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Microsof company actions their Chatter-like Company Speak to commercialization
Posted on 2011-Sep-25 at 11:56 - Post Comment
 OfficeTalk — microsoft office 2010’s enterprise-focused microblogging technology — may soon find a home among the company’s product teams and become a shipping product and/or service! OfficeTalk, one of the projects launched via microsoft office 2007’s Workplace Labs in 2010, is a social-networking tool for businesses, as the Softies have described it! From screen shots and reports, it looks and feels similar to Salesforce’s Chatter or Yammer’s Yammer! Last March, the Company Labs team described OfficeTalk as a “research project” with no clear path to or promise of commercialization! By August, the team was running pilots of OfficeTalk inside Ms and with a few select customers! This week, according to a blog post by 'download microsoft office 2007' Storyteller Steve Clayton, OfficeTalk has advanced considerably! Clayton’s post focuses on “The Garage,” a place for Ms employees to hash out and incubate new ideas! The Garage is another project under Chris Pratley — the Ms General Manager who also oversees Workplace Labs and the Envisioning Center! Clayton quotes Office Labs Program Manager Quinn Hawkins as saying OfficeTalk has pased the Ms “funded incubation” stage, and now “is being considered by the product teams!” I asked 'microsoft' officials which teams were considering it and how/when it may become a commercial offering! Will OfficeTalk be an add-on to Dynamics CRM 2011 and/or SharePoint 2010 (or their successors)? A new standalone product? I was told the company had no more information to share at this time! Salesforce, for its part, has made Chatter a core of it has the software-as-a-service offering, turning it is CRM platform into a very Facebook/Twitter-like experience! Do you think Ms should do the same? Where and how should OfficeTalk be integrated into the 'microsoft' product/service line-up, in your view?
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