Collaboration
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How DevOps changes the delivery of IT functions
Labor arbitrage and shared services companies have had a perfect marriage over the last 20 years. Then along came the Digital Revolution with new business models and a new construct for services. One component of the digital model...
10 screen-sharing apps offer easy collaboration
These 10 apps let you video chat, message, share screens and collaborate in real time with your co-workers.
Cisco taps into AI, collaboration with $125M MindMeld buy
Cisco gets MindMeld’s Deep-Domain Conversational AI technology for voice-embedded apps
CIO value proposition: Negotiating key IT vendor contracts
While it's important for CIOs to provide a strategic advantage and to work on creating a partnership mentality, one area that needs to be smartly managed are those cumbersome and expensive vendor contracts.
How collaboration improves IT outcomes
Blackstone and Coca-Cola CTOs encourage colleagues to restructure IT to deliver a more collaborative model for technology innovation.
How Facebook plans to bring Messenger to business
Speaking at the Collision conference this week, Facebook’s Stan Chudnovsky said the company remains committed to making Messenger a multi-purpose platform.
How Microsoft plans to reinvent business productivity
Microsoft's Office has barely changed in 25 years. If we’re going to get more productive in the office and out, maybe it’s time for Microsoft to change the standard tools that we use to create documents.
Facebook updates Workplace as enterprise collaboration gets hot again
Facebook is changing its collaboration service by integrating enterprise services, like Office, Salesforce, OneDrive and Box, and adding other features.
Facebook claims Workplace success
Workplace, Facebook’s social network for business, is gaining more large customers such Starbucks and Viacom. The service, launched six months ago, is also expanding third-party integrations for key enterprise features.
LinkedIn aims to put messaging everywhere
Half of LinkedIn’s active users are using messaging every week, but many of those conversations happen in a silo. LinkedIn hopes to change that with a new messaging interface that follows you.
Slack apps can now use drop-down menus
Apps that integrate with Slack can now include drop-down menus in the messages that they post to the service, as part of a push to improve the interactivity of third-party integrations.
8 great small business productivity and collaboration apps
Entrepreneurs and project managers share their favorite apps for staying organized and productive.
Could Amazon become an enterprise collaboration contender?
Amazon has a series of apps that compete with Office 365 and G Suite, but they currently aren’t packaged and sold as a collective portfolio. Here’s how Amazon could become a major player in business software.
How tech activists harness purchasing power to bring about change
Activists launch collective actions with Twitter, Facebook, Google Apps and YouTube. Grab Your Wallet and SleepingGiant show how online campaigns can bring about change.
Why Facebook is giving Workplace away for free
The good news: Facebook is offering a free version of Workplace that removes a significant barrier to adoption. The bad news: It comes without administrative controls and key enterprise features.
April Fools from the tech industry
There’s nothing like a giant, powerful technology company really letting its collective hair down with a goofy April Fools’ announcement.
G Suite vs. Office 365 cloud collaboration battle heats up
Microsoft's Office 365 has a big lead, but Google is quickly repositioning G Suite for business and winning some big customers. Who will come out on top in this rapidly evolving market?
Amazon Connect brings contact centers to the cloud
Although cloud-based contact center software is still an emerging market, Amazon today introduced Connect, its take on this industry, hosted in the AWS cloud. The move represents AWS’s continued march into the enterprise...
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