Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

In the second announcement in recent weeks by Microsoft in relation to localization and its major product lines, Microsoft has announced new translation capabilities for Yammer messages, enabling users to translate messages into their native languages.

Microsoft started the roll-out of the updated version of Office 365 for business users earlier this week. The upgrades are present in all elements of the suite and reflect a changing work environment that is now more mobile, social and collaborative than it was when the suite was originally launched 18 months ago.

As intranets grow in complexity, the importance and challenges of setting up an intranet governance structure grows in line -- but the benefits will be seen in the long run.

SaaS provider IntraLinks Holding Inc. has released IntraLinks VIA, an enterprise collaboration solution. With the solution, users will be able to work safely and efficiently in their network platform and business community knowing that their files are managed and shared through a secure system.

Women of America: Sheryl Sandberg wants you to lean in. Her new book, about which she has been touring and talking these past few days, (it launches on March 11) has been described as an “unapologetic manifesto” and a “bold crusade” aimed at addressing one of the world's biggest problems -- a lack of women in power.

Open source digital services provider Acquia has released Drupal Commons 3.0 to help with the creation and management of customer communities and social-driven applications.

Faster. That’s the key goal behind the new design and features in enterprise collaboration vendor Atlassian’s version 5.0 of its team collaboration platform, Confluence.

The nature of how we collaborate has evolved.

In another SharePoint related announcement this week, Socialtext announced three new points of integration between SharePoint and Socialtext, as more companies start preparing their product portfolios for the release of SharePoint 2013, expected for this quarter.

Everyone has an opinion about Bring Your Own Device policies. Regardless of what you think about it, BYOD ranks high on IT’s lists of mobile concerns and has companies and vendors alike scrambling to accommodate the growing proliferation of mobile devices. Still, we’re so caught up in talking about BYOD, that we haven’t considered how to actually create a BYOD policy. Until now.

When Microsoft bought enterprise social network Yammer in June for US$ 1.2 billion, more than a few eyebrows were raised, especially since Microsoft already had enterprise social networking in SharePoint and was partnering with Yammer. Now, those same eyebrows may again be arching skyward following Yammer’s recent report of record growth last year and its plans to move toward closer integration with other Microsoft product lines.

Over the past year, many more companies have delivered analytics tools to help you measure your investment in external social media tools and strategies. Monitoring what’s happening in your customers’ social networks and your reach within those networks is vital to every business, but there is another side to the social movement that's just as important to your bottom-line and is in need of much greater analysis and nurture: what’s happening socially inside your business.

We all know that when it comes to developing enterprise solutions, good user experience (UX) doesn't happen by accident. In fact, it can be downright elusive. The interesting thing about UX is that the better it is, the less likely you are to notice it -- when is the last time you thought, “Wow, that was such a satisfying digital experience!”?

Want mobile & tablet devices in your enterprise? Want to build custom enterprise apps for those devices? Who doesn't? IBM takes steps to help take you into the mobile enterprise with its MobileFirst Portfolio.

Ever roll out a SharePoint implementation to be hit with a bombardment of requests for features and configurations? It's important to nip this in the bud with a communication and internal public relations strategy to steer the conversation and SharePoint roadmap in the right direction.