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HiveLive: the beginning of community app consolidation?

Knowledge bases need the wisdom of the crowd to provide sustainable valueSocial media clearly has shown tons of value to the CRM model and RightNow's acquisition of HiveLive makes perfect sense and should provide material value to their customers. What this means to customers using Lithium and RightNow is...

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Discussion threads 2009-09-08

HiveLive: the beginning of community app consolidation?

Larry Dignan has the details of RightNow's acquisition of HiveLive. I was struck by two things. First up Barron's notes that HiveLive had raised $7.8 million so a sale at $6 million sounds like a distressed deal. Second, RightNow is talking very clearly about integration: RightNow believes that by...

Tags: Consolidation, RightNow Technologies, HiveLive, HiveLive Platform, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-08

RightNow acquires social networking company HiveLive

RightNow on Tuesday said it will acquire HiveLive, an enterprise social networking company, for about $6 million in cash. In a statement, RightNow, which provides customer relationship management software as a service, said it plans to add HiveLive's technology to its platform. The move is the latest...

Tags: Social Networking, RightNow Technologies, HiveLive, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), GAAP, Networking, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Swarming around in HiveLive

Swarming around in HiveLiveHive is a great way to make that connection; ask your server clean up!Don't doudt that now is the time to put in your input from the description presented. Really go with it; without a worry when HIVE is part of Blue Cloud. It will be in...

Tags: HiveLive, swarming

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

Swarming around in HiveLive

Does anyone need another enterprise collaboration tool for helping get closer to the customer? How about if you had a collection of tools in one space that are people centric rather than task or functionally bound? This is the set-up for looking at HiveLive, a vendor...

Tags: Community, Swarming, HiveLive, Productivity, Groupware, Blogging, Wiki, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-31

HiveLive launches enterprise community platform

HiveLive has joined the growing number of companies focused on delivering social software, or a community platform with wikis, blogs, and forums, to enterprises. HiveLive calls itself as “the first community platform to seamlessly integrate social networks with information networks.” It's not clear what the phrase means, but the foundation...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, HiveLive, Community Platform, Wiki, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Additional Resources

News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-09-09

The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion prediction

Forrester has released a report indicating that Enterprise 2.0 spending will reach $4.6 billion by 2013. ( I would offer a link but the one I have is broken.) I'm uncomfortable with the report though it hints at some interesting developments. Any prediction is based upon the...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-21

SocialText moves the collaboration goalposts

  I caught up with Ross Mayfield, president of SocialText today to discuss its new products, SocialText Dashboard and SocialText People. Ross believes that wikis are the foundation for collaboration within the enterprise and that Dashboard and People represent the next iteration in the way people will...

Tags: Collaboration, Socialtext, Ross, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Wiki, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-17

News to know: Dell; MinWin; Microsoft's Glasnost; Mozilla

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell: We'll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions Ed Bott: Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel? Jason Perlow: Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0. Dana Blankenhorn: If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Wireless LANs, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-04-01

The 3-D Web Goes Thin

Increasingly, it looks like Weight Watchers has gotten hold of the Semantic Web. Fat is out. Thin is in. And while no one’s counting points, it certainly looks like, thin clients will increasingly play a central roles in attracting organizations to the 3-D web. A number of...

Tags: 3D, Web, 3-D Web, Vivaty, ScreenCaster, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Google for enterprise: my $500 bet

Robert Scoble believes that Google is making a run for the enterprise and that over the next five years will grab at least some share of that market, specifically in email. He might be right but I'm willing to bet $500 that he's wrong. This is what I see...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Robert, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-26

The end of software...

...as you know it. Right now I'm falling over startup vendors vying for attention in the so-called 'social software' space. The fact enterprise people hate the term doesn't seem to bother those who are bypassing IT as they sell into the marketing departments of companies at departmental budget prices. But...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-19

News to know: Leopard data loss; Microsoft's offline sync; Mandriva CEO; Google and GPL

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: This Leopard bug beats anything Vista has to offer. Tom Karpick: Massive data loss bug in Leopard. Mary Jo Foley: More details emerge on Microsoft's online-offline sync platform. Ryan Stewart: The WPF component market is hot. ...

Tags: Google Inc., GPL, Web, David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Data Loss, Mandriva, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-11-06