<p>No business is an islandin today's connected, global environment. Organizations partner with externalgroups, depend on mobile workforces, and serve customers all over the world.Enabling these activities is a group of software vendors that have carved aplace in the cloud-based online collaboration space, where the web has become afacilitator for collaborations across many different channels and partners.</p><p>In a recent report TheForrester Wave: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors,the research firm examined the role that online collaboration tools - which sitoutside of the firewall and are easily delivered to both PCs and mobile devices- play in allowing information to flow freely between those behind, and thoseoutside of, the corporate firewall.</p><p>Culling Through the Options</p><p>... Login Become a Member Joining MSDynamicsWorld.com gives you free, unlimited access to news, analysis, white papers, case studies, product brochures, and more, and it's all FREE. You'll also receive periodic email newsletters with the latest relevant articles and content updates.</p><p><a href="http://msdynamicsworld.com/story/assessing-microsofts-position-online-collaboration-space-yammer-office-365">Keep reading...</a></p>