Social Collaboration News & Articles

What roles do social technologies play in facilitating collaboration? A new study by Avanade showed a large, but untapped opportunity to fully adopt and leverage social technologies for collaboration at work. 

If there are two things that fit together like a hand in a glove, it's collaboration and knowledge management. That's why Moxie Software's new Social Knowledgebase makes perfect sense.

The ultimate promise of the Social Enterprise is to build an environment that allows people to work and communicate together no matter where they are -- physically and structurally.

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”?

Cloud-based social collaboration and productivity platform Kona has expanded its file sharing capabilities through an integration with Box, Google Drive and Dropbox.

Enterprise communication and collaboration technology vendor HyperOffice is releasing a new version of its cloud-based SaaS communication suite that combines social and collaboration technologies and capabilities.

IBM’s social software platform for businesses, Connections, is bursting with new features and add-ons. Now there’s one more, with the announcement this week by gamification vendor Bunchball of its first Nitro for IBM Connections. 

This time, Basecamp makes it personal. The project management software is spinning off a new platform for outside-of-work use, called Basecamp Personal. 

Enterprise business management software provider Deltek is introducing Kona, a free cloud-based private social collaboration network aimed at easing project management.

The concept of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) has evolved from a proof of concept to a technology platform that every IT department must take into account. Nucleus Research looked at key business pressures and the constant technology changes that every company struggles to manage, and we are betting on the following trends to SMAC companies upside the head in 2013.

In August, we illustrated the current state of SharePoint. As it is now December and time for retrospectives, we decided that we'd take a look back at what kept us most engaged about SharePoint this year -- SharePoint 2013.

Over the course of the past year, the pace of change in the social collaboration space rivals that of Star Trek’s Enterprise.

Smack in the middle of its annual customer conference: Enterprise World, OpenText is busy making news, starting with the release of Tempo Social and Tempo Box for the Cloud.

Skype’s long-awaited march into the business community has taken another step. Microsoft has announced the launch of Skype in the workspace (SITW), following a six month beta trial that involved 500 businesses. 

In this hyper-connected economy and with the rapid growth of cloud-based social technologies, collaboration applications have become an increasingly important part of how work gets done. Many companies are now using these tools to improve efficiencies and sharpen their business practices. With many factors to consider, choosing and implementing the most effective collaborative app(s) for your business can dramatically improve your company’s bottom line.