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- Social Networking & Collaboration for the Workplace: How to Extend and Transform Business Processes With Social Networking and Collaboration Tools
- Research shows that informal learning accounts for over 80% of the learning that takes place in organizations1. As organizations realize the potential of informal learning, more and more they are looking for ways to help them harness this power and align those results with tangible business goals and strategies. This...
- Tags: Business Process, Workplace, Network, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Plateau Systems, Social Networking, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-10-13
- Securing and Controlling the New Internet at the Web Gateway
- Off late Internet is dominated by connectivity and collaboration. As organizations and users alike are utilizing a combination of enterprise and publicly available tools, applications and communities, the Internet and corporate networks are awash with Web 2.0 applications such as social networks, instant messaging, VoIP, gaming and sharing applications. In...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration Tool, FaceTime Communications, Tool, Internet, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Enterprise Business Solutions, LLC Accelerates Project Lifecycles With Intuitive Collaboration Tool
- The EBS Group wanted to enable employees and customers to collaborate in online workspaces to more effectively manage complex projects and streamline and accelerate document approval processes, while ensuring each document includes all necessary changes. The challenge was to provide customers with a secure project portal to access project status...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., IM, Collaboration Tool, Tool, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Take the e-mail test: Can collaboration tools save time and money?
- Take the e-mail test: Can collaboration tools save time and money?Self-serving White PapersAlmost all white papers are self serviing, so I can't fault yet another company doing this, and they made a couple points. There are other things they could go into such heavy detail on though. It...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, business problem, collaboration, e-mail, Google Inc., collaboration tool, tool
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Take the e-mail test: Can collaboration tools save time and money?
- Every once in a while, you learn a thing or two from a fifth-grader. My 11-year-old son uses a Web-based e-mail account to chat with a few pals on the East Coast and a couple of out-of-town cousins. But you'd think he was friendless if you saw his inbox. There's...
- Tags: Collaboration, Online Collaboration, Collaboration Tool, Tool, E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- University Offers Improved E-Mail Solution and Strengthens Community With Collaboration Tools
- The University of Da Nang UD has over 35,000 enrolled students and is also a major science and technology research center in Vietnam. UD wanted to provide students and staff with a common reliable method of online communication to enhance teaching and learning processes. The university chose Microsoft Live@edu, a...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Microsoft Live@edu, E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Business School Students Choose Hosted Collaboration Tools to Improve Productivity
- While the Wharton School provided students with Microsoft Exchange Server - based e-mail service, it also works closely with students to continually enhance their communication and collaboration services. Wharton decided to deploy Microsoft Live@edu, including Microsoft Exchange Labs as the e-mail component among a suite of hosted collaboration services. Today,...
- Tags: Wharton School, Microsoft Exchange Server, Student, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Business School, Tool, Groupware, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- Getting on board with collaboration tools
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, tech executives discuss how they trained clients and employees to be more comfortable using online collaboration tools. Speakers include Greg Biggers of Chordiant, Len Devanna of EMC, Michael Pusateri of Disney, and moderator Sam Lawrence of Jive Software.
