Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal’s integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems. 

In another small step forward for Outlook.com, Microsoft has announced that it is making Skype available through the Outlook.com interface. However, unless you are part of a small group of people in the UK that have been offered access to a small beta test, you will have to wait until a little bit later in the year for the new functionality.

In the year 2008, Microsoft acquired a technology company called Fast Search & Transfer ASA for a whopping US$ 1.2 billion. With this acquisition, Microsoft capitalized on the reputation Fast Search had built for itself in the field of enterprise search and tightened its grip on the workspace collaboration ecosystem by introducing the Fast Search feature in SharePoint 2013.

The latest release from Igloo shows the company is thinking about the mobile worker. The Rockland update brings responsive design to mobile devices, and looks like it could solve some of the problems for those that regularly move between desktops and mobile.

We've already looked at the Knowledge community in SharePoint, now it's time to look at the Power User and the Operational Communities to see who they are,  and what the specific needs and best practices are for each.

Following-up on its promise to diversify its business in the face of the rapid decline of the PC market, Dell has just announced a new portfolio of mobile solutions that will facilitate Bring-Your-Own-Device strategies within the enterprise.

We’ve been talking about the cloud for years now, and providers have done plenty to hype it too. But most customers have been very wary about it, especially in Europe.

Cloud-based document sharing provider, Box and social business software provider Jive, have released Box for Jive, which enables users to manage and share content across both platforms.

Social business provider Moxie Software has released its Collaboration Spaces technology, a social activity and workflow tool that will directly compete with Yammer and Jive.

When deploying SharePoint within an organization, it is key to look at the needs and requirements of the user base. To simplify this process, I've identified three key internal communities.

In the push for adoption are enterprises focusing on the wrong thing?

When it comes to employee engagement, the biggest ROI is to think of your staff just like you would a customer: seek to understand their interests, their rituals, and their ways of communicating as well as how they want to be treated.

Virtualization provider VMware has updated its Socialcast social network with instant messaging, project management and admin controls in the product's latest release.

Social collaboration specialist Telligent has updated its Enterprise and Analytics offerings, adding instant messaging to the Enterprise social layer and social insights to its Analytics package.

Based on simple math, we all know that 1+1=2. This is a simple concept that we learn very early in life. When it comes to SharePoint though, when you consider the tools available to you, you have a huge advantage of being able to use more than one tool, combined together, to create an outcome that is far greater than 2.