CIO. Today Microsoft starts shipping Office for iPad, finally plugging the gap in its portfolio that’s been filled by popular document viewers and editors like QuickOffice and SlideShark.
Does this come too late for Microsoft? As much as naysayers like to proclaim Office is dying, people still overwhelmingly use it at home and at work. Office is supported at virtually every organization. Our survey of Forrester clients at the end of last year showed strong strides by Google Docs with 13% of firms using it.* However, the caveat is companies that have gone Google are using Docs to complement Office with collaboration features and mobile support, not to replace it.
You could argue how much incremental revenue Microsoft lost out on, but I don’t think the lack of native Office apps has caused Microsoft to cede ground to other office productivity suites on the PC, where the vast majority of content is still created. Is Microsoft really multi-platform now? Content & Collaboration.
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Video Killed the Radio Star. But in this case, it's Apple's iMessage service that's killing the SMS cash cow. For those of you haven't experienced it yet, check out this picture. It's my riding buddy Joe sending me a text message, or in this case, an iMessage. The blue box is the giveaway -- it came over Apple's texting service, not AT&T's SMS service. So, let's do the math: 100 million iOS users. Sending 50 messages a month to another iOS user. Enterprise Information Management Represents the Future of Data. Andrew White — A member of the Gartner Blog Network. Andrew White Research VP 8 years at Gartner 22 years IT industry Andrew White is a research vice president and agenda manager for MDM and Analytics at Gartner.
His main research focus is master data management (MDM) and the drill-down topic of creating the "single view of the product" using MDM of product data. He was co-chair… Read Full Bio More and how to use and abuse analytics and “insight” by Andrew White | April 9, 2014 | 5 Comments Two stories in the press, same newspaper, explaining two sides of a many sides coin.
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