Enteprise 2.0 News & Articles

Windows desktop OS updates used to be celebrated like the second coming, how will Microsoft's (news, site) mobile offerings fare?

Unsurprisingly, the excitement around the announcement of Google+ drowned out most other news from the Internet giant. One such nugget was Google Takeout, a service that downloads all of a user’s information on Google’s servers.

Socialcast (news, site) aimed to put collaboration in context with the release of Reach in October of last year. Rather than creating a new space for collaboration, Socialcast Reach brings the conversation into already existing applications, such as SharePoint and CRM systems. This week, a new version of Reach was announced, adding a handful of features:

As Research in Motion (RIM) tries to find new markets and a competitive edge for its soon-to-be-released tablet PlayBook, the company has announced a partnership with Microsoft that will enable it to offer Office 365 services.

Is Enterprise 3.0 the Mobile Enterprise? Considering all the related moves in the last week alone -- Google mobilized Priority Inbox, Conduit's app platform went mobile, Antenna extended their mobile platform -- perhaps it is. 

This week, Asana previewed a demo of their solution for collaboration to an open house. Who is Asana? It was an idea conceived two years ago by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and colleague Justin Rosenstein. Moskovitz and Rosenstein decided to start Asana after being frustrated with existing collaborative tools to get work done.

CouchOne (news, site), provider of support, development toolkits, training and hosting for open source document database Apache CouchDB, is trying to change the perception that CouchDB is just another NoSQL platform. In fact, if CouchOne has its way, CouchDB will no longer be associated with NoSQL at all.