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Tag: social software
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Enterprise Collaboration Platforms and the Elephants in the Room
In the wake of Jive’s $462 million acquisition, the spotlight is once again shining on the steadily expanding enterprise collaboration space. Enterprise collaboration tools have been subsumed under the broader digital workplace umbrella, in many cases moving from standalone solutions to being baked into existing tools.
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Atlassian Expands AWS Cloud Infrastructure to Europe
Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar kicked off its first Atlassian Summit Europe with news of updates to its enterprise collaboration suite, including investments in cloud infrastructure expansion and new developer tools to enhance DevOps processes.
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Digital Workplace Collaboration Means More Than Documents
It’s tempting to think that a suite of tools like Office 365 or IBM Connections will meet your collaboration needs. However, when I run focus groups to explore digital workplace requirements, asking the question “Where do you do your work?” is often revealing. Rarely is the response the intranet or
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Jostle Intranet Gets a New Look
Every worker wants a few things, according to the CEO of intranet provider Jostle. “They need to know what’s going on and where they fit in,” said Brad Palmer, CEO and co-founder of 6-year-old Vancouver, BC-based Jostle.
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Mind Your Manners on Social Networks
So you want to incorporate enterprise social software into company operations.
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Lives in Limbo: The Challenge of On-Call Work Shifts
It’s been framed as a battle between the bottom line for retailers and quality of life for workers. At issue are so called on-call work shifts, which require employees to call in just hours before their scheduled start times to confirm whether they need to show up.
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Let Your Social Collaboration Use Cases Lead the Way
For many organizations, the move towards social collaboration is entirely grassroots-driven. Pockets of employees find a tool which meets their need, and suddenly the organization is faced with many different, unsupported technologies.
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Cisco Rebrands 'Squared,' Wants to Spark Your Collaborative Energies
Is the principal tool you use for inter-office communication still Microsoft Outlook? A number of companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Unify (formerly part of Siemens), Google, and Salesforce all have a stake in replacing it with a service that connects you with your colleagues using live text and videoconferencing.
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The Line Between Web CMS + Enterprise Social Networks Blur
While conducting research for my yearly enterprise social network update, a trend that had been simmering for a while bubbled to the top: Quite a few enterprise social networking vendors had or were planning to extend their software in ways that make them nearly indistinguishable from web content management solutions.
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FaceBox at Work: The Newest Collaboration Solution?
We are hardly out of the 2015 gate and the enterprise collaboration market is already experiencing a shakeup. Facebook released Facebook at Work on Jan. 14, the same week Box resuscitated its delayed IPO event, slated to launch tomorrow.
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Jostle Adds Secure File Sharing, Viewing to its Intranet Platform
Jostle is adding a secure file sharing and viewing component to its existing cloud-based intranet solution to provide a higher level of "robustness, security and functionality," Jostle ’s CEO Brad Palmer said.
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Slack Extends Collaboration Offering with Plus Plan
Collaboration software provider Slack launched some new features this week that target companies with growing teams. The San Francisco-based provider is betting on these teams needing help with single sign-on, compliance exports, a 99.99 percent uptime guarantee and 24/7 premium support.
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Who Wants To Play With Facebook At Work?
Facebook unveiled its new social network Facebook at Work today, a sign of its interest in the lucrative office productivity and collaboration market. A smartphone app called Facebook At Work, with the look and feel of classic Facebook, is now available in app stores.
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