Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform

What are Content Collaboration Platforms? As defined by Gartner, the content collaboration platform (CCP) market covers a range of products and services that enable content productivity and collaboration. CCPs are aimed at individuals and teams, inside or outside an organization. Additionally, CCPs increasingly support lightweight content management and workflow use cases. Core user functionalities include: … Continue reading “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform”

How we use Slack

Recently, Slack won the office messaging wars. Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride assets,  Atlassian said it will discontinue the two products by Feb. 15, 2019, and exit the communications business. Have you ever heard of Slack? Slack is a collaboration hub that connects … Continue reading “How we use Slack”

Oracle APEX RAD Tool Evaluation

RAD (Rapid Application Development) is a concept of software development that focuses on speed, prototyping & iterative development rather than a formalised, time-consuming methodology. The idea behind RAD is to deliver solutions which are more efficient & meet the user requirements in a more dynamic & accurate way. Working with delivery of prototypes &iterative releases … Continue reading “Oracle APEX RAD Tool Evaluation”

An Overview of MATLAB and other mathematics modelling tools

MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. It is a commercial software owned by MathWorks, and is widely used in teaching and research. Although MATLAB has a campus agreement which grants the University unlimited usage of the core MATLAB product and a limited selection of toolboxes, the yearly subscription costs in excess of £100k. In this … Continue reading “An Overview of MATLAB and other mathematics modelling tools”

Time Recording System Evaluation

Resource planning and managing the supply of suitable resources is critical to the success of delivery. One of the main constraints within IT Services is the lack of the consistent mechanism for tracking resource commitments. Following the PWC survey on IT Service, we hope to adopt a resource management and time recording system to better prioritizing projects … Continue reading “Time Recording System Evaluation”

Viewpoint review

ViewPoint is a customer experience system that can be used to run surveys and to capture customer feedback instantly and in real time using wireless touchscreen platforms. The system offers a number of channels to capture feedback including kiosks, mobile tablets, SMS, online, voice and paper surveys. Once the data has been collected, there is access to … Continue reading “Viewpoint review”

Electronic registration badges review

An electronic registration badge is a tap-to-connect device used to facilitate networking at events such as conferences, workshops or networking events. The badge is used to make connections by tapping two devices together. When the devices are tapped, they exchange information wirelessly with another device or a hub. This allows event organisers to connect, engage and interact with … Continue reading “Electronic registration badges review”

Multi-user mind mapping tools for surface touch table

There are many kinds of mind mapping software currently on the market, from big company development to open source software. However, most of them are still only using the traditional computer input interface – keyboard and mouse, more importantly is that all the devices can only support one user at a time, which create a barrier for … Continue reading “Multi-user mind mapping tools for surface touch table”

Livescribe smartpen review

The Livescribe smartpen is a small computer in the shape of a pen that can record and synchronise handwritten notes and audio using special dotted paper. Once transferred, notes can be replayed, saved, searched and shared with other users via email, Googledocs, Facebook or the Livescribe Desktop. The Livescribe Smartpen could be useful for both, students and … Continue reading “Livescribe smartpen review”