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TIBCO has taken an unusual tack in adding real-time meeting capabilities to its enterprise social networking platform, tibbr, introducing not innate technology but instead deep integration with external services from Microsoft, Google, and Cisco.
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Microsoft has at last intertwined Skype and Lync with direct points of integration for presence, chat and audio, but a move to require its own consumer-oriented ID, threatens to blur the lines between company and personal personas.
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Current Analysis delivers a recap of the biggest news coming out of CTIA 2013. Building on our analysis from the event, we look to explain the trends that CTIA 2013 illustrated and their potential impact on the market.
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With the release of Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, Avaya now offers a unified development platform designed to modularize its communications and collaboration portfolio and garner newfound interest from business owners.
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IBM’s two new workforce analytics services take aim at unraveling the human psyche, combining surveys, traditional data sources, and both internal and external social networks to improve retention and foster productivity.
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With an aggressive price point, a broad set of collaborative tools, and a large base of potential customers, Zoho’s new enterprise social network, Zoho Pulse, is well positioned to make an immediate impact opposite larger collaboration rivals.
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Google has further solidified its market leadership with coordinated updates across both platform and service offerings, building a strong but consumer-focused user experience driven by the social graph and a flexible human-computer interface.
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Even though cloud collaboration is taking off, some enterprises are reluctant to embrace this productivity enhancing solution. What is holding them back, and how can they overcome these hurdles?
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With Facebook’s recent, native Android app that quite literally melds Facebook with the mobile device, should enterprise IT buyers rethink their investment and interest in HTML5? No, but perhaps they should rethink the mobile experience itself.
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We chart the many divergent paths taken by collaboration players, mobile device management vendors, and pure play file sharing and sync providers in solving the singular problem of secure, mobile collaboration.
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ShoreTel tackles the BYOD movement head on with ShoreTel Dock, a new desktop communications platform designed to support tablets and phones in their growing role as a primary means of communications. But such forward thinking is not without risk.
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Research has revealed a seismic shift in the mobile marketplace. The 20-year dominance of SMS texting may be at an end, thanks to mobile chat apps. Telcos should of course worry, as should IT pros, who will have to deal with the added complexity.
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Moxie Software has joined the now well-understood freemium revolution, offering up its SaaS-based Collaboration Spaces product for free with no feature limitations. However, market complexities may prove daunting for the company.
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TIBCO has opened up new, global cloud channels for TIBCO tibbr, partnering with European provider, KPN, and expanding its Amazon AWS Marketplace presence. But such reliance upon external partners leaves little room for TIBCO-hosted opportunities.
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Wearable computers capable of augmenting our reality are on their way into the enterprise, both multiplying devices to be managed and forever changing the nature of collaboration itself. But is augmented reality a dangerous development?
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Mobile content management startup Averail will take on MCM big dogs such as SAP with an offering that lets IT control and audit content in SharePoint, Dropbox and more while preserving the user experience. Now, can it get anyone’s attention?
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With the launch of a new data center in Germany, IBM SmartCloud for Social Business can now more readily match both regional governance requirements and growing demands for a globally scalable, public SaaS collaboration portfolio.
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Alcatel-Lucent’s OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud Solution is a welcome effort to enable SPs to build hosted UC services based on the company’s technology. The approach and pricing model seem sound, but many SPs have already made their bets.
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With a re-imagining of CaptureToCloud, LiveHive looks to empower drive teams and build business memory through a Pinterest-like user experience tailored to projects. But much work remains before LiveHive can go toe-to-toe with leading rivals.
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Open source-savvy eXo Platform has released to beta version 4.0 of its cloud ready enterprise portal solution, featuring a new user experience and numerous tools and purchase plans geared toward smaller, departmental purchases.
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Microsoft looks to convert enterprise customers to subscription-based licensing with a major update to Office 365 featuring a highly unified user experience across premises and cloud. Still, SKU complexity and mobile disharmony may slow momentum.
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Entering the current market-wide rush toward enterprise-class file sharing and synchronization with a home-grown solution, SAP intends to stand out with a mobile device management, multi-channel delivery offering tuned to support SAP customers.
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Entering the current market-wide rush toward enterprise-class file sharing and synchronization with a home-grown solution, SAP intends to stand out with a mobile device management, multi-channel delivery offering tuned to support SAP customers.
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With cloud delivery and ideas like agile development changing the way software reaches the desktop, IT pros and users alike should brace for a constantly evolving, always up-to-date collaborative user experience.
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Cloud-savvy collaboration platform players are moving beyond basic white labeling to build full, Apple iTunes-like app stores, opening up new vistas in customer and partner opportunities. But the maturity of these solutions varies greatly.
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Newsgator stays the course in bringing robust enterprise social networking to Microsoft SharePoint, paving the way for SharePoint 2013 and adding some new integration options, advanced Outlook integration and tools for corporate communications.
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Alcatel-Lucent’s announcement that CEO Ben Verwaayen is departing after a few years at the helm is not even very big news, let alone shocking, yet competitors will try to make a meal of it. Purchase decisions should be based on meatier stuff.
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Novell has awoken from its 20-month slumber to announce a renewed focus on new customers and innovation, targeting key market trends such as mobile device management, file/ sharing and management, and collaboration.
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Enterprise social networking as a concept will eventually vanish just as the idea of groupware vanished at the turn of the century. What follows will emerge from our current desire to meld collaboration with business outcomes.
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ThoughtFarmer has forged a comparatively unique path within the enterprise social networking landscape, bringing in timely support for enterprise document editing and collaboration. But limited scale and scope will diminish its market options.
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At its annual Connect conference, IBM unveiled and delivered numerous, synergistic enhancements across its social networking and messaging products, but disruptive portfolio changes and cloud/premises disparities remain a challenge.
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LifeSize’s new easy-to-use, lower-priced Icon video products may expand the video market, while better positioning the company against competition. Whether LifeSize can capitalize on the product before competitors match it is a key question.
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At its annual Connect conference, IBM unveiled and delivered numerous, synergistic enhancements across its social networking, messaging and communications products, but disruptive portfolio changes and cloud/premises disparities linger.
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Seeking to prove that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, Zoho has introduced a number of cross-product features designed to streamline and contextualize collaboration, but maturity within key market areas remains an open question.
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E-mail is here to stay, or at least it is here to evolve thanks to the likes of Zoho, Google, and IBM, as they cleverly apply enterprise social networking notions to the problem of adding context and relevance to your inbox.
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We present three key findings from our 2012 Collaboration Survey, exploring how IT managers have justified, purchased, deployed, integrated and managed enterprise social networking software within their small to mid-sized companies.
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The public cloud is now a proven commodity within enterprise social networking circles, driving customer purchasing decisions across disparate environments. But are all collaboration clouds created equal? We investigate the top five solutions.
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