Who controls the enterprise social network and how?
The decision to implement an enterprise social network generates a lot of buzz at the work-place. As the champions start to pitch the concept and win-over the stakeholders there is a lot of apprehension. And the question most vehemently asked is – How will we control the enterprise social network? How can be it be [...]
MangoApps 8.0 Release Notes
MangoApps proudly announces it’s version 8.0 release with the addition of many long-awaited and powerful features. This major release focuses on the greater integration and centralization of Intranet features, new communication tools like Huddle Screen Sharing, New Mobile features and hundreds of customer requested features and bug fixes. Although you will see improvements and updates [...]
What NSA Leaks mean for Enterprise Social Networks
As a provider of cloud and on-premise enterprise social networks, we’ve heard first hand the concerns international customers have about US-based cloud services. Customers have been worried about the access the US government may have to any content stored on cloud services hosted in the USA. It seems this week those concerns have been validated [...]
MangoApps Service Status for June 9, 2013
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MangoApps Service Status for June 2, 2013
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MangoApps Service Status for May 26, 2013
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MangoApps Service Status for May 19, 2013
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Who controls the enterprise social network and how?
The decision to implement an enterprise social network generates a lot of buzz at the work-place. As the champions start to pitch the concept and win-over the stakeholders there is a lot of apprehension. And the question most vehemently asked is – How will we control the enterprise social network? How can be it be [...]
MangoApps Service Status for May 12, 2013
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Why Your Company Needs Social Collaboration at Work
Sitting in the stands last week watching my son’s 2nd grade baseball game convinced me beyond any doubt that every company needs social collaboration at work. A story of the old-way versus the new-way evolved in front of me, providing a glaring example of how inefficient and outdated our current work tools have become. The [...]
MangoApps Service Status for May 5, 2013
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DDB Mudra bags India Innovation Award 2013 for using MangoApps
DDB Mudra Group received an award under Enterprise Mobility category – for its efficient use of MangoApps as their Enterprise Social Network on India Innovation Day on 13 March 2013. India Innovation Day 2013 is a joint initiative of NetApp & Network18 (India’s biggest Media conglomerate) which aims at mobilizing India’s leading CIOs, and CXOs [...]
MangoApps Service Status for April 28, 2013
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MangoApps Service Status for April 21, 2013
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Why social networks are better than emails for enterprise collaboration
If you decide to share a link to this post with your friends or colleagues, would you send them an email? Or would you share it on your favorite social network? Email has created an overload of unnecessary communication, Per Radicati Group on average, corporate email users send and receive an estimated 117 emails per [...]
MangoApps Reviews from Current Customers
As part of our product development process at MangoApps, we continually ask our customers for MangoApps reviews and feedback regarding which capabilities they want most. Many of the new features in our quarterly releases are a direct result of requests from current clients. Client feedback is like gold, and we read and listen intently to [...]
Total Cost of Ownership Calculator, why we offer both options!
At MangoApps we get customers all the time asking about the Total Cost of Ownership of the two Enterprise grade deployment offerings we provide, Private Cloud and On-Premise. We provide both, so you can choose one vendor with both equally powerful options for your deployment. I was contacted by Software Advice to look at their Calculator [...]
How to convince your boss for an enterprise social network (ESN) buy-in
Social networking has been around for a while and has become an integral part of our lives. This is maturing & has serious implications for businesses. You are most likely already aware of the business benefits it could provide your team and even the objections/myths your business leaders have, but have you stopped to think [...]
MangoApps Service Status for April 14, 2013
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MangoApps Service Status for April 7, 2013
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Why Enterprise Social Networks are Replacing Email
Can you imagine a day where none of your daily interactions with co-workers involves email? That day has already come for many companies, and if you believe the industry experts, it’s coming for all companies over the next few years. There’s a movement happening around how we communicate and collaborate internally. Email has served us [...]
Announcing SimpleShare by MangoApps – Easily Capture, Annotate and Share Files
Ever had a problem you were trying to tell someone about? Maybe it was a way to describe how to format a document, or it could have been showing the IT desk the errors you are seeing on your screen, or you simply wanted to share a document with a customer in a very simple [...]
MangoApps Service Status for March 31, 2013
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All New MangoApps Mobile released for iOS and Android
I wanted to let you know two of the BEST MangoApps Mobile apps are approved and ready to download in their respective app stores. iOS and Android have both had a complete makeover for functionality, speed and the fantastic new user interface. You can find what you are looking for and navigate faster than ever [...]
SharePoint Doesn’t Suck!
In my duties at MangoApps I talk with mid-market customers on a daily basis about better, more efficient methods for internal communication, collaboration, and file sharing. As you might imagine, the topic of SharePoint comes up in many of these conversations. With over 1,000 conversations behind me, I can now predict a person’s SharePoint opinion [...]
MangoApps Service Status for March 24, 2013
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MangoApps Service Status for March 17, 2013
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Team work spaces departmentalize unified communication
MangoApps is a unified communication platform with team work spaces. You have all of your tasks, updates, ideas, files, wikis and more in one place. When you think of unified communication at first you think how great it is that everything is in one place. There are many benefits to this. Search is the first [...]
Simplify your domain, increase user adoption
When we built MangoApps we knew there is two secrets to increase user adoption. First, your collaboration space needs to have purpose, mainly to get your work done smoother with better communication and a clear outlook on what your team members are doing. And second, you need to make it as simple to use as [...]
