Collaboration news and analysisLatest news of collaboration applications from NetworkWorld.com.CRM: Real estate firm uses Zimbra for all its agents- June 27, 2008 Back in 2005, Joe Trifoglio, CIO of Zip Realty, needed a new email system for his 2,500 real estate agents spread out across 14 major metropolitan areas. His homegrown, open-source e-mail client worked well, but he needed something that would work on top of his custom built CRM system, known internally as ZAP, the Zip Agent Platform.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062708-crm-real-estate-firm-uses.html How a marketing firm implemented an enterprise wiki- June 26, 2008 Neil Callahan, President of CoActive Digital, had a simple idea for implementing a wiki at his New York-based marketing firm. He would start with a small group, let them populate it with helpful information such as meeting notes and presentations, and then hold it up as an example to other departments. Those groups, in turn, would create their own wikis.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062608-how-a-marketing-firm-implemented.html Cisco's new CTO talks first impressions- June 25, 2008 It's been three months since Padmasree Warrior left Motorola to become Cisco's CTO. Since then, she's not been available for interviews - until now. Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy caught up with her at the Cisco Live! customer conference in Orlando.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062508-cisco-cto-warrior.html What your team can learn about innovation from The Simpsons- June 20, 2008 Probably the only technical qualification to put Joel Cohen, a writer and associate producer of The Simpsons, in front of the keynote crowd at the Red Hat Summit in June was that Red Hat Enterprise 5 was used to render some of the animation in The Simpsons movie. But Cohen had surprisingly deep-and quite entertaining-advice about innovation and the creative process to offer the conference attendees.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062008-what-your-team-can-learn.html Verizon expands global unified communications services- June 19, 2008 Verizon Business is expanding its unified communications services to several European countries in move that the company says will help "advance global collaboration."http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-verizon-unified-communications.html Using MS Sharepoint in a major construction effort- June 16, 2008 Matt Fahrenkrug and Bill Culhane get paid to handle the nuts and bolts of complicated construction projects. As the owners of Culhane & Fahrenkrug Consulting, they facilitate every aspect of commercial construction efforts, such as the second phase of a three-year, US$170 million building expansion for the Van Andel Institute, a cancer research facility based in Grand Rapids, Mich.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061608-using-ms-sharepoint-in-a.html Web 2.0: How Wachovia justified wikis, blogs, others- June 11, 2008 Having trouble justifying to your company's top brass why you should make investments in internal Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks If so, take notes from Pete Fields, senior vice president of the Charleston, N.C-based bank's e-commerce division.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061108-web-20-how-wachovia-justified.html Momentum, some confusion mark 'Enterprise 2.0'- June 9, 2008 About 1,200 people are expected to attend this year's Enterprise 2.0 show, set to begin Monday in Boston, a rise of about 20 percent, according to the conference's organizer, Steve Wylie.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-momentum-some-confusion-mark-enterprise.html Understanding what Google Apps is (and isn't)- June 5, 2008 When Google launched its Web-based e-mail service ( Gmail) on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke, and perhaps with good reason. That same day, the company had posted plans to open a research facility on the moon.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060508-understanding-what-google-apps-is.html The importance of SOA for business intelligence- June 3, 2008 Business intelligence tools have become mission-critical and, as a result, there is growing demand for wider accessibility across the organization.http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2008/060308-tech-update.html |