Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Collobration News & Articles

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iPad and even Android users have to wait on the new Google+ app update, but Apple iPhone users can get the free app now and the update seems to be a winner.

Social, mobile and cloud technology are each having an enormous impact on enterprise computing. But the technologies aren’t just having big effect independently: they are converging and providing organizations new opportunities to deliver information and services. With the many benefits also come challenges.

Twitter is purchasing RestEngine, a provider of technology that enables social app publishers to send individually targeted emails to subscribers based on their usage history. Befitting an action performed by a company specializing in 140-character blurbs, neither Twitter nor RestEngine appears to have released any detailed information about the purchase or future plans, but that has not stopped widespread online speculation about the deal.

The Ponemon Institute has released the results of a global study into the risks presented by the use of mobile devices, which they define as including “laptops, USB drives, smartphones, and tablets.”

Many companies have by now heard the much vaunted benefits of social business software and want to, or have already started to implement these tools. Studies support this. Forrester Research forecasts that enterprise social software will grow into a US$ 6.4 billion market by 2016.

But first some murkiness needs to be cleared.

The term "cellular" may have gone out of fashion with the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and various mobile data technologies. However, Apple is taking one step back in terms of branding and marketing, due to complaints over its "4G" moniker on its new iPad.

Adobe Muse 1.0 Web design software finally rolls out of beta and is available as a standalone subscription or as part of the new Adobe Creative Cloud membership.

Actively engaging enterprise teams is something Jive is proving to be quite good at, and now its investors can see the proof in the company's latest earnings results.

Our relationship with technology is constantly evolving. From the emergence of computers as consumer devices to the growth of the Internet as an information resource and then as a channel for communication and interaction, we have a more personal relationship with technology than at any other point in human history. It might have seemed that Web 2.0 was final step in our personal technology transition, but then came mobile.

Google App maker BetterCloud has debuted a new domain management tool to go along with a collaboration tool it released in February, and the company raised US$ 2.2 million in new seed funding to keep building even more.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms names Syclo, SAP and Antenna as leaders in mobile application development platforms, while Apple, Google and RIM fall in the niche players category.

Do you have a company issued Blackberry? Perhaps your iPhone or Android device is connected to work systems via a “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) program? Maybe you’re a real road warrior with a ruggedized laptop or a corridor warrior with an iPad, but the big question is — why?

Today, several market analysts, community managers, academics and statisticians interested in gleaning as much insight as they can from opinions and attitudes in social media, news and enterprise feedback gathered in New York for the Sentiment Symposium 2012.

The creators of popular social media management platform HootSuite are taking another step to woo the enterprise market. The company has introduced a product, HootSuite Teams, designed to help businesses manage their social identity more effectively across multiple networks.

Harmon.ie, the enterprise workflow integration specialists, has debuted a new mobile SharePoint iPad app, and the company promises a full mobile device management offering by the end of June.

Since Colligo released Colligo Briefcase Enterprise for iPad in December, it has been putting a lot of effort into developing it as more enterprises take iPad on board. In February it introduced Colligo Briefcase Pro, adding extra muscle. Now it has released v2.0 with added functionality.

With Info360 almost a month away, we took the opportunity to talk with its organizers to learn more about the trends and topics dominating this year’s conference. As you may remember, last year we talked to a variety of vendors about how they manage the content and chaos in the enterprise. So much has changed in the past year, you may wonder how three days of breakouts, sessions and exhibitions can begin to tackle it all.

Last month we reported that Google Analytics was launching a set of social reports aimed at helping users measure their social reach more accurately. Last week it officially rolled out its social reporting tools and announced a few additions that didn’t make our first go-round.  

The business benefits of mobile are easy to make, especially when it comes to employee productivity and the facility of being able to contact members of staff on a close to 24/7 basis. Yet, I am sure we have all been in situations where we have been interrupted by a business call on our mobile phone at an inconvenient time.