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Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 24 of 96)

This category is focused on enterprise / workplace collaboration tools and strategies, including office suites, intranets, knowledge management, and enterprise adoption of social networking tools and approaches.

Allego releases Allego 6

Allego unveiled Allego 6, the newest version of its learning and enablement platform, which features a user interface refresh that makes it easier for distributed teams to learn critical skills, find the right content at the moment it’s needed, and collaborate more effectively with their peers. The redesigned platform is now an all-in-one solution that makes Allego’s features for learning, content, collaboration, and coaching easier to harness. Enhancements include:

The Lumin Design System debuts in Allego 6 and makes it easier to learn, find sales and time-critical content, and collaborate.

Content Management for sales and marketing collateral, organized in content folders and “channels,” including storing, searching, sharing and usage analytics on presentations, PDFs, videos, office documents, across devices.

Content Enrichment and Personalizations for sellers to customize content for their selling situation by creating videos, embedding messages, questions, calendar links, and visitor forms.

Integrated Training allows enablement teams to produce and link training content to sales content.

Social Stats and Content Analytics show users which content is generating the most engagement and direct them to new beneficial content.

AI Recommendation Feed can now automatically serve up relevant content based on complex relationships between user, peer, and content.

NPS surveys give learning and enablement teams a better understanding of which courses and knowledge assets are effective.

Enhanced CRM contextual recommendations that automatically log seller-shared content and seller call behaviors into an organization’s CRM platform.

Modern Learning Record Store (MLRS) gives organizations xAPI compatibility for traditional and modern learning activities like mandatory compliance training, as well as self-directed learning, coaching, informal and peer knowledge sharing.

User and Course Details Dashboard Enhancements expands on analytics that let managers and administrators access and export information on a particular user, group, sets of content, or courses to easily monitor usage and learning progress down to the individual component level across teams and individuals.

Survey Results Dashboard makes it easy for managers and trainers to gather team feedback.

https://www.allego.com/platform/sales-content-management/

Zoho announces Zoho Workplace

Zoho Corporation announced Zoho Workplace, a single software platform that brings together collaboration, productivity, and communications tools and integrates them into other business processes. Centered around a business mail and cloud office suite, Zoho Workplace includes nine applications, built on a common data model and unified through common search and AI across one dashboard. New capabilities of Zoho Workplace include:

  • Mail (Business Mail) – Users can now make audio or video calls from within the app, edit document attachments in Zoho Writer. ‌Mail includes a control panel with eDiscovery, Backup and Recovery.
  • Cliq (Messaging) – Users can check in or check out and set custom statuses and collaborate with external stakeholders.
  • Meeting (Conferencing) – Now supporting 16 languages, Meeting is integrated with Zoho Projects, Bookings, CRM, and others.
  • Connect (Social Intranet) – Connect integrates with human resource information systems, including Zoho People.
  • Writer (Word Processing) – Users can convert documents to fillable forms, restrict comment visibility, and enable an AI-based writing assistant.
  • Show (Collaborative Presenting) – Show is integrated with ‌Atlassian, Unsplash, and Humaans, and features an organization-wide slide library and data linking.
  • Sheet (Spreadsheet) – Sheet enables users to track changes while collaborating, convert images to spreadsheets, and bring contextual data from both Zoho and non-Zoho applications.
  • Workdrive (Cloud Document Management) – WorkDrive now features unified search and ‌TrueSync.

Pricing starts at $3/user/month for the Standard version and $6/user/month for the Professional version.

https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-workplace-reimagines-work.html

ThoughtSpot launches ThoughtSpot 6.2

ThoughtSpot launched ThoughtSpot 6.2 to help enterprises connect, share, and utilize insights faster. New features include DataFlow, Embrace for SAP and Teradata, and improvements in user experience, data exploration, and data loading. ThoughtSpot’s search and AI-driven analytics platform was designed to unlock insights for employees at every level of an organization, from frontline employee to C-suite executive. Features include:

  • Answer Explorer 2.0: Leverages AI to guide users to unasked questions and new insights for which they would not have thought to look, automatically curating suggestions, recommended additional searches, and unexpected anomalies or trends insights directly in a pinboards, charts, and answers. Built in machine learning continuously improves Answer Explorer, tailoring insights for users.
  • DataFlow: DataFlow makes it easier to bring data into Falcon, ThoughtSpot’s in-memory database, through a no code point and click UX, enabling enterprises to utilize search and AI-driven analytics even for data sources too slow to run search queries directly.
  • Embrace Expansions: ThoughtSpot Embrace is now available for both Teradata and SAP HANA, allows users to run search and AI-driven analytic inquiries directly in these databases without the need to move or cache any data. Improved user experience makes it to connect Embrace directly to Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure Synapse, SAP HANA, and Teradata.
  • API-Powered Bulk Load Connector: A new API-based feature enables the smooth and secure transfer of data to Falcon, ThoughtSpot’s in-memory database, by allowing users to load data in bulk from ETL tools and custom programs.
  • Caffeine for Advanced Data Caching: Caffeine gives users the freedom to choose which pinboards are pre-cached and when, allowing them to optimize the performance of the most important pinboards.
  • Scriptability Support for Worksheet Filters: Worksheets with filters can be exported and imported to the same environment or between environments.
  • Improved Visualizations: ThoughtSpot’s high cardinality charts now accommodate up to 35,000 data values, an increase from 1,000 previously. The high cardinality chart legend limit has also increased from 40 items to 250 items, giving pinboard creators the ability to display much richer data for their users.
  • Data Compression: New in-memory data compression makes it possible to leverage more data without increasing storage, reducing costs as organizations scale their data footprint.

