by Larry Cannell | April 23, 2013 | Comments Off
Microsoft is accelerating the development of Office (at least, the development of Office 365). That is the overall tone of a recent article by Mary Jo Foley ("How Microsoft is speeding up the Office trains") that quotes Jeff Teper, corporate Vice President, Office Servers and Services and Adam Pisoni, Co-Founder of Yammer and now a [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: exchange, Office365, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | March 29, 2013 | Comments Off
Last week Microsoft posted a blog highlighting their progress in integrating Yammer with SharePoint and Office 365. What I found most interesting is how widely this update was reported as new information. Perhaps the implications of Microsoft’s plans for Yammer were lost in the flood of news coming out of the SharePoint Conference last fall. [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Office365, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | March 21, 2013 | 2 Comments
Yesterday Microsoft posted an update on their progress towards integrating Yammer with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. I’m traveling this week, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. This post summarizes the features Microsoft announced and is mostly a rough collection of my initial reactions. At the bottom of this post, I link to [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Office365, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | March 8, 2013 | 2 Comments
Please join me on Thursday, March 14 for a webinar discussing SharePoint 2013 and Yammer. Microsoft launched SharePoint 2013 with new social software features just months after acquiring the cloud-based social network site Yammer. This webinar discusses the company’s integration plans and guides enterprises on what to do now that Microsoft has competing social software [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: collaboration, sharepoint, social networks, yammer
by Larry Cannell | November 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Next week Microsoft will be unveiling details behind SharePoint 2013. My primary interest is in improvements in SharePoint’s social software capabilities. However, Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Yammer leaves questions about the future of SharePoint-provided social software capabilities, as well as the future of Yammer. In addition, the beta release of SharePoint 2013 and the Office [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | November 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
Next week I will be at the SharePoint Conference, where Microsoft is introducing SharePoint 2013. While a big question on many people’s minds is Microsoft’s plans for integrating SharePoint and Yammer, we will also get a closer look at other social software improvements. The acquisition of Yammer and the changes in SharePoint 2013 show that [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft, office, sharepoint, social software, yammer
by Larry Cannell | July 23, 2012 | 5 Comments
Given that Microsoft is now saying that their focus is on delivering cloud-based offerings first, then the Office 365 Beta should provide hints as to how Office will evolve. My initial conclusion is that the Office 365 product is subsuming a number of existing Office products, whose identities are being eliminated. In particular, Office 365’s [...]
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by Larry Cannell | April 9, 2012 | 3 Comments
Many people have pointed out the similarities between the messaging in email and enterprise social network sites. However, the synergy between search and enterprise social network sites is discussed far less. As enterprise social network sites integrate with more business applications, the similarities between enterprise social network sites and search will become evident from two [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: enterprise 2.0, search, social networks, social online workplace
by Larry Cannell | January 27, 2012 | Comments Off
Facebook’s new “frictionless sharing” enables someone to automatically post what they are doing online in a stream of status updates. To some, this is a little too much sharing. However, “enterprise frictionless sharing” should be the norm for internal social network sites. As a result of Facebook’s frictionless sharing I am constantly seeing what songs [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: collaboration, enterprise 2.0, social networks, social online workplace
by Larry Cannell | January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
Are enterprise social network sites an opportunity to remove the burden of email from information workers’ workload and move into a more collaborative messaging environment? While social networks have the opportunity to redefine messaging within enterprises, replacing email should not be a primary goal of their deployment. First off, let’s not fool ourselves into thinking [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: email, enterprise 2.0, social networks, social online workplace
