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I guess it's collaboration day at ReadWriteEnterprise. Earlier today we looked at Jeff Jarvis' thoughts on collaboration and left you with some questions to ponder. So here are some

Cisco announced today that collaboration tools vendor Versly.com is now part of its ever-growing family. Versly hasn't yet had a real product, but you can apply for a chance to

Mobile and how it changes the workforce remains high on Forrester's research agenda with one of its latest reports: The Forrester Wave: Mobile Collaboration, Q3 2011. This is the

A distinguishing aspect to PBWorks is its industry-specific approach. The enterprise collaboration service has made a name for itself by focusing on the particular requirements of the education and legal

Having grown up during the transition from mainframes to PCs and worked in IT when we were first installing PCs, I find it amusing to see how people return now

Alcatel-Lucent is the latest company to throw its hat into the enterprise unified communications and collaboration ring with its announcement today of the Visual Collaboration suite. It features cross-platform

The real-time web is proving itself disruptive in the enterprise space. But it's not viable unless users may utilize technologies like live editing or voice collaboration on top of a

Last year, when we asked whether Facebook could break into the enterprise world, Constellation Research CEO and principal analyst R "Ray" Wang said "I'd see LinkedIn in this category

Rackspace is launching a new service called "Cloud Drive," that allows businesses to store, share and back up files in the Rackspace cloud. Rackspace is one of the world's largest

Collaboration may be the hottest trend to hit the enterprise this year. But what makes it so hot? Why now? According to "Benchmarking Your Collaboration Strategy," a new report from

In a new report titled Mobilize Your Collaboration Strategy Forrester outlines its vision for the mobile enterprise, and it all revolves around native apps and cloud providers. With the

CA announced its SaaS service desk application CA Service Desk Manager On Demand and the service desk collaboration platform CA Open Space yesterday. Open Space, which focuses on community

Revizr positions itself as online document collaboration that embodies everything the wiki is not. Its functionality begins and ends with ownership and privacy in mind. Organizations who've been steeped

Doug Dennerline spent ten years at Cisco and was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Collaboration Software Group, making him the man in charge of WebEx

Assembla, which makes collaborative workspaces for software development teams, has added a version you can download in order to run private installations. Every day, more pure play SaaS vendors in

It's kind of hilarious that William Shatner opened the IBM Lotusphere event today, especially now that IBM is launching Project Vulcan. As one blogger asked: "You could not get Leonard

Newsgator has acquired Tomoye, a social networking platform for Sharepoint. The acqusition makes Newagator one of the largest enterprise collaboration companies in the Enterprise 2.0 space and positions it as

A Forrester study reports that real-time collaboration has stalled in the enterprise due in most part to the lack of adoption in technologies such as web conferencing and instant messaging.

This month, two painful but impossible to ignore facts have emerged about mobile use by business. First, research from Forrester suggests IT support for business use of personal mobile devices

Jive Software, the company that has been one of the leaders in collaboration software, has acquired OffiSync, the company that makes social media add-ons to Microsoft Outlook. You gotta love

Box.net acquired a young company last October called Increo Solutions. The company allows users to view content of most any file and the ability to share and embed files across

With all the clatter about the new enterprise collaboration platforms from big players like Salesforce.com's Chatter, Cisco's Quad, and SAP's StreamWork, we thought it would be a good time

Team Apart is an online meeting space and collaboration tool launched in private beta today. The software includes a browser-based video/audio conference, a text notepad, and a whiteboard for drawing.

We see so many different collaboration tools that at times if feels like we are looking at the same environment over and over again. Proton Media is entirely different. It

As part of the Enterprise Startup Spotlight I've asked each submitter to provide a one sentence explanation of the company and an explanation of how it's different from the