Category: Industry Updates

Effective User Adoption = 70%

Focus on securing effective user adoption of new IT systems; it’s the biggest contributor to overall success. “According to a study done by the Sand Hill Group and Neochange, the most critical factor (70% listed as number 1) for software success and return-on-investment is effective user adoption. Software […]

DocuSign Integration with Salesforce.com

DocuSign announced an integration with Salesforce.com, for supporting document signing processes using DocuSign when the documents are stored in Salesforce. “Completely in-line with this sort of ‘interconnect for the best of the best’, DocuSign quietly demonstrated an integration of leading Electronic Contract Execution platform ‘Cloud’ service to Salesforce. […]

BlackBerry gets Documents To Go

Documents To Go meets the BlackBerry, in the latest release from DataViz. “Dataviz has unveiled a new version of its Documents To Go suite for the BlackBerry which enables users to work with Microsoft Office files on their mobile handset. Documents To Go Premium edition for BlackBerry is […]

Lotus Notes Email on Nokia Devices

IBM and Nokia announced support for Lotus Notes email on the S60 Nokia devices. “Nokia and IBM today announced IBM Lotus Notes support for a number of Nokia’s S60-based mobile phones, meaning that millions of Lotus Notes users are now able to access email with their Nokia devices. […]

EtherPad: Dead Simple Real Time Collaboration

EtherPad is a new real-time collaborative writing web service. “EtherPad allows you to instantly create a workspace for text documents that you can then share with your colleagues, clients, or friends. Every edit to the document will immediately appear on your co-workers’ screens in real-time. EtherPad acknowledges that […]

Extending Team Concert to SharePoint Documents

Mainsoft released an integration between Rational Jazz — the team collaboration software development environment — and Microsoft SharePoint. “Now available, the Beta release of Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz: SharePoint Edition enables you to associate a document site to each of your Jazz teams, so developers will […]

DabbleBoard Offers Beta of Shared Whiteboard

DabbleBoard released the Beta of the DabbleBoard service, an online whiteboard. “Dabbleboard is a powerful online whiteboard that’s actually easy and fun to use. With a revolutionary new interface, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Share […]

CalConnect at Microsoft

The next CalConnect Interoperability Test Event is being held in February 2009 at Microsoft in Redmond. For a long time Microsoft wasn’t a member of CalConnect, but are now … and that bodes well for improved calendaring interoperability in the future. Michael’s hope: that the SharePoint team goes […]

Smub, for Link Sharing

Janet points to Smub, a new service for sharing links between people. “I spend a lot of time online, and am not afraid to download widgets or tools or ’stuff’ to enhance my own online experience. Mostly I download tools that save me time and energy. I started […]