Blog posts about Google Apps

Google Apps - After the Hype...

Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Apr-2012

Google has been promoting its broad suite of "Google Apps for Business" as -- among other things -- an enterprise collaboration and social computing offering, aiming to compete with the likes of SharePoint.

To that end, Google has won a handful of big deals, but in discussions with some larger early adopters, a hype cycle appears to be playing out: ... Continue Reading

What dropping support for older browsers tells us about Google Apps

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jun-2011

Google has announced that for Google Apps, it's dropping support of older browsers. Only the current and previous versions of IE, Firefox, Safari, and of course Chrome will be supported. After August 1st, Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3 and older versions will be the first to be dropped. Clearly, this is going to put some customer IT departments in a bit of a pickle ... Continue Reading

Updated Collaboration and Social Software Evaluations

Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Oct-2010

We've just updated several vendor evaluations in our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software technology stream, including ... Continue Reading

App Store? There's an App for that

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Sep-2010

What, your system vendor doesn't have an app store yet? Apple has popularized the concept, and most phone platforms now have something similar: Google's Android Market and Nokia's Ovi Store come to mind. So now everyone has to have one, not just devices, but enterprise software as well ... Continue Reading

Google, DocVerse, Jive, and vendor-switching in the Cloud

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Mar-2010

Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago -- but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs ... Continue Reading

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading

Oracle and SharePoint

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jan-2010

Among the various categories of content technologies that we evaluate, Oracle has been very quiet over the past year. For the past two years, actually, Oracle has urged customers and partners to look forward to the "11g" series of upgrades across its various application sets ... Continue Reading

Google vs. SharePoint can be Apples vs. Oranges

Added By Shawn Shell on 12-Jan-2010

Since the birth of SharePoint, Microsoft has marketed it as an internal collaboration platform, during a period when Intranet managers increasingly see collaboration as a high-priority service. Now, players such as Google and HyperOffice are trying to repeat SharePoint's success, using an on-again, off-again "SharePoint Killer" marketing tactic combined with the idea of creating a kind of Intranet-in-a-box alternative. However ... Continue Reading

Updated Collaboration and Community software evaluation research

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Dec-2009

This week we updated our collaboration and social computing vendor evaluations. Specifically, we updated the following reviews ... Continue Reading

Google takes page from Microsoft playbook

Added By Shawn Shell on 28-Oct-2009

I was recently invited to participate in some early testing of Google’s Wave product. As readers know, Wave has been described as a "SharePoint killer." My initial impression of Wave leads me to believe it’s little more than hype ... Continue Reading

Google Sites with API: Still No SharePoint Killer

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Oct-2009

Is Google Sites a SharePoint killer? Well, to be fair, I haven't heard the exact term this past week, but the innuendo was clearly there ... Continue Reading

Visualizing the Social Software and Collaboration Marketplace

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Aug-2009

How can we best understand the broad social software and collaboration vendor marketplace? I'd just been pondering that question when ... Continue Reading

Making sense of CMS Watch....

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading

Google Wave: Tsunami or Wipe Out?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-May-2009

Somewhat stealing the thunder of Microsoft's almost-released Bing search, Google presented a preview of Wave yesterday at the I/O Developer conference. So what kind of wave is this? ... Continue Reading

Even Google discontinues products

Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2008

November brought bad news for all Livelyzens ... Continue Reading

Gadgets as increasingly relevant portal standard?

Added By Janus Boye on 10-Dec-2008

Earlier this year in June, I argued that JSR 286 might be the last portlet standard, mainly due to the lack of attention to the updated specification ... Continue Reading

RSS is more than aggregation -- it's the new personalization

Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Nov-2008

A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest ... Continue Reading

How fast will Chrome tarnish?

Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Sep-2008

It's too soon to know what to make of Google's new Chrome browser (I've only been hammering on it a short time), but I have to admit I was disappointed ... Continue Reading

Announcing the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2008

The full name is actually Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise ... Continue Reading

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