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March 01, 2013 | Computer World
The history of enterprise collaboration technology is littered with abandoned platforms that were intended to "change everything." But many new social collaboration tools quickly end up on the shelf, collecting dust, unless there are compelling reasons to use it, and dramatic incentives for people to maintain it. Most businesses don't have the rationale or the staff to do this. That's why there are so many empty portals and unused SharePoint sites...
February 27, 2013 | Base Line
A few years ago, enterprise social media consisted of little more than creating a Facebook page and monitoring Twitter for sundry comments and complaints. In many instances, all that was needed was a handful of younger workers or interns to sift through posting and feeds and provide a basic response. It's safe to say that social media was little more than a blip on the information technology horizon...
February 20, 2013 | TMC Net
The Federal government has a very poor success rate when acquiring software, with many front-page stories of projects that delivered negligible results having to be scrapped after hundreds of millions of dollars were spent. While software acquisitions are complicated, the root cause of the problem does not rest there; after all, the commercial world has good success with software investments...
February 11, 2013 | Enterprise Apps Today
Topping most analysts’ lists, Appian is the vendor to catch – for now. “Appian is definitely a leader in the mobile BPM market,” says Sandy Kemsley, an independent BPM consultant. “They make good use of native apps on the different platforms, and their Tempo interface is optimized for mobile form factors..."
February 08, 2013 | Wall Street Journal
When a college graduate interviews for a job this spring, the first question he or she asks could be, “can I use my iPad at work?” The Millennial generation, born between the early 1980s and 2000, has never lived a moment outside of the Digital Age. Their expectation is that their workplaces will parallel the always-on, user-centric, app-driven world of consumer technology...
February 04, 2013 | Enterprise Apps Today
For mobile business process management (BPM) to be successful, experts say it will need to move beyond simple functionality like task approvals and notifications. Given that an increasingly large portion of work activity – and not just personal email correspondence, but activities that sit squarely in the middle of enterprise workflows -- now occurs outside the office, it's not surprising that companies are showing interest in mobile business process management (BPM)...
