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Although Cisco has a broader collaboration arsenal than Avaya given its WebEx Connect efforts - at best, that places competitive pressure on IBM and Microsoft in a somewhat traditional way. SaaS, in-and-of-itself is not a sustainable barrier or competitive differential for Cisco. So should Avaya and Cisco "give up" any notion of disrupting the IM/presence trend within the enterprise? I've posted a lot recently regarding enterprise social messaging ("Twitter for the enterprise"): Twitter in the Workplace

Synchronous Collaboration (web/video conferencing, instant messaging, presence, voice chat) Oracle makes the case the collaboration has been fragmented across three major domains (Enterprise Messaging, Team Collaboration, and Synchronous Collaboration). Concerning Synchronous Collaboration: Right now, I'm surprised if anyone would take this component seriously. Last week Oracle announced enhancements to its nascent collaboration platform, Beehive. Team workspaces, web / video conferencing, and integration with desktop productivity tools (including Windows Explorer) were

Note: I would expect Oracle  and Cisco to more clearly define their respective solutions and profile direction in this area at some point.) Contact information, synchronized with LDAP or Active Directory Connectbeam is one of those first-movers in the market that often gets overlooked but they continue to do some creative things (see below). While initially identified as a social bookmark system for the enterprise (an "internal delicious"), the company has done a credible job of expanding the conversation beyond a tooling discussion.

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Chambers on Cisco and Collaboration ... Video interview with John Chambers from Cisco about re-wiring the organization for greater collaboration. " This started with Cisco’s innovative use of the internet in the ’90’s to essentially move all the company’s internal and external operations online, ushering in a decade of productivity through increased efficiency. More Mobile Working ... The Bottom Line on BBC last week talked about mobile working. "

Social Calendaring now includes automatic RSS feeds and iCal event subscription to enable easy out-of-the-box synchronization with personal and corporate calendars. " More Cisco on Tandberg ... Cisco announced some of its plans for Tandberg, once the acquisition is complete. " Day CQ 5.3 ... Day Software released version 5.3

Tandberg Says No to Cisco ... Tandberg has rejected Cisco's $3 billion acquisition offer. " They could, with some legitimacy, say that Cisco's offer could be the first of several, thinking that maybe Cisco itself will come back with more money. Cisco is showing a lot of confidence in its growth, but really, without Cisco's killer sales force, does Tandberg have a chance to grow that quickly? Tandberg shareholders there owning nearly a quarter of the company have rejected the deal. Now, there are several ways to look at this.

As John Chambers of Cisco points out, we now have technologies that allow us to dramatically improve our capacity to work with each other across space and time, no matter the organizational arrangements. Google released Google Sync for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices, extending over-the-air synchronization to Gmail. " Item-Level Recovery in SharePoint ... Mimosa's NearPoint for SharePoint enables item-level recovery of data; this expedites recovery processes in the case of inadvertent deletion.

PepsiCo Goes Cisco TelePresence ... Cisco announced that PepsiCo is installing Cisco TelePresence gear for cross-company collaboration. "This This new collaboration strategy with BT and Cisco will reinvent the way we work," said Robert Dixon, senior vice president and global chief information officer for PepsiCo. "Global With Huddle for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Gartner on Social Media at Work ... Gartner offers 5 predictions for 2010 and beyond about social software at work. #1