Collaboration News & Articles

Since it was founded in 2008 in Ontario, Igloo has grown steadily in North America and the EMEA. Its growth has been aided by the confluence of cloud computing, social media, and mobile technologies. And this year, it's set to grow again and has raised C$ 5 million to push growth.

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In our last article we began to explore a series of "strategic lenses" which I use to help clients understand and articulate their SharePoint related goals. We discussed value, knowledge management and intranets. In this article we’re going to wrap up on strategic lenses with Enterprise Content Management and the "C" word -- Collaboration!

If you've got files hanging out in Google Docs, Dropbox and Box.net, being able to manage them through a centralized platform probably sounds like a capability you needed yesterday. Enter Joukuu Web, a file management tool that allows users to track, edit and share files across said services. 

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has its sights set on conquering new markets, and has opened an office in Tokyo to support its growing presence in Japan.

Infosys has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to give an added push to its cloud computing drive that will see it combining its knowledge business needs through its consultancy work, with the cloud computing abilities of Microsoft.

After seven weeks, our social media marketing 101 series comes to a close. While I’ve enjoyed outlining the script to help you write your organization’s narrative online, I know there is much I didn’t discuss, of which another seven weeks could cover. However, for brevity’s sake, I offer a few last-minute tips, tricks and final thoughts about this thing called social media marketing.

If ever there was an indicator of how successful iPad has been, the number of vendors rushing to make their products compatible with it surely must be the best. This week already, EMC made Documentum searchable through iPad; today it’s the turn of KnowledgeTree, which has extended its smart tools to iPad and iPhone.

Whether you’re fully immersed within a world of content management or you’re just getting acquainted with digital marketing across multiple platforms, Gilbane Boston 2011 may be worth the price of admission.

Enterprise collaboration need not be complicated, as the developers of TWiki would want to establish. With the latest release of TWiki, users can run a document management system, knowledge base or project development space within an intranet or the Internet without the need to learn extensive programming skills. The latest release of TWiki, at version 5.1, introduces usability enhancements, improved profile pages and automatic backup features.

The folks at Cisco want to make working together a little easier. The company announced that it is acquiring two-year old startup Versly, which provides a tool that allows users to collaborate inside of Microsoft Office.

New devices, new problems. If you haven’t guessed, we’re talking mobile devices and problems with the management of enterprise content that having a scattered workforce involves. Add to that all the unstructured data that comes in through email, and you’ve got double trouble. Recommind (news, site) is offering a solution to this with the v3.6 release of its Decisiv Email software.

Cloud-based storage and collaboration provider Box.net (news, site) is making no secret of the fact that their document management philosophy lovingly embraces the mobile device world. Today they've launched new native applications for Android and Blackberry Playbook tablets, and a web-based HTML5 version of their apps for any HTML5-compliant mobile browser. Here's a closer look.

Not all organizations require feature-rich and expensive collaboration suites. Sometimes all that's needed is a place where team members or correspondents can converge. Meet on Web (news, site) is a new service that offers online conference rooms on the fly.

With all the problems associated with keeping track of information, particularly now with the multiplication of SharePoint deployments, archiving tools are always welcome -- particularly if they work. Metalogix (news, site) has done a good line on this over the years, and today has announced the release of Archive Manager 5.0 that focuses on Exchange, SharePoint and files.

MarkLogic (news, site), which we all know from its work with Big Data, has received another stamp of approval that should in the future result in some significant contracts from the US government -- in particular with intelligence, military and secret agencies that most of us have never even heard of, but that we all suspect exist.