Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

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. 

Mobile Device Management and Bring You Own Device (BYOD) solutions provider SOTI Inc has announced an updated version of its enterprise mobile device management solution, MobiControl.

Connectivity, customization and collaborative reputation are just a few of the forces that will change the way we work in 2013.

Meeting customer needs means breaking down barriers within organizations and getting disciplines to actively work together.

If you are one of those users who toggle between email and Skype desktop clients on your Windows PC, Microsoft can now offer you a time saver. Fulfilling a promise made in July, the software giant is now releasing an updated Skype for Windows, version 6.1, with Outlook integration. 

2013 promises to transform the way we work: in terms of space, in how we handle big data, and in what we demand from collaboration technologies.

Mobile, BYOD and cloud have converged into a perfect storm of raised user expectation -- and nary a corporate IT manager can escape the downpour. 

Everyone knew it was coming, but it still feels like a parting with an old friend as Microsoft emails all its Messenger account users to tell them that the jig is up and that they have until March 15th to move over to Skype.

The pace of change from technology is speeding up. So how will 2013 be different than 2012? Will 2013 actually be the “year of collaboration?”  This is something people have been predicting every year for the last 20 years. I can remember writing articles in 1990 about “will this be the year for GroupWare?”

Enterprise business management software provider Deltek is introducing Kona, a free cloud-based private social collaboration network aimed at easing project management.

Predicting the future is always tricky business, especially when you are attempting to forecast events in an area as fluid and quickly evolving as social business and community. Yet, the intrepid folks at The Community Roundtable have done just that, and CMSWire thought it would be interesting to summarize their predictions and then compare and contrast them with predictions made in our own (virtual) pages.