Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

Has the massive investment in SharePoint lived up to its promise as the uber-collaboration platform for the enterprise?

Social collaboration software provider eXo is releasing version 4.0 of its open source Enterprise Social Platform. eXo says the platform will offer numerous collaborative features and an intuitive user interface (UI).

Since the upgrade of Office 365, we've seen our fair share of commentaries and criticisms of SharePoint Online. But what about Microsoft? What does it think the strong points are? In a recent blog post, Mark Kashman, a Senior Product Manager on the SharePoint team, outlined his thoughts.

Collaboration in the cloud is great, but what if your company has strict security, privacy or compliance regulations? For that market, cloud collaboration provider Teambox is releasing its Teambox On-Premise. 

Online project management software provider, Wrike has announced a new feature for its Live Editor that allows users to track document changes as they happen.

Microsoft recently announced its phased approach for integrating Yammer with SharePoint 2013, so it will be much later this year before we see any meaningful work completed to bring the two platforms together. But in the meantime, users can look forward to easier access to Yammer from within Office 365 and SharePoint Online.

Engagement for engagement’s sake is not very interesting.

The ultimate promise of the Social Enterprise is to build an environment that allows people to work and communicate together no matter where they are -- physically and structurally.

When I look at my history of blogging and talks, I realize that employee engagement is the single thread that ties my perspectives together --  it's a topic near and dear to my heart. I believe that without meaningful change in employee engagement, our efforts to gain value from social business are completely lost.

Over 3,500 executives responded to a McKinsey & Company report on the networked enterprise, and not only are social tools now mainstream at those companies, the leaders are seeing outsize results.

“Digital Workplace Trends 2013,” a report based on surveying 362 organizations worldwide, shows that digital workplaces are in very early days.

Enterprise mobile apps enable organizational transformation and have become essential tools for any company seeking operational efficiency. A new Aberdeen research brief, “Enterprise-Grade Mobile Apps -- Powering Organizational Transformation,” provides some hard data to support the assertion that mobile apps now qualify as business-critical technology.

I attend quite a few SharePoint conferences, and I’ve never been to a bad one, but they all have different approaches and emphasize different things. The SHARE conference in Atlanta next week definitely has a different approach than other conferences.

Too often when a woman in tech opens her mouth, she gets slammed.

Following the release of its updated content and team collaboration platform, Atlassian Confluence 5.0, Atlassian has announced a new tool, Blueprints which aim to improve the functionality of the Confluence product.