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Re: Oracle People iPhone App Metrics

Clayton Donley — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:34:02 -0000

Maybe my disappointment was a sneaky ploy to motivate people to go download the app. If so, it didn't work. :-)

That said, my take on why the numbers are what they are:

1. Not everyone needs this kind of information away from their desk, plus many people generally spend most of their time with a lot of the same people. I don't have the stats to back it up, but would wager that the field has a much higher adoption rate than the product organization.

2. All that extra password entry probably detracts from some of the friendliness that might make someone more strongly recommend it. It's certainly a deterrent to more active use with some of the connect/oratweet related features.

3. The installation process isn't as simple for Enterprise apps as it is for App Store downloads. It requires a little more thought and effort to locate, download, unzip, and install via iTunes than to do a one-click install through the app store over-the-air.

4. I find that many enterprise users sync with iTunes installed on a home computer, so it takes some thought outside the office to make the installation happen. Would be nice to have an OTA install mechanism for enterprise apps.

5. I haven't really promoted the software in more general channels. If they hadn't joined a particular mailing list or visited the connect group, they're much less likely to have heard about it. I'd wager that there's a very big chunk of overlap between users in the Connect iPhone group and users of the app.

Clayton

Re: On Avatars

Clayton Donley — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:34:39 -0000

This is in fact exactly why the activities feed in the iPhone app doesn't use people's images. I started that way, but found that the pictures seemed to overshadow the content. Unlike IM or even Twitter, which seems to be about the person, I really think the activity feed is about seeing the kinds of things you're interested in.

Stats seem to confirm that people also aren't clicking through to the full-size pictures, either.

Re: Simple iPhone LDAP Phone Book App (Clayton Donley's Blog)

Clayton Donley — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:02:25 -0000

Would love to do more here, but our Cisco VPN doesn't yet work with the iPhone, so I've been less interested in scratching this itch. I have shared the steps to build the LDAP SDK with a few other commenters. Maybe you can team with one of them and do something with a nice OpenGL org chart browser that I can use to give my peers iPhone envy, eh?

Will let everyone know if I do more with this project. Also willing to do a full blog post promoting any LDAP browser that someone else writes, assuming it will work with my directory and it looks good. :-)

Re: Where does he get that wonderful identity data? (Clayton Donley's Blog)

Clayton Donley — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:57:37 -0000

Hi James,

Most of the focus of IGF has been on developers, including development tools. This is actually a reason why there's less chatter about it in the more system-management oriented identity space. This technology is being very actively pushed into our middleware and development stack with the idea that those 3rd party applications that leverage this stack will gain the benefits we've been discussing.

That said, because we're doing this out in the open, other vendors can and will build their own technology to do this on stacks that we wouldn't typically be writing ourselves (.NET anyone?).

Not all IdM stacks or development stacks are equal and clearly we're building this kind of technology to widen our lead in this area, but in a way that doesn't lock our customers into a particular set of protocols or infrastructure.

Clayton

Re: Simple iPhone LDAP Phone Book App (Clayton Donley's Blog)

Clayton Donley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:55:08 -0000

Can't release the code at this moment, though seeded it to a few actual internal developers who may yet release something useful.

As for the API, you should check in with Kayvon Beykpour at Stanford. We met for coffee the other day and I helped him get the base LDAP APIs compiled. He's still working on Kerberos support, but indicated he should be able to share what we got working. Try emailing: beykpour AT stanford DOT edu