The consumer Web2.0 driven collaboration craze has permeated corporate
walls to bring collaboration to businesses in a new way.
Collaboration has advanced significantly from phone, email and
web-meeting tools. It has evolved into a full open-source multimedia
channel for sharing data and communications in many ways. And more
importantly, extending beyond the corporate intranet to include
customers, suppliers and global sources of knowledge.
Collaboration tools have evolved in value from simple sharing media,
to supporting and driving collective intelligence.
| IT Should Forget Development, Focus on Requirements and Release Management |
| Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes. It is the "bookend" processes of requirements management and release management that need help.
05/17/2012
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| VMware Envisions Virtualization in Post-PC, BYOD Era |
| VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing.
05/15/2012
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| How to Make Your Viral Video Go 'Kony2012' Crazy |
| That Kony2012 viral video achieved historic numbers. But if your CMO is gunning for big-time online marketing campaigns, they need the CIO's help to succeed.
05/15/2012
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| VMware Going 'All In' with BYOD |
| From social networks to seven-digit savings to employee angst, VMware's internal BYOD program for smartphones has it all. Now the company is looking to expand BYOD to laptops and tablets.
05/10/2012
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| Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? |
| The BYOD phenomenon and the need to collaborate with mobile users and international subsidiaries led New England Biolabs to weigh a switch from Microsoft Office and Exchange Server to Google Apps. The results of their proof-of-concept testing surprised many, including the CIO.
05/07/2012
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| No Big Shift to the Cloud for Unified Communications and Collaboration |
| The 2012 IDG Enterprise Unified Communications and Collaboration Survey
05/07/2012
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| ACM CHI: More Search Could be Crowdsourced |
| Search engines could expand the range of answers they provide through simple filtering and crowdsourcing collaboration
05/06/2012
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| VMware Ups its Collaboration Offering with Lithium Integration |
| VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data.
05/02/2012
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| Collaboration Vendor Jive Aims for App Adoption Without Pestering IT |
| In a move to expand functionality and allow for simpler adoption of its market-leading enterprise social collaboration offerings, Jive Software has released a series of new updates that go live Wednesday.
05/01/2012
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| Citrix Buys Further Into Social Collaboration |
| Seeking to increase its stature in the increasingly competitive social collaboration market, Citrix announced the purchase of a startup that specializes in cloud-based workplace tools.
04/10/2012
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| Employees Push IT to Social Networks |
| As more and more corporate workers use their favorite social networking tools for job-related tasks, IT executives are left with little choice but to quickly find ways to manage the consumer software.
04/08/2012
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| YouDazzle Combines Social Collaboration, Cloud Storage |
| There are plenty of collaboration software tools on the market, and a growing number of cloud storage options for businesses as well. YouDazzle, a Silicon Valley startup, says it has created a tool that combines the best of both worlds.
04/05/2012
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| Cloud Storage Vendor Wants to Ease Mobile Collaboration |
| When files are stored in the cloud, many companies need access to them on mobile devices. And once they're on those devices, users want to be able to edit the files and place them back into the cloud. That process has been difficult at times, experts say, but cloud collaboration vendor, Box, is making some moves to address it.
03/27/2012
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| IT Must Provide Enterprise Collaboration Tools Employees Will Use |
| Businesses are under pressure to enable collaboration beyond the corporate firewall as workers increasingly need to connect with remote colleagues as well as business partners, suppliers and consultants. The challenge to IT departments is that many employees are turning to email and consumer-grade file-sharing services to get their work done and exposing the enterprise to risk in the process.
03/26/2012
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| Social Collaboration and the Asynchronous Workplace |
| Keep your teams connected to each other and the outside world with intelligent social productivity boosters.
03/18/2012
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