Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

Perhaps the most widespread tenet of organization in the enterprise is that of command and control, an idea that seems somehow counter to the notion of democratized information. Social business then, it should be no surprise to hear, is forcing companies to reorganize internally.

Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more -- or less -- collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution. 

Another milestone in the gradual upgrade of Office 365 -- SharePoint Online is finally out of preview. Although Microsoft doesn’t say when users will be able to get the new version, it does say that it will be soon and that users will be given notice of four weeks before they have to upgrade.

Gamification is certainly a hot topic nowadays. We've seen the power it has to engage customers, and now many companies are turning to gamification within the workplace in hopes to engage their employees like they have their customers. But is it a good idea, or does gamification cause an unhealthy competition amongst co-workers?

With new technology constantly being added to the workplace environment, it's not always easy to know how well these changes are working. This is something that Chess Media aims to find out in an employee collaboration and work style solutions Future of Work Survey.

In the enterprise, for departments such as IT, Communications and Human Resources, the most important “customers” are actually internal employees who work within the walls of their own organization.

Continuing the development of its sales lifecycle management, KnowledgeTree has announced the release of KnowledgeTree for Mobile that enables users to access collateral information around sales prospects from their mobile.

If traditional intranets are killing your company, what can revive it?

As the cutting edge of Employee Experience Management sees leading organizations move from good old Intranets into the Digital Workplace, what will be next for the enterprise portal?

It's been a busy week in the social business space with Yahoo!'s acquisition of Astrid, Asana's upgraded task-management capabilities, and IBM extending its business process management software for social business.

Of course you've heard of the coveted Aragon Research Hot Vendors report, and only the most compelling new technologies or those leveraging cloud, mobile, content or video can pass muster. This year, Alfresco, MZinga, Accellion and SpringCM, among others, have been named in the second annual report.

Cloud-based mobile application solutions FeedHenry has just announced that it has managed to secure US$ 9 million in a funding round that was led by Intel Capital. The Irish-based startup has said that it will use the money to accelerate the international roll-out of the platform.

Citrix has announced two new chat functions that are designed to improve the functionality of the Podio project management platform.

I recently wrote about how you can create a roadmap to ensure your SharePoint 2013 rollout doesn't end up as an epic fail. I have to be honest with you now and let you know that I haven't told you everything -- in fact, unless you do the vital actions below there is a very good chance that your rollout may still "crash and burn."

Nearly a year after announcing it, Salesforce has given a summer release date for its Chatter based Communities offering.