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Forrester Research refers to social activities streams which connect enterprise social tools to adjacent collaboration, content, portal, and productivity applications in the environment as a “bridge” to “socially enabled” enterprise applications. Evaluating leading vendors in the current activities stream marketplace, Forrester has placed Yammer, Salesforce and Tibco at the head of the list, with VMware (Socialcast) and Neudesic cited as “strong performers".

Yammer and Badgeville have announced an integration that will allow organizations to leverage gamification to drive desirable employee behavior and showcase performance in Yammer’s real-time activity stream.

A new free crowdsourcing and collaboration tool from Spigit called ICON is available today, and the workplace just got even more social with its exclusive integration with the popular enterprise social network Yammer.

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Earlier this month we pointed out that Yammer has moved past basic social networking and into primary productivity tool territory. But that news was nothing compared to its latest announcement -- universal search.

“What is digital asset management (DAM)?” This is by far the most common question that comes up in Forrester’s DAM-related inquiries. In part, it’s because the DAM term is going to quickly become antiquated.

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This week, the question of the timing of the Office 15 release came to the fore again with a leaked document appearing on the Web, while Office 2007 support seems to have been extended for a few months. Perceptive offers a document viewer for iPad with an Android viewer due, Yammer bought document collaboration vendor OneDrum, while DocuWare expanded in Canada.

Today, Yammer announces the acquisition of UK-based OneDrum, a document collaboration and file sharing company that supports Microsoft Office. It's become clear that Yammer is no-longer just another social network, it's an organization's primary productivity tool.

Enterprise social networking provider Yammer has announced the addition of an analytics dashboard. The launch follows similar announcements from consumer-facing social networking tools such as Facebook.

Enterprise social networking provider Yammer may only be four years old, but it has a huge allowance and lots of friends. Yammer, which has been adopted by over 4 million corporate users, announced a significant influx of new cash from its fifth round of funding.

With Yammer SAP Connector installed, SAP customers can see updates from business suite applications as activity stories in Yammer's Ticker.

You all know that Yammer is one of the most widely known enterprise social networking tools and that it has been steadily adding new capabilities that offer more than the standard micro-messaging. Today, it adds some much needed social business intelligence through a new partnership with GageIn.

IBM Symphony appears to have arrived at the end of the road. It’s not exactly unexpected, given the moves in productivity and collaboration space. According to Ed Brill, Director of Messaging and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, the release of Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release of the free productivity suite.

For the last few months, we’ve been talking about big data. From social media to customer experience to cloud storage, the enterprise is struggling to manage and leverage copious amounts of data. The real issue for big data isn’t just where to put it all, but rather how to gain access to it when you need it.