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No matter how much Microsoft talks about development "at the speed of the cloud," there will be announcements and product releases that it holds back from the public eye for a time, to unveil later at a large industry event — such as what we saw with BUILD and Ignite
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Microsoft has created no small amount of confusion with its rollout of Office 365 Groups. The reason? Office 365 Groups capabilities overlap with functionality already provided through SharePoint Team Sites and Yammer groups, which are other products in the Office 365 suite.
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With apologies to Meghan Trainor, it’s not "All About That Bass" when it comes to enterprise social. It’s all about that case — the business case, that is.
In July 2012, the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) published a report called, "The Social Economy: Unlocking Value and Productivity Through Social Technologies." MGI’s estimates suggest that by fully implementing social
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Microsoft has done a lot to enhance the enterprise social features in SharePoint 2013, and a lot of these features have been integrated within My Sites. Let’s consider the three most useful upgrades.
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Two things really caught my eye of the many announcements that came out of Ignite: the rebirth of SharePoint on premises and the end of the line for Yammer. SharePoint is Back I’ve worked with SharePoint for a very long time. I can remember explaining the differences between sites and areas in SharePoint
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Office Delve and Graph are works in progress: some things are done, but there's a lot more to do, Microsoft execs conceded at the Ignite conference in Chicago yesterday — even as they boasted of the speed of development.
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Dell just announced the release of Migration Manager for Enterprise Social (MMES), which it describes as the market’s first enterprise social migration solution. It's designed to help organizations move content from Jive to Yammer. Not that there’s anything wrong with Jive, Randy Rempel, senior product manager at Dell told us.
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The latest in stories, audiences, flows, text, standards, missions and security from Albion, Shawmut, The View, The City and Shallow Alto. Thumbs Up for Collaboration Yammer and Office 365 want to be the place where teams work, said Juliet Wei, a senior product marketing manager at Yammer.
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Adam Pisoni likes to change lives — or at least the way people work. Pisoni and former PayPal COO David Sacks founded Yammer in 2008. The enterprise social network arguably changed the way millions of people work. Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion in 2012.
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Office Delve can surface data in email and social feeds. Julia White, general manager for the Office 365 team, made the announcement at Microsoft's Convergence 2015 in Atlanta today. During the next two months, Delve will be made available to all users on Office 365 business plans, she explained.
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The last few years we've seen customer service evolve as social business continues its advance into mainstream business. Online customer communities have changed the days of a customer calling a 1-800 number to get help or fumbling through a website searching for documentation.
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Some Service Packs have long and useful futures. Some just crawl away under the IT bed and expire. AvePoint’s new DocAve 6 Service Pack (SP) 5 falls into the former category.
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When Microsoft said earlier in the week that Yammer wasn’t merely the social layer for SharePoint, it meant it. Last night, it unveiled a new round of upgrades for Yammer that will make it more mobile and embedded across the wider Microsoft portfolio.
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It’s going to be a big year for SharePoint, but details about what to expect are fuzzy. Microsoft has promised a new on-premise version will be released later this year. However, it has been less forthcoming about SharePoint Online in Office 365.
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