The only thing better than utilizing great platforms is utilizing great platforms that can communicate with each other. A new plugin from Salesforce (news, site) aims to provide exactly that by automating the lead creation process between its own CRM platform and WordPress.
Read full story...Quest Software (news, site) understands the challenges faced when trying to manage your SharePoint environment. To help you do a better job, they have developed a new solution called Quest Server Administrator for SharePoint 1.0.
Read full story...Intranets have come a long way since the 1.0 versions full of static pages and dreary corporate information. Web and Intranet managers find themselves trying to figure out how to make use of the new social tools within their intranet. A new community, called Communexions may be able to help you do just that.
Read full story...LinkedIn is not about to give up its spot as the most popular social networking site in the workplace. Not without a fight, anyway. The platform recently took a tip from Twitter and integrated a follow feature of their own.
Read full story...It didn’t take Day Software (news, site) long to follow up on the release of CRX 2.1 with their next JCR Cup announcement.
The competition is on, but under a different name — Agility Cup — and open to a wider audience than in the past.
Read full story...Historically, Microsoft (news, site) has shown active hostility to open source, referring to it as a cancer among other things. These days, however, the company has been dipping its toes in open source CMS waters to rather mixed reactions.
Read full story...These last few days have been all-embracing, to say the least. Examining social networking in the workplace, new mobile solutions, the reappearance of knowledge management and snowballing conspiracy theories about privacy, this week’s roll-up is brimming with the latest Enterprise 2.0 news.
Read full story...These last few days have been all-embracing, to say the least. Examining social networking in the workplace, new mobile solutions, the reappearance of knowledge management and snowballing conspiracy theories about privacy, this week’s roll-up is brimming with the latest Enterprise 2.0 news.
Read full story...According to a recent survey by Evans Data Corp, Microsoft .NET was voted the best overall framework by the developers who use it, beating out Google App Engine, Ruby on Rails and others.
Read full story...Media publishers want to control their entire print and digital advertising workflow — from order entry to delivery, billing and receivables, analytics and real-time performance measuring. The result is a better customer service experience, higher revenues, and a lower cost of technology ownership.
Atex (news, site) and BLOOM Digital Platforms have inked an agreement that will give online and mobile media publishers that sort of control.
Read full story...If Kyte (news, site) was looking to become a video platform to reckon with when it upgraded in January, then the announcement that it has extended cross-platform support to bring social video to Facebook (news, site) should help it down that road very nicely.
Read full story...Effective business decisions depend on having the right information at the right time. The use of content management systems across enterprises to manage information suggests that most companies agree.
Getting the right information to make the best decisions, however, is becoming increasingly difficult as levels of both structured and unstructured content increase daily. The goal of agile content management practitioners is to resolve that. Let’s have a look.
The history of social interface design can be divided into two periods: Before Flickr and after Flickr. In the first period, any social interface functionality was added as an afterthought to the design—something to layer on top of the core functionality. In the after Flickr period, teams were now considering social components as core to their design’s value.
Read full story...Welcome to the May installment of our what’s coming from the open source projects in the next month.
If you’re looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.
Read full story...The last week has seen a lot of jostling for position in the SMB market with Microsoft targeting it with upgraded Dynamics and HP upgrading its partner channels. SaaS adoption is still an issue, while hosted CRM and ERP are the principal services SMBs are looking for.
Read full story...Can Google hear you think? Independent computer security researcher Moxie Marlinspike seems to believe so. He used his stage time at this year’s SOURCE conference in Boston to raise awareness around Big G’s data harvesting practices, admonishing the search engine’s ability to mine way more information than statistics say you’re comfortable with.
Read full story...Social media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here are the week’s top stories in scan-friendly format:
Central Desktop, a Software-as-a-Service provider, has spruced up its collaboration software platform with the addition of Web Folders, a feature that enables users to more readily manage files and folders stored in the cloud from their desktops.
Read full story...A recent Microsoft (news, site) update shows Office workers at play on the forthcoming Windows phones.
Read full story...HP’s (news, site) rode to Palm’s rescue and said after the markets closed yesterday that it would buy the struggling smartphone maker for about US$ 1.2 billion.
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