Saturday, February 16, 2013

NewsGator plans to uncouple its enterprise social suite from SharePoint

<p>NewsGator is re-architecting its Social Sites ESN (enterprise social networking) suite so that it can be installed independently of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server.</p><p>The decision isn't terribly surprising, given that Microsoft last summer bought NewsGator competitor Yammer for $1.2 billion and has ambitious plans to deeply integrate Yammer with SharePoint and other Microsoft products, like Office and Dynamics CRM. However, this decision is a big technology and strategy shift for NewsGator.</p><p>[ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and our Technology: Microsoft newsletter. ]</p><p>"Today Social Sites still runs on SharePoint," said Brian Kellner, NewsGator's executive vice president of products. "As we go forward, we're working on an architecture that doesn't have a dependence on SharePoint, although it can still take advantage of it."</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/newsgator-plans-uncouple-its-enterprise-social-suite-sharepoint-212692">Keep reading...</a></p>

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