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This week Gartner issued forecasts for both the enterprise SaaS market and the enterprise social software market. Both are predicted to finish 2010 with strong growth and see even

It's been a busy week in enterprise-land, and with the kickoff of Enterprise 2.0 in Santa Clara, it's only going to get busier next week. This week saw some

The read/write enterprise isn't just about using social media in the enterprise - increasingly, it's about employees actively choosing the technologies they use to get their jobs done instead

Data visualization is a medium for understanding information that had previously been the domain of scientists and researchers. Today, due to the amount of data available, there is an increasing

Today, the Salesforce AppExchange has acquired one of the most-requested additions to the Salesforce.com CRM: integration with FreshBooks, the popular Web-based invoicing software. Built by cloud development agency FirmCloud in

Intranets are supposed to be a source of information that employees can use to be more effective in their jobs. They're supposed to be but the fact is, intranets tend

On Tuesday, consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton won the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Conference. The portal that garnered them the accolade, hello.bah.com, has shown impressive

The news that Google is buying DocVerse is now official. The reasons why Google bought this small company can be learned by taking a look at the people who started

Today's smartphones are useful for messaging and some collaboration applications. But connecting to applications on a desktop with a smartphone is impractical. It's far easier to see your desktop using

Yammer, one of our favorite enterprise microblogging tools, has been busy enhancing its services. There are two worthy items today: first is integration with On24's webinar network, and the second

On-premise applications like Sharepoint are becoming a target for cloud-based services. Up to now, customers could either start with Sharepoint, or an online alternative like Google Sites. But now we

Having a meaningful conversation in 140 characters or less seems at times a tad, let's say, disjointed. It's not exactly meaningful. But it is this Twitter like approach that is

Maybe it's odd to be recommending iPhone apps right now, with the house of cards that is the confused App Store policy falling down on Apple's head. But business users,

What is part Nimble.com, part Constant Contact, part Web site authoring tool, part SurveyMonkey, part wiki all rolled into one? The answer is a new service called GreenRope, available now.

A survey by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) found that although Microsoft SharePoint is being rapidly adopted by the enterprise, at least half of the enterprises polled

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, may think email's dying, but until it's dead it's still the incumbent monarch of enterprise communication. Tools that don't fit seamlessly into existing processes

CubeTree is launching a new service today that makes documents into items that can support comments, adding a new dimension to how users can interact with spreadsheets, slides on a

Late last week Socialtext's Michael Idinopulos wrote a post with some interesting advice for anyone looking to start a social software implementation in the enterprise: skip the pilot. His

Forrester has released its 2010 The Forrester Wave: Community Platforms report by analyst Melissa Parrish. Jive and Lithium took top honors this year. Forrester also evaluated KickApps, Telligent Systems,

Confluence now supports Open Social, allowing users to pull in gadgets to check Salesforce contacts, Gmail, Google Calendar and other items. The new features in Confluence 3.1, an Atlassian product,

VMware's acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo points to a new form of partnership in the tech word. It's one that could define the big winners in the battle for a

As we've said, time's are still tough for IT workers despite the relatively large demand for employees with technical skills. At the core of the problem seems to be

Today Jive Software announced its acquisition of Proximal Labs, a social network analytics company. Prior to the acquisition, Jive was a customer of Proximal Labs. Financial terms of the