Recently our Strategic Partner Channel Manager showed me a clip from a local Denver Pizza Store. Having deployed MVaaS, they were able to view their “workforce” of six effectively stand around for 15 minutes drinking soda while one of the delivery drivers slept on the Make table. Prep areas needed attention as did general cleaning because in a [...]
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Archive for July, 2008
Denver has never claimed to be a bakery-friendly city as altitude tends to complicate the process. We have only a handful of wholesale bakeries and one of them, Gerards, unexpectedly shut their doors yesterday morning.
“It’s because of the economic conditions: high commodity costs; slowness in the food service business, which is who we serve; high fuel [...]
My kids swim, that is what they do. The lessons learned from competing in a sport that requires them to practice at 5:00 a.m. four to six times a week are incredible. But the move that the Colorado State Swimming Organization made, including Paralympians at the Long Course Meters State Meet, in Colorado Springs (July 24-27th) was [...]
You may have read some earlier posts about how we are making some changes to be more customer and market driven. Part of our near term plan was to relaunch the Envysion Video service based on some new capabilities, some large customer wins, and our PCI compliance.
As part of our efforts I’ve spent the last [...]
Yesterday, I posted an article describing the Enterprise Hosted Model of deploying a security application. Today, I will describe the MVaaS model.
The basic difference is that in the above picture, the security application software is not installed at the enterprise. Instead, the application resides in the network, hosted out of a datacenter (referred to as [...]
Occasionally I get the following question from someone thinking about deploying video in their company for the first time: How are the employees going to react and will this create a “big brother” like atmosphere that is counter to our open and trusting culture?
I have a number of responses to this question, ranging from the cold/analytical to [...]
A common question is what is really the benefit of using MVaaS versus simply hosting the software at my enterprise? In other words, why not just buy a software package that supports all the MVaaS features via a web interface, but install it myself in my datacenter?
I am starting today a series of posts that [...]
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The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter used the phrase “creative destruction,” to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are endogenously destroyed and replaced by new ways. In his view, this was part of a cycle of economies going through growth and recession.
We’re not technically in a recession until [...]
“Shrek” is one of my favorite movies. I especially like the exchange between Shrek and Donkey, when Shrek compares Ogres with onions. If you don’t remember the exact dialog, you can get the transcript from The Internet Movie Database imdb.com, a fabulous source for all you movie buffs out there (warning: it’s pretty fun to explore, so [...]
Based on my research of B2B marketing and positioning, there are as many opinions as to whether a tag line is important as there are tag lines. Some marketers believe that tag lines are a throw-away; I believe that’s because most B2B taglines aren’t memorable and/or don’t say anything about the product or service. On the flip side, there [...]
