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Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2013
In an earlier post on this topic, I mentioned that for Cloud File-Sharing (CFS) Platforms to become a part of the enterprise layer -- as opposed to just serving as stand-alone tools like most of them do now -- they would need to improve in a number of areas. One of the key areas where almost all the tools need improvement is in the area of reporting and compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 7-May-2013
The Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Research stream now evaluates 25 of the key collaboration/social vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 23-Apr-2013
Vendor marketing pitches and case studies try to paint a rosy picture, but they too struggle with getting their own social software implementations to take-off ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Apr-2013
We've just published our 2013 edition of the Cloud File Sharing and Collaboration Marketplace Analysis. This advisory briefing looks at how the marketplace -- both in terms of products and vendors -- is evolving.
For 2013 we isolate three key trends: ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 14-Mar-2013
Innovation champions often wonder whether and why they need additional tools for managing innovation, when they have already invested in collaboration and social software. That's a valid question ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 8-Mar-2013
Every year, we come up with a spot-check of the E2.0 marketplace and I'm happy to share this chart from our 2013 edition ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 6-Mar-2013
Most recently, Awareness focused on “Social Marketing Hub” software to help enterprises manage their presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
However, of late, we’ve noticed a few strange things that should set off warning bells for potential customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has a gap in their marketing cloud in the key area of Marketing Automation (MA). In general this is not a bad thing, since they integrate with several other MA vendors instead ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Feb-2013
Every so often, though, it is important to take a step back from the details and look at the more macro-trends that are facing today's business and technology decision-makers ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 21-Feb-2013
Where's the fine print? You can creatively define a category that eliminates everyone else and preside over a parallel universe in which only you reside. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 1-Feb-2013
Savvy marketers are adding co-creation and crowdsourcing to their toolkits as consumers are tired of one-way marketing monologues ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jan-2013
Here's the latest edition of our famous vendor subway map. With this latest iteration, we add the Cloud File Sharing marketplace, a.k.a., the beige line.
We also account for other vendor additions and subtractions -- typically via mergers and acquisitions, such as the ones that finally put Oracle firmly on the purple line ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 23-Jan-2013
As part of our ongoing evaluations of Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software vendors, we’ve updated our detailed chapters on Google Apps, IBM Connections, and NewsGator as well as added Moxie software to our line up ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2012
Every year we make predictions about the coming annum, and every year, we go back and see how our predictions actually fared. See, for example, our assessment of our 2011 predictions.
Below I'll evaluate how our 2012 predictions (from December, 2011) held up ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 12-Dec-2012
It is useful to make a distinction between "implementation" scale and "usage" scale in the social software context - software factors and softer factors respectively, if you will. And the latter are often harder to crack ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 7-Dec-2012
If you're undertaking a selection of a WCXM or a DAM system, or any other piece of enterprise technology for that matter, you'll want to see a demo, to witness first-hand all the bells and whistles ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2012
Yesterday Jane McConnell shared a nice tidbit from her (excellent) survey of global intranet managers, that "40% of large enterprises believe in the digital workplace."
I believe this is great progress ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Dec-2012
Each year around this time, all the Real Story Group analysts get together to partake in some crystal-ball gazing about where the content technology market will head in the next year.
Here are our collective predictions for 2013: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Nov-2012
Identifying and selecting the right KM tools can prove a decisive factor in your success ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 30-Nov-2012
RSG advisory customers know that each new version of any technology platform carries both the promise of a better world and the agony of the upgrade. SharePoint 2013 is no exception ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 21-Nov-2012
Including evaluations of Badgeville, Bigdoor, and Bunchball ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Nov-2012
This is the time of year when we start to look back and reflect on the past twelve months and begin to look forward to what's next. As some you know, in addition to our premium research and associated advisory sessions, some of our subscribers ask us to assist them in a more hands-on consultative engagement ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Nov-2012
The whole affaire, as well as a recent request I received from a Digital Asset Management vendor, reminded me that the world of technology analysis is no less shifty -- it's just that the attempted manipulation of the system for personal and business gain is of a different nature ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Nov-2012
Enterprises will naturally question: since the functionality these cloud-based tools provide is really a subset of the larger problem document management tools like Documentum seek to solve, why not just use of the traditional ECM or Collaboration tools for file sharing instead of selecting a new set of tools? ... Continue Reading
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