Collaborate Disseminate
Traditional ways of working may be faced with upheaval in coming months, so if you want your business to continue operating, start working on these issues now. Continue reading What to consider when employees need to start working remotely
Software will eat the world, as the saying goes, but in doing so, some developers are likely to get a little indigestion. That is to say, building products requires working with disparate and distributed teams, and while developers may have an ever-growing array of algorithms, APIs and technology at their disposal to do this, ironically […] Continue reading Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more
IBM announced last night that it is selling the final components from its 1995 acquisition of Lotus to Indian firm HCL for $1.8 billion. IBM paid $3.5 billion for Lotus back in the day. The big pieces here are Lotus Notes, Domino and Portal. These were a big part of IBM’s enterprise business for a long […] Continue reading IBM selling Lotus Notes/Domino business to HCL for $1.8B
With today’s announcement from Atlassian that it was selling the IP assets of its two enterprise communications tools, Hipchat and Stride, to Slack, it closes the book on one of the earliest competitors in the modern enterprise collaboration space. It was also a clear signal that Slack is not afraid to take on its giant […] Continue reading Slack forms key alliance as Atlassian throws in the towel on enterprise collaboration
Facebook had a rough day yesterday when its stock plunged after a poor earnings report. What better way to pick yourself up and dust yourself off than to buy a little something for yourself. Today the company announced it has acquired Redkix, a startup that provides tools to communicate more effectively by combining email with […] Continue reading Facebook acquires Redkix to enhance communications on Workplace by Facebook
When Salesforce bought Quip, a document-based, mobile-first collaboration tool for $750 million last September, it may have seemed like an odd purchase, but Salesforce and Quip have been hard at work enhancing the product. Today at the Dreamforce… Continue reading Quip adds an App Store as it pushes toward full-blown collaboration platform
It’s been once year since Workplace, Facebook’s social network designed specifically for businesses and other organizations, came out of beta to take on the likes of Slack, Atlassian, Microsoft and others in the world of enterprise collaboration. Now, with 30,000 organizations using Workplace across some 1 million groups (more than double the figures Facebook published April)… Read More Continue reading Facebook’s Workplace, now at 30,000 orgs, adds Chat desktop apps and group video chat
Slack, the business app that lets teams of users communicate, share files from other services, and work on them with each other, has taken off like wildfire since launching three years ago, with 5 million daily users, 1.5 million of them paying today. Now, Slack is embarking on the next step in its ambition to be the go-to platform for all workplace collaboration, no matter how big the… Read More Continue reading Slack takes aim at the corporate sector with Enterprise Grid, adds bots from SAP
Today, Pingpad, which launched last year as a consumer mobile app, did an about-face, announcing it has built a collaboration tool on top of the popular Slack enterprise communications platform. It shut down the consumer mobile app recently to concentrate on this approach.
Ross Mayfield, one of the founders of PingPad, has been around since the earliest days of Enterprise 2.0, founding… Read More Continue reading Pingpad hitches wagon to Slack with new collaboration tool aimed at enterprise
Here’s an interesting twist in one of the bigger enterprise acquisition stories of 2016. After Mitel earlier this year announced that it would acquire Polycom for $1.96 billion and consolidate the two companies’ enterprise communication businesses, today private equity firm Siris Capital has come in with a higher offer: it has agreed to acquire Polycom for $2 billion in cash and… Read More Continue reading Siris Capital to buy Polycom for $2B in cash, Polycom cancels its $1.96B Mitel merger