Thursday September 9, 2010

Cisco Unveils Hosted Platform To Deploy Collaboration Applications In The Cloud

Cisco is launching a new Hosted Collaboration platform today, which allows partners to provide a wide range of Cisco collaboration applications, such as WebEx, an enterprise focused messaging platform, a contact center and more, to their customers via the cloud.
The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution gives customers the ability to deploy multiple collaboration applications on [...]

Socialwok Adds A Collaboration Platform To Microsoft Outlook

Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, is spreading its wings beyond the search giant to Microsoft land. Today, the startup, which launched its Google Apps-focused product at TechCrunch50 last year, is rolling out the Socialwok Social Connector for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003.
Similar to the layer [...]

Sharepoint Competitor Central Desktop Launches Microsoft Office Collaboration Tool

Central Desktop, a Sharepoint-like SaaS collaboration platform for the enterprise, is launching a new tool that allows for cloud-enabled document collaboration for Microsoft Office users. Central Desktop’s tool allows users to simultaneously co-author Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in real time, as well as open and save files directly into the cloud.
Central Desktop for [...]

Collaboration Platform Socialwok Now Integrates With Facebook, Twitter And Buzz

Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, was just integrated as a partner in Google’s recently launched Google Apps Marketplace. At last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based [...]

Yammer Communities Open The Door To B2B Microblog Collaboration And Much More

As we reported last night, Yammer has just announced that it will begin allowing users to sign up for the microblogging service without requiring email addresses that are associated with their company domain names (e.g. jason@company.com). This new feature, called Communities, will open the service to less formal organizations, and even families. And [...]

Collaboration without Compromise

Social networking, emerging economies, the consumerization of IT…there’s little doubt that these trends are changing how, when and where business is conducted. And regardless of a certain recent product announcement, the mobile phone is becoming the new PC, doing much more than just voice, email and texting.
These changes are affecting how IT responds to [...]