Many golfers don’t understand the difference between their USGA Index and their course handicap. If you play in a league run by a golf club, then you probably don’t have to worry about it. But if you play in a league with a mish mash of people that somehow ended up together, like the one […]
Staff Perspectives
I was recently asked to comment on a business blog about the extraordinary growth of Outsourcing. What are the best ways to make judgments about which contractors to hire?
I follow this topic rather closely because the very nature of outsourced relationships requires file exchange and real-time collaboration among dispersed parties. Of course, that’s the eXpresso […]
I’ve recently become acquainted with Michael Sampson’s blog on “Improving the capability of teams that can’t be together, to work together.”
In a recent post on “The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams” he quotes a study commissioned by Novel that surveyed IT executives on their experience and plans for collaboration software. Not […]
Not long ago ReadWriteWeb wrote correctly that eXpresso expands and extends Excel, noting:
“They extend Excel rather than trying to replace it. That works in the real world. Apart from early adopters with relatively simple spreadsheets, people are comfortable with Excel. It works well, it is extensible, it is easy to use. In an enterprise setting […]
The story goes that a husband asks his wife why she makes a meatloaf, cuts it in half, then puts the halves in a pan side-by-side. She answered that her mother had always done it that way. Now curious herself, she phoned her mother, “Mom why do we cut our meatloaf in half before cooking […]
The SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) marketplace is relatively young and going through dramatic changes every day. The debate rages among the “professional papers”, blogs, and articles on what makes a good SaaS application and how to monetize it. One thing is clear: the old world of shipping software (either with a CD or electronically with a key) […]
People often ask me what differentiates us from other online spreadsheet applications. And as a marketer, the question is welcomed with open arms. Not only is it a good opportunity to position what we do, it provides an opportunity to communicate our core competencies. Here are some points I
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Collaboration is a big deal. It’s how things are built, bought, sold, developed, and maintained. It’s why we have address books, phones, and computers. Collaboration is something we all do.
col·lab·o·rate - To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort. [American Heritage Dictionary]
In the context of work, collaboration is when
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Recently I have had several users ask me about eXpresso’s use of the Microsoft Office Web Components for online viewing and editing of spreadsheets. Particularly, I have been asked if our use of the Office Web Components is a violation of the Microsoft license agreement for this software.
Without getting into too much technical or […]
Without any hard data to support me, I’ll go out on a limb to say that email is probably the most used business application on the planet. But if it’s not, it certainly is the most consuming.
The problem with email being used in business is that it is transactional. You send something out and wait […]