Current ThoughtSpot customers will have access to ThoughtSpot 6.2 today.

https://www.thoughtspot.com

Synacor unveils Zimbra Cloud collaboration suite

Synacor, Inc. unveiled its Zimbra Cloud collaboration suite for small and medium businesses and prosumers, via Zimbra Gold Partner XMission, at ZimbraCloud.com. Zimbra Cloud is based on the Zimbra platform. Zimbra Cloud is designed to improve productivity and effectiveness by supporting multiple collaboration modalities from a single, familiar, email-centric workspace. It allows users to toggle between tools like videoconferencing, file sharing, cloud storage, calendaring and chat, right from email. At $2.95 per mailbox per month and a 30-day free trial, the Zimbra Cloud SaaS offering is aimed to meet demand for secure and robust email and collaboration for less than other vendors. Zimbra Cloud features an easy-to-use interface, admin tools, customer support and domain registration from XMission, integrations with apps like Dropbox, Zoom, Slack, Jitsi and Webex, and is instantly available at ZimbraCloud.com. It is available via a web client and supports third-party clients like MS Outlook, MacOS Mail, iOS Mail and Android Mail. Admin tools include domain, user, distribution list and billing management.

https://synacor.com

Arria NLG introduces Arria for Excel

Arria NLG introduced Arria for Excel, a Microsoft Office add-in that brings natural language generation (NLG) functionality to users of Microsoft Excel. Arria for Excel gives you the ability to instantly narrate Excel spreadsheets and export directly to Word or PowerPoint, and adds natural-language summaries and report automation within the worksheet, turning volumes of data into narratives. Users can tailor narratives to specific audiences, providing contextual commentary and explanatory analyses like those created by subject matter experts. Arria augments existing Excel workflows with:

  • Consistency and accuracy. A next-generation report writer that dynamically automates data-driven financial summaries.
  • Timeliness of reporting. Financial reports can now be published quickly after the end of the reporting period.
  • Team sharing. Provides insightful information delivery across the enterprise.

https://www.arria.com/excel/

Qumu app transforms Zoom into large-scale broadcasting platform for enterprises

Qumu released a new functionality extension for Zoom. Available at no charge as part of all existing Zoom corporate licensing plans, the app allows Qumu and Zoom enterprise clients to stream live events exceeding 100,000 attendees—with no loss of video quality and no negative effect on internal networks. The app is called Qumu Stream, Record and Manage, and is available now in the official Zoom Marketplace.

Qumu Stream, Record and Manage is designed specifically for organizations looking to deliver video events securely and at scale. Once the Qumu app is installed, streaming can either be initiated automatically or via a button click directly in the Zoom interface. The extension also supports global attendee bases, unlimited presenters and any browser-based end-user device—as well as virtual event management features like event registration, transcription, translation, user analytics, compliance tracking and attendee reporting.

https://qumu.com/en/news/new-qumu-app-transforms-zoom-into-large-scale-broadcasting-platform-for-enterprises/

Smartsheet to acquire Brandfolder

Smartsheet announced that it has agreed to acquire digital asset management (DAM) vendor Brandfolder. Combining Brandfolder’s DAM capabilities with Smartsheet’s collaborative work management platform to create a solution that manages workflows around content and collaboration. With Brandfolder, Smartsheet customers will be able to manage, track and discover all content within their workflows reducing the creation of repetitive assets. Internal teams will be able to gain insights into their content and make strategic asset decisions with Brandfolder’s performance data features through brand-specific tags that track where the content is being used and how it’s performing. This tagging also enables external contributors to identify and utilize assets through Brandfolder’s identification and categorization search capabilities.

https://www.smartsheet.com/content-center/news/smartsheet-acquire-brandfolder-adding-content-management-workflow-automation

Otter.ai launches virtual events collaboration service

Otter.ai announced the launch of Otter for Events – a new collaboration service. With Otter Live Notes’ AI technology capturing event conversations and turning them into interactive, collaborative transcripts in real-time. It is targeted at any organization hosting a virtual, live, or in-person event – no matter the audience size. Otter for Events is now included as a feature for Otter for Teams customers, at no additional cost. A premium version of Otter for Events is available for much larger enterprise-level virtual or in-person events. Features include:

  • Public and private group: Organizers can create a branded one-stop-shop hub of recordings and content for their event that can be shared both during or after the event.
  • Zoom Webinars: Otter for Teams subscribers will be able to launch Otter Live Notes directly from the Zoom webinar.
  • Live transcription: Event hosts can transcribe multiple sessions at once, enabling attendees to access Otter Live Notes from all sessions.
  • Live collaboration: Attendees can view a live interactive transcript and can raise questions during an ongoing virtual event or webinar.
  • Embedded Otter.ai player: Otter.ai’s embedded player means virtual event organizers can share a live stream of a transcript as it is captured in real-time.

https://otter.ai/

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