That was fast. During its Q4 2012 earnings call, Microsoft said it had completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer, a provider of enterprise social networking software. While outlining Office 2013’s new social features, particularly the new social media-enabled People Card…
It’s official. In an announcement that surprised no one, Microsoft confirmed that it is acquiring Yammer, a social enterprise startup based in San Francisco, for $1.2 billion in an all-cash deal. Yammer creates private, cloud-based social networks for businesses, primarily by using…
News that Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire San Francisco-based Yammer for approximately $1 billion lit up the Twittersphere on Thursday, appropriately enough. According to a Bloomberg report, the companies are close to striking a deal. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Yammer has accepted…
A few months ago Enterprise Apps Today reported on the growing need for companies to provide cross-channel customer service, offering customers a consistent user experience across multiple channels including call centers, company websites and even social networks like Facebook and…
Intranets are the corporate equivalent of Beanie Babies. Though they may have been rolled out with great fanfare and even greeted with excitement, many business people now consider them a passing fad not relevant to their jobs and are largely…
Jive launched its revamped social business platform today, bringing in its wake new features aimed at not only making it easier to keep coworkers in the loop, but also in the right loops. For this update, Jive set out to…
Streamlining communications and making it easier to find information are fairly obvious use cases for social software in the enterprise. So it’s not surprising that recent product announcements from companies like Jive Software and eXo Software focus on helping companies…
Writing for IT Business Edge, Mike Vizard in February highlighted the release of version 3.5 of the eXo Platform, which companies could use to build a custom social intranet application that could run on the public cloud via platform-as-a-service offerings…
Business consulting firm Bluewolf has partnered with gamification specialist Bunchball on a new offering, called #GoingSocial that the two companies say will help employees of Fortune 500 organizations learn how to use social media tools to collaborate better, connect with…
As a recent study by Adobe made clear, companies continue to wrestle with determining the value of their social media activities. Even users of social media aren’t always wildly enthusiastic about its benefits – especially in the workplace. Writing for…