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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Social collaboration platforms are very much the same.

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We will continue to develop a broad range of services that complement our core search platform, including maps and personal services on the desktop and on mobile platforms, emphasizing collaboration with our strategic partners.

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Moderated by Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, among other books, panelists were unanimous in their belief that the ubiquity of the Internet, along with the emergence of Web-based platforms that enable mass collaboration and crowd-sourcing, hold the key to rapid creation and development of new startups.

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But a few have also been tinkering with open-source platforms like Tizen (a collaboration between Samsung and Intel) Linux, GENIVI, and Android.

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Social platforms can also enhance internal collaboration within sales teams.

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Unstructured knowledge and collaboration have always existed even before social software platforms, as people talked to each other on the phone or in the hallways.

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However, the reality is that in order to achieve this rather lofty goal, we must have the right infrastructure and global platforms in place to help promote collaboration, consistency, clarity and alignment among all of our member firms.

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CDFIs also credit their success with an ethos of collaboration and a constantly evolving set of best practices that circulate among member institutions through platforms like the Opportunity Finance Network.

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