Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

Microsoft bought out the enterprise social network company Yammer, for a reported US$ 1.2 billion last June, announcing plans to add Yammer to its SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 application. It has also been selling Yammer packages at such a low price point that only massive sales will recoup its investment.

Microsoft clearly thinks that they are on a big business software winner by acquiring Yammer.

It's Friday, we've got a list, let's do this. Fortune magazine dropped its list of the 100 best places to work, and since none of us work at these companies, let's pick the list apart to see how terrible it is, or not, to work for these companies. 

Why email when there is social media? Knowledge workers are bogged down by tasks like responding to and reading emails, and by simply looking for the information they need to complete daily tasks. But can social business make them more productive, and make businesses run better?

Facebook for the enterprise is dead, and so is the freemium software model. Tony Zingale, CEO of Jive Software, wants everyone to know he is serious about social, and the industry as a whole won’t go where it needs to if it follows those models.

The days of an enterprise feeling good about mobility leadership by piloting a mobile app or two are behind us. Survey findings show that the new norm for enterprise mobile app development is multiple app projects per year.

MobileSpan has announced the release of MobileSpan for BYOD, a plug-in solution designed for enterprise systems that connect to mobile devices.

Gamification solution provider Bunchball has released Nitro for Salesforce, a product designed to enhance customer support services and sales teams engagement.

SharePoint is great, but not everyone knows how best to use this formidable platform to build the system that they want. Take the humble Intranet.

A few weeks ago I wrote the first part of this series on how to evaluate collaboration vendors by looking at eight specific variables. Today we are going to take that one step further by actually comparing how a scoring model can be used to help your organization select the best vendor.

Curious about what’s on the horizon for social business in this new year? According to its recently released predictions, Actiance expects social governance, compliance requirements and the increased use of social networks to directly affect social business strategies for 2013.

The concept of the “360 degree” review, where the employee being reviewed gives feedback about management and the company in general, has gained popularity in recent years. A new HR technology startup called 15Five aims to turn 360 degree reviews into an automated weekly process.

Banning internal email -- is it a stupid idea, or a necessary thing to do?

How prepared are you to thrive in your work environment? Are you able to access the information you want when you need it? According to a recent survey by Eccentex, many companies are failing to equip their employees with the tools they need to get work done efficiently. Whether it be mobile, cloud-based or business-critical systems, knowledge workers indicated that they don’t have adequate access to the necessary information needed to make informed decisions.

In December, IBM finally released one of the missing pieces of its SmartCloud social business platform in the shape of SmartCloud Docs on the public cloud. There was quite a bit of excitement, as it appeared that IBM had entered the cloud-based productivity suite market. But as Ed Brill, Director of Product Management for IBM Social Business, told us, this wasn't really the case.

Being digitally social isn't a practice that's relegated to staying in touch with friends and family, it can extend to other areas, including education and skills training. That's where Cisco comes in.