Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize The Enterprise

Published by eWEEK (updated July 2nd, 2009) -

Google makes it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, a move that mirrors some of the functionality in existing enterprise social software providers such as IBM, Socialtext and Jive. Inbox socialization is table stakes for software makers who want to want to appeal to new enterprise customers by making it easier or workers to find company colleagues. -

For Google Apps users who have been waiting for the SAAS
(software as a service) suite to resemble some of today's social networks for
businesses, Google issurfacing Gmail contacts more readily within companies.
When corporate employees search for a contact in Gmail,
they'll see re...

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