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Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a Research Director at 451 Research. He has over 20 years of experience in the information management industry, working with a wide variety of end-user organizations and suppliers around the world.
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It has always amused me that we work in an industry that has built up such a bad reputation for overselling that we actually coined the phrase "Shelfware".
To be fair and accurate about it, buyers are just as guilty as sellers here, and they often bulk-buy licences for software and services with little consideration, seldom stopping for a moment to count the real cost or purpose until it's too late.
Over the years buyers have invested heavily in future enterprise rollouts of big business applications, often to find a year or two on that only a very small number (in some cases zero) of the huge volume of licences they paid for ever actually get used. True, the recession brought some long overdue belt buckling, and this chilly economic climate has made a few enterprises look a little more closely at where their budget is going, but overall spending remains profligate.
Indeed the viral growth of seemingly low-cost cloud services is currently driving another surge in reckless spending, and it really is time to put the brakes on and get some control back. I mean, let's be serious: when an enterprise tells me that they have 20,000 SharePoint installations or that they think (they never actually know) that large parts of their organisation have Dropbox I have no reason to doubt them. What I do have reason to doubt though is whether many of those instances are actually in use - and of those that are in use, how many of them serve a useful purpose?
End users can so easily provision their own software instances today that many get a bit carried away. It usually starts with good intentions - a new project for example but once the initial enthusiasm is gone, so too is the use of the new service.
Of course IT carries on paying for it one way or another, they always do, and usually for a very long time indeed. Its a problem most IT departments are acutely aware of, and feel they can do little to resolve, but I believe that will start to change.
(Note: It's worth remembering that when an industry analyst like me says things are just about to change and indicates that they will do so in a year or two it's probably going to take many more years than that in reality.)
But change is on the horizon no matter how distant, and I believe that the coming change will offer the channel some very interesting growth opportunities.
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The software industry: So efficient, we invented shelfware
MEDFORD, NJ and LISBON, PORTUGAL--(Marketwired - Apr 22, 2013) - Watchful Software, a leading provider of data-centric information security solutions, announced today that it will be showcasing its market-leading information security and e-Biometric products this week at Infosecurity Europe 2013 in London. The company will be offering a free Nexus7 to customers able to penetrate their TypeWATCH e-Biometrics solutions at the show.
"Today, sensitive information is all too often lost, leaked and sent where it shouldn't be; hence a CIO's top priority has become stopping this trend. Watchful lets enterprises easily ensure that only those with express authorization can use that data, regardless of where it resides or how it is received," states Charles Foley, Chairman & CEO of Watchful Software.
Watchful Software was named this month to the Red Herring Top 100, a list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures in Europe. The Red Herring team evaluated companies based upon financial performance, technological innovation, management quality and overall business strategy and market penetration, resulting in Watchful Software being named as one of the most promising new companies in Europe. "We believe Watchful Software demonstrates the vision, drive and innovation that define a Red Herring winner," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring.
At the show, Watchful Software will be presenting RightsWATCH -- a layered information protection solution to keep data safe and secure regardless of whether it is in transit or stored inside or outside a secure network perimeter -- and TypeWATCH -- an advanced persistent security solution, using state-of-the-art e-Biometrics, to continuously verify that the people using computer systems are actually the persons that their user ID and password indicate that they should be.
"We'll give everyone the possibility to 'break' TypeWATCH, our industry leading e-biometric technology. We are so sure of its accuracy that if anyone is able to evade its constant protection on a normal PC, that person will win a new Nexus7 on the spot," said Rui Melo Biscaia, Watchful Software's Director of Product Management.
Infosecurity Europe is Europe's number one Information Security event. Featuring over 350 exhibitors, the most diverse range of new products and services, an unrivalled education programme and over 12,400 unique visitors from every segment of the industry, it is considered the most important date in the calendar for Information Security professionals across Europe.
