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Sales teams for Microsoft's Yammer social network will join up with the Office 365 team, the company has announced, all the more easy to integrate the two technologies.

As the nature of the workplace changes, so does its tools. One tool that continues to change as the digital workplace becomes more collaborative, mobile and social is the productivity app.

After the announcement that SharePoint Online is coming out of Preview, Microsoft has also announced a number of upgrades to Microsoft Office Web Apps, which, when all the upgrades become available, will come with support for Chrome on Android tablets and co-editing in real-time.

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?

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Since Box confirmed at the beginning of this year that it will go public next year, it has really been loading up on new abilities and functions. The latest one, announced just today, sees it entering a partnership with cloud platform and app developer GoodData to provide an app that enables Box users to analyze the way they are using their accounts.

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.

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