Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

Apple is basking in the success of its latest product launch, the new iPad. Selling 3 million units in its first weekend of release alone, Apple is gearing for yet another landslide success in the tablet market. The new iPad is hot, indeed -- both figuratively, and literally -- and if the trend continues, Apple might just overtake Intel as the world's top mobile chipmaker by year-end.

In a 2009 study by The Ken Blanchard Companies, senior executives estimated their workforces as operating at only 60 to 65 percent of their potential, with the average organization forfeiting about US$ 1 million annually in untapped profits. Years later, a lack of employee engagement and low productivity continues to be a real concern for enterprises.

No sooner does the hubbub die down after the new iPad launch than word starts sneaking out about the due date and dimensions of Apple's next smartphone. Just as well, as rivals are now marching ahead with bigger screens and more features, leaving iPhone looking marginally outclassed in a cutthroat market.

At DrupalCon in Denver, Lullabot President and cofounder Matt Westgate shared lessons in running and growing a successful, sustainable virtual company.

For almost 15 years, companies large and small have been publishing intranet sites to either share information and files with their employees or allow cross sharing between many and possibly all employees. However, an intranet site is only as good as the freshness of its content and the ease with which that content can be obtained. And in today’s world, there are so many alternatives for individuals to share what they want, when they want.

Two surveys this week shed light on how collaboration, BYOD and cloud computing are perceived across the enterprise.

Nineteen mobile app makers for both Android and Apple iOS platforms, including Apple, Facebook and Twitter, were hit with a class action lawsuit late last week, filed in an Austin court. At issue is the improper and unauthorized access to private address book information for corporate gain. The suit has risen to class action status with thirteen Plaintiffs signing on to the legal action looking to cover a group of people "...all similarly situated" in the 152-page complaint filed in US District Court Western District of Texas, Austin Division (Case No. 1:12-ev-00219).

Enterprise social networking provider Yammer has announced the addition of an analytics dashboard. The launch follows similar announcements from consumer-facing social networking tools such as Facebook.

With the new iPad out in the wild, apps are being updated to add more information on-screen or improved visuals via the retina display. Flipboard, TweetDeck, Kindle Reader and others are getting rapid makeovers as Apple shows off some of its star performers.

This week our experts continued contemplating the customer, both internal and external. While the interactions may be different between the two, we were reminded once again that making things clear, making things simple and providing a clear goal or reward are always appreciated.

A few of our writers were also trying to establish exactly how and where social fits in the enterprise, and if all the beer you drink at SxSWi is a justified business expense (hint: no).

Read on.

As the trend to move off the desktop continues, Microsoft is reducing the pricing for its web-based Office 365 suite to enterprises with various packages down between 10% to 20% with storage slashed to cents per GB.

The annual technology spring break, South by Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) has concluded. This year’s conference featured almost 20,000 participants, over 1,000 sessions and countless vendors discussing and showcasing almost every emerging (and a few tried and true) technologies.

CoreMedia has just announced that it is going social. By that, it means that CoreMedia has just released a new product that will provide advanced social features for its web content management system.

Do you want social business and collaboration to be seen and valued as more than a fad? Well, focus on productivity! Blunt as it may sound, a social collaboration site better be more than “what’s for lunch.”

Providing a successful customer experience is hard enough for many organizations, so it’s no wonder creating an equally rewarding and productive experience for employees can seem almost impossible.