Dion Hinchcliffe

Most of the leading enterprise collaboration platforms have mobile clients as well as social networking features. Here’s a list of the leaders as well as a look at their mobile clients.

Although many companies today are struggling to apply social media to the way they operate, a successful new crop of ‘collaborative economy’ startups seems to show that traditional business will be fundamentally transformed instead.

Most corporate leaders are well aware that technology is increasingly setting the agenda when it comes to how business gets done. How should today’s CIO revisit the way they guide their organization?

Emerging tech often takes a while to get into the enterprise. This year’s watchlist shows that there’s plenty of hot new spaces to watch, while a few much older trends are just now reaching mainstream.

The average lifespan of the traditional enterprise is plummeting rapidly, largely due to inability to adapt to today’s fast changing technologies.

Pretty soon — and in the not-too-distant future, most likely measured in years rather than decades — just about everything will be connected over networks. And by this, I mean literally just about every man-made object. With the ability to put low-power digital radios in just about anything that isn’t sub-microscopic, the technology world is now preparing to usher in a world where all things have active sensors and can create a data stream that can be sensed, identified, and captured. This uber…

The management concepts that have evolved as social media has transformed global communication are now resulting in meaningful changes in the enterprise.

Innovation in enterprise collaboration software continues unabated, to the point that there are nearly too many to keep track of. Here are 20 interesting new or established players you may not have heard of.

Few are disputing the growth of connected devices of all kinds -- from office equipment to smartdust -- will be historic. But will it be critical to the survival and growth of the enterprise?

What’s old is new again as IT departments try to accelerate the transition to next-gen digital in a historic tide of technology innovation in 2015. Bi-modal IT and other models seem to offer a way forward, but pitfalls abound.

Case studies demonstrate that some of the world’s largest companies are now making advanced use of social tools in the way that they work. Is Europe leading the way?

With digital transformation at the top of the agenda for many organizations, the winds of change are in the air in tech departments. Here are some vital currents in the industry that IT leaders should keep in mind this year.

While there is a relatively small short list of platforms suitable for large enterprise needs, two recent entrants, and some maturing contenders, are shaking things up in 2016.

It’s a very different world today for CIOs seeking to move their organizations into the future. With industry leaders proving that great customer experiences are the key differentiator, some IT departments are becoming much more stakeholder-centric, consumerized, and focused on their satisfaction.

As the push for digital transformation reaches an all-time high, CIOs are increasingly focusing on bringing their entire organizations into the digital future, all while preventing even the smallest hiccup in operations. It’s a tall order.

After years of incremental progress, the enterprise collaboration industry is currently seeing a burst of innovation that’s led to several new approaches that have real potential to become digital workplace breakthroughs.

It’s impressive how much the enterprise technology landscape has changed in just a year. While some priorities remain unchanged, important new players have emerged that business and IT leaders must consider in their plans this year.

Most organizations continue to struggle with the complexities and rapidly shifting requirements for delivering an effective, or even average, digital customer experience. The two top-level executives most responsible for this, the CIO and CMO, still have their work cut out to close ranks further and sustainably deliver on what has become the most defining aspect of business today.Once a fairly straightforward affair involving a Web site, social media presence, and a mobile app or two, the realit…

The classic approach to enterprise content management was to provide a central place to edit and publish content. But in a world filled with hundreds of digital channels, and dozens of types of devices, the traditional content management platform has become a spoke on a hub. A new approach to ECM is…

As the world sends many workers back to the office this year, a large cohort is remaining behind. Businesses that hope to keep the two connected, yet preserve the productivity dividend of work from anywhere, must also rethink their workplaces.