CIO
What would you do if you could give your employees 8% of their work week back? Or if you could make them 25% more productive? “[Social] technologies, which create value by improving productivity across the value chain, could potentially contribute $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in annual value across the four sectors.” (The Social Economy, McKinsey 2012) (Read more…)
IT Manager
As an IT Manager, finding ways to pull together various system is always a challenge. Sure, ETL tools solve the part of the data synchronization question, but for end users the workflow of jumping from application to application is a useability challenge. User adoption is by far the number one issue when it comes to defining success with an software deployment project, so how can you as an IT Manager help show the value to the users of using loosely integrated solutions versus less flexible and higher cost full suite solutions. (Read more…)
Developer
The OpenSocial Foundation releases a community defined set of APIs and specifications that allow an 3rd-party application developers to consistently implement and build applications that:
- Accelerate deployment using a common component model for surfacing and embedding applications
- Leverage a common Javascript API that developer can use to access social features and related data to existing applications
- Common REST APIs to access, create and update social data
- Open and interoperable with existing frameworks and programming languages (PHP, Node, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, etc)
