Posts Tagged ‘social business’

It’s official.  On his personal TechNet blog, Microsoft Office Division President Kurt Delbene has confirmed today that Microsoft is acquiring Yammer. We can gather a couple things from this.  One, the announcement comes from Mr. Delbene, so this is now an Office Division play beyond all doubt.  SharePoint and Office 365 are the primary landing […]

Myself and Mark Polly will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday at Noon CST on How to fast-track your social business capabilities.  Obviously past the ‘build it and they will come’ phase has passed, companies need to build a culture and provide tools that help employees work better, happier and more productive.  But with that […]

Let’s Be Realistic A newborn baby can’t be expected to drive to the store to pick up some milk. Even if you really need milk. There are a host of reasons why: the kid can’t even hold his head up (for one), no WAY those legs will reach the pedals, and he’s got a complete […]

So I’m doing some guest blogging over at IBM’s Social Business Blog.  IBM just announced their “Ready for Social Business” Program.  I’ll be exploring the program a bit over the next few days.  Basically any partner participating in this program come pre-screened with a level of experience and even solutions that enhance a number of […]

IBM’s CMO-CIO Leadership Exchange recently came to a close. Over 300 IBM customers were invited. IBM says the purpose of the leadership exchange was “to explore how a new computing era is transforming the future of the enterprise.” I recently read a recap of the event on the IDC technology marketing blog that stated the […]

Back in March, Adobe launched a new version of its CQ product and I blogged about it a couple of times: Adobe CQ5.5 Sneak Peek Adobe CQ5.5 Now Available At the time of the announcement, Adobe also announced CQ 5.5 Social Communities, but had not yet shipped that feature.  Well, I missed the original shipping […]

We all have a great many questions about the roadmap impact of Microsoft’s much-discussed (and still, as of this writing, unofficial) acquisition of Yammer.  Serendipitously, TechCrunch has published an interview with departing Microsoft executive Nitin Bhatia, someone who might have better guesses than the rest of us.  In the interview, Mr. Bhatia– who is departing for […]

Wow.  And you thought we were done!  This afternoon, it feels like I’ve spent half the day keeping tabs on the conversation around Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition and its implications for enterprise social networking.  And for good reason– this is big news.  You can already find my own thoughts on the topic, both in terms of […]

We’ve written many articles on this blog about the importance of Activity Streams, mostly in conjunction with social software.  Forrester recently released the first research report dedicated to just Activity Streams.  To be included in the research, Forrester said the product had to specialize in activity streams as opposed to being a platform. Initially this […]

So we’ve looked at Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition from a holistic, Microsoft-centric viewpoint.  One hot question that we haven’t yet covered is what this means to on-premise SharePoint customers who may already have their own social solutions installed and running. Here’s a quick take of the two key points from my own perspective: 1. To the Cloud. One […]

Maybe I’m amazed.  According to no less than the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in fact acquiring Yammer, Inc. This begs a few questions for which we’ll anxiously be awaiting answers, then: What, if any, aspects of Yammer’s current offering will be integrated into the next release of Microsoft’s productivity stack?  In other words, how will […]

By now you may have heard the rumor that Microsoft is looking to buy Yammer for a billion dollars. It’s a pretty shocking thought, but while anything can happen, I’m reserving my real shock until and unless something actually goes down.  Right now, this is just another rumor, nothing more, and a surprising one at […]