The consumer Web2.0 driven collaboration craze has permeated corporate
walls to bring collaboration to businesses in a new way.
Collaboration has advanced significantly from phone, email and
web-meeting tools. It has evolved into a full open-source multimedia
channel for sharing data and communications in many ways. And more
importantly, extending beyond the corporate intranet to include
customers, suppliers and global sources of knowledge.
Collaboration tools have evolved in value from simple sharing media,
to supporting and driving collective intelligence.
| Students Turn Social Media Skills into Social Business Strategy |
| San Jose State University and IBM partner in a real-world project to help students translate their Facebook and Twitter prowess into powerful business strategies.
01/29/2012
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| TD Bank Gets Social for Better Business |
| When TD Bank Group made a lot of acquisitions a few years ago, executives knew they needed to find a way to help employees span international borders and work together.
01/22/2012
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| Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next |
| A Forrester Research report says that while social software is gaining steam in the marketplace, businesses are nowhere near close to seeing a social revolution. Here's a look at the report's key findings, plus five tips for mapping out the next steps.
11/02/2011
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| What to Look for in Secure Collaboration Tools |
| Despite monumental enterprise efforts to secure information, data breaches continue to top headlines, in part because of the way employees collaborate and share data. What's needed are enterprise-level secure collaboration tools.
10/27/2011
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| Unified Communications Success Depends on Changing Employee Habits |
| CIOs offer tips for getting employees to change their most ingrained habits and adopt new unified communications tools.
09/26/2011
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| TIBCO CEO: How Real-Time Computing Will Change the Landscape |
| Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadive talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about why your company needs to move to real-time computing and how TIBCO's 'two-second advantage' can change your business.
09/19/2011
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| Collaboration's Fragility |
| We all want every collaborative effort to be an ideal experience, but we get disasters much more often. Here are some of the obstacles we must overcome.
09/11/2011
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| CIO Alert: Five Cures for What Ails IT |
| IT groups often struggle to stay efficient as a business grows and evolves. Here are five tips for CIOs needing to improve budgeting and vendor relationships and align IT and business priorities. First step: Go to lunch.
08/31/2011
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| Cisco Buys Microsoft Office Collaboration Company |
| Cisco Monday announced that it has acquired privately held Versly, a maker of collaboration software for Microsoft Office applications.
08/28/2011
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| How To Improve Collaboration with Development and Operations |
| IT managers struggle with getting development and operations (DevOps) teams working together more efficiently. Here are six ways infrastructure and operations (I&O) can improve collaboration.
08/14/2011
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| Workplace Conflict: How to Deal with Difficult People |
| We've all run into at least one of these four types of troublesome co-workers. Teambuilding expert Kaley Klemp explains how to handle them.
08/09/2011
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| How Salesforce.com Plans to Extend Its Enterprise Reach |
| Salesforce.com is taking steps to build a bigger platform to support collaboration, application development and social networking in order to create a larger enterprise presence.
07/26/2011
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| Polycom Unveils Videoconferencing System That Supports Lync |
| Polycom today unveiled a $10,000 room-size videoconferencing system that integrates with Microsoft's Lync collaboration tools.
07/10/2011
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| Microsoft Matches Google Docs with Collaboration in Word Web App |
| Microsoft closed the gap between its Office Web Apps and Google Docs somewhat today by adding co-authoring to the free Word Web App, letting multiple users edit a document simultaneously in the Web browser.
07/06/2011
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| How Random House Overcame 3 Common Enterprise Collaboration Obstacles |
| Enterprise collaboration tools can foster better communication and elicit transparency from business units. Here's how Random House implemented an enterprise collaboration suite, encouraged adoption and is measuring its success.
06/28/2011
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