Magenic Company Blog

There are days I ask myself, “Can you be a bigger geek?” Yesterday was one of those days. After logging onto multiple live blog feeds and video streams from others like me, I was ready for the Keynote from Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference. (WWDC).

Did you feel it yesterday (June 6th)? Did you feel the barricades from the end of the road being torn down? Me neither…but there are now 340 trillion trillion trillion new addresses on the street known as the Internet.

Hello and welcome to the first in a new series of blog posts from the members of the SharePoint practice at Magenic. Magenic has a wide range of SharePoint and application lifecycle management expertise to serve you when you are engaging enterprise development within SharePoint.  One of the key challenges with a team of developers and enterprise development on SharePoint is how to enable the team to effectively work together.  We’ve seen this done well and we’ve also experienced instances that we would love to forget.

Now that the first quarter of 2012 is just about over, and spring is in the air, there’s no better time to take advantage of Magenic’s incredible thought leaders. Take a look at just some of the great things they have been up to lately and what they have in store.

The past week was one of trend analysis around the net and mobile world. As is our nature, when things slow down a bit, this time because of the onset of summer, I guess it’s only natural to get a bit introspective. Of course, if you chuck in the…let’s say…interesting few weeks following the Facebook IPO and all of the analysis surrounding its downward trend, it becomes all the more interesting. (Psst, buy at $15 a share.)

A frequent question for enterprise executives is: why do I need BI? Occasionally, I have to put elaborate presentations together showing what BI is and how it fits each company. However, when it comes to financial services, and more specifically the banking industry, there are only two lines that are really needed: 1. Regulatory Reporting, 2. Risk Management.

Recently, we talked about determining the audience that will be the target of your mobile strategy. As a precursor to determining that audience, building a use case can go miles in helping craft your mobile strategy.

I attended a recent gathering on the topic of “Big Data” sponsored by MinneAnalytics at Medtronic here in Minneapolis. With so much talk about the cloud, mobile, bandwidth, etc. it may be easy to forget that at the core of all of it is data!* That data continues to grow, showing no signs of slowing (obviously) and we are hanging onto all of it.

We talk a lot about mobile strategy around here. Yes, your business needs a mobile strategy. OK, we’re good with that. Just who is it that will use the result of this soon-to-be brilliant mobile strategy though? Who is the audience…user…actor (whatever term you prefer)?

If you’ve ever dedicated a portion of your work life to digging through your company’s monthly telephone or wireless bill (and I’ve got $10 that says if you’re reading this you have), you’ve said, “We can save money here.” Well, you’re right.