SlideShare Branded Channels
In the world of business there’s rarely a case of TMI, unless you happen to be Toyota. Oversharing is the rule of the road, especially when it comes to PowerPoint presentations, the lingua franca for all who toil in the trenches of commerce. SlideShare, the world’s largest community for sharing business presentations and documents, has been a faithful business sidekick for business since 2006. You can upload PowerPoint, Open Office and Keynote presentations and Word and Open Office documents. You can share them on your blog or website, or send a URL by email. Transcripts of your files will be indexed by Internet search engines and enhance the search engine ranking of your presentations and documents. Since the site is searchable by then outside world, it’s a great and inexpensive - read free - way to spread the word. Well, a good thing has just gotten better, Slideshare has launched a new Channels service to provide custom-branded micro sites that businesses can use to showcase presentations, whitepapers and webinars to a professionals audience. Some of the early adopters include Adobe, Ogilvy, Microsoft and Razorfish Marketing.
Features:
- Share PowerPoint, Open Office and Keynote presentations as well as Word and Open Office documents
- Can embed your presentation/document in a blog or website
- Has apps to share via Facebook, Linkedin and XING
See how ReadWriteWeb uses Slideshare branded channels.
How to Calculate the Project SPI
By: pmhut.com
You have a feel for whether your project is on schedule or not because you are the project manager and you have your ear to the ground. Slipping the beginning of QA testing or a key iteration end date will tell us that we are behind schedule, but does meeting those key dates mean that we’re on schedule?
What Is a Requirement in Software Projects?
By: pmhut.com
What is a requirement? If you check any English dictionary, you will probably find a definition along the lines of “something wanted or needed”.
The New One-Stop Shop: Integrated Workflow Relationships
Image courtesy of Tetra-Solutions.com
By Lee Simmons
In technology, integrated workflow relationships can take on any number of interpretations. Adobe’s recently completed acquisition of Omniture and Critical Path’s partnership with Ilex, however, indicate that the concept is an increasingly important part of the software providers’ tool belts.
Technology companies are evolving into full-scale, one-stop shops for creating and selling software products. As a result, some of the largest players are focused on measuring the effectiveness of their products. That has made vendors like Omniture and Ilex especially enticing targets.
Adobe’s $1.8 billion purchase of Omniture exemplifies the software giant’s interest in analytics. Adobe’s name is synonymous with content creation tools such as Flash and Creative Suite, while Omniture trades in Web analytics, measurement and optimization tools.
According to Adobe, the deal streamlines “the creation and delivery of relevant content and applications,” while the optimization enables “advertisers and advertising agencies, publishers and e-tailers to realize greater ROI from their digital media investments and improve their end users’ experiences.”
“With the acquisition officially closed, we will now begin work on key product integrations to deliver an unmatched solution for ‘completing the loop,’ from content creation through optimization,” writes Adobe president and CEO Shantanu Narayen in his company blog. “We have some exciting plans for delivering greater ROI to publishers, advertisers, designers and developers: integration with the Flash platform, integration with the Creative Suite tools and integration of Omniture solutions into our multi-screen strategy to name a few.”
Adobe gets to diversify by adding a scalable software-as-a-service platform that generates more than 1 trillion transactions each quarter. Expansion is another benefit: Adobe’s addressable market and potential in the global analytics and optimization markets are immediately boosted with Omniture, giving the company a stronger leg to stand on in the fast-growing online advertising, e-commerce and digital media markets.
But acquiring simply for the sake of expansion and diversification tells only part of the story. Increasingly, more companies are under pressure to measure, optimize and monetize the online experience. This is where Adobe hopes to complete the loop, as Narayen says, by easing customers’ Web transitions from content creation through optimization. In other words, giving consumers a turnkey solution has become indispensable.
While its market is different from Adobe’s, Critical Path’s tie-up with Ilex aims for similar targets. The partnership deal combines Critical Path’s Memova software applications with Ilex’s identity and access management software offerings in an effort to integrate and expand.
Critical Path’s Memova suite now incorporates Ilex’s Identity and Access Management suite to improve operational efficiencies, reduce security risks and streamline compliance, all while reducing the cost to the user. To accomplish this, the suite provides solutions on three primary levels: data management, with the ability to streamline information management processes across an organization; identity and access control, with the ability to centralize and automate secure access to information; and business process management, with the ability to easily and quickly respond to productivity and operational issues.
The Ilex suite’s additional features were a major draw to Critical Path, according to Ian Corden, a marketing and solutions manager for Critical Path’s Northern Europe and US markets. “The identity market is much more vibrant,” he tells DMB. “The key thing is what difference it makes for the user.”
From a workflow processing perspective, the addition of Ilex to Critical Path’s Memova suite enables users to ensure exactly who is in charge of what process, Corden says. For instance, for the organization that institutes a restructuring effort, the suite can be utilized to ensure that organizational systems properly continue managing the workflow process.
For a company that lists Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense among its customers, Corden says Critical Path is keenly interested in making its client roster fully capable. “Technology changes so fast,” he says. “Capability is key. You can’t invent everything yourself.”
Gearing Up for the Project Management Market Explosion
By: ecommercetimes.com
Project management and its cousin, portfolio management, together comprise a nearly $3 billion market — and it’s set for a major growth spurt. The global recession prompted governments around the world to funnel stimulus funds into public works projects, and there’s a pressing need to manage them efficiently and effectively. That’s where the latest PM and PPM technologies come into play.
What Makes Projects Successful?
By: pmhut.com
The Standish Group’s CHAOS report, as well as other studies on Project Success and Project Failure, have revealed at least ten factors that contribute to a project’s success.
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