IBM and Apple have announced an industry-disrupting partnership to go after the enterprise. This is a direct shot across the bows of Microsoft, Google, and others who might have hoped to make… Read more »
I’m involved in writing a Gigaom Research Roadmap on what I call the distributed core. File sync-and-share has rapidly moved from a consumer convenience to the core element of a distributed computing architecture… Read more »
There are several drivers for the adoption of chat-influenced conversational tools and their replacement of less-conversational communication tools, and their rise will affect the enterprise-collaboration space in a number of ways. Read more »
IT is in sync with the modern workplace, and only a minority are “uncomfortable” or “very uncomfortable” with employees using cloud and web-based solutions for work-related tasks. Read more »
One of the most striking findings from the survey is the degree to which IT decision makers – fast movers or in total – have bought into the promise of the… Read more »
Fast-moving IT departments are opening a mobile gap between themselves and the average company on internal social networks and enterprise applications, as well as on task management and even productivity software. Read more »
Gigaom Research surveyed 600 IT decision makers: 59% stated that the way their companies communicated and collaborated within their company had changed “quite a bit” or “somewhat” in the past year. Read more »
Global IT departments are ahead of worker preferences in supporting a variety of tools and techniques for inside-the-company communications and collaboration. Read more »