Brad Howarth‘s new Cover Story for CIO Magazine includes a great reference of the work we’ve been doing with the NSW Department of Planning and their use of Affinity to track the billions of dollars a year in their Major Projects Tracking System.

It was great that John Ross from the Department was able to be to frank and honest with Brad, and we’re looking forward to being able to announce another important intiative we’re in the middle of working on with the Department now…

Today at CeBIT Australia’s Enterprise conference, Geoff McQueen had the pleasure of delivering a presentation which highlighted the main challenge affecting the success of enterprise software implementations: realising effective user adoption.

Looking around at who does user adoption well, and who can teach Enterprise a thing or two, the story of Facebook – with its defined features, platform nature, security model and more – comes to the top of your mind.

This presentation looks at what enterprise software – and the people who purchase, implement and manage it – can learn from the runaway success of Facebook as a user engagement case study.