The fourth quarter of 2013 found companies grappling to manage the transformation being brought on by cloud, mobile, analytics, and social technologies. Firms must now adapt to all this new technology… Read more »
The third quarter of 2013 was a period of continued consolidation in the enterprise social and work management markets. This quarterly wrapup analyzes the quarter’s events and trends, and provides a… Read more »
In 2013 look for the action in social technologies to be increasingly enterprise-focused. In 2012 investors soured on consumer social media companies: Groupon, Zynga, and even Facebook were deemed disappointing. Arguably,… Read more »
Social media technologies continue to permeate marketing and enterprise collaboration, even if investors felt let down in the third quarter by their consumer-facing businesses. So B2B technology offerings in support of… Read more »
Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Google continued to dominate social and online media in the second quarter. Activity in the social-enterprise space picked up as well. Key highlights from the… Read more »
The emergence of enterprise customer service, collaboration and marketing tools powered by social networks is more than just a buzzword. CRM powerhouse Salseforce.com calls this convergence “the social enterprise.” Companies that… Read more »
Two things stand out above all else when looking back on the first quarter of 2011: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), the epitome of cloud computing, came down to Earth, while… Read more »
Much of 2010’s fourth-quarter action in NewNet technologies (i.e., social media, real- time feeds) centered on consumer markets and applications, although GigaOM’s Net:Work conference highlighted NewNet trends in enterprise collaboration and… Read more »
If the third quarter told us anything, it was that IT M&A activity is alive and well, particularly in the big data space. When a company can store or analyze large… Read more »
The first quarter of 2010 was all about established vendors making their plays in emerging fields like cloud computing, but the second quarter once again belonged to the little guys and… Read more »