Do you really want to worry about customizing email and word processing? You give up a little, but you can get back a lot.
(Source: CIO Journal, Google CIO Ben Fried Says Cloud Tipping Point Is At Hand)
Using the cloud to focus on your company’s core competencies by removing layers of customization and complexity.
…the important battlefield is not the application. It’s the data.
(Source: ZDNet, Google Drive will help kill Microsoft Office)
I agree it’s more about the data than it is about the applications.
But I think beyond just the data, it’s the ability to access the data – for me, my partners, my clients, etc.
I’ve been using Google Docs for a long time and have grown accustomed to it’s simplicity and ease of access. When I want to document something, then share it out, it’s really simple to do that. With the addition and integration of Google Hangout, sharing and collaborating is literally a click away.
I recently tried Office 365 from a small business perspective.
The Daily Scrum, Episode 4 is now available for download in iTunes! In this episode Wil goes solo and talks about three specific topics based on Ken Schwaber’s book and other Agile resources around the web.
Touting efficiency, news-readers give users the opportunity to scan hundreds of articles in a few moments and immediately delve deeper into the most interesting content. News-reading services do all the heavy lifting by aggregating the stories that match your interests, giving you more time to spend reading the news you care about rather than searching for it.
Beyond increasing efficiency, news-readers also allow for easy sharing of any stories of interest with your community of colleagues or friends. … Tablet apps make sharing simple, while still driving traffic back to the original source.
(Source: TechCrunch, How Tablets Are Transforming Business Intelligence)
I would throw Instapaper, Spool, etc. into this bunch. While aggregating and presenting the data is important, the ability to read and react to the news is equally important.
The Daily Scrum, Episode 3 is now available for download in iTunes.
In this episode we continue talking with Mike Maheu, a noted Agile trainer and evangelist. Mike talks us through the Agile process as it relates to teams working in the same physical location versus those teams who are distributed in different locations throughout the world.