Technology Evaluation is a useful website for comparing technology and systems.
The company describes itself on its website:
"TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance. TEC has a library of knowledge bases, ranging in content from enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and outsourcing, to financial, health services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and open source, all with data vetted by analysts."

Worth checking out.www.technologyevaluation.com

Technology Evaluation is a useful website for comparing technology and systems.
The company describes itself on its website:
"TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance. TEC has a library of knowledge bases, ranging in content from enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and outsourcing, to financial, health services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and open source, all with data vetted by analysts."

Worth checking out.www.technologyevaluation.com

Technology Evaluation is a useful website for comparing technology and systems.
The company describes itself on its website:
"TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance. TEC has a library of knowledge bases, ranging in content from enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and outsourcing, to financial, health services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and open source, all with data vetted by analysts."

Worth checking out.www.technologyevaluation.com

The Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy

An interview with Michael Porter on the 5 competitive forces that shape strategy and the update to his 1979 article.

An interesting cartoon style intro into the technology and thinking behind Google's Chrome web browser.$0http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html# $0$0$0$0$0The browser has been getting some good reviews and expect it to improve over the coming months. I have tried it and found its simple interface easy to use and it loads pages quickly.$0$0$0$0$0

Animoto is an excellent online tool that lets you create fabulous online videos using existing photos and imagery you have. It will set the video to licensed musis also ensuring you meet no royalty issues.$0$0$0$0check out our animoto videos$0$0http://www.buaconsulting.com/online_business_clients.html$0$0

Google Lively
Google's Lively application has apparently not had the expected impact on the marketplace according to an article in the Economist in August.
BUa Consulting has set up a virtual seminar room using Lively and will begin offering seminars to clients shortly.
While the technology is not perfect with future improvements and the addition of voice (hopefully) at some stage in the future this technology could prove extremely useful

Gartner have released their 2008 Hype Cycle
According to Gartner emerging out of the trough of disillusionment are wikis and corporate blogging while SOA and Location Aware Apps and basic web services are on the slope of productivity and nearing the plateau of productivity.

I thought this video provides a good overview of Web 2.0

McKinsey have released their 2008 Web 2.0 report which will be of interest to businesses wishing to embrace and get benefits from web 2.0 workplace technologies.

McKinsey Report (623 KB)