Bringing Yammer into the Microsoft family will bring social networking into the enterprise application experience.
Now its portfolio has expanded not only to consumer devices but also to enterprise networking equipment as well.
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Except for this: social networking for the enterprise is a strange beast.
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"The acquisition of Meraki enables Cisco to make simple, secure, cloud managed networks available to our global customer base of mid-sized businesses and enterprises, " Rob Soderbery, senior vice president, Cisco Enterprise Networking Group said in a statement.
The two have stabilised the business and will part next year when Motorola plans to split itself into separate listed entities, one focused on mobile phones and home entertainment (Mr Jha's domain) and the other on enterprise networking (Mr Brown's patch).
Enterprise social networking helps businesses become more collaborative, nimble, and responsive to customer needs.
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The Microsoft acquisition shows the increasing importance of social networking tools in the enterprise.
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Enterprise social networking is one of the most exciting and valuable technology trends today for good reason.
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That would be Chatter, a social networking app for the enterprise introduced by Facebook earlier this year.
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At the start of the week, Salesforce.com introduced Chatter, a free version of its enterprise social networking product.
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The rise of enterprise social networking is becoming the next IT battleground.
Enterprise social networking company Jive Software just posted first quarter 2012 earnings and revenue numbers that topped Street estimates.
The battle lines are becoming clear in the enterprise social networking market.
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Enter Enterprise 2.0, a new management paradigm based on enterprise social networking.
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Over the last two years, enterprise social networking tools have made great strides as companies look to enable more cross-departmental, cross-geographic collaboration.
Is enterprise social networking, the so-called Facebook-like model at work, starting to take off as well or is it still in its infancy?
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The best way to expand their participation beyond transaction controls, spreadsheets, month end reporting etc. is through the collaboration of enterprise social networking.
The ability to consume, modify and share information on enterprise social networking platforms facilitates this in a way that was never possible before in the past.
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Some reports even suggest that as much as 90% of enterprise social networking projects either falter or die on the vine within the first 3-6 months.
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Ghai notes that he has been cautious on the provider of enterprise wireless networking gear ahead of an expected upgrade cycle in expectations that a shift to the higher speed 802.11ac standard could cause a pause in the market.
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Facebook and Twitter had attracted millions of users before social networking was brought to the enterprise.
We had adiverse team from both India and the US with backgrounds in social enterprise fundraising, networking and technology product development and a wealth of Indian education contacts.
Consumer Marketing, Customer care, Social Commerce on the consumer engagement side and knowledge management, policy management, employee onboarding, employee networking and profile manager on the enterprise collaboration side are some of the business ready applications you might want to consider before making a decision.
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Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking (ESSN) revenue declined 4% year over year with a 10.9% operating margin.
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He believes there is still much change coming for the enterprise in terms of social networking and social media.
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Also, HP said Dave Donatelli, EVP for Enterprise Servers, Storage, Networking and Technology Services, and Bill Veghte, EVP for software. will now report directly to CEO Leo Apotheker.
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Enterprise servers, storage and networking revenue was up 15%.
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Enterprise servers, storage and networking was down 4%.
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The best performer was the rapidly growing Enterprise, Servers, Storage, and Networking (ESSN) unit.
Networking giant Cisco is short for San Francisco and enterprise software maker Oracle was the name of a CIA project the founders previously worked on.
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