Probably just a calendaring coincidence that the report was due AFTER the mid-term elections.
The same can't be said for alternatives to pricey business e-mail and calendaring software.
"They came up with very unique ideas, from family calendaring and communications to plumbing sensors, " she says.
By mining employee business communications and tapping into corporate email, calendaring, social networks, phone systems and collaboration systems, BranchIt serves as a corporate social search engine.
GoldMine is more powerful in that it has strong CRM capabilities like automation, customization, advanced integration with other applications and very good workgroup calendaring, marketing and lead management features.
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How is Sherpa different from Google Now, or other new apps such as EasilyDo and calendaring app Tempo (which I love for help with meetings and conference calls, by the way)?
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He was musing about how helpful it would have been to have had a CRM program that was specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and worked with a calendaring application.
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We feel that sharing pictures within a family unit and participating in family communications through to do lists, calendaring, and chatting is a great way to introduce children to social networking in a controlled environment.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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The jab comes as Apple announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
While open-source e-mail and calendaring software, such as Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail software and the Lightning calendaring plug in, is good stuff, it's not easy for a small office to set up messaging software of any kind without a bit of professional help, unless you're an office full of techies.
The jab comes as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
Apple also took a bit of a hit with their recent issue our calendaring where if you accepted or declined a meeting you had the chance to become the owner of the meeting or delete the meeting altogether, this actually happened at a local company near me where a chief level meeting was deleted when one member declined.
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