Yesterday I was briefed by Salesforce.com on their latest SaaS-based product in the collaboration space, Do.com. A result of their acquisition of Manymoon back in February, Do.com is a social project collaboration tool for small groups of up to 15 people, providing features such as task management, notes and discussions. Do.com is still currently in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Angela AshendenAs we reach the end of 2011, the time comes for us MWD analysts to look ahead and offer our perspectives on what 2012 will bring for our research areas. To briefly reflect on the year that has passed, it has been – as we anticipated – a big year for collaboration, with “social” being [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Angela AshendenThis post was written with additional insights from Angela Ashenden, MWD’s lead Collaboration analyst – thanks Angela! Yesterday I came across this really thorough post on the Enterprise 2.0 blog by Cecil Dijoux, trying to pick apart the current state of play regarding the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 concepts and see what can be learned [...]
Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday, Box.net announced the completion of a Series D funding round which raised an impressive $81 million from investors including Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. This figure is added to the $48 million funding announced by Box earlier in the year, and highlights the buoyant position [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 by Angela AshendenEarlier this week I had an interesting call with VMware’s CTO of SaaS and Application Services, Javier Soltero, to find out the thinking behind its acquisition of microblogging vendor, Socialcast, in May this year. As a collaboration analyst, I have not had any real contact with VMware up until now – at least, apart from [...]
Posted on Friday, October 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenThe week after Progress’ Revolution customer event in Boston, I spent a few days in Vegas courtesy of TIBCO at its annual TUCON customer shindig. At one level, there are some interesting parallels to draw between Progress and TIBCO*: both vendors are ‘independent’ infrastructure software providers; both are currently pitching visions of responsiveness to their [...]
Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday, my colleague Helena Schwenk and I attended Cloudforce London 2011, Salesforce.com’s regional customer and partner event. While a much smaller affair than the company’s main San Francisco conference, the London event has become increasingly popular – with demand for attendance meaning that it had to extend to a second day (today) this year, as [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Angela AshendenYou may remember back in July we carried out an online survey into the experiences and perceptions of organisations into cloud email. I’m pleased to announce that we have just published the results from the survey, in our new Market Insight report Perceptions and reality: the truths of cloud email. 56 organisations took part, almost [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Angela AshendenOver the last few weeks, there has been growing debate and discussion about why social business/social collaboration/Enterprise 2.0 – pick your term – has as yet failed to gain mainstream adoption in the business workplace. Various blogs and comment streams express frustration that five years on from Andrew McAfee’s MIT Sloan Management Review paper, in [...]
Posted on Friday, September 2, 2011 by Angela AshendenAre you thinking of moving your email to the cloud? Or perhaps you have already made the switch? Whatever your position on cloud email – positive, negative or just interested – we’d like to invite you to take part in our Email in the Cloud web survey. The survey aims to find out organisations’ priorities [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Angela Ashenden
