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Cisco extends its collaboration capabilities
Collaboration is one of Cisco’s five company priorities and represents what Cisco believes to be a total addressable market of $45 billion. The acquisition will provide more opportunity for Cisco partners to provide enhanced collaboration solutions to customers. Versly’s software will be integrated into a variety of Cisco’s collaboration offerings including Cisco Quad, Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx. For example, users will be able to receive automatic notifications within Cisco Quad when the content of a document has changed, escalate from simply reviewing a document to an instant messaging session through Cisco Jabber, or initiate a web conferencing session from a presentation through Cisco WebEx.
"With this… Continue reading: Cisco Announces Acquisition of Versly – Yahoo! Finance
The diagram below captures a framework for explaining how the myriad communication and collaboration services currently considered aspects of “social business” fit together.
At this point, Google+, with its user experience/conceptual model focus on circles and streams, is primarily an asynchronous communication tool (along with some sync/comm capabilities, in huddles, and sync/collab capabilities, in hangouts), but, as suggested in my previous post, we should assume the scope of Google+ will be expanded to include async collab (workspaces, e.g., Google Sites) as well, and at that point Google+ will become a more direct competitor to traditional collaboration products/services such as Microsoft SharePoint
![]() Considering Google+ in a big-picture communication/collaboration framework
Locking and isolation levels in productivity apps
Building on the collaboration features already available in Word 2010 and Word for Mac 2011, co-authoring in the Word Web App on SkyDrive helps you collaborate with others on polished content without having to leave your web browser. Just sign into SkyDrive and you’re ready to get started!
Our approach to co-authoring in the Word Web App on SkyDrive reflects our team’s deep understanding of how our customers prefer to collaborate and get things done, based on what you’ve told us and how we’ve observed the use of Office. To help us design co-authoring, we read a lot of your comments, and watched, asked, and listened… Continue reading: Now available: Co-author documents in the Word Web App – Microsoft Office Web Apps – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
The tone of SharePoint-related presentations I attended at the 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Boston conference (#e2conf) makes me wonder if Microsoft SharePoint is destined to become the industry’s next Lotus Notes.
Some déjà vu dimensions: SharePoint is very widely used, but, as with Notes, in a previous generation (in the mid to late 1990s), SharePoint is considered by many people to be:
(For context-setting, also see Enterprise 2.0 impressions: Lotus Notes is everywhere)
One significant change I observed at the 2011 Enterprise 2.0 conference (#e2conf) in Boston, especially relative to the first few years of the conference (2005 – 2006, when it was called the Collaborative Technologies Conference), is the fact that Lotus Notes was nowhere to be seen. There were no Lotus-yellow shirts, banners, or hand-outs at the IBM exhibit hall booth, no mentions of either "Lotus" or "Notes" during the Tuesday IBM keynote session or Tuesday IBM-sponsored breakout session, and no vendors competitively positioning their offerings relative to Lotus Notes (although a few, when asked, referenced the ability to leverage content stored in Notes databases,… Continue reading: Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions: Lotus Notes is nowhere
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Considering Google+ in a big-picture communication/collaboration framework