Posts Tagged ‘social business’

My colleague Seth Broweleit shared with me news that Yammer has been integrated with Microsoft SharePoint.  If you are a Yammer Enterprise customer, you can download the installation package that includes some very nice features.  The video here shows many of the features I’ve listed below:  Primary Yammer Web Part – Add Yammer feeds, private messages, […]

Jonathan Distad (@jdistad) passed this on to me and Mark Polly earlier this week.  It’s an article in MIT’s Sloan review titled, They Built it but Employees Aren’t Coming.  The article points out one piece of information that you would call the zinger: The most startling result was that when asked to assess the overall […]

In previous versions of IBM WebSphere Portal, one missing feature had been the ability for a new user to self register. It was one of the standard checklist items in a Request For Proposal (RFP) – does your system allow for self registration? We spent countless hours building this capability for many, many clients. IBM […]

Join Perficient at IBM Connect this year. You can download the eBook “Get Bold”, and learn how the enterprise is responding to consumer expectations for engagement via social channels. Whether you are planning on attending IBM Connect or not, Perficient would like to offer you this valuable eBook. “Get Bold” explores innovative ways businesses are using social […]

IBM just posted the latest Connections portlets that support both IBM Connections 4 and IBM WebSphere Portal V8. This is an important update because Connections 4 came out nearly the same time as Portal 8 in May 2012, but you really could not take advantage of both until now. There are several portlets included in […]

Many organizations understand the importance of Social. They have adopted social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and others. They are maturing as social businesses as they discover new ways to communicate and interact with their customers and prospects, and to use social data to inform more effective marketing programs, and to develop better […]

Liferay recently released the enterprise edition of Liferay Social Office 2.0. The community edition came out last August. Social Office is a full social platform that includes blogs, wikis, activity streams, profiles, tasks, sites, instant messaging and document collaboration. The enterprise edition is the same as the community edition, but has been hardened for enterprise […]

Two months before salesforce.com acquired Rypple (now Work.com) we implemented SuccessFactors; each employee entered in their goals for the next few years. Management reviewed the goals and afterward, I never heard of anyone logging in again! So this summer we switched to Work.com and we wanted to share 3 ways Work.com has made me a better […]

IBM recently released the 2012 edition of their annual Tech Trends Report. The 2012 Tech Trends Report is based on a survey of more than 1,200 professionals who make technology decisions for their organizations (22 percent IT managers, 53 percent IT practitioners and 25 percent business professionals). The respondents come from 16 different industries and […]

IBM has a nice SaaS version of their social networking tool.  It’s been LotusLive for a while but was rebranded earlier this year as IBM SmartCloud for Social.  The complete the rebrand today by changing the url. For our Business Partners that are currently taking advantage of  the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business : Client trial […]

Thanks to Erin Maloney (@ErinE) for this great article by James Dellow at Ripple Effect Group.  James starts off by asking the question about whether SharePoint is a platform for social and then delves into all the other things taking place in the world. Firstly, its important to recognise that Microsoft’s long term strategy is […]

Perficient colleague Rich Wood shared his SharePoint Rockstar story with me at last week’s SharePoint Conference. Not surprisingly it had a Social and a blogging tie-in. Check it out!     You can read Rich’s blog posts here. What’s your SharePoint Rockstar story?