Is there any hotter market than social enterprise applications right now? Need proof? Just look at Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer for more than $1 billion. Or Salesforce’s acquisition of Rypple.
Jive Software is hovering below its post-IPO low after an investment bank lowered its rating on the company, citing research that shows enterprise companies are taking a cautious view of private social networks that we see from Salesforce.com, Yammer and a host of other competitors.
BMO Capital Markets said the market potential for social business software is large and they believe Jive has the be
Social networks are now being taken very seriously by Enterprise Australia with organisations ranging from big banks, through universities, Government departments, retailers and not-for-profits lauding their reach and influence during this week’s Cebit conference.
Until recently, few enterprises were using open source software for back office applications, such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management. But last month, an IDC survey of Western European companies found that nearly ten percent were using open source enterprise software.
Research firm Nielsen and NM Incite, a joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey, today published a comprehensive look at the state of social media ecosystem in 2012. Consumers now spend around 20 percent of their total time online using social networks via their personal computers, and 30 percent of their time online visiting social networking on mobile, the report found.
Midlevel business managers are struggling to embrace new social technologies even though their organizations rapidly are adopting and implementing these tools and capabilities, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study of some 1,160 businesses and IT professionals.
According to the study, titled, “The Business of Social Business: What Works and How It’s Done,” 46 percent of the particip
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: TechnologyIn the next twelve months many organisations will make the wrong choices about social media because of “CIO inertia” and in misconceptions about social media and consumerisation.
Spigit, the maker of collaborative innovation management software for enterprises, has acquired Crowdcast, a provider of social business intelligence solutions. Crowdcast has raised $6 million in funding.
Crowdcast aims to help companies find out what their people really know about their businesses, in order to make better strategic leadership decisions.
Earlier this week, I sat down with Steve Garrity, co-founder and CTO of Hearsay Social. Steve is a former hire of mine from Microsoft who transitioned from working at a large corporation to founding his own startup.
Steve shares his thoughts and learning from managing an engineer-driven company that expanded from zero to one hundred in three years.
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