Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bernardo de Albergaria and Tommy Ahlers of Citrix Online (Part 4)

SM: From your perspective, what is the state of the union, in terms of the connectors, that would allow you to realize the vision of deeper integration? BdA: I would say newer, contemporary, agile services like Podio are built on connectors. Podio is itself is built on its own APIs. So, new services are already

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bernardo de Albergaria and Tommy Ahlers of Citrix Online (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get into the market? This is a tough place when there are so many players going at it with so many different perspectives. Bernardo de Albergaria: Yes and no. Yes, because you have to position yourself vis-à-vis all the other players that exist in the market. Why are you different?

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bernardo de Albergaria and Tommy Ahlers of Citrix Online (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about where you see the industry going. I think the best place to start is the evolution of social collaboration. I think Citrix, along with companies like WebEx, did some of the pioneering work in online collaboration, which got us quite a bit farther than where we were in the 1990s

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Deal Radar 2009: Open-Xchange

Open Xchange, an open source software company, aims to provide users with an affordable ‘Internet-age’ alternative to commercial email and collaboration platforms like Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. The company offers features such as shared calendars, document sharing, shared address books and email for iPhones and BlackBerry devices. 

Deal Radar 2009: CrossLoop

Online tech help is plentiful, but solving a problem or getting a direct answer to a question can be cumbersome: describing what is going wrong with your computer or application is not always easy and frequently involves a long chain of emails or chats among users who can’t see one another’s screens. The desktop sharing

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Deal Radar 2009: Central Desktop

Central Desktop is a web-based collaborative tool that allows users at small and mid-sized businesses to share information and communicate in real time with others in their workgroups. Users can also manage projects, coordinate tasks and share files on their own time by using this collaboration platform, whose features include web and audio conferencing, wikis

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Deal Radar 2008: Revolabs

I have written extensively about eliminating unnecessary business travel and using technology such as conference calls and web conferencing to meet with colleagues in other cities or countries. LifeSize, Telenetix and Dimdim are three Deal Radar companies working to encourage the use of such collaboration technology. One of today’s covered companies, Revolabs, offers plug-and-play systems

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Deal Radar 2008: Jive Software

A leader in web collaboration, Jive Software makes business social software that connects employees to each other and to their clients and partners. Their main focus is to improve teamwork and increase productivity through the use of their primary products, Clearspace and Clearspace Community. Other products include Jive Forums, a forum software, and Openfire, an

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