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| Cisco takes social networking into the realm of real-time communications with a UC- and video-friendly collaboration platform, Cisco Quad, but its inward focus on Cisco customers ignores the mid-market and obscures the future of this new solution. (1/4/2012) |
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| Though new to the enterprise marketplace, Google+ greatly improves Google's stance opposite more established enterprise social networking platform vendors, but technological immaturity and limited support options will hold this solution back. (1/30/2012) |
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| IBM continues to set the tone with IBM Connections, owing to the product's rich set of profile-centric features, tight ties with complementary IBM applications and value adds focusing on hot buttons such as social analytics and mobility. (1/30/2012) |
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| Jive Software is well positioned to grow its stature through an emerging application marketplace and a growing focus on social analytics and business outcomes, but the company has been slow to merge real-time and asynchronous collaboration. (12/13/2011) |
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| With an accelerating cloud business as well as improved rich profiles and event streaming capabilities, SharePoint 2010 is positioned to uphold Microsoft's dominant position within a collaboration market increasingly focused on social networking. (11/23/2011) |
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| Despite continued portfolio turmoil, Novell is pushing ahead with Vibe 3.2, improving integration options with GroupWise and adding native mobile client applications for both Apple iOS and Google Android. (4/20/2012) |
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| Salesforce.com Chatter seeks relevancy within the enterprise social networking marketplace through a laser-like focus on event streaming and a viral, freemium marketing strategy aimed at both internal and external collaboration. (4/20/2012) |
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| Telligent goes after the enterprise with a platform-centric philosophy of deep line-of-business application integration; together with its keen support for Microsoft environments, this sets the vendor apart within the social networking marketplace. (4/23/2012) |
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| Yammer continues to disrupt the marketplace with a cloud-centric, freemium solution focused on enterprise-class requirements such as application integration, analytics, game mechanics, presence, and file sharing/editing. (5/4/2012) |
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