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Teams vs. Slack: Why Microsoft Will Win the Collaboration Wars
There's a number of reasons why Microsoft Teams has the advantages over Slack, but it's biggest one? Pragmatism.
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Digital Transformation Is More About the 'Transformation' Than the 'Digital'
Have you ever been struck by the sound of an old-fashioned phone ringing in the middle of a crowded restaurant or public transit stop? I'm betting you have.
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SharePoint's Creep Into the Enterprise: What Comes Next?
Remember the song “Creep”? In 1993 it was impossible to escape the loser-anthem by the weirdly-named British band. Creep took the charts by storm but was, at its core, a mopey poor-me alt-rock-power-ballad-by-numbers.
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SharePoint Partners: Transform and Roll Out or Crash and Burn
It’s been over five years since Steve Ballmer said Microsoft was “all in” with the cloud. And Microsoft’s transformation in that time — from a software and server company into a software-as -a-service company — has been well-documented.
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Building Up a Microsoft Intranet in a Box
In the midst of all the Office 365 Groups questions and Windows updates, an interesting trend bubbled under the surface at Microsoft Ignite that remains to be answered: What’s the preferred way to build your intranet in the cloud? Microsoft won’t be answering that — it’s not in its model
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The Microsoft Trend You Might Have Missed: The Intranet in a Box
Microsoft shared a lot about the future as Redmond sees it at last month's Ignite conference. It’s a future that looks, by turns, both inspiring and somewhat confusing.
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Endangered Species: The Corporate Intranet
The very idea that we’re still doing old-fashioned, browser-based, news-publishing intranets in the mobile era is downright antiquated. They’re no different than rotary-dial phones. And they’re going the same direction as your old olive-drab rotary phone did -- and as a result of the same technologies.
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The Yammer vs. SharePoint Governance Taste Test
In many ways the governance of Yammer vis-à-vis the high-powered governance features of SharePoint is similar to that cup of Folgers coffee versus flavor expected of the freshly-brewed premium blends. The shocked diners are your SharePoint admins.
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Why History (and the Enterprise) Will Be Kind to Steve Ballmer
We predicted the future of SharePoint in August of 2013. The thrust of that column was that Microsoft’s “Devices and Services” lens on the world was slowly bringing about an evolution of SharePoint from a distinctly-branded server product to a loosely-organized collection of cloud-based services.
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The 3 Most Damaging Enterprise Social Network Myths
It’s the summer of 2014 and enterprise social networks are as hot in the market as they were a year ago. But there remain a handful of persistent myths and half-truths that organizations still encounter on the path to “working like a network.
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Microsoft and CXM: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
When it comes to a Customer Experience and digital marketing platform for internet sites, that’s exactly what Microsoft has done over the course of the last year. Many companies are still catching up to this news, and the idea that you can build great public-facing internet sites leveraging .
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How the Freemium Model Outflanks the ROI Question
After all, you can’t measure the value of a pop song. It makes you happy, sure. And we all know you can work better, run faster and just in general be more successful when you’re happy … but good luck trying to prove any of that.
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How Mobile Apps Will Change Corporate Intranets
Why, in the face of mobile apps and the still burgeoning smartphone culture, do companies continue to spend millions of dollars every year re-platforming, re-designing and upgrading their intranets? It’s a simple question with a simple answer: Like the gas-guzzling Escalade and the distinctly undemocratic House of Lords, a sizable
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The Future of Collaboration is Right Under Our Noses
What's the future of collaboration, exactly? More to the point, what's the future of collaboration in the enterprise? You might be tempted to think there are no easy answers, but on the contrary, it might be closer to the truth to say the answers are right in front of us.
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