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Report:Why Intercompany Collaboration Is Important To Technology Product Managers And Marketers

Collaborative Relationships Help Vendors Meet The Needs Of Partners And Customers

Technology product managers and marketers face a simple truth: You have to work closely with your partners and customers or you risk failing to meet their needs. However, a range of technical and...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 '12

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Report:Answer Five Questions When Selecting A Cloud Collaboration And Productivity Suite

A Buyer's Guide For Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps For Business, And IBM SmartCloud For Social Business

Over the past two years, Forrester clients have shown great interest in the cloud collaboration and productivity suites Microsoft, Google, and IBM offer: We've fielded more than 150 inquiries on this...

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Report:An Early Look At Microsoft Office 365 Features

Office 365 Has Much But Not All Of What Firms Need From A Collaboration Platform

On June 28, 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 in 40 countries after a massive public beta involving 200,000 organizations from every region. This product encompasses Office Professional Plus and...

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Report:SlideShare Ties Conferencing To Millions Of Slides

More Than A Million Shared Slides Get An Audio And Video Facelift; Consumerization Gets Another Injection; IT Gets Another Vendor To Track

Why does the world need yet another webconferencing vendor? Because the existing solutions don't deliver all the value that your employees crave at a price you can afford. SlideShare has answered the...

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Report:The Enterprise 2.0 User Profile: 2011

A Small, Technically Savvy Group Leverages Publicly Available Social Software To Enhance Their Efficiency And Productivity At Work

Enterprise 2.0 is a hot topic as business executives and IT leaders seek ways to bring social technologies into their business. But hype aside, are we close to seeing a social revolution in business?...

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Report:Case Study: Dimdim Enters The Web Conferencing Market With Smart Product Design And Marketing

Dimdim Points To How Small SaaS Firms Can Thrive In Crowded Markets

Interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) is heating up; 55% of firms tell us they are deploying the technology, will be deploying it in the next year or so, or are interested in it. In response,...

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Report:Microsoft Shows How Product Managers Can Use Serious Games

An Empowered Report: Microsoft Uses Productivity Games To Test Windows And Office Communicator

For product managers, getting workers to help test new products has always proven to be a challenge, making finding an engaging inducement for participation the Holy Grail. As a panacea, a small but...

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Report:Globally Competitive Markets Demand Businesses Collaborate Beyond The Firewall

For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...

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Report:Portrait Of A Government Information Worker

Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration

North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...

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Report:Does Your IT Department Support The Needs Of The Mobile Workforce?

An IT Support Report Card On Employee Mobile, Social, And Collaboration Tools

In 2016, Forrester projects that 63 million US information workers will telecommute at least part-time. Our recent survey of 4,985 US information workers indicates we're well on our way to hitting...

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Client Inquiry:How Do Government Agencies Handle Web 2.0?

Is Web 2.0 (wikis, blogs etc. for both internal use for employees and external stakeholders) common in government agencies, especially compared to private industries? What are the trends? Does being...

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Report:Helping Information Workers Find The Value In Collaboration Tools

Forrester's Convenience Quotient Weighs The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Tools To Predict What Technologies Employees Will Use

Content and collaboration (C&C) professionals are helping their businesses deploy a number of tools to keep information workers connected and productive. However, Forrester data consistently shows...

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Report:The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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Report:Information Workers Are Not Quite Ready For Desktop Videoconferencing

Spurring Adoption Requires Management Advocacy And Concrete Use Cases

Videoconferencing technology promises contextual communications over distance. One type — desktop video — is gaining traction because it can provide access to visual communication to more...

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Report:Framing The Business And IT Impact Of Mobile And Remote Work

Business Leaders Must Focus On People, Technologies, And Facilities Management

With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside a corporate office at least occasionally during a month, it's imperative that business leaders initiate...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012

In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of the cloud strategies of online collaboration software vendors, we identified eight significant collaboration services providers — Box, Cisco Systems,...

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Report:The State Of Collaboration Software Implementations: 2011

Businesses Still Mainly Use Collaboration Tools To Reduce Travel Costs

Businesses large and small are continuing to invest in a range of collaboration technologies. While vendors promise that these technologies can solve a range of business problems, most content and...

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Report:Aim To Empower The Anytime, Anywhere Workforce

Business Impact: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside of their corporate office at least occasionally every month, it's imperative that business leaders...

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Report:Navigating The Online Collaboration Suite Landscape

Moving collaboration workloads to the public cloud is an attractive proposition for content and collaboration professionals and information workers alike. Why? They're inexpensive to stand up and...

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Report:Psion Embraces Intercompany Collaboration As A Core Part Of Its Business

Social Software Plugs Partners And Customers Into The Product Development Process

Psion, a manufacturer of ruggedized handheld devices, has made intercompany collaboration core to its business. Psion CEO John Conoley and CMO Nick Eades have partnered in recent years to turn around...

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Client Inquiry:What Are The Vendors And Tool Sets For Virtual Worlds?

What are the vendors and tool sets for virtual worlds (Second Life, Teleplace, etc.)?

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Report:The Social CIO

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

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