Combined, it's an all-in-one solution which includes a variety of business needs, like handset validation, offshore testing, multi-vendor collaboration, stress testing, roaming testing, service monitoring, performance benchmarking, and more.
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, this morning announced that it is to acquire Netviewer, a privately-held SaaS vendor in collaboration and IT services based in Germany.
More and more often these days I get asked, "Does [offering X] from [vendor Y] qualify as an Enterprise 2.0 product?" Established vendors of collaboration software are modifying their offerings and repositioning them as social software platforms that have all the features and functions necessary to support the new modes of interacting and getting work done.
At this point, if you haven't already achieved enough scale as a collaboration vendor, you face being left behind, and I think we'll see a lot of maturity in this space in the coming year".
Current companies in its portfolio include Digital River, collaboration software vendor PGi, and digital communications group Xura, which it acquired in May for $643 million.
Salesforce.com will probably attend the show as a collaboration-backbone vendor, and everyone will probably integrate with everyone else.
This vision is well on the way to reality, with autonomous trucks driving around mines, mining control centers located hundreds of miles away from the mines, and strong collaboration with vendors to push the limits of technology.
While these projects require operators and developers to get their hands dirty, they offer a critically important venue for collaboration between vendors, as well as a way to drive standardization ahead of slower-moving standards bodies.
Blue Jeans Network, an enterprise video conferencing solution to integrate across many platforms, is announcing a major reseller partnership with Intercall, one of the largest audio conferencing and collaboration services vendors.
