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Huddle Sync – The world’s first intelligent sync tool for the enterprise
Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by Alastair.
It’s not often that you get to announce a genuine world first, but I am delighted to say that with the launch of the Huddle Sync private beta program, today is one of those days. Here at Huddle, our goal is to revolutionize enterprise content management and collaboration by providing a single secure platform upon which [...]
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5 Ways to Ensure Secure File Collaboration in a Post-WikiLeaks World
Posted on 07. Feb, 2012 by Alastair.
With data growing exponentially and individuals within organizations using personal endpoint devices for business use it makes sense that file security is now one of the top priorities for IT admins. For organizations that enable file collaboration with sensitive documents — especially large governmental organizations that are still reeling from the sting of WikiLeaks — [...]
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Huddle: Breaking down the barriers to cloud collaboration
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Alastair.
At Huddle, we’re big believers in the fact that collaboration isn’t just about working with the people sitting at the desk next to you, or even teams in other departments, it is about sharing information with your entire business community – internal teams, customers, partners, suppliers and contractors. One of the challenges faced by organizations [...]
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Huddle unlocks the knowledge in your inbox and integrates with VMware Zimbra
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by Alastair.
At Huddle, we’ve always insisted that, while email is a great communication tool, it is a terrible collaboration tool. If you’ve ever tried to get feedback on a document or presentation from teams across your entire organization, you’ll be familiar with the pain of emails going back and forth, clogging up your inbox! For enterprises [...]
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Project Management – techniques and methodologies
Posted on 17. Nov, 2011 by Alastair.
In its simplest form project management is the co-ordination of a company’s business into smaller, bite-sized chunks – ‘projects’ – which involve communication and cooperation across different parts of an organization. But since the advent of project management in the early 60s, it has been an area of business that has seen a number of [...]
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Project management resources: Three great books about project management
Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by Alastair.
It is safe to say that when it comes to choosing reading matter for a summer holiday, project management books rarely make the cut. But that’s not to say there aren’t some incredibly useful books out there, which cover everything from project management basics to the very best project management tools needed to get the [...]
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Five simple steps to project management:
Posted on 03. Nov, 2011 by Alastair.
It’s interesting the different approaches that people take to dealing with deadlines and project time management. Some are uber-efficient, list-making autons that never miss a deadline, are hugely organized and ensure the rest of the team are fully in line too. Whilst others have a more haphazard approach; they don’t (or rarely) miss deadlines but [...]
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Project planning: How to properly plan a project
Posted on 27. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
Planning and preparation are the least glamorous, but most important aspects of any project. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin and he makes an excellent point. Project planning is hugely important and if you get it wrong or fail to do it thoroughly enough, then whatever project you are [...]
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Storing your files in the cloud
Posted on 24. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
The sheer volume of files used in modern business can be bewildering at times. Word documents, spreadsheets, databases and PowerPoint have been around for decades now, but have been joined in everyday use by jpeg, mpeg, tif, gif and png to name just a small selection. The rise of those image and video files has [...]
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Technology and its role in effective knowledge management
Posted on 17. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
With the best will in the world, information flow across an organization can often be fragmented. Even the most meticulously organized person can leave knowledge and content on their PC or mobile, ‘filed’ in their inbox or a pile of paper next to their desk or even in a dusty, un-used part of their brain. [...]
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The cloud – So secure it’s trusted by government
Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
The sheer volume of files used in modern business can be bewildering at times. Word documents, spreadsheets, databases and PowerPoint have been around for decades now, but have been joined in everyday use by jpeg, mpeg, tif, gif and png to name just a small selection. The rise of those image and video files has [...]
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SPC11: Huddle’s highlights and marching to the beat of our drum
Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
Yesterday was a big day for Huddle. Not only did we announce another record quarter and the addition of Simon O’Kane to the Huddle team, we decided to go and make a lot of noise at Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference #SPC11 . For those of you who missed the action, take a look at some of the highlights [...]
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Another record quarter, the addition of a Salesforce exec to the team and taking on SharePoint
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
Today is a big day for the Huddle team – and I’m not just talking marching bands. With the market for cloud collaboration increasing exponentially, we are delighted to report another record quarter and the fact that we’re on track to triple sales year-on-year. It also gives me great pleasure to officially welcome Simon O’Kane, [...]
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Taking on SharePoint – and having some fun with it!
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Alastair.
As many of you are already aware, Huddle hasn’t been shy about taking on the big boys and going head-to-head with SharePoint. We are firm believers that expensive legacy ICT systems, such as SharePoint, are no longer meeting the requirements of end users and IT departments. In fact, I’m not convinced they have ever met [...]
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What’s the best file sharing tool for your business?
Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by Alastair.
In basic terms, file sharing is simply the distribution of files to other people. When choosing the best file sharing service for your business there are a number of options to consider, but thankfully several of those can be discounted almost immediately. Snail mail and couriers still have a place in business but the idea [...]
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Taking on the big boys…
Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by Alastair.
At Huddle, we’re no strangers to throwing down the gauntlet to tech giants. It can be daunting, challenging and down-right scary when you are up against a company with a bigger reputation, that’s more established and is in fact one of the most recognizable brands in the world. But you’ve gotta love a challenger. I [...]
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The benefits to working in the cloud
Posted on 22. Sep, 2011 by Alastair.
Believe it or not, the basic concept of cloud computing has been around since the 1960s, when Douglas Parkhill’s book The Challenge of the Computer Utility was first published. Parkhill wrote extensively about the internet and the provision of computing as a utility, and can almost serve as a blueprint for the cloud computing we [...]
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Living in the information age
Posted on 15. Sep, 2011 by Alastair.
Never before has there been as much information in the world as there is now. At the end of August 2011, Worldwidewebsize.com claimed the indexed Web contained at least 11.94 billion pages, a mind-boggling volume of data. The same is true within enterprises, with the growth of Web 2.0 technologies in the business world seeing [...]
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The Collaboration Economy
Posted on 03. Aug, 2011 by Alastair.
Even as recently as the 1990s, collaboration in the workplace was something you only really did with the people you sat with. Yes, you could email colleagues in other locations and go through things with them over the phone, but neither email nor the telephone are true collaboration tools. Now we live in the era [...]
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Equipping the mobile workforce
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by Alastair.
I read a great piece in Computer Business Review last month that looked at the growing number of mobile and remote workers in Europe. According to the survey mentioned in the article, 32 per cent of the typical workforce now works remotely. There are so many of us working from home or on the move [...]
