Enterprise 2.0 News

There's no doubt that 2009 was the year of social media. Everyone, from small business owners to multinational brands, wanted to talk about it at every opportunity.

Sometimes, it feels like terms we thought had some meaning really don't apply as much anymore.

Just a few short years ago it looked as though XMPP, the XML-based messaging protocol central to the Jabber IM platform, was fading away.

November 13, 2009 Making the Business Case for Enterprise 2.0: An London Accountant's Advice Measuring return on investment on many enterprise 2.0 initiatives can be difficult.

While enterprises continue to grab up various social software solutions for their internal environments, Socialtext , a provider of such solutions, is working to increase the business value of their offerings.

On the heels of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, OutStart , a leader in social business software and learning systems, is seeing unprecedented demand for its OutStart Participate social business solution.

There's a debate brewing around Enterprise 2.0 or the shortened moniker E2.0 . As far as I can tell, it started here with Dennis Howlett's post labeling E2.0 as a bunch of crock.

Social networking and digitally based collaboration are consuming networks. For example, Twitter usage has grown more than 250 percent and Facebook usage by 192 percent in the last six months, according to a research project by firewall vendor Palo Alto Networks .

Gartner just issued its 2009 SaaS revenue forecast , in which it said it expected the sector to grow nearly 18 percent this year, to $7.5 billion.

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The absolute highlight of last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference was meeting in person and online many very bright people including Nenshad Bardoliwalla , Susan Scrupski , Michael Krigsman and many others.

Cisco is expanding its lineup of collaboration tools today with a flood of new products and upgrades .

The rising use of social networking and collaboration apps on corporate networks has spawned increased security risks beyond potential productivity losses, firewall vendor Palo Alto warns.

The Enterprise 2.0 debate is over. It's time to stop thinking about using social media in the marketplace and instead realize it has value and needs to be a part of your midmarket company.

Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco 2009 just ended and was a huge success!A Thanks to all who attended, all of our speakers and exhibitors, and all of the Enterprise 2.0 staff.A Now ita s time to think about Enterprise 2.0 Boston!A The Call for Papers for E2 Boston 2010 is open now through Friday, December 18th.A A This year wea ve partnered with Spigit, ...

Surely one of the coolest and most talked-about events at last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco was the demo of Google 's new collaboration platform, Google Wave, during Wednesday morning's plenary session.

Palo Alto Networks SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2009 i 1 2 Palo Alto Networksi 1 2, the leader in next-generation firewalls, today announced results of an international study that reveal the use of social networking and collaborative applications for business purposes has skyrocketed in the last six month period.

To hear Rob Tarkoff tell it, "Enterprise software is failing." Tarkoff, SVP and general manager of Adobe's business productivity solutions group, said so in a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

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It's been a great week for both the Socialtext team and our customers here at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco .