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Report:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong

The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...

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Blog:Google Drive Could Be Huge

Today Google announced Google Drive as a solution to store, share and synchronize content across multiple devices. Big deal? Yes, this could be a very big deal. Why? Here's the deal: Up until now...

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Blog:Some Thoughts on 2012 Before The Holidays

We're just about to the end of 2012 (and according to the Mayan calendar, the end of time) so I figured it was about the right time to put together some thoughts on the year.  Let's...

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

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Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

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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:The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012

The Five Top-Of-Mind Streams And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's first 19-criteria evaluation of activities streams vendors, Forrester identified the five significant players — Neudesic Pulse, Salesforce Chatter, Socialcast by VMware...

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Tool:Assess Your Common Areas Of Needed SharePoint Support

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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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Blog:Microsoft Turns The Battleship In Pirate-Infested Waters

For a long time Microsoft ruled the knowledge worker part of the IT seas with impunity. They have fended off attacks from the expected folks like IBM and Oracle rather handily. Then the...

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Report:Staffing For Social Business And Collaboration Success

Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...

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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: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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Tool:Enterprise IT Investment In Innovation Will Be Substantial In 2010

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Blog:The Enterprise Social Landscape Enters Teen Years

At Forrester we have published our first Enterprise Social Platform Wave. I first entitled this blog "Enterprise Social Landscape Matures" but then realized that while the market has moved...

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Report:Amway Integrates Notes And SharePoint To Drive Its Information Workplace (IW)

Mainsoft Provides The Crucial Glue For A Multivendor IW Strategy

Amway runs an extremely complex, global business including product development, manufacturing, marketing, and a unique and highly successful distribution system. This complexity means that Amway IT...

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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: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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For Content & Collaboration Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are The Critical Success Factors For Enterprise Social?

What are the critical success factors that a vibrant and viable internal social networking strategy must have for a large corporation (40,000-plus) with a diverse mix of social media experience (some...

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Blog:SharePoint, Meet Yammer; Is It Time For Microsoft To Burn The Boats?

In collaboration, there are cloud vendors, on-premises vendors and hybrid vendors. Here's the thing; hybrid vendors are not really cloud vendors. What do I mean by that? Let's look at two...

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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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Blog:The Digital Disruption Changes Everything — Unless It Doesn't

I'm going to tell you a story of opportunity. I will warn you in advance that it paints the art of the possible, but ultimately it's a cautionary tale.  I have a 17-year-old son....

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Blog:Delivering The Social Business Imperative

Forrester fields hundreds of client inquiries each year on the topic of social business and collaboration. And the trend doesn't appear to be slowing. Often the first question is, "How far behind...