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As we're all painfully aware, there's a big push right now to mash pretty much anything popular in the tech world into the enterprise. The question is, is it working? Recent examples from both Google and Apple suggest not.  

Awards season rolls on and some familiar names are lined up in the many categories for the CODiEs (news, site), now in their 25th year.

This week there’s been a couple of wild claims doing the circuit, not least of which is the demise of SharePoint at the hands of Salesforce.com’s Chatter, while Microsoft gets social with Outlook.

Salesforce's Chatter (news, site) adds social features and collaboration for the enterprise.

Microsoft may not be first to the cloud, but they are making every effort to become the best option. It certainly helps that companies like Automattic are plugging Windows Azure (news, site).

Competition to provide document management in the cloud is always fairly stiff, but with the addition of CyanGate’s S-Dive to Salesforce.com’s (news, site) AppExchange, it’s likely to get even stiffer.

What this new partnership will do is to give companies that sign up for a single company account with AppExchange unlimited space in the Amazon cloud to store content of any kind and share it by simply downloading it from within the Salesforce.com platform.

It's no secret that social media should be a major part of any organization's marketing strategy. The question is, how do you take advantage of this channel in a way that has a direct impact on your business? Microsoft's latest proof of concept, the LookingGlass, is designed to do just that.

The latest update for Salesforce.com's Cloud package (news, site) adds more social networking features.

Treeno Software, enterprise content management providers, have a new module for connecting their users with the all-powerful Software-as-a-Service CRM platform that is Salesforce.

The module, formally known as—surprise, surprise!—Treeno Salesforce Connector, integrates with any Salesforce.com account and allows users to drag and drop e-mails and other documents from their desktop directly into the account.

Google (news, site) gave more power to administrators who have to integrate offline and cloud-stored data with a collection of new Google Search Appliance (GSA) connectors -- all in the name of quicker and higher ROIs.

In its quest to make all data, wherever it hides, available to Google's monstrous search tools, the company has released a new collection of Connectors that help tie together yet more data that may be hiding in previously inaccessible corners of an enterprise's systems.

Among the new Connectors is one for Salesforce which allows the Google Search Applicance to search any data in the salesforce.com CRM. As Salesforce is a big thing in many organizations, making that data available to users and help them find client information that may be stored in databases, spreadsheets and other resources.

Additionally, improvements have been made in the existing connectors for content management systems, including SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet. Notably, the SharePoint connector adds 64-bit Windows support, batch authorization and multiple site collection.

Everyone said that the Interwoven/Autonomy deal would only be the first in a series of big announcements within the enterprise content management world. And that it is.

Today, Canadian-based enterprise content management vendor Open Text (news, site) has reached a deal to buy Vignette Corporation (news, site) for US$ 310 million.

Vignette is expected to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text. The deal will see Vignette stockholders get US$ 8 per share plus 0.1447 of Open Text stock.

The deal is expected to close the second half of this year. The news saw Open Text shares fall by 85 cents. Vignette's shares however soared US$ 3.32 -- a sign that shareholders see this as good news for the struggling enterprise content management firm.

"Vignette's customers represent some of the world's most powerful online brands and we are excited about the opportunity to expand the relationship with these customers and partners," Open Text Chief Executive John Shackleton said in a statement.

We are waiting on more details. When we get them, we'll be sure to pass them on.

Movable Type users have had access to plug-ins for building contact forms for some time now. Until recently however, MT users had to create hacks in an entry/comment based system for the handling of requests and inquiries. There was nothing addressing a workflow for easy contact management. Until now.

The diversified office automation equipment and electronics provider, Ricoh Americus Corporation, recently announced the internal deployment of their document storage and management SaaS solution — DocumentMall for Salesforce.com.

In a move that appears to counter rather than complement the availability of Salesforce Content, Salesforce.com announces the immediate availability of Hot Banana’s Web CMS offering via App Exchange.

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