Yammer and Office 365 Groups Connect

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Yammer and Office 365 take two very different approaches to collaboration, but both exist inside Office 365. Although slow in coming, Microsoft has finally given details about how Yammer and Office 365 Groups will connect to each other. AAD is the glue and SharePoint, notebooks, plans, and calendars are the common functionality available to both types of groups.

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Business process platform Progressly nabs Ruslan Belkin and announces $6M Series A from 8VC

Progressly Progressly, a new platform for supporting growth within large enterprises, just got a big boost in both money and staffing. Ruslan Belkin, a former top exec from Twitter and Linkedin will be joining the roughly two year old company. With the spotlight drawn, Progressly is taking the opportunity to formally announce a $6 million Series A, led by 8VC, as part of its official coming out… Read More Continue reading Business process platform Progressly nabs Ruslan Belkin and announces $6M Series A from 8VC

Nadella says LinkedIn will continue to run independently

A different approach compared to Skype and Yammer acquisitions

There’s a lot of questions about Microsoft’s $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn, questions both companies’ chief executive tried to head off in respective letters to their teams (and the public).

And in Satya Nadella’s letter, he made very clear that LinkedIn would still be LinkedIn, running fairly separately from the mothership:

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The suddenly exciting future of enterprise communications

cansstring Enterprise communications is not a sector that typically generates palpable excitement. In the enterprise, the plumbing is never as exciting as the fixtures, and people spend more time noticing what communications enables than how it’s delivered. It doesn’t help that enterprise communications is often dismissed as slow to innovate, given its high capital costs to deploy new… Read More Continue reading The suddenly exciting future of enterprise communications