Microsoft looks to give Yammer a new lease of life; can it?
The once-popular enterprise social media app is getting a redesign and new focus on communities, but faces competition from the likes of Slack and even Microsoft Teams. Microsoft While Teams may be the focal point of Microsoft’s current collaboration strategy these days, Yammer — the enterprise social network it acquired in 2012 for $1.2 billion — hasn’t been exactly left for dead. In fact, Microsoft unveiled a complete redesign of the enterprise social network at last year’s Ignite conference, offering up a new user interface…
As coronavirus worsens, companies renew focus on collaboration, remote work
While some companies and organizations are cancelling big events such as MWC and Facebook’s F8, others are looking to see what’s in their collaboration toolbox to keep workers healthy and productive. wynand van poortvliet / MediaPhotos / Getty Images As the U.S. braces for the coronavirus epidemic, businesses looking to protect the health of their employees are taking steps to support staff working from home – leading to a surge in demand for video conferencing technology and other collaboration…