About Watchful Software - http://www.watchfulsoftware.com Watchful Software was formed in 2012 to address the requirement to protect an organization's most critical asset after its people -- its information. The company is staffed by industry executives with decades of systems, software, networking, security, and compliance experience to address the growing need for protecting sensitive and proprietary information against accidental or malicious theft, leakage, or loss.Leveraging key technologies including advanced encryption algorithms, digital rights management, and e-Biometrics, Watchful Software has developed a suite of solutions that ensure only authorized personnel have access to enterprise systems or can handle sensitive information, thereby protecting against the massive economic and competitive damage often done by cyber terrorists and information thieves.
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Watchful Software to Demonstrate Award-Winning Security Technologies at Infosecurity Europe 2013
Moxie Software will now provide its full enterprise social networking (ESN) software for free because the company is convinced that standalone, general-purpose ESN capabilities are a commodity.
The company will charge customers when and if they link its Collaboration Spaces product with other, third-party business applications and systems.
"This supports our business model. Other vendors out there will have to rethink their business model in terms of what they charge for," said Moxie Software CEO and President Tom Kelly.
In the free tier, Moxie Software will place no limits on the product's features available to customers, nor on the number of users and amount of time they spend using the software.
Like other ESN products, Collaboration Spaces provides social media features tailored for workplace use, like employee profiles, activity streams, discussion forums, microblogging, groups and wikis.
Having the opportunity to launch a full-featured ESN system for free lowers the risk for organizations, which can then in time decide to take the next step and link it with third-party systems, like CRM and ERP suites, which yields higher value, Kelly said.
The Collaboration Spaces paid tier starts at $3 per user, per month. It is used by about 600 organizations with a total number of users of around 200,000 people. Customers include Teva Pharmaceutical, Epson and Nationwide Mutual Insurance.
Juan Carlos Perez covers enterprise communication/collaboration suites, operating systems, browsers and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.
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Enterprise social software vendor Moxie goes freemium
BOULDER, Colo., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally (RALY), a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for managing Agile software development, announces a series of free webcasts throughout April and May that discusses many of the key principles and practices covered in the company's forthcoming book -- Agile Business: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing Complexity. In anticipation of the book's June 2013 release at RallyON (Rally's annual user conference), these webcasts offer real-world advice from seasoned Agile experts to help organizations build Agile businesses.
"Agile Business is more than just a savvy guide to the ins and outs of the Agile development process," said Geoffrey Moore, author, Crossing the Chasm. "It is a call to take your game up to a new level where customers are not only satisfied but delighted and where work teams are not only productive but inspired."
Agile Business focuses on Agile from a business perspective, aiming to help readers understand and apply the principles across their organizations. It contains real-world advice from 35 Rally coaches, executives, developers and managers who are widely regarded as thought leaders in Agile and Lean practices.
"If businesses want to become more Agile, they need to throw out the notion that these concepts only apply to the IT department. Agile is about cross-organizational collaboration and communication," said Bob Gower, Agile coach and author of Agile Business. "At Rally, we live and breathe Agile and our goal, through our book and this webcast series, is to turn our ideas, wisdom and years of experience into practical advice that leaders of any sized company can easily apply to their entire business."
In these 45-minute webinars, participants will:
Agile Business webcasts will be held every other Friday at 10:00 a.m. ET until May 31, 2013, with a few of the authors. See the full schedule including information about each webcast's host below:
Watch these archived video webcasts:
Sign up at http://www.rallydev.com/agilebook for these May webcasts and receive pre-release chapters of Agile Business, as well as a complimentary copy of the book on release day:
About Rally Rally Software is a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for managing Agile software development. The Rally Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) platform transforms the way organizations manage the software development lifecycle by closely aligning software development and strategic business objectives, facilitating collaboration, increasing transparency and automating manual processes. Companies use Rally to accelerate the pace of innovation, improve productivity and more effectively adapt to rapidly changing customer needs and competitive dynamics. Rally supports 154,000 paid users and more than 1,000 customers, including 34 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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Rally Software Announces Free Webcasts for Business Leaders on Agile Practices