Microsoft's purchase of Yammer is probably as much about Yammer's marketing model as it is about social networking prowess. Microsoft's social networking capabilities are perceived as weakA--and the aim of its recent $1.2 billion purchase ...
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Yammer is adding functionality to its cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software that lets organizations gauge the types of emotions expressed in employee posts. The new capability will be provided via an integration with ...
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IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. IBM paid $46 per share for ...
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Google has started publicly testing an initial set of enterprise social networking (ESN) features for Google+, adding a key collaboration component for Google Apps customers. Google first indicated last year that it planned to release an ...
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VMware plans to make a beta version of an upgrade to its Zimbra Collaboration Server available for download on Wednesday, with shipments in final form scheduled for later this quarter, the company said. Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0, a ...
Users can now share files from their Google Drive storage account on their Google+ social networking profile, a capability that could be particularly relevant for workplace collaboration. Users can share links to any file stored in Drive, ...
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Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft has started to adopt some key software development practices from Yammer,the ESN(enterprise social networking)vendor it acquired several months ago. Specifically,Microsoft sees great value in the way Yammer ...
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IDG News Service-Yammer said it has simplified and expanded the ways in which its enterprise social networking(ESN)software can be integrated with third-party business applications. Components from Yammer's ESN software that can be more ...
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Is your office strict about employees working 9 to 5?Still use a desktop computer and rely on your Rolodex?Those-and more-are office trends that professionals believe will disappear within five years,according to a new LinkedIn report. ...
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Tibco plans to ship in November an upgrade to its Tibbr enterprise social networking suite that will open up the product's social activity to enterprise and commercial developers via an API. The Enterprise Social Graph API and its toolset ...
IBM is releasing a new version of its Connections enterprise social networking(ESN)software,which companies use to give their employees social media capabilities adapted for workplace collaboration,such as employee profiles and blogging. ...
IDG News Service-Google may be moving too slowly in building up Google Apps'enterprise social networking(ESN)features,at a time when this type of software has become a key component in workplace collaboration suites. On Wednesday,the ...
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IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, the companies said on Monday. IBM has agreed to pay US$46 per share for Kenexa in a cash transaction worth ...
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Yammer has upgraded its cloud-based enterprise social networking software with new and improved features designed to make it easier for end users to manage their content. The upgrades, which will be rolled out progressively to all users ...
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