Instead of using a paging system, a nurse could use enterprise social software on a tablet to locate an available cardiologist on the third floor of a hospital and a defibrillator on the fourth floor.
Chad Bockius, CEO at Socialware, a social media compliance software company, said a purely technical approach such as linking the the APIs at social media providers, can catch about 70 percent of the data.
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In the biggest deal, No. 46 Yammer, a maker of business social-networking software and a competitor of Jive Software, agreed in June to be acquired by Microsoft Corp.
Consider this scenario, for example, that is more likely to happen because of the growing capacity of social technologies: What if a hospital chain, a food service company, and an analytics and social software firm joined forces to co-create a system that enabled hospital patients to chose meals and delivery times from customized menu offerings, based on their medical condition?
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For the free software movement, however, non-free software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.
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For that matter, social business as a software system is not all that a computationally complex problem.
There were a number of polls that asked these advanced users of social software their views on where they stand on a number of issues in resource deployment.
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You need a classy pie chart, or a 3D graphic of a software-stack or one of those social network symbols with a circle and branches coming out of it.
The software will incorporate a social network, cloud saving, chat, achievements, and a retail space for buying boxed and digital Ubisoft games.
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Armed with over 20 years of experience across technology, internet and marketing sectors, Mr. Bradford joined Oracle in the company's acquisition of Vitrue, a leading social enterprise software and marketing platform.
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Keeping track of accounts, engagement points and interactions demand a range of social media management software.
By now, most executives have heard a great deal about social media software in the enterprise.
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Implemented properly, open culture and collaboration software can combine to create a social fabric that sparks new passion and increases innovation among the people in an organization.
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Rawn Shah is a business transformation consultant in the Social Software Adoption team in IBM's software group and is the author of Social Networking for Business: Choosing the Right Tools and Resources to Fit Your Needs, newly published by Wharton School Publishing.
For example, it is becoming increasingly common for every K-12 student to have a computing device, interactive whiteboards are now commonplace, cloud computing is lowering the costs for software implementation, and social networks are increasingly playing a part in our everyday social and educational lives.
The company's software allows musicians to connect online via a social network and collaborate in musical performances and recordings.
Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.
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To help things along, a growing number of software companies are building social platforms to boost performance.
Adding a social layer on an existing application or rebadging existing software is the flavor of the moment.
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GenYers in the survey were nearly 3 times as likely as employees in general to cite skills such as tableau software (a business intelligence tool), blogging, social media optimization and press releases.
Wrike, a six-year-old provider of social project management software in Campbell, Calif.
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That's a startling number for a social network, more akin to the relentlessly hawking enterprise-software crowd.
The software will be hosted at OpenEco.org, a sort of social-networking site for businesses designed to foster communication about measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
There'll be no way to recover those social graces, but six researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a software technique, Fat Thumb, that should at least keep the contortions and dropped phones to a minimum.
We haven't played enough tracks yet to use the "picks" recommendation feature yet (Microsoft's Genius killer), but we usually prefer the recommendations of friends and critics to cold, heartless pieces of software -- and Zune has had that locked down with the Social for a while now.
Last year, some discussions between Facebook and Apple over meshing the social network into the iPhone's software fell apart, and Google and Twitter ended a partnership that pulled Twitter messages into Google search results.
Kin Studio mimics many of the user experience paradigms of the Kin's on-device software, including access to The Spot and a live connection to your social networks that allows you to send out unified status updates from your browser.
In a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Patton explained how a piece of free software he'd created can automatically comb social networking sites, collecting and aggregating data based on keywords or other information like contact information, friends, and personal history.
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