Dear all,

I very glad to announce, for all that didn’t know of course, that I’m getting happier everyday with Microsoft, because they are getting lighter and understanding what will be the future. It was and it will be a difficult path for them to cross but I think that it will worth it.

Another step was made by starting to not ignore enterprise 2.0 (and maybe other buzz 2.0). They first started to put SharePoint, SQL Server and BizTalk on the “Cloud”. Now, with Microsoft Office Labs they are building (testing the prototype) an internal Facebook-like social network that will be deployed with SharePoint plus office. SharePoint already have wikis and other social apps but it was not a true social Intranet and it wasn’t very used – at least in Portugal.

I know some cases that the organizations stopped buying Intranets and started to use “Facebooks” (a business model Platform as a Service) because more than 80% of their employees were using FaceBook. But the “Cloud” services have some handicaps and one of the biggest is security (can I trust on the Cloud?!?). Organizations are using FaceBook as an Intranet but the files are still staying on the shell (not in the Cloud). I think that is for now and Microsoft too! For the time being Microsoft will upgrade all (all that are possible) their products toward Software plus Services business model.

For internal marketing this “tool” will be great, because big organizations already understood that knowing their employees brings fantastic inputs to the chain of value and ultimately to the leadership and motivation field.

I promise to approach Software plus Services, Marketing 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, etc 2.0 more deeply soon!!!

Hi all,

The bell rang. And I wasn’t very pleased about open the door to anyone. However, I went to the first floor of my house and take a pick on the window. Ohhh… DHL personal… My book… I ran to the door and picked the box.

Finally the one of the biggest missing peace for my look-a-like thesis has arrived: The Big Switch.

I’ll share in this blog several pieces and thoughts about SaaS\Cloud-Computing and surely lots of them will be referenced to this book.

Viva a todos,

Para que o meu tema fosse aprovado no âmbito de Projecto\Estágio (PESTI) foi necessário elaborar o enquadramento do tema SaaS\Cloud-Computing.

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Hi all,

I announce it in Twitter that I’m making a theoretical work (look-a-like thesis) about SaaS\Cloud-Computing. Therefore, I’ve decided to use my blog to post my reflections and acquire knowledge about the issue.

However, I can’t promise that all my post or even the most part of them will be written in English because I’ll perform my “thesis” in Portuguese. Off course, for me is quite easier to write in Portuguese than in English because it’s my first language.

Settle down a few points for the SaaS\Cloud-Computing writing:

· Everything that I’ll write it’s not a exact science;

· I’m studying the issue so it’s possible that I can contradict myself a few times;

· There aren’t many documentation about Cloud-Computing, most part of it it’s picked up on technical blogs;

I hope you enjoy my writing but be extra careful. In the end maybe I publish my look-a-like thesis here.