Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

Twitter is acquiring social news aggregation service Summify. Summify is thrilled at the news. Unfortunately, Summify users are not. 

At a technology level, there seems little to stop widely dispersed workers from collaborating in real time on many projects. But there are problems. According to a recent white paper from the Sand Hill Group and Citrix, the key to collaborative work is communications skills and supportive tools.

I am still writing 2011 when I sign documents, but useit.com has already announced its 10 best designed intranets for 2012. This makes the 12th year the uber-minimalist site has given praise to intranet sites for their design prowess.

Lotusphere throws up all kinds of new partnerships. One of them from this year’s event is between social media intelligence vendor MutualMind and Big Blue. As a result, users of Lotus Notes and Connections will be able to embed MutualMind’s Social Business Enterprise application.

Call it what you like -- SharePoint, Intuit, Central Desktop -- project portfolio management is here to stay. A few months ago, Gartner predicted that the role of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) would begin to evolve from just managing business projects to managing value and change. As business strategies transform to focus on both people and technologies, PPM has the potential to help the enterprise get things done.

Rapidly expanding customer relationship management company SugarCRM announced integrations with IBM, including support for IBM DB2 database software and a move to IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.

CrowdEngineering has put a patent on crowdsourcing. As you may remember, CrowdEngineering provides a platform designed to fully integrate existing processes and applications with the benefits of technical crowdsourcing. This week they put a ring on it, so to speak, by securing a patent that covers its core technology for enterprise crowdsourcing, the foundation of its flagship CrowdForce platform.

The numbers are in and the fall 2011 launch of Apple's 4S iPhone mid-life upgrade proved to be enough to propel the iOS platform to near parity with Android's dominant marketshare. Both Nielsen Research and NPD Group announced recently that the world's two most popular smartphone operating systems are within just a few points of each other, with RIM, Windows and all others in the proverbial dust.   

OpenText continues its push into the social business space with the release of its Web and Social Analytics application v2.0 that aims to give considerably more information on an enterprise’s clients than has been available to those enterprises to date.

The success of social networking tools like posting to a Wall to help boost collaboration, is now being applied to intranets in the latest release of Intranet Connections Social Intranet Software, an out-of-the box solution that now includes a new Social Employee Directory. 

Yammer, the rapidly growing enterprise social network, exceeds 4 million corporate users and is rumored to be working on a US$ 40 million funding round.

In the spirit of the New Year, this week quite a few of our experts were looking to clean up shop and take care of business, be it reexamining the Enterprise CMS or rethinking your customer approach.

My Sites in SharePoint have always been a divisive subject. Some people love them, others aren’t so keen. SharePoint 2010 brought with it a huge improvement in the features and functionality available in My Sites, and the next version of SharePoint is likely to see a similar leap forward. It would be a big surprise if these "next generation My Sites" didn’t take some directions from the world of social networking -- Facebook, Twitter and others.

There are a number of legal issues that intranet managers need to be aware of, and some apply to websites and any application with a web browser even if it is not an intranet.

Let me start by saying that I am not a lawyer and I guess you are not one either, so the information and advice I have set out below needs to be verified with the legal team in your organization. In this column I am only addressing accessibility issues and the use of photographs on intranets. There are many other issues!

This year’s AIIM conference is a who’s who of social media geeks, academics, technology wonks, journalists and information technologists. AIIM 2012 will be held in San Francisco starting March 20. Among the well-known keynotes featured are New York Times tech columnist David Pogue, Empowered Forrester Researcher Ted Schadler and author and NYU faculty member Clay Shirky, all of whom will be sharing insights about managing information in the social, local and mobile era.