Netvibes News & Articles

Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, one of the earliest tools that allowed brands to create unified social dashboards to track their social media identity. Netvibes is well known in enterprise circles, but does the purchase make sense for the French software giant primarily known for its 3D computer aided design and project lifecycle management software?

With its "integrate everything" Universal Web App (UWA) technology based on open standards, and Host your own Social Analytics giving the enterprise control, Netvibes announced the latest version of its namesake enterprise platform already adopted by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies including the US Dept. of Energy (US DoE).

Netvibes (news, site) has added social analytics to its social media monitoring solution. But these are ordinary analytics, says Netvibes, they are "adaptive".

This week the Enterprise 2.0 world saw the introduction of a universal application development environment, a new social media marketing bundle, and a fairly important discussion: What is the difference between a layer and a feature?

Today saw the partnering of eXo and Netvibes. Together the two companies will enable their customers to customize dashboards and integrated third-party applications via a new environment. 

Following up on their plans to bring a little Web 2.0 into the enterprise space, the Sage team (news, site) has announced the upcoming release of the new Sage Enterprise Webtop. Designed to operate on the cloud or on premise, the tool represents the company’s shift toward an all out user-centric good time.  

As we saw at the Enterprise 2.0 conference last week, we’re sitting on a rapidly growing pile of internal tools, databases, client media, feeds, Web 2.0 networks and applications.

There’s no sign that growth will slow or stop anytime soon, so, to help the smaller guys manage the mountain, Netvibes and Sage ERP X3 are working together to bring small to mid-sized companies new innovations for managing and personalizing the workforce environment.

“While the enterprise software industry continues its march towards complexity, we hope to bring the focus back to the user by making everyday enterprise business processes easier to manage with innovations such as Netvibes personal dashboard technology,” said Emmanuel Obadia, Sr.VP Sage ERP X3 & FRP.

Essentially, the two companies hope to bridge the gap between professional enterprise tools and personal Web 2.0 applications and content by combining Sage's business software expertise with Netvibes' personal dashboard publishing know-how. 

"Employees aren't asking for tools to make their workdays more complicated,” explained Freddy Mini, CEO, Netvibes. “Instead, businesses looking for ways to make things simpler and easier for employees to manage many different tasks at once...”

Joint development on this kind of one-stop personal workspace has reportedly already begun, and is scheduled to be presented in Q1 2010. Interested? Visit Netvibes or Sage for additional information.