- Tags: Board, Online Collaboration, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Collaboration, Productivity, Office 2.0, Jive Software, EMC
- Videos 2008-09-08
- Organizations Need to Be More Dynamic to Solve Business Imperatives: Global Survey Finds That Collaboration Tools Can Leverage Human Communications to Improve Enterprise Performance
- The enterprise Web 2.0 market, which includes the deployment of tools like blogs, wikis, and social networking within the enterprise, was a growing force in enterprise software in 2007. Although still immature, this market will continue to gain importance in 2008 as increasing numbers of firms look to enterprise Web...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration, Performance, Survey, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Productivity, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- White papers 2008-06-05
- Government Department Adopts Two for the Price of One Records and Collaboration Tool
- The United Kingdom (U.K.) government's Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Defra discharges its responsibilities through 3,000 core employees, dispersed throughout the country, who collaborate with a range of outside experts and stakeholders. Defra wanted a combined Electronic Document and Records Management EDRM system, and a tool set for...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Government Department, Records Management, E-government, Government, Managerial Accounting, Collaboration, Groupware, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- ePals provides safe student collaboration tools
- Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Fish, CEO of ePals Corporation. I first heard about ePals through Intel, who recently announced that they would provide hooks to ePals' services on their Classmate PCs. While it's easy to describe ePals as "the world's largest social network...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson, Classroom, Collaboration, Collaboration Tool, E-mail, ePals, Instant Messaging, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, Productivity, Social Networking, Teacher, Tool
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- General Contractor Automates Tasks With Productivity and Collaboration Tools
- Brasfield & Gorrie has become a leading general contractor in the southeastern United States by hiring some of the best and brightest and making the most of their talents. In this spirit, IT executives wanted to provide employees a way to create more compelling customer presentations and work more productively...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, General Contractor, Productivity, Content Management, Collaboration, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- National Lender Improves Collaboration Tools With Integrated Communications Solution
- Infonavit is an autonomous government organization that provides home loans for workers in Mexico. Infonavit employees need to collaborate frequently, but some existing communications methods are time-consuming. As a result, the company is implementing a unified communications strategy based on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The company will deliver integrated...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PBX, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Infonavit, Telephony, Collaboration, Groupware, VOIP, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Cancer Researchers Accelerate Pace of Discovery With Contextual Collaboration Tools
- Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute wanted to attach research findings to two-dimensional and three-dimensional molecular images and share them with others. They turned to InterKnowlogy, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, which used Microsoft software to create an image annotation tool linked to a data-sharing portal with built-in search capabilities....
- Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Productivity, Portals, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- Engineering and Project Delivery Firm Delivers Global Capabilities With Microsoft Collaboration Tools
- Sinclair Knight Merz, a leading engineering and project delivery firm, was growing rapidly in revenues, staff numbers and locations around the world and sought to deliver outstanding client service. Over several years, the company implemented a full suite of Microsoft collaboration, server and management tools. Staff can now collaborate and...
- Tags: Engineering, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- PicShare: A Capture-Centric Remote Collaboration Tool
- Sharing images or documents is a natural activity between people both at work and in their social life. Sharing between remotely-located people is now possible through one of the many remote collaborations tools available on the market. However, none of them was particularly designed with image sharing in mind. This...
- Tags: Collaboration Tool, Tool, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-05-31
- Finland-Based Software Developer Achieves More With New Collaboration Tool
- Finnish company Softability has produced high-quality software products for industrial customers since 2002. Its 40 software professionals develop solutions to meet customer-specific needs on time and within budget. But meeting customer demand in a competitive market leaves no room for error. The company needed to fine-tune its processes to improve...
- Tags: Software, Developer, Collaboration, Finland, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2007-05-14
- FAA to Create Safety Training Tools 75 Percent Faster With New Collaboration Tools
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for moving air traffic safely and efficiently in the United States. When an incident occurs on a runway, the Air Traffic Organization ATO division of the FAA re-creates the event in digital animation format. Each animation can take up to 12 weeks to...
- Tags: FAA, Collaboration, Animation, Microsoft Corp., Training, Collaboration Tool, Tool
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- A Review of Team Collaboration Tools for Crisis Response in the Military and Government
- The military operates today both administratively and tactically using collaboration tools. The purpose of this paper is to explore the recent past and current status of collaboration tools use in order to provide recommendations for the future with respect to crisis reaction. Two methods, ad hoc research and systematic document...
- Tags: Team, Government, Collaboration Tool, Tool, United States Navy, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-06-20
- Images: Counting on WikiCalc
- Open-source, browser-based collaboration tool mimics functionality of a spreadsheet while leveraging the technology of wikis.
- Tags: mimic, collaboration, collaboration tool, Web browser, Wiki, open source, tool, spreadsheet
- Image galleries 2006-02-17
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