Zoho Chat supports Jabber
Good to see some extended interoperability support from Zoho with its server-side support for the Jabber protocol. Zoho is one of those unusual companies that will become a major market presence by stealth – gradually strengthening its portfolio based on customer feedback and demand until one day the market leaders will look [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on August 18, 2010
Last week, Google announced that it was killing off Google Wave, the communications and collaboration tool which sparked an explosion of both enthusiasm and skepticism when it first previewed in May last year. The tool, which has remained a trial product in Google Labs during the last 15 months, was designed to break away from [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on August 9, 2010
Earlier in July EA, BPA and BPM tools provider Metastorm released two new products, M3 and Smart Business Workspace, that launch it into the middle of a group of vendors now supporting customers transition to a more open, collaborative approach to business improvement.
In line with the current trend to provide collaborative discovery & requirements analysis [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on July 29, 2010
Today, Adobe announced its intention to acquire Swiss Day Software in a deal valued at approximately $240 million. The acquisition, which is expected to close in Q4 2010, is designed to help flesh out Adobe’s enterprise software portfolio, plugging the gaps between the company’s document-centric solutions (Acrobat and Acrobat Reader), BPM platform (LiveCycle), web conferencing [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on July 28, 2010
It’s like buses isn’t it – no collaboration posts from me for weeks and then two come along at once!
In a piece of news I missed last week, online communities vendor Telligent has strengthened its board with the addition of David Mitchell, who is currently CEO at BPM vendor Global 360. Mitchell has become known [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on July 14, 2010
On Monday, Mindjet announced the next version of its mind mapping software, called Mind Manager 9, which will be released this summer. While electronic mind mapping arguably has a fairly limited appeal, Mind Manager has had significant success over the last 13 years, with 1.5 million customers of the desktop tool. The challenge for Mindjet [...]
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A couple of days ago the June 2010 release of IBM BPM Blueprint went live, and it’s interesting to see this Social BPM trailblazer take inspiration from another corner of the SaaS/social software world – Salesforce.com’s Chatter. (You can read Angela’s take on Chatter here).
Specifically there’s now a capability that allows any user to ‘follow’ [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on July 9, 2010
Following a significant amount of effort ove rmany months, Angela Ashenden (our Principal Analyst focused on Collaboration) and I have finally finished what I think is a landmark report looking at the phenomena of Social BPM and Social Processes.
In the new MWD Strategic Insights report (which you can find here) we explain in detail how [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on July 7, 2010
As sites and technologies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have captured the imagination of millions of individuals around world, organisations are also beginning to question whether, and how, they too might be able to take advantage of these online communities or adapt them for use in a business context. Indeed, one of the biggest [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on June 23, 2010
Socialtext Announces Socialtext Connect, Creating a Social Layer in the Enterprise Architecture
Interesting annuncement from Socialtext – apparently following in the footsteps of Salesforce.com's Chatter application by aggregating enterprise application events and notifications, as well as content from web apps such as Twitter and Google Buzz – and presumably delivering these alongside the user-generated status updates [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on June 17, 2010
