Category Archives: Architecture

“Chairman’s Opening Remarks” from SMI ELN Conference in London

By Simon Coles | Published: January 27, 2010
I’m chairing the first day of the SMI ELN Conference in London today. Which truth be told isn’t something I enjoy but hopefully I can add something. Anyway, you have to give a 10 minute presentation talking about wider industry issues and I thought it was appropriate to draw people’s attention to what’s happening in the [...]
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Brief thoughts on the future of scientific UIs

By Simon Coles | Published: December 22, 2009
I’m not a great fan of the term “ELN” despite the name of this blog, only because it means too many different things to many different people. As such it confuses things rather than aids communication. Having said that, whilst I believe we’ve done a really good job in PatentSafe replacing the corporate aspects (record keeping, [...]
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SaaS: Shelfware as a service? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

By Simon Coles | Published: October 26, 2009
Interesting perspective on the whole SaaS debate on the ZDNet Between the Lines blog in their post SaaS: Shelfware as a service?. Basically SaaS is not a magic bullet for enterprise apps, the problems associated with large complex software can’t be magicked away just because someone else runs the software for you. Our hosted products and SaaS [...]
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Who chooses the collaboration tools?

By Simon Coles | Published: October 17, 2009
Andrew McAfee is spot on: “McAfee’s Hypothesis: Within organizations, collaboration technologies are dictated by the most powerful person involved in the collaboration.”
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My “Are ELNs doomed?” Presentation at IQPC

By Simon Coles | Published: September 30, 2009
Our marketing dept signed me up to do a presentation to the general session at IQPC in Brussels, with the rather provocative title “Are ELN projects Doomed?”. Um, thanks guys. No real guidance on what to say, but an expectation it will be provocative! I’ve become increasingly concerned that what’s said in public forums (e.g. articles, [...]
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