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	Enterprise collaboration app earns Google's spotlight Symphonical has developed an enterprise app for Google+ Hangouts Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The New Business Case for Inbound Transportation Management Read this white paper to learn how implementing a cloud-based TMS, together with a well designed freight audit and payment module, can help reduce your transportation spend. Learn More In this Issue Putting predictive analytics to work INSIDER Cloud-based Office tools: Right for you? Microsoft releases Office 365 for Education Open source: SugarCRM at Footprints Recruiting Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner HP, Oracle clash over software partnerships in closing trial arguments Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion Oracle's Hurd to spell out new 'customer experience' product strategy Remarks for iPad DocAS for iPad WHITE PAPER: F5 Optimizing and securing Citrix XenApp and Xen Desktop Now you can overcome key chellenges with your VDI implementation to deliver the highest end-user quality and most secure access to virtual desktop, while simplfying your IT infrastrucure. Learn how global companies maximize their Citrix investment to dramatically increase availability, security, and performance. Learn More! Putting predictive analytics to work Predictive analytics involves both art and science, but getting started isn't for high rollers only. Here's how to ensure a successful outcome. Read More INSIDER Cloud-based Office tools: Right for you? When you're adopting cloud software, you need to think about features and functions, of course, as well as the costs involved. But process changes and user training can be even bigger factors. Insider (registration required) Read More Microsoft releases Office 365 for Education Microsoft will launch on Wednesday a version of its Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite that is specifically aimed at K-12 schools and universities. Read More Open source: SugarCRM at Footprints Recruiting Customer relationship management (CRM) software is generally hard to get excited about, but Jeff Strachan a founder of Footprints Recruiting[1], an English as a second language (ESL) placement agency, verges on evangelical. And little wonder: Being burdened with a legacy system built using forms in Microsoft Outlook and being burnt by the lock-in of proprietary software would be enough to make an open source evangelist out of most people. Read More Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner Microsoft will deemphasize the Windows desktop in future releases of its operating system as usage of traditional Windows applications falls to just 10% of users' time by 2020, analysts said this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Forrester Report: Mobility in the Workplace What are the key platforms, use cases, capabilities and applications for which enterprises should prioritize and plan? Read this whitepaper to gain a perspective on the business demands and resultant policies and deployment approaches being adopted today. View Now HP, Oracle clash over software partnerships in closing trial arguments Lawyers for Hewlett-Packard and Oracle argued opposite views of independent software vendors' obligations to hardware makers on Tuesday in the closing arguments of a lawsuit over Oracle's decision to stop porting its products to HP's Itanium platform. Read More Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software, for US$1.2 billion [b] in cash, a deal rumored to be in the works for the past week and a half. Read More Oracle's Hurd to spell out new 'customer experience' product strategy Oracle is planning to build on its acquisitions of companies such as ATG, Fatwire and RightNow with a new product strategy centered around "customer experience management," as co-president Mark Hurd will explain on Monday during an event in New York. Read More Remarks for iPad Remarks by Readdle is one more in a growing list of iOS PDF reader and annotation apps. This category interests me in particular because of my lifelong struggle with paper. (I occasionally win a few battles but, after taking a quick scan of my desk, it's apparent that I'm losing the war.) Read More DocAS for iPad I've recently waged war with paper, so I've been looking at several PDF reader/annotator apps to try to reduce the seemingly never-ending number of dead trees that I eject from the printer. The latest app I've investigated is DocAS, a $5 PDF reader/annotator/note-taker by 9 Square. Unfortunately, I don't think DocAS is worth putting in my arsenal as I found it filled with bugs and quirky behaviors. Read More
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