Enterprise Collaboration News & Articles

Many organizations either have a portal platform in place today or are considering implementing one. In addition, many content management systems and social software solutions offer portal capabilities.

What is the best approach to fostering knowledge management and team collaboration? Is the portal as a separate technology a thing of the past? Or is it still a required element of your information management strategy?

This poll will remain open until March 31. But don't wait until then, vote now and watch how the results unfold.

Oracle acquired Stellent's content management system in a US$ 440 million deal that closed in December of 2006. Since then Oracle has integrated the Stellent assets into the Oracle Fusion Middleware line of products. Here's a look at what is now known as Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM).

No longer in beta form and poised to snatch a portion of the market typically commanded by the stalwart Microsoft Office software suite -- Google Docs is providing an as-of-yet unrivaled online document editing and collaboration platform for the masses. Here's 7 ways you can use it even better.

Before we answer the "what" question on social networking ROI it is important to understand why organizations are interested in embracing social networking. In this article I explore both the motivations for enterprise social networking and how one might think about enterprise social networking ROI.

MindTouch (news, site) sees itself as the open source alternative to SharePoint. Its newest venture provides organizations with an enterprise collaboration platform in the cloud.

In the first upgrade to its enterprise 2.0 social software product TeamPage since last March, Traction Software (news, site) has taken TeamPage on the road for the release of v4.2.

Not literally ‘on the road’ -- although the company is currently exhibiting at the Enterprise 2.0 conference currently underway in San Francisco -- but it has added new features that gives users the ability to post content and comments on company wikis or blogs ‘on the road’ with simple, secure two-way email based collaboration.

The principal additions to the latest version of Traction Software’s TeamPage (news, site), which has recently been released, are new plugins that will allow companies analyze user activity on enterprise blogs, wiki pages and other interactive platforms.

TeamPage 4.1, Traction says, will allow a company to identify even complex patterns in user habits and, in doing so, adapt enterprise wikis, or blogs, to suit the needs or requirements of the people in the company that use it.

In a busy global world such as the one we live in, enterprise business collaboration can be a tricky thing. Even in-house collaboration can be a chore when working in buildings that are 30 stories tall and half a city block wide. Bitrix, a developer of content management and portal solutions has announced the release of Bitrix Intranet Portal in an effort to help alleviate business collaboration headaches with social networking tools.

Today Traction Software released TeamPage 3.8, an enterprise blog and wiki solution.

To give you a sense of what you can expect from the offering, founder Greg Lloyd illuminated its muse.

“[Our customers] challenged us to further improve ease of use, scalability, management and the real need for Enterprise 2.0 collaboration ‘at the edge’ — with customers, supply chain partners, sales partners, legal and other professionals — as well within the core of the enterprise. We’re extremely proud to have met this challenge.”