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Whither Jive Software?

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

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

Key Decisions to Make When You Decide to Go Mobile

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Dec-2011

At such time you decide you need a mobile presence for your corporate website or for an enterprise application, you'll face some key decision points, the outcome of which will define how you execute on a mobile strategy ... Continue Reading

Three options for social-enabling SharePoint

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

2012 Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011

It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading

Death of the Intranet

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2011

Intranets are dead. Long live the Digital Workplace!

OK, this is partly an argument about labels, but labels matter. What most employees understand as their "intranet" -- updates from corporate communications, some HR forms, and a mountain of outdated docs -- is increasingly irrelevant ... Continue Reading

What is a Community, anyway?

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2011

This question is popping up pretty frequently among our advisory subscribers. It's a subtle question in some ways, but also laden with great import for both intranet/collaboration managers and public website marketers ... Continue Reading

Oracle and Collaboration - take five

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Oct-2011

Last week at OracleWorld the company announced that it was renaming and re-focusing its WebCenter "Connect" offering to "Oracle Social Network." A new emphasis on social networking services and middleware integration could prove promising, but real business value today comes from effective collaboration efforts that deliver quick business benefits out of the box, with a social kicker downstream. Oracle is a bit late to this party ... Continue Reading

How does your intranet stack up?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 29-Jun-2011

Benchmarking anything is challenging, but benchmarking your intranet is really hard. It's likely just not practical for you to conduct multiple site visits to other organizations, and you can only go to so many conferences where other enterprises share their successes and challenges. Luckily, intranet managers have another option ... 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 Search the New Portal?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jun-2011

Well, that's what some of the hype in the market would have you believe. Let's look at what's driving this. The last decade has seen continuous improvements to search technology. At least in theory, today's search engines can crawl more complex repositories, can handle many more documents, and run faster and more efficiently. ... Continue Reading

UGC, 2.0, and Commenting Services

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-May-2011

Perhaps you're thinking about adding some "2.0" to your site or intranet, to obtain that great user generated content (UGC) -- but where do you start? You start with commenting, of course ... 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

Alternatives for Building Portal-Like Applications

Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2011

If you ask "What is a Portal" on twitter, you will likely get numerous replies depending on tweeples' point of view. For some, their Intranet is a Portal, while for others a public search engine is their Portal, and for still some others their own website is a Portal. Instead of ... Continue Reading

Showcase your Intranet

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-Apr-2011

Intranets guru James Robertson (of StepTwo) just reminded me of the Intranet Innovation Awards 2011, now in it's fifth year. It's one of the few ways to learn of great intranets, because after all, these are usually hidden behind the firewall ... Continue Reading

Should You Employ the Same Web CMS Tool for Public Sites and Intranets?

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Apr-2011

In the early days of Web Content Management, many customers tried to employ the same technology -- and often the same physical infrastructure -- for publishing both their intranet and public websites. During most of the past decade, the trend has been to separate these efforts ... Continue Reading

ECM to Cross the Chasm?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Dec-2010

Yesterday our friends over at AIIM (Association of Imaging and Information Management) hosted a webinar that presented new work by sales & marketing guru Geoffrey Moore called A Future History of Content Management: "A Social Business Revolution" ... Continue Reading

How did our 2010 predictions fare?

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Nov-2010

As you may know, we make twelve predictions every year, and every year, we go back to try to assess our accuracy. So, let's see how we did with our 2010 predictions from last December ... Continue Reading

How do you defend system training?

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Nov-2010

I had an interesting conversation with an intranet manager at the JBoye10 Conference in Denmark last month. She got frustrated when executives at her firm declared that the collaboration and networking tools she was rolling out should be so simple, "they don't require training." ... Continue Reading

New Research - How to Support Gadgets in Your Portal

Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Nov-2010

A web portal's true potential lies in its ability to access multiple applications across an enterprise backbone, as well as applications residing on the public web. Gadgets have emerged as a lightweight alternative to build portal-like applications for the enterprise ... Continue Reading

When employees reject SharePoint as a website CMS

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Nov-2010

If you employ SharePoint on your intranet, should you also use it publish your public websites? The debate rages, and there is no universal answer. ... Continue Reading

Webinar - Latest trends in Intranet technologies

Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Sep-2010

Are you an Intranet leader expected to stay abreast of multiple related technologies? If so, please join me for a complimentary webinar next Monday ... Continue Reading