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Software and hardware vendors are responding to the increased demand for mobile enterprise solutions, but you need more than software and hardware to successfully manage your mobile workforce. You need to take many factors into account -- for instance the expectations of your mobile workers and the cross-cultural differences.
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Salesforce.com (news, site) makes another acquisition in the social space as it aims to widen its collaboration product base. Not So Dim Salesforce's push into the enterprise collaboration space continues as it pays out over US$ 30 million for Dimdim, a company offering real-time IM communications and desktop sharing/conferencing
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The week in the mobile enterprise, mobile traffic soars, while the policies that govern mobile initiatives are questioned. US Mobile Traffic Mirrors Demand According to Chetan Sharma Consulting, the US wireless data market grew 25% in the third quarter of 2010 compared to Q3 2009. We have the growing
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The infamous Gartner (news, site) released this year's Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, and the results were all kinds of surprising. Meanwhile, the Oracle (news, site ) drama continues after 33 OpenOffice developers were asked to leave.
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Cisco (news, site) is branching out in the Social CRM direction with SocialMiner 8.5, a revamped social media monitoring tool that listens to and delivers communications from across the Web (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) directly to customer-service agents. How Does it Work? No doubt with the magic of Lexalytics
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Put the fun and games aside. This week we looked at social media in the enterprise as more of a necessity than a trend. Enterprise Social Media Becomes a Necessity "If your organization is not using social media to engage employees, it is risking obsolescence," warned Toby Ward , CEO
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Skype (news, site ) didn't have the best 2009, but recent moves suggest the VoIP platform is aiming to make an impressive comeback. In addition to filing for an IPO, both a notable partnership and a new CEO are paving the way for success.
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Lots of potential acquisitions are in the news this morning. First we heard rumors of Six Apart making deals in Japan, and now word on the street is that Cisco (news, site ) is prepping to purchase Skype for a pretty penny.
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Let's talk about CaaS. As the solutions we utilize grow more social, the concept of Collaboration-as-a-Service gains traction. Cisco (news, site ) most recently highlighted this with the release of its hosted collaboration platform, and Enterprise two-dot-oh experts are weighing in.
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Cisco (news, site ) has introduced a new hosted collaboration platform for partners who need to support the many collaboration needs of their customers.
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Maybe it’s a rule that in order to market a tablet device, the name must be unimaginative or elusive. First it was the Apple iPad, then it was the Sony Dash and the Dell Streak. Now, meet the Cisco Cius. Cius Now Cisco recently unveiled the Cius,
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The focus of this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston can be summed up in one word: Collaboration. The event was teeming with solutions of similar structure, each with an aim to enhance the same concept.
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This week's Enterprise 2.0 conference is bubbling over with interesting tidbits, and not just from well-known players. Cisco Systems revealed a slew of new products, including a collaboration platform poised to stiffen the competition with giants like Microsoft and Google.
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Cisco (news, site ) has officially unveiled its enterprise-level collaboration platform, Cisco Quad. Named after a college quad -- a place of learning -- Cisco's mixture of key business apps and the trappings of social networking goes up against the likes of Microsoft and Google with communal bravado.
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