It could be argued that Lotus Notes was the grand-daddy of collaboration solutions. In recent years, all people talk about is SharePoint. Unfortunately, both of these solutions cost enormous amounts of money to implement, develop and maintain. This may be fine with some organizations, but in the current economic climate, not everyone can afford to throw money into these seemingly bottomless pits of technology. Beyond the economics of these solutions, I have yet to find a customer who has been … [Read more...]
Using Social Networking in the Enterprise
September 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
An article recently published on PCWorld ("Security Concerns Hinder Adoption of Social Networking") claims that a major roadblock to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in business revolves around security. The debate is endless, it seems - do we allow social networking into the enterprise? Should we allow our users to access their Facebook accounts? Or Twitter? Or any other? There is the fear that employees will waste too much time, and in some cases, that is indeed a real concern. But as … [Read more...]