They also offer big data analytics, high performance computing, web and collaboration applications, and archiving and storage.
Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable device weighing just 1.15lbs (0.52kg) that extends the productivity benefits of Cisco collaboration applications to a highly secure mobile platform.
After all, professionals are among our most robust users and providers of feedback for software like Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as communication and collaboration applications like Outlook and SharePoint.
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By moving to a cloud model, companies benefit from using a common set of standards to connect different collaboration tools and applications from different vendors.
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And sharing the data from these applications for collaboration with friends and coworkers has never been easier.
"We started enterprise search with the ability to search a company's Intranet, then added the ability to go into databases, collaboration systems, and applications, now this, " said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director for Google enterprise search.
OpenGamma is founded on the premise that the time is ripe for a new kind of collaboration to build commonly used applications, inter-mediated by processes proven in the world of open source.
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Based on the Android operating system, Cisco Cius is an open platform for communication and collaboration whose form factor and applications are designed to more securely connect employees on-the-go with the right people in real-time, and to provide those workers with the ability to access and share the content they need from any place on the network.
In a 2012 report, analyst firm COMMfusion asserts that the next phase for UC will be Unified Communications and Collaboration, the notion that myriad UC applications can no longer exist in silos as the increasingly mobile workforce demands a unified experience across all devices, networks and locations.
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Why use social applications as the mechanism for fostering collaboration and communications?
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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The CMC facility comprising of new technologies like computers, Internet and specialised software applications was established in August 2004 in collaboration with UNESCO.
Seattle-based Blue Rooster has been developing collaboration solutions for the enterprise for several years, building applications that offer Facebook-like internal networks on top of Microsoft products which these companies are already familiar with, including Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Microsoft Azure.
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Kevin Cavanaugh, VP, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions, said that there will be native activity stream applications on mobile devices and tablets that will communicate with a cloud-based service that does the aggregation and helps figure out which activity streams are important to you.
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With applications freed from legacy server environments, cloud-based collaboration platforms can more easily roll out mobile app versions of enterprise apps, while also adding in hooks for various types of social networking.
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The idea is that applications of all kinds, from ERP to CRM to collaboration systems to HR and so on will all be able to post important events and information to the news feed.
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If enterprise software makes collaboration too difficult, users will simply go around the system and use ad hoc applications over which IT has no control.
Office 365 brings together cloud versions of the most trusted productivity and collaboration products with the latest version of Microsoft's client software and companion Web applications.
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Not only does the cloud address the issue of providing affordable access to traditional supply chain applications, it also enables a whole new class of multi-enterprise supply chain visibility and collaboration capability, that was previously technically challenging and costly to deliver.
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