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The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP's CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great - suave and smooth.

Telligent, a leading community and enterprise collaboration platform, has launched the new versions of both their internal and external platforms, as well as a new analytics package to accompany them.

Employees may be bringing iPhones and iPads into work, but that doesn't take Microsoft out of the game. SharePoint is still a wildly popular enterprise platform. An InfoTech survey

After being in beta for a year, Smibs has launched their SaaS business software into full production mode. The initial series of applications, with more planned for the future, include

The Windows Phone 7 news kind of threw us a bit this week. It had almost no mention about how it would serve the enterprise. It almost seemed like Microsoft

Last night Salesforce.com announced version 3.0 of its ServiceCloud product. Today at the Cloudforce event in New York City CEO Marc Benioff revealed more about the new version. Most

"Yammer and Salesforce Chatter are gonna have some significant new competition starting Monday," Robert Scoble tweeted over the weekend. It turns out he was talking about Convofy, a new

SAP talked a bit more about Sybase at Sapphire Now today and its focus for on-premise, on-device and on demand systems. But is the approach that much different? And is

The apps that get pitched to us cover granularities you never really thought of before. It puts you into a certain state of mind, constantly asking yourself: Is this

2009 may be remembered as the year that enterprises truly understood the importance of social software. This was manifested by the rise of enterprise collaboration services, cloud computing technologies and

At Lotusphere this year, the contrast between IBM and Microsoft could not be more distinct. IBM is making it clear it is banking on a strategy that embraces a loosely

Yammer surged in popularity last year. According to former Yammer Vice President of Marketing Steve Apfelberg, the company experienced triple-digit growth. It also expanded its features beyond just microblogging

The iPad is clearly one of those universal technologies that will be as useful in the home as in the office. Much like the iPhone, people will want it for

Forrester released two reports on cloud-based e-mail this week: one on selecting a provider, and another on migrating to the cloud. Although Forrester doesn't recommend any specific providers, the

Atlassian announced today a new version 4 of its Confluence team collaboration software tool. We covered version 2.9 here several years ago and since then they have been busy adding

Last night in Portland, Oregon, the National Center for Women in Information Technology presented Kim Polese with the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding

Demand for cloud-based storage and backup is creating some lucrative opportunities for companies servicing large telecommunications providers. We are seeing a number of carriers offering cloud-based services. Orange Business Services

No single Web technology has survived longer on life support than the intranet - the broader goal of employee intercommunication and content management, to which enterprises still aspire. Despite an

Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche

IBM recently hosted a videocast on "The Social Workplace" featuring Dr. Jennifer Beal from the Center of Creative Leadership, Jennifer Okimoto from IBM Global Services, Sameer Patel of Sovos

Collaboration services targeted at the small business market often seem more like software suites than Web-based services with deep linking capabilities and tag-based environments. For example, the new offering from

In its most significant update to date, Jive Software is following the evolution of the social web in the enterprise with features that allow users the flexibility to use the

Microsoft announced today that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his position. Although Microsoft does not intend to replace Ozzie, he will assist in transferring his

Earlier today Novell demoed it's Google Wave-like product to the enterprise world. Pulse is the latest workplace collaboration platform to announce at this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference and ReadWriteWeb was

New technologies, such as collaboration tools and mobile devices, create new opportunities for enterprises to innovate and provide better customer service. But they also introduce new costs and new