Microsoft's Yammer Buy Raises Questions About NewsGator's Future

pcworld.com (11 months and 21 days ago)

Jun 30, 2012

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Office 365 customers can now replace SharePoint newsfeed with Yammer

Microsoft has taken the first step in its integration roadmap for SharePoint and Yammer, allowing Office 365 customers to replace SharePoint Online’s activity stream with Yammer’s. This first, modest integration point will let SharePoint Online users click on the Yammer link and launch a separate browser window where they’re asked to sign in. Later this year, Microsoft...

pcworld.com (8 days ago)

Yammer to integrate Office Web Apps, SkyDrive Pro

Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's ongoing push to deepen and extend the integration of its cloud-hosted enterprise social-networking software with products from Microsoft, which acquired Yammer last July for...

pcworld.com (3 months and 29 days ago)

Microsoft's Yammer to Add Real-Time Message Translation

Microsoft Translator-powered message translation for business collaboration platform set for 'late spring' release to Yammer enterprise customers.

pcmag.com (3 months and 21 days ago)

Microsoft sees Yammer sales skyrocket

Microsoft is claiming its $1.2 billion acquisition of enterprise social collaboration platform Yammer eight months ago has started to pay off. Writing in a company blogpost, the Microsoft Office team say Yammer's sales grew 259% year-on-year in its most recent quarter. It added 312 customers in March, which marked the company's "best month to-date in terms of user...

techradar.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Yammer adds translation functions

MICROSOFT'S Yammer social network for enterprises will add message translation to help firms with multilingual operations.

news.com.au (3 months and 21 days ago)

Five Ways to Improve Your Enterprise Social Networking Strategy

Enterprise social networking software, which offers social media capabilities adapted for workplace collaboration like employee profiles, activity streams, microblogging and document sharing, has evolved from a "nice to have" to a "should have" status in enterprises.Picking up on that shift, Microsoft plunked down more than $1 billion last summer to buy Yammer -- at the time...

pcworld.com (1 month and 27 days ago)

Microsoft Signs ABB to Use Microsoft Office 365, Yammer

Filed under: Investing ABB has agreed to implement Microsoft's Office 365 and its enterprise social network, Yammer, utilizing the cloud-based solutions across its international operations, Microsoft announced today. Currently, ABB utilizes multiple enterprise solutions to communicate among its 145,000 employees located in 100 countries. ABB provides power and automation...

dailyfinance.com (2 months and 11 days ago)

Windows 8 woes spark questions over Microsoft chief's future

A hostile reception to Microsoft's Windows 8, heralded as the start of "a new era" for the technology empire, has prompted questions about chief executive Steve Ballmer's future.

telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 7 days ago)

NewsGator's SharePoint add-on tries to filter, reduce enterprise social noise

NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user. The overall goal is to make it easier for Social Sites users to stay engaged with work tasks, information and colleagues. ESN software, which adapts social media...

pcworld.com (1 day ago)

Microsoft partners with Best Buy stores

Microsoft will follow Samsung’s lead in opening brand-specific shops inside Best Buy stores, potentially including the store in Amarillo. Microsoft unveiled plans Friday for Microsoft mini-stores in 600 Best Buy locations across the United States and Canada by early September. The timing coincides with the expected release of a Windows 8 update, The Associated Press...

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