Collaboration News & Articles

The development of social media and other leading edge communication and collaboration technologies is creating a “perfect storm” of change, and social communities are the best means of surviving the weather. This was the main message of both presenters in a session entitled “Collaboration from the Inside Out and Outside In” during day one of the Gilbane Conference in Boston. 

Enterprise social technology provider Moxie Software is planning the release of what it calls an “enterprise social knowledge” solution called Social Knowledgebase.

The C-Suite. We know who they are, but do we really know what they do? In the era of empowered employees, the chief executives are either working for you or against you. They’re either fully integrated into your company’s workflow or they are the individuals who shall not be named. The powers that be have an opportunity to influence or stifle an organization’s development. In this series, we will identify the key players in the C-Suite, what they do and how they can leverage their authority to inspire innovation within the ranks.

When you’re under a deadline, can collaboration features in your digital asset management system help? WebDAM thinks so, and has launched new notification features to speed up collaboration efforts.

It seems the team at popular source code repository and collaboration site GitHub have had a change of heart. For years, GitHub refused to accept any venture capital, but now that it has its sights set on the enterprise, those piles of venture capital dollars are looking pretty good.

Management of large projects is a dynamic orchestration of variables and limited resources. On Thursday, Acunote announced a new component to its Management Intelligence project management software, to better align variables and absolutes.

Alfresco is now available in the cloud. On Thursday, the company behind the open-source document management and collaboration platform announced that its software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud version, which had been available in beta, will now be generally available.

Content authors need collaborative tools, and a new partnership is intending to provide just that. Enterprise social collaboration provider Neudesic and content authoring tool vendor MadCap Software have announced they are joining forces to provide social collaboration tools for authors of documentation and other technical content.

If there is an engine room for driving the development of social collaboration within the enterprise at scale, SharePoint is it. 

The deal is real -- Yammer has agreed to sell itself to Microsoft … but it’s the rest of the story and the analysis that’s really interesting.

The Wall Street Journal is now confirming that Yammer has agreed to sell itself to Microsoft  for US$ 1.2 billion. They cite their source as a “person familiar with the matter” who could be anyone, maybe even Yammer founder and CEO David Sacks.

Rumor that Microsoft is buying Yammer has swept the enterprise social networking company's office this week. Now, Bloomberg has news that a $1 billion deal is on the cards.

If you are reading this, then you have probably been thinking about and working toward incorporating social technologies and philosophies into your business (or other people’s) for a couple of years. There is endless material on the topic available for your reading and viewing pleasure.

It can be complicated. It can be overwhelming. But it can also be fairly straightforward if you think about it from the right perspective. This is a list designed to help get that straightforward perspective -- to take stock before diving deep into the details.

On-the-go managers now have another mobile tool for tracking projects. This week, Ottawa-based FileTrek unveiled its iPad management dashboard tool for workgroup managers.

Ask any executive and they’ll tell you that effective “collaboration” is more important than ever. The reason is simple: as teams communicate across disciplines and time zones, having the ability to share complex information quickly and accurately means the difference between project success and failure.

Nuance has announced a new update to its PDF converter software, and the Enterprise 8 version is available now with new real-time collaboration tools like chat and simultaneous editing.