Historically, social networks were designed for consumers to keep in touch with friends or find out what family members are doing. Friendster and MySpace were once dominant in social networking, but are now distant memories. Today, the king of social networking is Facebook, followed by Twitter, Google+ and many others, and social networking is alive and well. Perhaps that's why social networking is increasingly making its presence felt in the enterprise. On Jan. 14, Facebook launched a limited release of its enterprise social networking service, Facebook At Work. The offering is designed to allow companies to create their own social networks to improve productivity and efficiency. More importantly, the announcement puts Facebook in direct competition with a range of major competitors. Whether it's Microsoft's Yammer or Slack or one of the many other services out there that cater to companies' social needs, the corporate world is embracing the idea of collaboration more and more. Now, Facebook is playing a major role in that space. eWEEK examines Facebook at Work and several other social networks that take aim at the enterprise and try to help companies collaborate far more effectively.
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Showing posts with label enterprise applications. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Gartner’s Prediction 2013: Application Integration
In 2013, application integration takes on more critical importance.
That’s because mobile, social, cloud, and information sharing functionality will continue to drive IT innovation. How sound are your application integration plans? Are you focusing on the right or the wrong areas?
Read Gartner’s Predicts 2013: Application Integration, to see Gartner’s strategic planning assumptions, key findings, market implications, and recommendations for success.
Friday, 19 October 2012
10 Enterprise Cloud Storage Options
The topic of cloud storage stirs debate in even the sanest of conversations. But, even the most anti-cloud naysayer will agree that the cloud is an excellent choice as a disaster recovery (DR) solution. Providers understand that their clients need security, redundancy and reliability. Cloud storage companies also know that there is a lot of cloud-based fear, and most offer a staged approach to moving to cloud storage, from archive to online backup to live storage.
Many providers sell their services as a "replace the tape" strategy for businesses. And, they make it very enticing to do so by comparing costs, hassles and reliability numbers. Cloud-based backup and storage are compelling when you put pencil to paper and see the numbers for yourself.
This list of 10 cloud storage providers will give you a sense of some of the key players and their options for cloud-based storage. The list is in no particular order.
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
10 Steps to Developing a Mobile Application Strategy for the Enterprise
Mobile technology plays a major role in our lives. Because mobile is such a big productivity booster, there's much demand for mobile applications. But building applications is not as easy as it sounds. It helps to have a strategy. If you'd like to develop one, follow these 10 steps:
Friday, 22 June 2012
Top 10 Enterprise Applications for Public Clouds
While there are exceptions, that organizations use the public cloud for core operations, Data security, privacy and concerns about hosting their data possibly alongside their competitors on the public cloud have prevented many organizations from making more use of the public cloud than they would otherwise.
At the same time, CEOs and CFOs are becoming aware of the pay-as-you-go model of the public cloud, and they are looking to CIOs and senior IT management to determine how and where their organizations can use the public cloud, even if it's not for mission critical applications.
Fortunately, a number of applications within any organization completely skirt the concerns mentioned above and are eminently suitable for public cloud implementations or pilots. The following 10 apps are "public cloud ready."
1. Development and Testing
2. Development Platform Services
3. Training Servers
4. One-time Big Data Projects
5. Websites
6. Customer Relationship Management
7. Project Management, Expense Reporting and Time Management
8. Email
9. Human Resources
10. Cloud-Based Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Services
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