Business Intelligence Gets Collaborative

Over the next several years, expect to see the business-intelligence, collaboration and knowledge-management segments converge. Likewise, expect to see such interactive Web 2.0 technologies as AJAX, blogs and wikis revolutionize the business intelligence experience.

Collective intelligence is an organization’s most precious asset. It’s what makes the difference between a successful enterprise, one that can pool its expertise to address common opportunities and threats, and a competitive also-ran.

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Groovy collaborators share the point

It seems that while SharePoint is definitely Microsoft’s lead collaboration platform, Redmond has been using the C-word to cover a lot of product ground these past few months: Exchange 2007, Office Live, the Groove client, and Live Communications Server. What ticked this reader off was the sudden mention of a Groove Server 2007, and the conspicuous absence of a Groove review on my part.

So first, I’ll apologize for the lack of Groove coverage. I’m a loner and collaboration means talking to those annoying things — what are they called? — oh yeah, people! I’ll do a full Groove review soon.

Meanwhile, just think of Groove as the personal side of collaboration. What instant messaging is to e-mail, Groove is to SharePoint. Groove is designed to allow users to instantly collaborate with each other (one-on-one) or in small groups. Zap an e-mail out to Bob or the other three guys in your design group informing them of your imminent Grooviness and you can set up an instant Groove site to share files.

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