Cisco launches Webex Leap, a new accelerator program
Cisco is one of the biggest players in the rather populous collaboration tools market. The Cisco Webex brand itself is more than two decades old and even after all that time, is still one of the fastest-growing. The Webex portfolio keeps evolving and in June, Cisco introduced hundreds of new featur...
Salesforce completes its acquisition of Slack
The multi-billion dollar deal has been in the making since last year.
This week Salesforce announced it has completed its acquisition of Slack Technologies, Inc. The companies say the deal, worth $27.7 billion, will allow them to create the "digital HQ for success from anywhere".
Marc Benioff...
You can now view and edit Microsoft Dynamics 365 data in Teams
The feature is offered for free to MS Teams users, but you need a license for advanced featrures
Microsoft announced this week that Microsoft Teams customers will now be able to view and edit Microsoft Dynamics 365 data in Teams. The feature is available for free, which means that a Microsoft Dy...
Google Meet introduces 1-hour meeting limit
The move is an attempt to limit the impact of free users on their overall network.
When the COVID-19 pandemic drove everyone online the demand for videoconferencing skyrocketed. It was then that Google seemed to rise to the occasion as a good corporate citizen. Everyone with a Gmail account woul...
Salesforce adds data to Microsoft Teams to support a hybrid workforce
The software-as-a-service CRM giant has made its app for Microsoft Teams more broadly available.
This week, Microsoft announced that the Salesforce app in Microsoft Teams is now Generally Available. Sales and service teams using Salesforce Sales Cloud or Service Cloud can bring account data and ...
Google and Ericsson partner up to help enterprises deploy 5G in operations
Google inked a partnership with Ericsson to develop new joint offerings that will be used by enterprises to utilize fast 5G network connections in technology projects. Telecommunications providers all over the world are upgrading networks to the 5G standard, which promises connections up to 100 tim...
Slack unveils new tools to fight video meeting burnout
The company hopes to help businesses adopt what they call a "digital-first" approach to work.
Slack this week announced a suite of new tools designed to reduce the daily slog of 9-5 video meetings that have become so commonplace due COVID-19.
The new features include a range of new features, ...
AWS acquires Wickr for its encrypted messaging service
Amazon Web Services is making its foray into the encrypted messaging industry. The company has announced the acquisition of the secure communications service Wickr. The messaging app has positioned itself as the go-to service for government, military groups, and enterprises.
It claims to be the ...
HPE now supports Azure Stack HCI and SQL Server on GreenLake
HPE has augmented its GreenLake Offer by adding on-premises Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Stack HCI availability, to complement the existing SimpliVity and Nimble dHCI hyper-converged systems support in GreenLake and Nutanix.
GreenLake is HPE’s subscription-based offering that supplies hardwa...
IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Automate Their Clients’ Entire Enterprise
IBM recently closed on Turbonomic to aid customers in automating their enterprise with new capabilities such as ARM, robotic process automation, process mining, and AIOps.
Details about the acquisition
Turbonomic, a network performance management and application resource management software, ...
Microsoft makes hybrid meetings more efficient with new Teams features
Microsoft unvealed the roadmap to bring more collaboration capabilities to Teams, for hybrid work scenarios, over the coming months.
In May this year, Microsoft shared a video showing how hybrid meetings might appear and feel in the future, based on the software giant's research.cThe video showe...
Google launches a Workspace subscription for entrepreneurs
Workspace tools are used by over 3 billion people worldwide, which is why Google is updating the platform, allowing anyone who has a Google account to use all the tools offered.
Google has just announced that they will be updating the Workspace, which is their proprietary collaboration and produ...