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Report:Microsoft And SAP Duet's New Vision For The Information Workplace In SharePoint

A New Duet Drives Critical Integration

Microsoft = knowledge worker software. SAP = business process. Despite extensive effort on the part of each vendor to encroach on the other's turf, this high-level analysis still holds. Hence, the...

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Report:Staffing For SharePoint Success

SharePoint adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace. According to Forrester's July 2011 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey, 57% of organizations surveyed have already deployed SharePoint 2010 a...

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Report:Integration: The Next Frontier For Enterprise Social

The "Social Layer" Ignites The Next Wave Of Social Technology Innovation

Enterprise social technology vendors have begun to actively position their offerings to meet integration requirements, and the term "social layer," which Forrester originally heard from Socialtext...

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Report:Leveraging Millennials To Drive Enterprise Social Initiatives

Investments in enterprise social technology continue to rise. At the same time, the bet on enterprise social initiatives becomes increasingly strategic. The stakes are high, the risk of failure looms...

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Report:Assessing The Skills You Need From SharePoint Professional Service Providers

Implementing SharePoint can be a broad and complex initiative. Given the depth and breadth of the product it's not surprising that SharePoint professional services firms come in all shapes and sizes....

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011

IBM, Jive, NewsGator, And Telligent Lead A Rapidly Maturing Field

In Forrester's first ever, 62-criteria evaluation of enterprise social platform vendors, we found that IBM, Jive, NewsGator, and Telligent led the pack due to breadth and depth of functionality and...

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Tool:Collaboration Investments Are Closely Aligned With Business Goals

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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:WebCenter Suite Allows Oracle Applications To Embrace The Information Workplace

Oracle is not a company that leaps to mind when you think of knowledge workers — certainly, not in the way that IBM/Lotus or Microsoft might. Yet, with the emergence of the Information...

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Report:Ogilvy's 360 Digital Influence Leverages Social For Competitive Advantage

An Empowered Report

In the hyper-competitive online social marketing world two things differentiate the winners from the losers: creativity and client service. When Ogilvy's 360 Digital Influence group looked at...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 '12

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Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

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Tool:Assess Your Common Areas Of Needed SharePoint Support

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Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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Client Inquiry:SaaS-Based Document Sharing Vendors

We need to provide shared documents to various external partners. Services we’ve seen in the past feel like a simplified, web version of SharePoint and require some form of dual factor...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 '11

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Report:Decision Time: Is SharePoint In The Cloud For You?

Early Adopters Outline The Promise And Prerequisites For Success

The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over. Microsoft's commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is evident in its massive data-center investments, its...

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Report:The Information Workplace Light Burns Brighter

The Vendor Landscape Creates More Opportunity And Complexity

When Forrester introduced the concept of the Information Workplace (IW) in 2006 it was largely a vision of the future. Since then, much has changed. The world economy has suffered a prolonged...

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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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Report:IBM Case Manager Productizes The Information Workplace

The Information Workplace is moving from vision to reality. The best evidence is coming in the form of vendors offering broad, previously disparate functionality packaged together to solve common...

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Report:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition

Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

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Tool:Nearly 60% Of Enterprises Will Have Enterprise Social Investments In 2011

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Report:Office 365: Version Two Of SharePoint In The Cloud

There's an old adage that says it takes Microsoft three times to get it right. Its commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is clearly evident in its investment in data centers, a costly retrofitting of...

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Report:Google Apps For Business: A 2011 Trip Report

Google Apps Business Is Growing; Mobile, Social, And APIs Move To The Fore

Forrester spent a day with Google Apps Vice President Dave Girouard and members of his team to hear the latest on Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government. With the US General Services...

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