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IBM is diving deep into the healthcare market with an array of analytics technologies it has accumulated with the $11 billion in acquisitions it has made in the past several years.

For instance, IBM is working with the National Bone Marrow Program (NMDP) to reduce by half the time it takes to find a donor.

The NMDP operates the "Be The Match Registry" of more than eight million potential donors and more than 160,000 cord blood units.

We've covered SimplyBox, the enterprise social software that can either embed itself into or overlay itself on top of any other application, in the past. Now the company is preparing to release "Fragmentation," a feature that will reverse the process by letting SimplyBox users take "fragments" of other applications and embed or overlay them wherever they want.

Google began offering the full range of its various services - such as Voice, Analytics and Picasa - to Google Apps customers on an opt-in basis in September. Starting today, all new Google Apps customers will be added to the new Google Apps infrastructure automatically. Existing customers will still need to opt-in. Google Apps administrators will still be able to block access to other Google services, or selectively turn specific services on for specific groups. For example, it will be possible to give Picasa access to just the marketing team. Previously, those who opted-in would be unable to selectively turn specific apps on and off.

Microsoft's debuted its unified communications platform Lync at a news conference today. Lync will go on sale December 1. Several big name companies like Boeing, Estee Lauder, France Telecom, Nikon and Orange are already using the solution according to Microsoft's announcement. Microsoft will also offer Lync Live next year along with Office 365 and promises eventual integration with Kinect, Microsoft's next-generation human-computer interface.

According to a survey by uSamp, 80% of users with SharePoint access still chose to e-mail documents to necessary parties instead of using SharePoint. The company Mainsoft is hoping to change this by bringing SharePoint and Google Docs into Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes with its plugin harmon.ie.

harmon.ie adds SharePoint or Google docs as a sidebar in Outlook or Notes. Users can then drag and drop files from either document repository into their e-mail messages as easily as adding an attachment. Users on the receiving end can open the files just as if they were opening an attachment.

Now that Apple's iPhone Enterprise Developer Program is available for organizations of all sizes, all enterprises can take advantage of the ability to bypass the App Store and create and share internal apps. But how do you distribute and manage those applications? Business Week recently covered how companies like IBM are creating internal app stores for employees to find and share mobile apps. Although IBM built its own store, there are now at least five products on the market that help organizations easily build their own app stores.

Cisco announced today its first social CRM tool SocialMiner, along with a "customer care" desktop application called Cisco Finesse. SocialMiner is designed not just to help marketers track customer sentiment on social media site such as Facebook and Twitter, but to staff to interact with social media users. SocialMiner is entering an already crowded but rapidly growing space, as did its internal social networking tool Quad.

LexisNexus recently conducted survey of white-collar workers in five countries (the United States, China, South Africa, United Kingdom and Australia) on the subject of information overload. According to the press release, the survey found most professionals have had an increase in information they must process since the economic downturn and that between 1/3 and 1/2 of all information they receive each day is irrelevant to their job. Also, 51% of workers spend half their work days managing and processing information rather than using that information to do their jobs. We asked last week about what enterprise 2.0 tools you use in your organizations. This week, we'd like to know how well those tools are working out for you.

Adobe isn't a company that's typically thought of as an "enterprise software company," even though it sells its software to large enterprises and offers "enterprisey" products like Acrobat and LiveCycle. That could be changing.

Atlassian recently said it wants to be for technical teams what Adobe is to designers, but it's clear that Adobe wants to be to technical teams what it is to designers. Adobe announced several new products at its annual Max conference, including LiveCycle Mobile, the new BlackBerry SDK, HTML5 tools and its app distribution system InMarket. What's emerging is a full "Adobe Stack" for the enterprise.

Google announced today that Google Apps Scripts, a "JavaScript cloud scripting language" for automating tasks in Google products, can now be embedded on any Google Sites page. Google Apps Script has been around for a while, but the ability to create custom pages with the scripts is new.