What’s New in MangoApps 7.6?
You will see improvements and updates across all of MangoApps and major changes bucketed in the following areas: UI/UX improvements User getting started wizard File Improvements Search Performance improvements Intranet & Department improvements Projects/Group improvements Admin improvements Plugins and Clients New Desktop Messenger 1.0 client MangoApps IOS & Android clients enhancements MangoApps Office Plugin enhancements [...]
Enterprise Social Networking for Mid-Market Companies
Enterprise Social Networking is proving to be the most efficient method for workers to communicate internally. Information flows at a rapid pace, files of any size are easily shared, and teams collaborate freely from any location and any device. Users love the familiar social network look and feel, the ease of use, and the effortless [...]
MangoApps Service Status for March 10, 2013
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Further simplification of your domain to increase user adoption
When we built MangoApps we knew there is two secrets to increase user adoption. First, your collaboration space needs to have purpose, mainly to get your work done smoother with better communication and a clear outlook on what your team members are doing. And second, you need to make it as simple to use as [...]
MangoApps Service Status for March 3, 2013
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5 reasons you should pay attention to Social On-boarding
1. On-boarding is serious business With 22% of staff turnover happening in the first forty-five days of employment. New employees who went through a structured on-boarding program are 58% more likely to be with the organization after three years. A new employee consumes value for the first three months after which they begin to add [...]
Customer Use Case – Assigning Project Tasks with Milestones
I speak with Customers on a daily basis, and through these conversations I help them understand the best practices with the product, and almost always they teach me a thing or two. Today’s Customer use case comes from Jason at Ebonexus as we were trying to figure out a work around for assigning project tasks to [...]
MangoApps Service Status for February 24, 2013
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Top 5 Advanced Features of Enterprise Social Networks
Enterprise Social Networks are being deployed at a rapid rate. The need for better internal communication and collaboration seems to be universal, regardless of company size, industry, or location. More than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies will partially or fully implement an enterprise social network by the end of 2013, according to a recent Deloitte [...]
5 must have productivity tools for small & medium businesses
The highly competitive market of today demands businesses to put in twice as much effort as they did a decade ago in order to stay afloat. As the world continues to go digital, the traditional tools of business are slowly but surely becoming impractical & outdated. Thanks to computers, smartphones & internet for allowing business [...]
Performance Management and Employee Social Networks
Companies today are moving from systems of transactions to systems of engagement. More and more companies are adopting Enterprise Social Networks and adapting it to their needs. Culture no doubt will drive the successful adoption of Enterprise Social Networks. While on the other side as a fall out of adopting enterprise social networks companies would [...]
Unbiased Enterprise Social Network Rankings
You’ll regularly see Enterprise Social Network Rankings released by the large research firms, such as Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant”, Forrester’s “Wave Report”, and IDC’s “MarketScape”. These rankings are typically viewed with some skepticism, as the software solutions being ranked are usually paying customers of the research firm posting the ranking. This creates and obvious bias, causing [...]
MangoApps Service Status for February 17th, 2013
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Enterprise Collaboration Tools and Future of work
Deloitte last year in June captured the CEO Insomnia Index from a diverse range of Business leaders with the aim of identifying opportunities and challenges that are perceived to be the most pressing in business. Top 3 opportunities identified by the study were – 1. Innovation 2. Collaboration and 3. Leadership Going by these clearly [...]
MangoApps Service Status for February 10, 2013
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Why CIO’s should Demand Active User Licensing
Active User software licensing refers to the concept of a customer only paying software licenses for those employees that actually use the software. For those who don’t use it, you don’t pay. Makes sense, right? Then why is it almost no software vendor offers Active User Licensing? Instead, software vendors typically charge a license fee [...]
MangoApps Service Status for February 3, 2013
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How to measure success in your Enterprise Social Network
The most important part of a successful deployment is of course having tools in place to measure success. We can’t base success on subjective feelings like, “Is it working?” and “Do we feel better connected?”. In order to measure success of deployment and adoption, you need to put hard and fast numbers on the ROI. [...]
Yammer Pricing Explained
Yammer pricing has become overly complicated since its acquisition by Microsoft. If you’re confused by the changes, this post will help clarify things. Yammer’s enterprise social network gained huge popularity in large part due to its so simple Yammer pricing. Companies could try Yammer for free with unlimited users for as long as they wanted. [...]
Things NOT TO DO in your Enterprise Social Network
In part four of the series in how to successfully deploy an Enterprise social Software. We have covered How to set proper goals and expectations, how to launch the software to your users what TO DO and now, what NOT TO DO. These are of course the things to avoid in your Enterprise Social Network deployment if [...]
Best (Hidden) Features of Enterprise Social Networks
Some of the best features of enterprise social networks are somewhat hidden. Once you find them, it opens up entirely new ways to communicate and collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers. MangoApps, a Gartner 2012 Cool Vendor in Social Software and Collaboration, offers enhanced tools such as in-app video and audio blogs. This is in [...]
Talent Management and Enterprise Social Networks
Consider these statistic relating to talent management one way or the other.. Out of every 10 employees 2 are actively looking for a job, 5 are open to a new job and only 3 are not interested in a new job at this point in time. 48% of employees say their skills go un-noticed. 75% [...]
