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9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012

While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out for their potential to deliver game-changing innovations in a wide array of fields, including Cloud computing, enterprise search, and mobile application development. (These are in addition to seven hot Cloud companies and seven storage companies to watch that we highlighted last year.)

By Brad Reed | 11 January, 2012 07:32

Tags: business issues, CloudBees, collaboration, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Harness disruption or become obsolete: Forrester

Five years ago, Nokia dominated the smartphone market. How quickly things change. But before you sit back and think, ‘that won’t happen to me’, take a look at the competitive environment in which your company operates. Daunting, isn’t it?

By Georgina Swan | 05 April, 2011 18:03

Tags: change management, disruption, Forrester, innovation, leadership, Mark Mulligan

Auckland council saves with SaaS docs management

Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has eliminated costly outsourcing of document production by implementing a SaaS solution that handles collaboration and change management.

By Rodney Gedda | 25 February, 2010 14:28

Tags: collaboration, document management, government, New Zealand, objective

Jive links enterprise social-networking product, CMS tools

Jive Software will begin to deliver later this quarter new modules to link its flagship Social Business Software (SBS) enterprise social-networking product with leading content management systems (CMS) from other vendors.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 07 October, 2009 01:46

Tags: cms, jive, social networking, social networks

Monash eyes video conferencing for collaboration boost

Monash University is upping its use of next generation, high definition video conferencing in an effort to foster greater collaboration between students, lecturers and researchers.

By Tim Lohman | 27 May, 2009 13:28

Tags: aarnet, collaboration, Monash University, video conferencing

Five tips for managing Microsoft SharePoint Server

Microsoft SharePoint Server implementations can get ugly.

By Briony Smith | 28 November, 2008 07:21

Tags: microsoft sharepoint

Social networking changing face of collaboration

An infusion of social software is helping fuel an evolution of enterprise collaboration that will eventually give users more flexible and distributed tools for finding, organizing and sharing data, according to a conference of experts exploring the topic.

Building a new window into crime

By combining business intelligence and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in the US state of Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.

By Heather Havenstein | 12 September, 2008 10:18

Tags: business intelligence, mapping, mashups, police, search

Pushing project management to the collaborative Web

The increased use of the Web for collaborative activities, from music sharing to restaurant recommendations, is beginning to creep into business for useful things. At the Demo Fall 2008 conference in San Diego, several companies demonstrated collaboration systems for project management designed for workgroups of various sizes.

By Galen Gruman | 10 September, 2008 10:35

Tags: collaboration

Do's and don'ts for managing IT projects with wikis

Wikis are deceptively easy to use and install, so are nowadays found in all sorts of IT departments, especially as quick and simple project management organizers.