Comments for Roman Stanek's Push-Button Thinking

Comment on About by Carrie Taaca

Carrie Taaca — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:06:57 +0000

Hi Roman,

I hope this note finds you well. I was browsing through some of the people who are connected with Clayton Christensen on Twitter and ran across you. I thought perhaps you might be interested in receiving a complimentary copy of a bestselling business innovation book from one of our clients.

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You can learn more about it and see reviews from the VP of Onstar, CEO of P.F. Chang’s, and others at http://www.BusinessGenome.com

If you think her book sounds interesting, which I hope you do, just shoot me back a mailing address and we’ll drop a copy in the mail to you this week. No obligation and you are not being added to any sort of “list.” I am a real person, simply outreaching to those who we thought might share a common interest. : )

Thanks and I appreciate your time,

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Outreach Coordinator, Higher Level Group

Comment on Is an Enterprise Twitter on the Horizon? by Renat Zubairov (@zubairov)

Renat Zubairov (@zubairov) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:45:43 +0000

Interesting thoughts, Roman. However I don’t think Twitter-like functionality will bring that much of additional value to become for an organization. That might be the primary reason behind Twitter not entering that market.

BTW we also use Yammer in our company, however initial interest and peak in usage quickly fade away, however many of Yammer users in our company continue to use Twitter. I think the Google+ approach with Circles could be of greater use in assumption Google+ will replace Twitter some day.

Once that will happen I think Google+ ‘Enterprise’ circle could be an interesting option and would definitely need all ‘enterprise’ features you suggested in your post.

P.S. WordPress twitter authentication (for commenting here) requires quite long and scary list of permissions on twitter account.

Comment on Is an Enterprise Twitter on the Horizon? by Subraya Mallya

Subraya Mallya — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:32:07 +0000

Roman,
Interesting thought and you thankfully ended with a thought consistent with mine. On the front-end of it, in providing a messaging/social interaction side, I don’t think there is a lot of interest for Twitter. I do however think Twitter has opportunity to enter the enterprise at the back-end where they provide rich analytics (interesting that I am writing this on the blog of the guy who runs a BI company . They could become the source of demand signal, sentiments etc by providing a richer platform for enterprises with all the historical data (a social search in a way) given that they are the only ones who have access to the entire corpus of data that passes through their hosepipe. This could be the social version of DemandTec for lack of a better analogy. People like GoodData could front end that layer to provide the BigData analytics – what do you think?

Subraya Mallya

Comment on Forecast Bleak for Bad UIs by David Smooke (@DavidSmooke)

David Smooke (@DavidSmooke) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:01:12 +0000

As you write of the evolutionary demands upon of SAP, IBM and Oracle, I can’t help but think there is so much to learn from Apple’s resurgence, circa 1997. Apple Designer Jony Ive’s explained the philosophy:

“Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a physical style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the simplicity, to understand everything about it and how it is manufactured. You have to deeply understand the essence of the product in order to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

This mantra is as true to User Interface as it is to Desktops.

I work at SmartRecruiters, where we strive to make recruiting software so simple that your grandma can use it. Hiring made easy. http://www.smartrecruiters.com/

Comment on Meet the new BI. Not the same as the old BI. by Ed B.

Ed B. — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:26:34 +0000

Roman, great post, as always, and congratulations to you and the team on this awesome milestone!

Comment on The S.O.L. Moment for BI Hobbyists by Meet the new BI. Not the same as the old BI. « Roman Stanek's Push-Button Thinking

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:01:57 +0000

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Comment on BI at SaaS Speed by Roman Stanek

Roman Stanek — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:41:37 +0000

It should be fixed. Thanks!

Comment on BI at SaaS Speed by Marc Gedansky

Marc Gedansky — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:52:12 +0000

Roman – great article, congratulations on your success. One small request – the link to the “Top 10 Laws” is broken, and I’d like to read the article.

Best Regards,

Marc

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Comment on Please Don’t Let the Cloud Ruin SaaS by SaaS

SaaS — Sat, 21 May 2011 22:25:09 +0000

Well, sometimes we have to take the good with the bad. There are those out there who have no concern for the client and those few make it hard for the rest. We just need to do a better job to compensate for the bad ones. Thanks for the post.