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Who would have thought you would read this sort of comment from Forbes after recent years:
Tech stocks are rising Friday as investors continue to look for safe havens from uncertainty in the financial sector.
Forbes are commenting on content management vendor Open Text rising 24% in one day after announcing strong results. What a roller coaster tech companies have had in the past 10 years!
Ultimately a Web Office suite is a combination of productivity, publishing and collaboration features. A Web Office both embraces the functionality of desktop office suites (e.g. Microsoft Office) and extends it by using Web Native features.
In June this year, Gartner analyst Nikos Drakos updated some market definitions so that the "integrated collaboration" market is now the "collaboration and social software market" and flagged their intention to start producing a magic quadrant.
It is not completely clear to me but Nikos appears to have changed the name of the market again to the "enterprise social software" market and released a report sizing the market in July. Regardless, the report is interesting because it gives us all some numbers we can point to... with a strong 41.7% CAGR:
The enterprise social software market is projected in 2011 to grow from US$ 226 million in 2007 to more than US$ 707 million.
Enterprise social software is forecast to have compound annual revenue growth of 41.7% through 2011.
This week I found myself telling several people that they have to check out this video from the UQ Law Revue... so here it is. A very funny parody on the March of the Penguins for engineers, Australians and anybody familiar with the University of Queensland:
The market for lightweight enterprise software of the collaboration/social variety is heating up:
Portland, OR-based open-source enterprise collaboration software maker Jive Software has raised $15M in first-round funding led by Sequoia Capital. Several sources speculate that the company's revenues are over $15M per year, more than double last year's revenues. The company also says that it has over 1600 customers and it charges $4K-$30K for its collaboration server and $2K to $15K for its forums server. Clients include: Nokia, Deloitte & Touche USA, Delta Air Lines and Turner Broadcasting. That's all pretty impressive for a company that had bootstrapped to date.
$15M in funding for a company already turning over $15M is a lot of fuel, and from Sequoia no less.
Wow. Today I had a meeting with Aiko Fushido from Japan Venture Partners in which she introduced their approach and capabilities for entering the Japanese market. I was pleasantly surprised when she wished me a happy birthday and asked if enjoyed New York. Kudos for tracking down my blog Aiko!
In the past few weeks I have been chipping away at making Planet Australia a reality.
I know I could have just taken Planet Planet or Sam Ruby's Planet Venus and tweaked it to achieve what I was looking for but I wanted to get my hands dirty with some new technology.
So far I am using Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds into a single feed. It has proved to be useful, simple and flexible. My only concern is whether it will scale to dozens of feeds and the millions of viewers I am hoping for (sic). I am assuming Yahoo! has thought about some of these issues so we will see how it goes.
To consume the data I am using Yahoo! Pipes' JSON output and, at the moment, I am parsing it directly on the page using JavaScript. To retrieve the JSON feed and render the content onto the page using the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library.
In fact I am doing everything in JavaScript at the moment for no other reason than I thought it would be interesting to see how far I get. So far so good with the only server-side code I am running being a simple PHP proxy to the Pipes data to get around cross-site scripting permissions.
Now that I have the basics in place I might actually look at whether I move some of the code to the server-side to help with a fallback mode. I might want to look at Planet Australia on my Blackberry and its stupid default browser appears to support only the very basics of HTML.
Below is a screen shot of how things appear at the moment. The only tab working at the moment is "Companies". I would like to get People and an "All" tab working before I launch but that won't be too hard. The graphic design could be tweaked a bit to be more Aussie too.
If you have any companies/people you would like to see listed let me know.
I ended up in New York City over the weekend for my 30th birthday surprise. It was my first trip to New York and we enjoyed seeing all the sights - Rockefeller Center, Empire State, Wall Street, Ground Zero, harbor cruise, Statue of Liberty and more. Can't wait to go back sometime soon!
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