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Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Apr-2012
Recently, Jive software announced the release of Jive Gamification, an add-on to its enterprise social networking platform. Jive is OEMing the module from a vendor called Bunchball that specializes in gamification software. Jive's version and is an extension of "Nitro," Bunchball's software platform for such things ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 8-Mar-2012
We just released an update to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Version 4.1 includes updated reviews of three software suites (Jive, Socialtext, blueKiwi) and two specialists (MindTouch, Mediawiki).
Here’s a quick snapshot of what you’ll find in this update: ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 10-Feb-2012
Jive software announced its 2011 financial results this week. Although our 360-degree vendor evaluations dwell at length on the products and real-world customer experiences, we also keep an eye on vendor financials to understand their stability and viability, and raise red flags if required ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Jan-2012
Jive Software has long been the darling of the Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software space. Yes, they have decent (though not spectacular) technology, but the company has always been savvier about "message." Jive talked social networking as an alternative to SharePoint 2007 when that was hot, then pivoted to more of a collaboration message as customers got more serious, then joined the cloud/API/ecosystem bandwagons at the right time, and so on ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Dec-2011
Social software vendor Jive Software recently announced a new module called Fathom for Social Media Monitoring. Fathom comes as a free add-on to an existing Jive 5 setup. It provides basic capabilities for monitoring content across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and other sources. Fathom Pro, a paid upgrade to the free version, adds some advanced analytics and intelligence capabilities to the free module ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Dec-2011
SharePoint licensees seeking to deliver on the promise of social networking and more advanced collaboration applications must choose among three alternative approaches to close the gap ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2010
You may be getting pressure to join a particular tool's bandwagon. This year it could be Drupal, Sitecore, Jive, or Liferay. Next year it will certainly be a different set of names. Our industry is nothing if not faddish. When faced with the bandwagon effect, I encourage you to pause and consider all the angles ... Continue Reading
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
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
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2010
I participated in an interesting workshop at the 2.0 Council last week where one of the big debates was -- inevitably -- the tension between behemoth collaboration platforms (especially SharePoint) vs. point solutions for social computing ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Apr-2010
This is just a little tiff between vendors, so why should you care? Well, both are making it abundantly clear that a vendor is not a neutral source of information ... Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Feb-2009
This is a somewhat rambling post about the enterprise social software marketplace, but there is a thread that runs through it, and that is the role of Intel ... Continue Reading
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
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
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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