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Facebook At Work Will Quickly Change Enterprise Social
It may not yet be generally available, but Facebook at Work is a quickly evolving solution that will change how enterprises think…
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Atlassian’s IPO is just part of its lofty goal for the workplace
One of Silicon Valley’s “unicorns” (that is, a tech company valued at over $1 billion), Atlassian is the company behind JIRA, HipChat,…
Read MoreRecent Enterprise File Sync and Sharing News
Here is a brief round-up of some recent news from the Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing market segment. EFSS Application Security MobileIron…
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New collaboration tool TABLE is Slack, LinkedIn, & Upwork all-in-one
Communicating with people is hard. Or at least, it can be. Particularly when everyone isn’t in the same room, timezone, or (same) page.…
Read MoreDropbox Paper is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Last week, I wrote about the commoditization of the enterprise file sharing market and how pure play vendors are being forced to…
Read MoreHightail to a Defensible Niche
It’s hardly news that enterprise file sharing technology has become commoditized. That process has very visibly played out in the tech media…
Read MoreOffice 2016 is Microsoft’s Post-Windows Breakthrough
Office 2016 has been reviewed in great detail by many market watchers, including Microsoft itself. But the release represents something much more…
Read MoreThe State of Salesforce Community Cloud
It’s the eve of Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce event, and I have the company and its customers on my mind. I’ll be attending…
Read MoreBanks Need To Take A Lesson from Kanye West, Before The Platform Wars Break Out
I was recently invited to address a conference on planning in elite sports – as part of the 2024 Olympics preparation. It…
Read MoreGoogle on collaboration
Our customers often tell us that encouraging and enabling collaboration has dramatically improved their business. We decided to dig a little deeper…
Read MoreNetworked Business Defined
In my recently published research agenda, one of the topics that I included was networked business. I gave a brief definition of…
Read MoreThe Return of Middle Managers
“That experiment broke. I just had to admit it.” — Ryan Carson, CEO of Treehouse Island, on his attempt to run the…
Read MoreMicrosoft is right: we need new ways to work, but is Gigjam the answer?
Microsoft has demoed a new technology, called Gigjam, an effort to change the way we think about getting work done in an…
Read MoreAnalytics startup Mode wants to give SQL a shiny home in the cloud
Mode, a startup that’s trying to be something like a GitHub for data scientists, has added new features to its collaboration platform…
Read MoreBox acquires medical-imaging startup MedXT
Cloud storage and collaboration provider Box has acquired MedXT, a startup that has built technology for storing and sharing medical images in…
Read MoreEven connection is becoming a commodity
I have used a paradoxical phrase a great deal in recent months, because it gets at the heart of something important. The…
Read MoreThe modern workforce: an evolving culture of work
We are seeing a rapid move toward more mobile workers, changing patterns of work and communications, and changing work-life balance. Those changes…
Read MoreAaron Levie still believes Box is the answer in content management. Here’s why
Box Co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie came on the Structure Show this week to talk about his company, the competitive landscape, and some recent trials and tribulations with the public market.…
Read MorePlanview buys Projectplace to offer combined resource and project management line-up
The merger also gives Planview an easy way into Europe, and Projectplace a means for U.S. expansion.…
Read MoreSelf-created gotchas in collaboration implementation
It's not always the vendor's fault. Collaboration software failures often arise from bad internal planning, lack of process design or re-design, and inadequate training.…
Read MorePart 1: What makes teams successful?
I have uncovered several new research papers on team success, so I will be writing a short series exploring the topic. In a…
Read MoreMacmillan invests in “Google Docs for researchers” firm WriteLaTeX
The London startup's product, Overleaf, lets researchers collaborate on scientific papers that use the LaTeX markup language.…
Read MoreDon’t cry for Box and Dropbox: Amazon’s real targets are Google and Microsoft
Amazon Web Services' new file-sharing service might be bad news for for companies like Box and Dropbox, but if they're hurt they'll only be collateral damage. The real targets are cloud platform competitors Google and Microsoft.…
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