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Social Business: Pining for the Fjords!

Social Business: Pining for the Fjords!

By Susan Scrupski on December 5, 2013

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it…  It’s dead!” So, which is it dead or not dead?   There is so much confusion in the market about what “Social Business” is, it might as well be a dead parrot (too).  And there is no shortage of people who come at this conversation with a perspective […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2.0 Adoption Council, Change Agents Worldwide, deloitte, Enterprise 2.0, MIT SMR, Muhammad Yunus, Nilofer Merchant, research, social business, social collaboration, Social Media, Socialcast, Trends Research | 1 Response

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All together now: cloud collaboration, social and docs

By Phil Wainewright on February 20, 2013

In the emerging enterprise application landscape, collaboration is the business activity most transformed by cloud. The revolution in outcomes is far greater than those wrought by earlier technology-driven advances in global teamwork, such as the telephone, air travel and satellite communications. The Web is the first medium that provides a unified platform for every form […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Box, BoxHQ, EnSW2013, eurocloud, google, Huddle, ibm, linkedin, microsoft, ProjectPlace, Sliderocket, Socialcast, WebEx, ZDNet, zimbra, zoho | 5 Responses

From "Social Applications" to Applications that are Social

From "Social Applications" to Applications that are Social

By Michael Fauscette on August 29, 2012

I spent the first part of this week at VMworld, mostly catching up on two acquired products, SocialCast and Zimbra, as well as the Horizon product line. I continue to be impressed with the feature set and depth of the…

Posted in Business | Tagged applications, apps, ibm, oracle, salesforce.com, SCRM, socbiz, Social, social business, Socialcast, Technology / Software, VMware

Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business

Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business

By R "Ray" Wang on August 15, 2011

Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant […]

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The elephants not in the SaaS room

By Phil Wainewright on July 14, 2011

A few weeks back I was in San Francisco to attend All About the Cloud, probably the most important annual gathering of enterprise SaaS vendors. As I walked down the street from my hotel, I noticed quite by chance that Citrix was having its annual conference at the very same moment just three blocks away […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged citrix, cloudcomputing, netsuite, SaaS, Sliderocket, Socialcast, software as a service, virtualization, VMware | 2 Responses

Consolidation in the Social Software Market Continues: VMware Acquires SocialCast

Consolidation in the Social Software Market Continues: VMware Acquires SocialCast

By Michael Fauscette on June 2, 2011

I have to admit that Tuesday’s announcement from VMware was a bit of a head scratcher for me, at least at first. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very familiar with SocialCast and have written several times that I think highly of the product and the team, as presumably SocialCast customers like Avaya, Humana, Nokia, Phillips […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, google, salesforce.com, socbiz, Social, social business, Socialcast, SpringSource, VMware

How Salesforce Missed their Golden Opportunity with Free Chatter

How Salesforce Missed their Golden Opportunity with Free Chatter

By Esteban Kolsky on January 31, 2011

Today, January 31 2011, Salesforce made their Chatter product available for free to any company in the world. There are certain limitations to the offer: there is no access to the reporting dashboards, no access to the AppExchange marketplace, and all user accounts must be in the same domain name.  Under this model, the first […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AppExchange, chatter, Cloud Computing, collaboration, Customer Experience, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, Socialcast | 4 Responses

Designing User Experience

Designing User Experience

By Michael Fauscette on January 21, 2011

It’s 2011 in case you’ve already forgotten and the world is changing; okay, I guess it’s always changing, just now though, the pace of change has rapidly accelerated. You can see it in your personal life and the change cycle is impacting businesses in ever increasing numbers. The transition to an information economy in a […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged apple, chatter, iTunes, Novell Vibe, oracle, Quora, Simplicity, Socialcast, User Experience, ux, workday | 1 Response

Activity Stream Meets Embedded Social: Socialcast Reach

Activity Stream Meets Embedded Social: Socialcast Reach

By Michael Fauscette on October 19, 2010

I think there is a strong potential for activity streams to become the new user interface / experience for most workers. The concept of bringing together people, content, data and applications in a people-centric, user configurable stream is very powerful….

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged activity stream, e2.0, embedded social, Facebook, Social, Social network, Socialcast

Intelligent Middleware in the Realtime Enterprise

Intelligent Middleware in the Realtime Enterprise

By Jevon MacDonald on April 1, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Enterprise microblogging has been gaining in popularity in the last year. Companies like Socialtext, Socialcast, Status.net and others have developed some absolutely stunning and low cost enterprise platforms. Each of these platforms has a rich set of APIs and can be customized with varying degrees of flexibility. Some take their cues from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Akibot, Blog Post, microblogging, Realtime Enterprise, salesforce.com, Socialcast, socialtext, yammer

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