Baresich: From my perspective, I think the next couple of years are less about specific new technologies or trends, and more about the way in which the new technologies that have been introduced are made user friendly for the enterprise.
When Dropbox announced earlier today it had bought CloudOn, a tool for editing Microsoft Office documents on your iPad, it represented another step in Dropbox's attempt to become more friendly to the enterprise.
Wayne Rash writing on eWeek agrees saying it might not beat Microsoft in the enterprise, but the new enterprise-friendly features certainly enable it to hold its own.
Though there's an obvious tie-in with Amazon's own Kindle Fire, which has been upgraded in recent months to include more enterprise-friendly features, the WorkSpaces iPad application launched this past December is likely going to be more heavily used in by the enterprise customers at present, given that 94% of the Fortune 500 and over 85% of the Global 500 are testing or deploying iPads.
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill has been put forward by business secretary Vince Cable as a measure to help Britain's struggling businesses and to make Britain more "enterprise-friendly".
When Salesforce's enterprise-friendly social collaboration platform Chatter was announced last Fall, we focused on the social features and connectivity it could bring to the enterprise.
Tiger Pistol, an Australian startup offering social media marketing tools that it describes as both "small business friendly" and "enterprise powerful", is coming out of its closed beta test today and launching to the public.
Specifically, he cites the investor-friendly Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), which he says is helping to mitigate the relative lack of early-stage capital that still exists this side of the pond compared to the U.S. and despite the "buzz" currently surrounding the London tech scene in particular.
The atmosphere was one of friendly enterprise — a palpable sense of human progress.
It is redefining the concept of a happy marriage as a friendly enterprise where passion takes a back seat in the car, right next to the children.
Now, he is in the business of scouring the city's landfills and trash cans to reclaim some of that waste and pave the way to a more environmentally friendly enterprise.
