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This week Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Hadoop to SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). PDW was introduced last year and brought centralized data warehousing capabilities to

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

Open Text, Canada's largest software company, released two new social enterprise products this week: Open Text Content Server Pulse and Open Text Social Communities. The company also released a

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

I find Jive Software to be a bit of a paradox. . I like the people and the company they've built. They're a local success story here in Portland. They

Project Barcelona, a new project in the works from Microsoft, will give enterprises Web crawler-like tools for searching and storing information. The crawlers will search Microsoft products such as

Dachis Group is a consulting firm. RedMonk is an analyst firm. Both are in the services world, which is dominated by companies that hire lots of people to be

Since the publication yesterday of a damning open letter to RIM's senior management team from an anonymous employee, Boy Genius Report has two published more open letters. Also, the

>Jive Software is buying into the Twitter Firehose. It's another example of the data intensified social enterprise where curation is a most valued capability. The news is in timing with

Could you build a Twitter account completely from automated tools? Would anyone follow you? Or try to interact with you? Retweet you? Would you become an influencer, at least

I've always felt mashups represent the greatest opportunity to deliver game-changing benefits to organizations experimenting with Enterprise 2.0. Although, a lot of what I've seen in the mashup community I

Microsoft is trying to lock down system firmware to prevent malware and pirated copies of Windows. Unfortunately, this may have some undesirable side effects for Linux users and anyone else

Jive Software has a new CEO and a new home for its headquarters. Jive named Tony Zingale as its new CEO. Zingale has been the interim CEO for the past

The State of California will hold an application development contest this summer, according to O'Reilly Radar, and the state is partnering with Google, Microsoft, ProgrammableWeb, and IdeaScale to make it

The Enterprise 2.0 conference is an important event for anyone interested in how social technologies fit into the enterprise. But I heard enough criticism this year that it's worth discussing

Hadoop seems to be on everyone's minds this year. It's certainly a hot topic for Forrester's James Kobielus, who's recently released several reports on Hadoop – including a best practices

Oracle announced today that it will acquire FatWire. Financial details were not disclosed. FatWire bills itself as customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums,

You may have never heard of Brandon Campeaux, but more than 265,000 folks have "circled" the photographer on Google+. As of this morning, Campeaux packed his virtual bags and left

Cisco announced this week at the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas that it is fulfilling its promise to adopt its own Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP). The protocol will enable

The surprising results of an IPv6 census conducted by the Measurement Factory and sponsored by Infoblox are that the lion's share of actual working IPv6 nodes are being hosted by

It's exciting for us to see young companies like Jive grow so fast. But before we pop the champagne bottles, it's important to take these results with a grain of

Inmagic is launching an idea management system called IdeaNet this week, claiming to deliver the "right mix of culture, process, and tools to support open and fluid lines of communication

You may not know the name J.D. Falk off the top of your head, but he worked tirelessly to protect your inbox from spam. Falk's untimely death came yesterday at

The returns on investment for social technologies is often what stumps people. But measuring the ROI of these technologies has to be done in order to get some understanding of