M-Files Rapid Growth in 2012 Fueled by Unique Enterprise Content …
M-Files Corporation, the developer of M-Files metadata-powered cloud, on-premise, and hybrid enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced 2012 revenue and user growth figures that showcase the rapid adoption of its solutions for improving how companies manage, secure and share information. For the 6th consecutive year, the company has sustained M-Files…
Polycom, Meetrix Partner for Cloud Social Video Collaboration
The latest chapter in the story of Polycom’s (NASDAQ: PLCM) RealPresence platform comes out of IBM Connect 2013 in Orlando. Polycom has teamed up with cloud enabler and integrator Meetrix to integrate RealPresence with Meetrix’s unified communications cloud service for IBM SameTime (NYSE: IBM) for the delivery of cloud-based social Meetrix…
Social media’s rocky road in business
Those who track the online discourse on enterprise social media are surely aware that the trough of disillusionment is likely at hand. Yet the dreaded industry trough, brought about by the over-heated promises and inflated expectations bandied about from just about every quarter–including thought leaders, journalists, vendors, and yes, even…
McDonald’s South Africa deploys IBM social business software
McDonald’s South Africa has implemented IBM’s social business software, converging social, mobile and cloud facilitating for its expansion into new markets and enabling its employees to better communicate and collaborate. McDonald’s is working with IBM and its partner, Knowledge Dimension, to reach its almost 200 restaurants and 8,000 employees in McDonald’s entered…
LearnLaunchX, New Ed Tech Accelerator, Gives Start-ups Strategic Sector …
LearnLaunchX executives today announced the founding of the education technology and learning-focused accelerator. The first LearnLaunchX accelerator session will begin in June 2013 and will provide selected start-ups with early seed funding, deep domain insight, direct access to learning marketplace leaders and channels, and mentoring by experts in ed tech, LearnLaunchX…
5 areas CIOs must examine before moving to the cloud
Cloud computing is about delivering massively scalable IT-enabledcapabilities, as service to external customers using Internettechnologies. Instead of saying that Cloud computing is a hypedtech-trend, I will say it is a buzz word today and still manyservice providers actually interchangeably use SaaS and CloudComputing in their discussions. Not all SaaS solutions…
Gartner place Proofpoint parmi les Leaders du Carré magique 2012 pour l …
Gartner place Proofpoint parmi les Leaders du Carre magique 2012 pour l’archivage des informations d’entreprise Proofpoint, Inc. annonce que Gartner, Inc. l’a place parmi les trois leaders du Carre magique pour l’archivage des informations d’entreprise 2012.1, qui evalue les fournisseurs en fonction de l’etendue de leur vision et de leur capacite Dans…
How unified communications help provide better customer service
Traditional desktop phones are on the way out, as companies discover that unified communications software now provides additional and more convenient ways to communicate and share messages with employees and clients. "When Voice over Internal Protocol (VoIP) was introduced, many capabilities were promised. With the recent uptick in real-time communication…
IBM Helps McDonald’s Serve Up Social Collaboration To Transform Workforce
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) South Africa, part of the global leading global food service retailer, is using IBM social business software to embrace the convergence of social, mobile and cloud facilitating its expansion to new markets and enabling its (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130131/NY52339…
VMware cuts 900 jobs to refocus on the data centre
29 January 2013 After weaker than expected sales in the US, virtualisation software leaders announces restructuring VMware is to cut 900 jobs as it refocuses its business and data centre systems and end-user computing. In order to focus its resources on "priority" product lines, VMware will be reducing its investment in other non-core…