We weren't able to attend Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara this week, but we were able to learn a lot anyway. Sometimes it's better to watch things from a distance. Here's a quick overview of the trends and announcements that came out of the events, including: a growing interest in enterprise...
Businesses have an extraordinary amount of online data to look after. Between Web analytics, social media metrics, email subscribers, CRM, customer support stats and project management, companies have at least half a dozen dashboards to log into and pull data from. Geckoboard is one Web application that attempts to simplify...
Security vendor Palo Alto Networks has released its latest Application Usage and Risk Report. Palo Alto offers a "next generation" firewall that gives administrators the option to block specific applications (see our previous coverage). It also tracks what web sites and applications are most popular. Its annual report gives insight...
We've covered recently how overwhelmed knowledge workers feel by information. A new survey reveals that c-level executives are no exception to the rule. And yet, executives are always craving more data. The survey, commissioned by Avanade (an Accenture subsidiary dedicated specifically to Microsoft technology) and conducted by Kelton Research, had...
At each Enterprise 2.0 conference, participants select one of four new or upcoming applications as the Launchpad winner of the event. Baydin, a quirky e-mail-centric startup, won at the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last summer (see our coverage) and enterprise collaboration suite CubeTree won at the event before that....
IBM's obsession with analytics made its way into social networking today with the announcement of Lotus Connections 3.0. New analytics driven features include recommendations of other users to connect with based on shared interests and content recommendations based on past actions. IBM also announced support for Android to compliment its...
Andrew McAfee, who coined the term "enterprise 2.0," wrote yesterday that he found himself "preaching to the converted" for the first time in a group of CIOs from "old economy" companies. The CIOs at his session weren't coming to him expressing their reservations about enterprise 2.0, but instead were complaining...
It's been a busy week in enterprise-land, and with the kickoff of Enterprise 2.0 in Santa Clara, it's only going to get busier next week. This week saw some new tools from Adobe, a new entrant into the burgeoning social CRM space, an interesting new client-less anti-malware appliance and much...
Mashup tool provider JackBe is working with Microsoft to create dashboard apps using Azure DataMarket. In our coverage of the DataMarket, we noted that it's a marketplace, not an app environment. That's where JackBe comes in. JackBe can run in Azure to help end users create their own mashups using...
VCCircle reports that Salesforce.com is close to acquiring India based web conferencing vendor Dimdim. Salesforce.com and Dimdim both declined to comment. Web conferencing would fit nicely into Chatter, Salesforce.com's enterprise social networking platform. VCCircle reports that Salesforce.com staff are already moving into Dimdim's development centre in Hyderabad "for due diligence."Earlier...
Forrester has released its 2010 The Forrester Wave: Community Platforms report by analyst Melissa Parrish. Jive and Lithium took top honors this year. Forrester also evaluated KickApps, Telligent Systems, and Mzinga. The firm concluded that those five vendors have the most mature products and have a lead on the rest...
Today Oracle announced its intent to acquire e-commerce company ATG. In addition to typical online retail features, ATG offers analytics, click-to-call and call tracking features that will compliment Oracle's own offerings. Forrester's Suresh Vittal and Altimeter's R "Ray" Wang agree that the move targetsIBM.Although Larry Ellison has been more known...
Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche Players quadrants thinned out. IBM, Jive and Microsoft remained the "Leaders" and Atlassian and OpenText remained the "Challengers." Several vendors dropped...
Well, almost any browser based app anyway. Socialcast announced today a new product called Socialcast Reach. Reach will bring Socialcast streams into SharePoint or any other application that supports HTML and JavaScript. Socialcast is trying to solve the problem of too many applications by bringing activity streams into the applications...
When we think of how technology has revolutionized business, we tend to think first of examples that exist primarily online: Web-based CRM, online storefronts, search advertising and the like. But much of what businesses do in the offline world is being turned on its head - and made much more...
Boss: Great demo. Now put it on this laptop for Bob in sales. (hands you something from BestBuy that was an open box special)Developer: Uhhh. That might be a problem. We're using 4 VMs behind the corporate firewall. One is Rails on Linux and the others are Windows and one...
The 2010 holiday season may be remembered for the distributed nature of the shopping experience more than anything else. Mobile technologies are on the rise and application platforms are serving as hothouses for any number of developments to buy and sell products and services.The iPhone, Android and now Windows Phone...
Mark Zuckerberg, interviewed on the subject of Facebook Groups, told GigOm's Liz Gannes "Yeah, well maybe this will replace Socialcast! [laughs] Not today, this isn't designed to be an enterprise product."Socialcast's Carrie Young asks "if Facebook Groups will kill enterprise microblogging?" and answers with a firm "no." As Adam Greenfield...
Earlier this week, Facebook kept us on the edge of our seats wondering what their big announcement was going to be. Evidently it did the same for you because our coverage of that event was our top story of the week. In real-time Web news, Google tested mind reading (aka...
For the first time in its history, Salesforce.com will launch a REST API. Designed for the Force.com platform, the new API is a departure for Salesforce.com, which has historically provided SOAP as a means for integrating the SaaS provider's technology with third-party applications.The news, which we first saw on Programmable...
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