Chatter News & Articles

Blame it on the Consumerization of IT, the "bring your own device" movement, the seemingly inescapable trend of all things moving toward the cloud, or the cyclical move from single-vendor solutions to best-of-breed (a cycle that seems to repeat itself every five to seven years). Regardless of these trends or cycles, collaboration environments within the enterprise are rapidly expanding. 

Salesforce has given us another tiny peak into its upcoming Communities release, this time announcing a product called Company Communities, customizable intranets that are mobile ready and can integrate with other apps.

What roles do social technologies play in facilitating collaboration? A new study by Avanade showed a large, but untapped opportunity to fully adopt and leverage social technologies for collaboration at work. 

Sharing files in the cloud is now possible in the Salesforce Chatter Mobile app for iOS, and a new day has dawned for mobile teams using iPads and iPhones to get work done away from their offices.

Nearly a year after announcing it, Salesforce has given a summer release date for its Chatter based Communities offering.

Cloud business intelligence platform Indicee has launched a new analytics, Indicee Analytics for Sales and Chatter for Salesforce’s AppExchange.

Not only does Salesforce Chatter run on more mobile devices than ever, its customer connection ability is now the company's main focus.

iOS and Android versions of the Salesforce Chatter mobile app have finally been updated to include things like editing accounts, leads and opportunities.

Although not yet officially announced, Salesforce has a bevy of updates planned for its Spring '13 release, and we've got a snapshot of some of the heftiest possibilities.

Responding to what it sees as a crisis in providing effective sales performance reviews and feedback, Salesforce.com is unveiling a “seamless experience” between the Salesforce Sales Cloud CRM tool and Work.com performance review application.
 

How can the explosion in social media communications conform to compliance requirements? Compliance solution provider Smarsh has launched Archiving & Compliance for Salesforce Chatter, that might just make it a little easier for companies to meet those standards.

In last month's column I took a generic look at whether an organization could move its intranet to the cloud, lock stock and barrel. As ever, my conclusion was "maybe" as it very much depends on your organization and what exactly you want to do. While at Dreamforce, I had the opportunity to return to this question.

Salesforce will host the Dreamforce 2012 conference Sept. 18-21, but CEO Mark Benioff has already announced the cloud storage system Chatterbox at another tech conference.

In the information management world, only Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff can better Oracle CEO Larry Ellison for pithy put-downs. At a panel discussion at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week, it looks like the put-downs will be more than just verbal. He admitted that at Dreamforce  next week,  Salesforce is readying applications to compete with Box, Okta and Asana.

Eloqua yesterday announced plans to integrate popular enterprise social network Chatter into its on-demand marketing automation platform. Though the offering won’t be publicly available until next quarter, I was granted a sneak peek earlier this week.