas le portable de la boîte. D'où le fait que la boîte les dédomage de l'usage pro.

Excellent article from McKinsey about how web 2.0 tools can improve productivity and efficiency in the company. They are also very well explaining difference between participation and collaboration, which we are ourselves explaining it for many years. It's good to see this difference recognized. The different categories are very well explained also. But one of the key point of this article in the introduction of workflow tecnologies in this area. McKinsey is saying that workflow + participatory technologies is a key enhancer for the company. We agree of course with this, first because companies need both world, and second because providing automation and participation capabilities to the information system is the best way to improve it drastically.

Stop using IE, it is too dangerous and IE is completely inefficien for SaaS applications. Deploy FireFox or Chrome instead, you will gain a lot in security and rapidity.