Salesforce.com plans to ship in the second half of the year a hosted application for companies to create intranets that are accessible via mobile devices and that offer enterprise social networking (ESN) capabilities to employees. Called ...
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Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence. "The Novell Corporation was at one time one of the ...
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It seems counterintuitive, but last year, Aberdeen Group found that the costs for a company with 1,000 mobile devices go up by $170,000, on average, when they adopt BYOD. Why? Hidden costs. Premiums go up because employees no longer have ...
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When NewsGator Technologies decided to play in the nascent enterprise social collaboration market a few years ago with a product that worked only with Microsoft's SharePoint, it was making a big bet. It was gambling that by making a ...
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This analyst report from Nucleus Research assesses the business benefits of cloud solutions for managing the workforce. As the workforce management (WFM) market has evolved over the past decade, cloud applications have gained in ...
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Office has been a wildly successful product for Microsoft, but its continued dominance is far from assured as software moves to the cloud and employees bring their own tablets and smartphones into work. On Monday, when Microsoft is ...
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Google announced 14 new customers for its Apps for Education cloud suite, as it continues to jockey for position against rivals like Microsoft in this important vertical market. The new customers, which include Carnegie Mellon University ...
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Microsoft is test driving a new version of its Office Web Apps suite,whose applications are hosted by the vendor and accessed by users via a web browser. Improvements in the suite,which includes online versions of Word,Excel,PowerPoint ...
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IDG News Service-A mixture of intense excitement and skepticism followed the launch a year ago of Office 365,as backers and critics debated whether the cloud collaboration,productivity and communication suite would succeed. Skeptics said ...
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