Blog entries

Project Management Meets BPM

Juan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:33:28 +0100

After more than two years of very hard work developing eTask.it, we're pleased to share with all of you the very good traction we're experiencing on our commercial efforts. Some examples are:

1. Pensemos Soluciones de Industria: A very innovative SW Factory, committed to collaborative development efforts has found eTask.it to be a key...

Survey Finds IT Directors Unimpressed with Service Providers Quality

Juan — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0100

IT directors are far from happy with the service they receive from their third party IT service providers. That’s one of the main conclusions to be drawn from a survey we commissioned to research company Winmark, to find out more about the relationships between IT directors and their suppliers.

IT directors scored their service providers less than 5 out of 10 when asked the question: “In general in the last three years, how would you rate your third party IT service provid...

Do You Have a Collaboration Strategy?

Juan — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:00:00 +0100

A business collaboration strategy was once a nice-to-have. No more. Even in the current economic climate, 37% of organizations surveyed in Forrester's Q4 2008 enterprise and SMB software survey consider implementing a collaboration strategy important in 2009. -“Benchmarking Your Collaboration Strategy”- Forrester November 2009.

Check out this presentation to find out more:

Redefining Business CollaborationView more presentations from Juan Mogollo...

The 3 P's: People, Processes and Partners

Juan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Some one recently wrote to us asking "So what's your Value Proposition?" Well... here it goes:

eTask harnesses the global trend of Web 2.0 collaboration to make IT professional services companies more effective and more profitable.

In the professional services industry, knowledge has traditionally been seen as power. However, in the new norma...

How IT Services Companies Can Leverage Cloud Computing

Juan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100

We listened to your popular request, and so we're posting a recording of our February Webinar. Please click below on the 'Read More' and 'Play' links and enjoy!

Webinar: How IT Services Companies can leverage cloud computing technologies from eTask.it on Vimeo.

eTask.it teams with Cast Iron to offer Integration Capabilities

Juan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Integration is a key component in the SaaS world. It is critical to do it right from the start as to avoid problems that were common back in the old days of licensed software model. And as Robert Mitchell advises us in his Computerworld article, this is tricky but manageable.

That is why we decided to tea...

Cloud Computing Predictions for 2010

Juan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Cloud solution provider Appirio has published its always interesting annual predictions of what's coming in Cloud Computing and we would like to share them with you, given their relevance and insight:

Cloud developer community grows faster than open-source. Today's vendor-specific developer communities will be complemented by a community dedicated to the general discipline of building applications on the cloud, disrupting existing on-premise developer communities. The combination will lau...

Beta testing is here!

Juan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Orchestrating and delivering IT Professional Services Projects on time and on budget has just become easier! We're pleased to share the news with you that we have just begun the beta testing phase for our innovative Professional Service Automation solution that will simplify project delivery while incorporating world-class best practices and integrating the complete services value chain.

Designed to meet the service operation management needs of IT Professional Services c...

Business Imperatives for Professional Services Companies

Juan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

At eTask we have detected in the IT Services provider market an unsolved need, which gravitates around the need to effectively combine and generate synergy from three business imperatives for any IT Services company in today’s world: Operational Excellence, Value chain integration or Collaboration and Sales Growth.

The Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA) is an industry association that focuses exclusively on Technology Professional Services. Its members include ...

The eTask.it Development Team

Juan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Meet the team that is making the collaboration and transparency platform a reality. Please click below on the 'Read More' link.

From left to right: Francisco Manrique, Carlos Gonzáles, Diego Joya, Javier Ríos, Juan Diego Botiva, Mauricio Sánchez, Wilfredo Gómez, Angel Simbaqueba, Sammy Jiménez, Osc...

Enabling Sustainable Business Ecosystems

Juan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

We would like to invite you to watch this short video (2' 53'') depicting our value proposition for building truly global and sustainable business ecosystems. Please click below on the 'Read More' link.

Why laws, sausages and Professional Services are not the same

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

"Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made". This statement has long being attributed to Otto Von Bismarck . We might agree or not with these remarks, but when trying to apply this same logic to IT Professional Services, probably many would agree that in order to make sure customers are getting what they have asked for, it is certainly a lot better to see them being made.
This applies even more to IT offshoring services. Gartner rec...