Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

Executive teams who collaborate the most across the board room, and include IT, are four times more likely to be top performers, a Pricewaterhousecoopers report has found.

During our inaugural public CMSWire Google+ Hangout session in December, we chatted with experts on how social business is challenging for large companies to implement, but also how it as been successful in limited cases.

To work smarter there are many things companies can do to make employees more productive and efficient. However, not all solutions or platforms provide a meaningful way to track progress. Today, thanks to new features to Mavenlink’s project management and collaboration platform, users can track their project’s financials with greater visibility and control.

When you look at SharePoint 2013 Social Features, it is important to understand the Social features are really just a way to highlight how users are already working. Once you've flipped things around and are starting with the user and common actions, it becomes easy to see how the tools available to you can simply enhance current activities of users.

Even if there is still no official release date, every day it seems we learn more surrounding the SharePoint 2013 release. The latest -- a recent blog from one of the people working on it that provides brief glimpse into some of the mobile features.

Valentine's Day comes but once a year, but our love of all things social, mobile, local is something we talk about every day. There is no better day to show our love for those that make it all possible. This Valentine's Day we salute you!

File sharing service, Dropbox has announced new features for its Dropbox for Teams which gives administrators better visibility and control over collaborative projects. 

Jive has been making the news quite a bit recently. A few weeks ago, their CEO Tony Zingale said "Free products don't deliver. We can talk about free trials, free use models to get people to engage, but freemium in the enterprise -- write it down, it's dead." Then a few days ago Zingale said, that the notion of “Facebook for the enterprise” is also dead.

What we have ourselves here is a chasm. Collaboration isn't breaking out all over.

SharePoint social business partner NewsGator, updated its Social Sites platform to include compatibility with the soon to be released SharePoint 2013.

To be a truly successful business, companies have to start from the inside. They have to not only be collaborative, but everyone from the executives and CEO down to the customer service representatives should know the comings and goings of their work place. In this digital age, this can prove to be problematic, but it can be remedied.

Ryan Fuller, CEO of VoloMetrix, an enterprise analytics company spoke with CMSWire about this issue and the enterprise-related solution.

What are the most innovative companies? Fast Company magazine has come out with its annual take on the top 50.

In the not too distant future, I predict SharePoint will disappear altogether. It might take a year, maybe a little longer. But at some point soon it will be gone.

With mobile now the center of computing, what are the biggest concerns enterprises have for mobile? A new report points to rising mobile data costs and “frustration and loss of control” because of the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) trend.

Cloud-based social collaboration and productivity platform Kona has expanded its file sharing capabilities through an integration with Box, Google Drive and Dropbox.