E2conf News & Articles

To lay the groundwork for her talk at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, Community Roundtable Principal Rachel Happe likened e2.0 to a very famous rabbit hole. And us? Naturally, we’re Alice, falling swiftly down into the darkness.  

Enterprise social software provider Socialtext said today it will soon be launching new features and enhancements for Socialtext 5.0, including native mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry and Twitter integration.  The company said these will extend the Socialtext 5.0 platform creating "...easy access to key features of Socialtext’s enterprise social software platform including signals and people, as well as powerful search functionality," and users won't have to wait long to see them.  

Socialtext said it will be providing demos of these upcoming features and enhancements, including the mobile applications, at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. this week at Socialtext Booth #404.

In case you were wrapped up in the happenings at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this past week, Oracle added web engagement (WEM) capabilities to its Customer Experience Management (CEM) Platform with the acquisition of FatWire Software. That's one more WEM vendor to scratch off your list.

Good news for SMBs: Alfresco has announced a new subscription, Alfresco Team, aimed at departments and SMBs. And Google is upping the competition with Office365 by improving Google Docs offline support.

We had the opportunity to interview some vendors at the E2.0 conference: Christian Finn dished on SharePoint, Lubor Ptacek on what's coming from OpenText in the WEM arena and Daniel Chalef spoke of KnowledgeTree's focus on collaborative business processes.

The value of communities in social business was still a hot topic this past week. Joe Shepley talked about community as the cornerstone of social business, Maria Ogneva asked if your community helps people succeed and Oscar Berg wisely points out that we should celebrate adoption, not deployment.

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KnowledgeTree (news, site) is evolving with great momentum, integrating mobile apps to complement their already successful document collaboration system and unique special workflow tools. With an iPhone app in the works, an android app already launched and an increase in overall accounts, the future looks promising for KnowledgeTree.

Microsoft's Director of SharePoint Product Management Christian Finn, an Enterprise 2.0 keynote speaker, talks about SharePoint, the future of enterprise collaboration and the value of community.

OpenText's VP of Product Marketing, Lubor Ptacek, joined us at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston to discuss the evolution of social media in the enterprise and how OpenText (news, site) has mapped their platforms to it.

For this week's roll-up we've got some of the hottest news from this year's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, as well as some thoughts on your digital worth. That is, what buying and selling shares in social media entities, be they people, brands or blogs, might mean for the future. 

DoubleDutch, a start-up based in San Francisco, launched HYVE enterprise suite, a new mobile application suite that allows enterprises to become more collaborative, data-driven and productive while on the go via the tapping processes on smartphones.

This week, IBM was at the enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, where it launched IBM Connections, a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities, Verizon opens a new risk management service, Clearwell extends reach of e-Discovery and Cintas achieves NAID certification.

Today's keynotes at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston moved just as quickly as they did yesterday. Here's a quick look at advice from four of the industry’s thought leaders on everything from Enterprise 2.0 vs. Social Business to best practices for better business via enterprise software. 

Saba Software (news, site), a California-based software company, won the 2011 Launch Pad Program competition with a live text-to-vote by the Enterprise 2.0 conference attendees.

Broadvision, makers of the Clearvale (news, site) set of enterprise collaboration applications, has announced the release of its latest social CRM solution. The latest update to Clearvale focuses on integrating customer engagement channels and internal collaboration channels for an ecosystem both within and outside of the enterprise.

With more than 1,600 in attendance at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 conference, execs heard from the top intellects driving Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business strategy yesterday. Here's a look at four of the industry’s thought leaders and their messages from Boston.

Social, local, mobile (SoLoMo) is changing the game for business collaboration. As a growing trend in new software and app development, four masterminds of the SoLoMo market discussed at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston what they see as the future for enterprises in the mobile market.

IGLOO Software (news, site) has added a nice capability to its social networking suite -- social workflow.