When Microsoft first released Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), it touted the platform advantages of its embedded social computing capabilities (i.e., Microsoft countered by delivering the Community Kit Edition via CodePlex which improved the default capabilities within MOSS. blogs, wikis, RSS, social networking). nhancement. MORE >>

The premise of these workplace-oriented social tools — things like Yammer, Socialcast and features and functions in  IBM Sametime  and Microsoft(msft) SharePoin t, is that they help workgroups and departments work together better, know where everyone is, and cut down on telephone and e-mail tag. What do companies really want? MORE >>

is he battle for supremacy among Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle still relevant — and has it scarred long-term relationships with customers The old guard are marrying off upstart competitors into their product portfolios. MORE >>

One of the enablers of this tighter integration is the use of Connections with the OpenSocial Foundation,  a standards board that IBM  and other firms such as Microsoft, Google, Atlassian, and Jive collaboratively develop or utilize. To this end IBM has made its Connections activity stream open to third party apps. MORE >>

You may not realize it, but IBM has actually been a player in the enterprise social networking space for quite some time. As you might expect, Connections plays nicely with IBM’s other tools, such as Lotus Notes and Sametime, but new in 3.0 is integration with Microsoft Sharepoint. At the Enterprise 2.0 Social Analytics. MORE >>