Let's leave aside the price/valuation questions that swirl around any M&A deal. What's more interesting to digital workplace leaders is the trends we can glean here.

Both the tech press and the mainstream publications gush over this tool as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread, but Slack is unproven for enterprise use.

Earlier this week, longstanding Aussie software vendor Atlassian filed for an IPO. Should you care? I think there's three things you the customer should know

Consult the report for detailed evaluations but here is a sneak peek of the updates.

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

Are all wiki tools essentially the same? Our research suggests not. For a longer explanation, consult this KM World article. To quote

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

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

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