Blog posts about IBM Connections

Major Collaboration and Social Platforms Are Coming Up Short

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2012

We've just released a major update (Version 4.0) to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report, which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Our subscribers will see several new vendors under review as well as an overhauled set of evaluation criteria ... Continue Reading

Whither IBM Connections?

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jun-2011

There's a longstanding question about how effectively Big Blue can evolve Connections ... Continue Reading

Is Immersive Collaboration Software Ready for Prime Time?

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-May-2011

The initially meteoric rise of Second Life gave visibility to a (mostly) new crop of vendors looking to apply "immersive" or "virtual" experiences to enterprise collaboration ... Continue Reading

FileNet P8 on your iPhone

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Feb-2010

We wrote just the other week about the potential of using devices such as Apple's iPad for accessing enterprise documents. What seemed like good idea for the future turns out to be almost in the here and now ... 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

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

Lotus Connections now with Microblogging and Wikis

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Oct-2009

Last week, IBM announced the official release of Lotus Connections 2.5. For me, the main two updates in this social software tool are ... 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

Jive's layoffs don't portend doom and gloom for social computing

Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Oct-2008

I'm hearing a lot of chatter among social software cognoscenti about how the looming recession will impact ... Continue Reading

Talking about Social Software

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jul-2008

I recently had a long and wide-ranging interview with IT Business Edge on the topic of Social Software technologies ... 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

IBM-Microsoft shoot-out at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference

Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Jun-2008

This morning at the Enterprise 2.0 conference we were treated to a series of semi-structured Social Software demos pitting IBM (Connections) against Microsoft (SharePoint) ... Continue Reading

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