As Google Docs rolls out the updates we wrote about in April, Microsoft Office 2010 is hogging the limelight. And just last week Microsoft released Office Web Apps. It may seem like Microsoft is encroaching on Google’s territory, but Google doesn’t have much territory to defend.
IBM Buys Real-Time Analytics Company Coremetrics
In what is the latest inIBM’s series of acquisitions, the company today announced an agreement to purchase Coremetrics for an undisclosed sum. The acquisitions expands IBM’s ability to deliver real-time intelligence to enterprises. Coremetrics is a SaaS provider that gleans data from not only a company’s own website, but also social media…
Zoho Adds More Apps to the Google Apps Marketplace
Zoho Invoice and Zoho Creator Helpdesk joined Zoho CRM & Zoho Projects in the Google Apps Marketplace today. All the apps come in both free and paid varieties, and integrate Google Apps’ users, contacts and other features into Zoho’s offerings.
RIM Speeding Up BlackBerry Browser with New Patents
RIM filed patents for technology that prioritizes different components of a Web page when loading and displaying it according to GoRumors. Specifically, it should make BlackBerry Browser load and display a page’s main content before processing CSS and Javascript files. The patents further RIM’s efforts to improve its mobile browsing experience as…
Cisco Pushes Open-Source Telepresence Standard
Cisco announced this week at the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas that it is fulfilling its promise to adopt its own Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP). The protocol will enable multi-screen video streaming between Cisco and Tandberg TelePresence systems, or between any third party system that adopts the standard. According to the TIP…
IBM Supports Enterprise iPad Adoption with Lotus Notes Traveler for iPad
IBM released this week the iPad version of Lotus Notes Traveler, featuring two-way encrypted synchronization of e-mail, calendar and contacts with IBM Lotus Domino servers. The app also features per-message e-mail encryption.
IBM is betting on wide enterprise adoption of the iPad. The company’s press release quotes John Roling, IT director at…
Microsoft Rolls Out Office Web Apps
Microsoft rolled out Microsoft Office Web Apps on Skydrive to users in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Ireland yesterday. Users can login with their free Live accounts and create and edit Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010 and Excel 2010 documents in their browsers, and store them in the cloud. Users don’t need an Office 2010 desktop license to…
Netsuite Escalates SAP Competition with Manufacturing Suite
Enterprise SaaS and PaaS (platform as a service) vendor Netsuite announced the availability of Netsuite Manufacturing Edition last week. The company’s Manufacturing Edition is aimed at mid-sized manufacturers and provides support for “multi-company, multi-plant, multi-location and multi-currency” enterprises. The product was built by manufacturing…
Read-Only Facebook Coming to Your Company?
IT managers using Palo Alto Networks firewalls are now able to switch Facebook into a “read-only” mode, thanks to an update released today. There is no relationship between Palo Alto Networks and Facebook – the changes are all within the customer’s network. Previously, managers using Palo Alto Networks firewalls have had the option to block all…
iPhone 4 Gets Improved Exchange, VPN and Enterprise Support
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference today Steve Jobs specifically highlighted iOS4’s support for the enterprise. “I wanted to hit for a moment on the enterprise integration – our customers are thrilled,” Jobs said. He announced support for multiple Exchange accounts and support for Exchange Server 2010, as well as improved data protection…
Microblogging, Instant Messaging and More Comes to Open Text’s Social Enterprise Offerings
Open Text, Canada’s largest software company, released two new social enterprise products this week: Open Text Content Server Pulse and Open Text Social Communities. The company also released a new version of its Open Text Social Workplace software, adding microblogging and instant messaging features.
Pulse integrates social networking, status…
In the Social Enterprise Battle, Usability Will Drive Competition
Info-Tech Research Group released its evaluation of enterprise collaboration software earlier this year. Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Open Text’s Open Text Social Media 7 won the highest praise. But as worker expectations change, there’s clearly room for competition on usability.
Yammer Brings its Microblogging Service to Microsoft Sharepoint
Yammer introduced today its Microsoft Sharepoint Web Part, which integrates Yammer with Sharepoint. Using the Web Part, available for Windows SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), Yammer users will now be able to put a Yammer feed on “virtually any SharePoint page” and post to Yammer from different areas…
SAP Ventures Invests in Instant-On Computing Vendor DeviceVM
DeviceVM, makers of instant-on software Splashtop, announced today a $10 million strategic investment led by SAP Ventures. The investment will be used to expand Spashtop’s mobile enterprise reach.
Chrome OS Release Announced for Q4; Google Making an Enterprise Play?
Google will release its Chrome OS – initially to just laptop users – in Q4 InfoWorld reported today. This announcement comes on the heels of rumors that Google is ditching Windows internally. Some are speculating that Google is making room for Chrome OS in its workplace, and may be aiming to compete with Windows in the enterprise.
VoltDB Launches Open-Source “Next Generation” Database Management System
VoltDB, an open-source “next generation” database, graduated from beta last week. The company, under the leadership of Postgres and Ingres co-founder Mike Stonebraker, claims its product is extremely scalable and 45-times faster than traditional database products. VoltDB is targeting enterprises such as software-as-a-service providers, financial…
California Teams up With Google, Microsoft and ProgrammableWeb for Gov 2.0 App Contest
The State of California will hold an application development contest this summer, according to O’Reilly Radar, and the state is partnering with Google, Microsoft, ProgrammableWeb, and IdeaScale to make it happen. ProgrammableWeb’s site for the contest will be live later today.
Update: The Apps for California site is now live. See also Programmable…
Massive iPhone Security Issue Could Endanger Enterprise Adoption
Content stored on an iPhone 3GS with passcode protection can be accessed without the passcode simply by attaching the device to a computer running the latest version of Ubuntu or a Windows or OSX system running off the shelf software such as iPhone Explorer. This flaw was discovered by Bernd Marienfeld, an information security professional and…