Box announced a new strategic customer: GE. “GE’s IT organization, tasked with bringing innovative, cutting-edge technology to roughly 300,000 employees located in more than 170 countries, selected Box to: – Make it easy for employees to collaborate across business units and with external parties; – Unify business information […]
Ashlee at BusinessWeek reviews Slack, another new service for moving people beyond email. I like Ashlee’s take on the applicability of Slack to non-geeks (broadly speaking, what I call Second Wavers): “But the real issue with these services is that they suffer from a distinct Silicon Valley bias. […]
One of the most eagerly anticipated capabilities for the next version of IBM Connections – due to be released on May 21 – is integrated support for external collaboration. This means that non-employees (non-licensed users) of a firm can be given access to Connections and the content inside. […]
The team at Unify have released a video insight into work life with unified collaboration tools.
Some recent news on Microsoft, Office, Surface, and Lync: 1. Microsoft reported a strong fiscal year third quarter. Office 365 subscriptions, Surface purchases, and enterprises going beyond XP were key drivers of the performance. 2. Microsoft is expected to announce new Surface models in a couple of weeks, […]
When I first wrote the Seven Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity (in 2005), I focused on the needs of collaborative teams from technology. Interestingly, while there was a role in my framework for presence and instant messaging (Pillar 5), and real-time screen sharing for co-authoring / co-editing (Pillar […]
Evernote has been available as a personal tool for many years, and in recent times has added sharing capabilities to its personal offering. Its Evernote Business service adds better support for team collaboration, including the ability to share Business Notebooks that remain owned by the business, and that […]
As you may know, I’m heading to Europe at the end of next week for a two week workshop tour. When the tour was originally under design, the intent was to align it with Social Connections VI – which at one point was going to be held in […]
In my book Collaboration Roadmap (2011) I talk about managing meetings as one of the “collaboration scenarios” that can be enhanced / improved through new tools. Within the context of SharePoint 2013, AvePoint offers a Meetings App for this scenario. In the video above, Jeremy Thake (who is […]
A recent market research study by AIIM highlights various problems in the uptake of collaboration tools in enterprises: … 93 percent of business leaders believing internal collaboration is either crucial or very important to what they do, and 59 percent holding the same to be true of external […]
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