An interesting use-case that I’ve bumped into lately is where folks want to enable automation, but they also need to know when automated things happen. Email was the common platform for notifications, and still is, but there are many more organizations adoption Slack for day-to-day activity monitoring and building out interesting interactive ways to enable … Read more
Remember Google Buzz? Orkut? Wave? Reader? Google Talk? Then there was Google Picasa…which became photos…so far. There are sites dedicated to what we call the Google Graveyard. This doesn’t even get into the Google Glass, Site Search, Search Appliance and others. I logged into my Google Analytics platform today and found it to be a … Read more
You probably dread the phrase as much as I do. We hear it all the time on a sales call or a product demo: “this is the single pane of glass for you and your team”. The problem is that I’ve been working in the industry a long time and have been using a lot … Read more
You’re being sold snake oil every day in the world of IT. It is about time that we just lay this out honestly. The products that you are buying are not solutions. They are methodologies. Why does this semantic difference matter? It matters because we are blindly putting tools into place under the assumption that … Read more