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Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

April 30, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, blackberry, enterprise, IOS, oracle, Tibbr, Tibco, yammer

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into…

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On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

March 29, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, Collaboration, dropbox, enStratus, google, Huddle, project management, ReadWrite, RightScale, yammer

Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any…

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Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

January 17, 2013

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, enStratus, Information technology, Salesforce.com, Solution, Strategic business unit, yammer

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set…

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Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

August 28, 2012

Business

AppExchange, Business intelligence, Databases, Indicee, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, yammer

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always…

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Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

June 25, 2012

Business

Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SharePoint, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, Steve Ballmer, yammer

So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big…

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Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?

June 12, 2012

Business

Burberry, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, Salesforce.com, San Francisco, Social enterprise, social media, yammer

On a recent trip to San Francisco I spent talking with both salesforce and NetSuite people about their approach and general view of “social” as it relates to enterprise software [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend…

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IBM Goes Deep with Cloud and Social

January 16, 2012

Business

google, google docs, IBM, Lotusphere, Microsoft SharePoint, Salesforce Chatter, Social business, yammer

At Lotusphere IBM is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of announcements but the highlights include; New social analytics software that integrates…

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Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

May 22, 2011

Business

chatter, enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social network, Toyota, yammer

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to…

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SuiteWorld Reflections

May 13, 2011

Business

Enterprise resource planning, larry ellison, Mark Hurd, netsuite, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com, yammer

I spent this last week at SuiteWorld, NetSuite’s first ever global user conference, a melting pot of accents, customer stories and NetSuite partners shopping their wares. I’ve got a few posts to write about different things I saw and…

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Joining the microblogging legions….

September 20, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, The Cloud, Web x.0

microblogging, twitter, yammer

Legions of different applications that is… At the recent Techcrunch50, Twitter-for-enterprise startup Yammer took out the top prize. I was interested to read a post by Bernard a couple of days later where he uncharacteristically lashed the decision. Basically…

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