Social Business, Social Enterprise News, Analysis

Last week, we discussed how to create a successful BYOD policy. It involves focusing on the people using the devices and the sources of information they want to access from their device, rather than the device itself. Further emphasizing this need, Centrify has released a set of integrated capabilities that goes well beyond mobile device management. The new platform can deliver secure, enterprise-class mobility while improving security and increasing productivity in the enterprise.

In another SharePoint related announcement this week, Socialtext announced three new points of integration between SharePoint and Socialtext, as more companies start preparing their product portfolios for the release of SharePoint 2013, expected for this quarter.

Everyone has an opinion about Bring Your Own Device policies. Regardless of what you think about it, BYOD ranks high on IT’s lists of mobile concerns and has companies and vendors alike scrambling to accommodate the growing proliferation of mobile devices. Still, we’re so caught up in talking about BYOD, that we haven’t considered how to actually create a BYOD policy. Until now.

When Microsoft bought enterprise social network Yammer in June for US$ 1.2 billion, more than a few eyebrows were raised, especially since Microsoft already had enterprise social networking in SharePoint and was partnering with Yammer. Now, those same eyebrows may again be arching skyward following Yammer’s recent report of record growth last year and its plans to move toward closer integration with other Microsoft product lines.

Over the past year, many more companies have delivered analytics tools to help you measure your investment in external social media tools and strategies. Monitoring what’s happening in your customers’ social networks and your reach within those networks is vital to every business, but there is another side to the social movement that's just as important to your bottom-line and is in need of much greater analysis and nurture: what’s happening socially inside your business.

We all know that when it comes to developing enterprise solutions, good user experience (UX) doesn't happen by accident. In fact, it can be downright elusive. The interesting thing about UX is that the better it is, the less likely you are to notice it -- when is the last time you thought, “Wow, that was such a satisfying digital experience!”?

Want mobile & tablet devices in your enterprise? Want to build custom enterprise apps for those devices? Who doesn't? IBM takes steps to help take you into the mobile enterprise with its MobileFirst Portfolio.

Ever roll out a SharePoint implementation to be hit with a bombardment of requests for features and configurations? It's important to nip this in the bud with a communication and internal public relations strategy to steer the conversation and SharePoint roadmap in the right direction.

An “explosion” in mobile devices is driving a rapid increase in enterprises’ need for third-party mobility services. However, as detailed in a new Forrester Wave report most third-party mobility services providers do not offer services that can manage the entire enterprise mobility lifecycle.

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By this point anyone involved in the world of digital content management is familiar with the intricacies of Big Data. But is Big Data already being eclipsed by an emerging concept known as “Big Knowledge”?

IT may be happy with SharePoint, but it looks like the business users aren't so much. This according to new Forrester research.

"Arrrrgh! Damn you Corporate America! Why do you mock me so? You haunt me to my doom!" Although you may not be so Shakespearian in lamenting your lot in work-life, I am near certain that you have felt this sense of resignation and frustration in almost every corporate job you have held.

In December we took a look at Microsoft’s Hotmail email replacement service Outlook.com to see how it was coming along. At the time Microsoft said that about 25 million people had made the jump with a lot more getting ready. Two months later, users number 60 million, the new service is out of Preview and able to scale to one billion users.

The good news for Skype users is that it’s finally getting video voice mail. The bad news: this assumes you own a Mac, or a mobile device using iOS or Android. The Windows versions look like they will be last to that party, with an availability expected in April.