Entando Technical Series

Following a series of posts to present the various Entando's technical architectural levels and functional:

Entando Technical Series - Part 1
Introduces the slide representing the Entando's Architecture

Entando Technical Series - Part 2
About the Entando Core Services

Governments and Mobile Technologies

New mobile technologies and applications are changing the way people find and use information, data and services. This means that governments need to change the way they interact with employees, citizens, organizations and companies to meet the expectations of end users.
Governments effort aim to benefit from the use of new web-based applications. These functions are now also benefiting from recent developments in mobile and wireless technologies.
Governments must consider the mobile technologies as an opportunity to improve their service delivery and transparency through increased access to government data and information. Entando mobile allows governments of any size to display and access portal contents, data and services of different areas on any android or apple smart device.
Citizens and employees can easily choose which information display and manage them through a user-friendly widget interface. Thanks to an interactive, user-oriented and intuitive experience they can:

• Access and organize portal contents on tablets and smartphones
• Read on the go the latest news updates
• Access documents and government contents from all devices
• Analyze performance with a touch of the screen

The value for Governments is to support mobility of the citizens, employees and companies, allowing them to handle real-time information. For example: crimes, accidents, safety and other public issues (service delivery, healthcare, education, eParticipation and others).
These are some of the reasons why Governments are getting on board.

10 Reasons Why Softawre Projects Fail

I found the following article from CMSWired very interesting:
The Art of SharePoint Success: 10 Reasons Why SharePoint Projects Fail

The article describes the most common causes of SharePoint failure but I think that can be generalized to many projects based on specific software.

Digital Natives ...

The incredible technology development of the last 15-20 years has led to a new generation, born and grown under these particular conditions. Today’s adolescents grew up with a mouse in their hands, swallowed by the digital era of computers, mobiles, videogames, digital music, digital video cameras and so on. This new generation is known as Digital Natives. Digital language is their “native language” in everyday life. According to recent studies, their cerebral structure seems to be different than the so called Digital Immigrants. A Digital Immigrant is a person who has adopted digital technology but hasn’t grown up with it. This distinction is important to understand that digital immigrants have had to get used to this new environment although they maintain their immigrant “accent”.