Yesterday, Salesforce.com announced that it had completed its acquisition of web conferencing vendor DimDim for $31 million in cash (net of cash acquired). The company intends to build DimDim’s feature set into its Chatter product (prioritising presence, instant messaging/chat and screensharing, it would seem), helping to build out its collaboration software credentials and, in Salesforce.com [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast 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 on Monday, August 9, 2010 by Angela AshendenUncategorized
Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Back in September Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its “identity management-through-acquisition” strategy. With many eyes focused on the company’s Oracle Open World shindig this week, Sun also entered the fray with its plans to acquire another leader ERM independent: Vaau. Role-based access control (RBAC) is hardly [...]
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by adminThere have been two notable events this week in the collaboration software market – firstly the acquisition of Zimbra by Yahoo! on Tuesday, followed by Novell’s reach into the broader collaboration market through the release of two new products, Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming and Conferencing. Yahoo’s purchase of Zimbra, a small, California-based start-up which [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by adminExcuse the use of the blog to highlight our own research but I wanted to let any of you out there who are interested in identity management know that the first of our identity management infrastructure assessments – Novell – has just been published. Here’s the summary to whet your appetites: Novell has exploited its [...]
Posted on Friday, March 2, 2007 by admin
