Gartner: Enterprises wasting money on social media

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	Gartner says half of enterprises are wasting money on social media Getting a positive return from social media is about linking the social strategy to measurable business objectives, according to Gartner, which says most businesses aren't doing this. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue In this Issue Office Live Small Business customers grapple with migration Sage moves ERP apps to Microsoft's Azure cloud Oracle, SAP fight over 'hypothetical license' damages SaaS offering provides detailed analysis of your software portfolio Most Oracle users prefer Fusion in the cloud Tibco adds Hadoop support to Spotfire analytics tool At Interior Dept., Google Apps to co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now LinkedIn to buy SlideShare for $119M Crowdsourcing game helps diagnose infectious diseases Less than half of Facebook, Google users understand sites' privacy policies Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion WHITE PAPER: Qumu Business Video Empowers Social Media The wisdom of a company resides in the heads of those directly responsible for the non-routine work of the organization. This, coupled with increased demand to better communicate across distributed mobile workforces, is fueling organizational demand for scalable, affordable business video and user generated content. View Now Office Live Small Business customers grapple with migration The deadline to migrate email domains and websites hosted on the Microsoft Office Live Small Business (OLSB) online service suite passed on Monday, but customers continue to post a steady stream of complaints and problem reports, indicating that the number of businesses that haven't made the transition is considerable. Read More Sage moves ERP apps to Microsoft's Azure cloud Following an ongoing industry trend, Sage Group is moving a number of its ERP software products to Microsoft's Azure cloud service. Read More Oracle, SAP fight over 'hypothetical license' damages Oracle and SAP are at odds over whether the concept of "hypothetical" software license fees can be factored into damages in the upcoming retrial of Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against SAP, and the outcome could sharply affect the scope of any judgment in the case. Read More SaaS offering provides detailed analysis of your software portfolio If you find the prospect of doing a software portfolio analysis daunting given the scattered nature of your operation, this SaaS-based offering from Cast might fit the bill. Read More Most Oracle users prefer Fusion in the cloud Most of the 250 customers that have licensed Oracle's recently-launched Fusion Applications to date have chosen a hosted deployment model, according to a senior executive at the software vendor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Government at Carahsoft A Strategic Choice for Enterprise-Wide Productivity This case study will show how Adobe Acrobat X can increase knowledge worker productivity, based on live lab testing of common business workflows. Read Now Tibco adds Hadoop support to Spotfire analytics tool Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday. Read More At Interior Dept., Google Apps to co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain Microsoft Outlook and Office as its standard e-mail client and desktop office productivity software for end users. Read More LinkedIn to buy SlideShare for $119M LinkedIn is acquiring SlideShare, which allows its users to share presentations online, for $118.75 million as it tries to find new ways to make its site more useful, the company said. Read More Crowdsourcing game helps diagnose infectious diseases Researchers at UCLA have created a crowd-sourcing game that allows hundreds, even thousands of players to help diagnose malaria victims by viewing and choosing among dozens of microscopic images Read More Less than half of Facebook, Google users understand sites' privacy policies Most users of Facebook and Google had fundamental gaps in understanding, even after reading privacy policies, about how the websites handled their information and how other Web users could discover it, according to a study released by the digital branding firm Siegel+Gale. Read More Apple engineering mistake exposes clear-text passwords for Lion Apple's latest update to OS X contains a dangerous programming error that reveals the passwords for material stored in the first version of FileVault, the company's encryption technology, a software consultant said. Read More
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