Archive for May, 2008

Thank you for your feedbacks !

May 29th, 2008 by Yves | Posted in BeeBole, General | No Comments »
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We are very pleased to say that, after the release of our first screens, we have received some really good feedbacks.

Some of you are enthusiasts, others have given a lot of good ideas that we are now analyzing and studying.

One downside reported by some of you was that the demo itself was not easy to understand.

We will work on a new demo including some of your comments and will present it in a more user friendly way where roles and functionality will be better described.

So, more to come very soon !

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BeeLit – First Prototype Screens Available

May 20th, 2008 by Yves | Posted in General | 3 Comments »
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After some headaches, brainstormings and hard work, our first prototype screens are there !

First, one of the views to manage your activities and your expenses :

BeeLit Timesheet

The place where you will create your invoices, pre-filled with customer data, timesheets and expenses data, … :

BeeLit Invoice

An example about how you will be able to customize the colors of your interface :

Branding

We also have a full prototype demo available online. If you haven’t received the URL and are interested in helping us shaping the solution, just leave a comment down here and I will send it to you.

And Salesforce created the Web 3.0

May 8th, 2008 by Yves | Posted in General | No Comments »
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I came up this morning on this article covering the last big Salesforce event, Dreamforce Europe and how Marc Benioff, new Salesforce CEO just created his own version of Web 3.0.

I know people try to create marketing momentums with nice buzz words such as Web 2.0. I must say, I don’t really like the concept and as said by Josh Catone here, it’s my personal opinion that there is no such thing as Web 3.0 or Web 2.0, but just the Web and what we make of it.

Something does strike me though:

“One of the most striking aspects of Benioff’s new message is that it’s no longer about trying to get everyone using Salesforce.com’s platform. Showing a slide with logos from 21 different PaaS providers, he acknowledges the emerging diversity of the PaaS landscape: “The hallmark of all these platforms of a service is that different ones serve different markets and different developers.” Facebook serves the consumer, Amazon targets LAMP stack developers, Google App Engine is for Python developers, while Force.com serves the enterprise market, he explains.“

So, is this the next big evolution? Platforms for developers?

Even if you don’t agree with the term Web 2.0, you can accept that the web evolved from a content place created by IT aficionados and experts to a participative model where all Internet users are able to communicate, share and create their own content.

So, if there is a next big move, shouldn’t it be again around end-users, and not just developers. Shouldn’t it be about empowering them with an innovative and participative platform?

At BeeBole, we believe that the future of Application-Platform-as-a-Service (APaaS as defined by Gartner) should be about freedom for both. It should be about freedom for developers (providing an environment that is not locking them in) and freedom for users through extended functionality choices and interface configuration without the usual complexity that comes with these kind of choices of configuration possibilities.

We will certainly keep you posted with more very soon.

Listening to Customers – Looking for Reviewers

May 6th, 2008 by Yves | Posted in BeeBole, General | 1 Comment »
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There is a simple truth in the software world, which is, there is no better person than the customer to define their needs. Of course, then, there are the developers that will try to translate this technically speaking. But it will never succeed if customers are not involved.

As a matter of fact, we believe in a participative model. We believe that listening to you at all time is the way to create the best solution for BeeLit.

We have already a few friends that will help us shape our solution but we are also looking for external reviewers. People we don’t know. People from other spheres that could be interested in using our tool in the future or just interested in helping us.

So, what are we looking for?

BeeLit is a solution designed to help freelancers and SME in administrative tasks such as Time tracking, Expenses management and Invoicing.

This tool is a perfect tool for any SME active in the services industry (IT consultants, Web designers, Lawyers, Architects, Engineers, Journalists, Consultants, and many more).

If you are among those or have any friend in such a company, preferably an SME or a freelancer, we will be very interested in listening to their feedbacks on our prototype screens.

Leave us a comment down here if you would like to help.

Thank you.